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DE NOVO: FSC licence РГ-03-0238

Issuing authority
Financial Supervision Commission
Jurisdiction
Bulgaria
Licence type
Dealing in securities
Last checked
Sep 5, 2026

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Financial Supervision Commission РГ-03-0238

Wikilix read the FSC register on Sep 5, 2026. This is what it said.

Issuing authority
Financial Supervision Commission
Name on the register
Де Ново EAD
Jurisdiction
Bulgaria
Licence type
Dealing in securities
Effective
Jan 3, 2012
Register status
Active
Permissions
инвестиционен посредник (investment intermediary)
Checked

Checked Sep 5, 2026

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wikilix.com/brokers/de-novo/licenses/financial-supervision-commission/03-0238Fields on file 10 / 11

Our check
Checked

What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 3
Jurisdiction
Bulgaria
Last checked
Sep 5, 2026
Register says
Active

Finding

Bulgaria's statutory financial regulator and an EU member-state competent authority under MiFID II; it licenses and supervises investment intermediaries and requires membership of the Investor Compensation Fund. Client protection: EU MiFID II conduct and client-asset rules, segregation of client money and instruments, and membership of the Bulgarian Investor Compensation Fund (client-asset compensation scheme).. Effective: 03 Jan 2012.

Exhibit

Register screenshot, captured Sep 5, 2026

Verification note

The company states on its own About Us page that its activity is directly supervised by the Financial Supervision Commission and is governed by the Markets in Financial Instruments Act and FSC Ordinance No.38 on the Requirements to the Activity of Investment Intermediaries. The Bulgarian Commercial Register records the entity under special conditions as an investment intermediary with the full MiFID scope of investment services. No licence number is published on the company's website, and the authorisation was not verified against the authority's own register in this run.

The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence number
РГ-03-0238
Issued to
Де Ново EAD
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Dealing in securities
Register status
Active
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Permissions
инвестиционен посредник (investment intermediary)
Registered address
str. Христо Белчев № 28, гр. София, p.c. 1000, р-н Средец, БЪЛГАРИЯ
Telephone
02/950 51 94
The authority

About FSC

Financial Supervision Commission is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Bulgaria.

Full name
Financial Supervision Commission
Jurisdiction
Bulgaria
Strength
Tier 3Lighter-touch supervision; protections vary and are often limited.
Established
2003
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
0 firms
Regulates
forex
Licences it issues
Isle of Man FSC focuses on banking/insurance; investment dealer licence requires IoM office and high capital, unsuitable for offshore CFD start‑ups.
Typical cost of a licence
Not specified; high capital requirement for Class 1 deposit-taking licences.
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium

FSC is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

FSC's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeDepositors’ Compensation Scheme covers up to £50,000 per individual depositor
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routecomplaints handled by regulated entity or Financial Services Ombudsman
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how DE NOVO applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against DE NOVO. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
DE NOVO EAD
Named on the register
Де Ново EAD
Based in
Bulgaria
Operating
10-15 years
Wikilix score
23.8the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

None of these matches the name the register printed, so we do not say which one holds this licence.

  • Де Ново EAD (De Novo EAD)Bulgaria · Еднолично акционерно дружество (sole owner joint-stock company) · Reg. 201850473 · Jan 12, 2012 · 100% owned
  • ДЕ НОВО ПАРТНЕРС AD (DE NOVO PARTNERS JSC)Bulgaria · Акционерно дружество (joint-stock company) · Reg. 203975034 · Mar 16, 2016
Provenance

Where this record came from

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Official source
The issuing authority’s registerPublished by the authority, not by Wikilix.
Last checked by Wikilix
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
Evidence held
A screenshot of the register entry is on file.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

Because the operating entity is a Bulgarian company recorded as an investment intermediary, complaints would in principle run to the Financial Supervision Commission and to Bulgarian courts, and the company is a member of Central Depository AD and of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in Sofia. The practical difficulty is that the company's own Client Protection page is published with unfinished placeholder text, so it sets out no complaints procedure, no compensation arrangements and no statement on how client money and instruments are held. Those protections should be established in writing before an account is funded.

Yes. The company offers a discretionary individual portfolio management service in which client assets are managed at its own discretion without separate instructions, across three portfolio types that differ by structure, risk level and permitted instruments. It describes the service as aimed at wealthier individuals with longer-term horizons and at institutional investors such as insurance and health insurance companies, and clients may impose their own limits on the investment process.

