Risk scorecard
Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.
Regulation
8/10 · CriticalNo licence for this operation exists on any regulator's register, and it presented as a retail forex platform. Not scored higher because no fabricated licence number or warning-list hit could be established against it.
Identity & transparency
8/10 · CriticalNo legal entity, registration number or address can be tied to this website, and the only company name on record against it belongs to an unrelated Fidelity subsidiary in Sydney.
Withdrawals & conduct
3/10 · LowNo fund-integrity complaints were found on any platform swept, and no demand for a payment to release funds. The low score reflects a genuine absence of reports, not a verified payout record.
Reputation
6/10 · HighZero footprint across every platform checked: no complaints and no positive reviews, in English or Chinese, for an operation described as trading for years.
Website claims
5/10 · ModerateCould not be assessed. The site no longer resolves and no archived copy exists, so the claims it made about licensing, history and ownership cannot be examined. Scored at the neutral midpoint rather than held against it.
Operational history
7/10 · HighNo verifiable operating history. The domain cannot be dated, no company incorporation could be established, and the domain has now lapsed out of the registry entirely.
Who they are
A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.
- Brand: FIL
- Legal entity: Not established. No company registration could be tied to this website.
- Registered: Not established. Third-party records say the United Kingdom, which we could not corroborate in the UK register.
- Website: http://www.fil-fx.cn. It does not resolve and is no longer present in the .cn registry.
- Only licence: None. No regulator lists this operation.
- Offers: Presented as a retail forex operation aimed at Chinese-speaking clients. The only path ever recorded for the site was a zh-cn section.
- Not accepted: Not established.
- Age claim: None that we could verify. Third-party records describe an operating period of 5 to 10 years, which no dated record supports.
Regulation
Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.
Proof of regulation on an official register: No
We could not confirm this broker on any genuine regulator’s register.
No licence claims on record.
Why we reached this verdict
How the evidence adds up.
This is an open file, not a verdict. The evidence needed to judge a broker fairly is simply not obtainable for this one.
- There is no site to read. fil-fx.cn does not resolve, and the domain is absent from the .cn zone entirely. A broker's own pages are where its licence claims, its legal entity and its terms live, and none of that exists for this operation any more.
- Nothing was ever archived. The web archive holds no snapshot of this domain at any date. That is unusual and it removes the normal fallback, so the operation's own claims cannot be recovered even historically.
- The identity question is the important one, and it is unresolved. Third-party records list the company behind this website as FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited. That is a real firm: the Australian Business Register shows it as a Sydney public company, active since March 2000 and formerly named Fidelity Investments Australia Limited, and Fidelity's own legal pages confirm it holds Australian licence 237865 and trades at fidelity.com.au. A Chinese-language site on a .cn domain with no licence is plainly not that company. What we could not establish is whether this operation itself ever made that claim, or whether a third-party record simply attached the wrong name to it. Without the site, that cannot be settled, so we have not recorded it as confirmed misuse of another company's identity.
- The absences cut both ways. No