By telephone on +359 2 9505 194 or +359 2 9506 123, by email at contact@denovo.bg, or in person at 28 Hristo Belchev Street, 1000 Sofia. The company states its team is available every working day from 9:30 to 17:00. There is no live chat and no support ticket portal.

The company publishes no list of accepted or restricted countries, and it has no online registration form, so there is no country selector that would reveal which residencies it onboards. Its offering, its office and its market focus are Bulgarian, and it says clients may correspond in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Hungarian or Russian. Eligibility has to be confirmed with the company directly.

This is not published. The company states no withdrawal processing time anywhere on its website, and its withdrawal terms sit inside its Bulgarian-language General Terms rather than on a public page. Getting the withdrawal timetable in writing before depositing is a reasonable precaution with any firm that does not publish it.

The company publishes no deposit or withdrawal information at all: no payment methods, no fees, no processing times and no limits, and it has no funding or payments page. Funding is evidently arranged through the client relationship rather than documented publicly, so the terms on which money can be paid in and taken out are not knowable before contacting the firm.

None is named. The company describes its services in terms of markets and instruments rather than software, and publishes no platform section, no web terminal and no download links. It does operate an access-controlled client login area, and it says online messaging is available for contacting support.

No maximum leverage is published. The site confirms that margin foreign exchange trading and margin contracts for difference are offered, but states no leverage ratio for any instrument or account. As a Bulgarian investment firm it would fall within European retail leverage limits, but since the company publishes no figure of its own, none is stated here.

DE NOVO offers a wider instrument range than a typical retail forex broker. Its own services pages list shares on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in Sofia, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and XETRA and on international markets, mutual fund and exchange traded fund units, corporate bonds including the Eurobond market, Bulgarian government bonds on both the primary and secondary markets, exchange traded options on XETRA, contracts for difference on shares and commodities, and both standard and margin foreign exchange trading.

The company publishes a Schedule of Fees and Commissions, most recently updated on 1 August 2025 to reflect the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria, but only as a Bulgarian-language document. No spreads, commissions or financing charges are stated in English on any page, so the cost of trading cannot be established from the English site alone.

The company does not publish a minimum deposit. No figure appears anywhere on its website, and its account-opening terms are set out only in its Bulgarian-language General Terms. Anyone considering an account should ask the company directly for the minimum in writing before committing funds.

Since 12 January 2012, which is the first entry date on its Bulgarian Commercial Register record, giving it a fourteen year operating history. That is corroborated by the company's own site, which carries a 2012 copyright line and publishes annual reports for every year from 2012 through 2025.

Nothing found in this assessment supports calling DE NOVO a scam. The company is a real, named, active Bulgarian legal entity that has been on the national commercial register since January 2012, files annual reports every year, and publishes a live corporate events service for the Bulgarian market. The genuine criticism is disclosure rather than legitimacy: the site does not publish a licence number, any trading conditions, or any funding terms, and three of its own legal pages are unfinished.

The operating company is Де Ново EAD, a Bulgarian sole owner joint-stock company with unified identification code 201850473, registered at 28 Hristo Belchev Street, 1000 Sofia. Its entire capital is held by ДЕ НОВО ПАРТНЕРС AD, UIC 203975034, a Bulgarian holding and consultancy company at the same address. The operating company's board of directors comprises Йордан Дамянов Попов, Петър Николов Манов and Христо Иванов Братинов.

DE NOVO states on its own About Us page that its activity is directly supervised by the Financial Supervision Commission and governed by the Markets in Financial Instruments Act and FSC Ordinance No.38 on the activity of investment intermediaries. The Bulgarian Commercial Register independently records the operating entity under special conditions as an investment intermediary, which corroborates that framing. The claim is nonetheless unconfirmed in one important respect: the company publishes no licence number, so the authorisation itself was not checked against the supervisor's own records for this profile.

Licence РГ-03-0238 was issued by Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), the financial authority for Bulgaria.
DE NOVO holds this FSC licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the FSC register. Note that confirming a register ENTRY is not the same as confirming a live licence — the register’s own wording on this page is what states its current standing.
The FSC register prints it under Де Ново EAD, not DE NOVO. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates FSC tier 3. Supervision is lighter-touch and client protections vary.
Yes, FSC is classed as an offshore regime. That can be a legitimate registration, but it usually means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.
This page links straight to the FSC register. Search it for РГ-03-0238, and for the name Де Ново EAD rather than the trading brand.
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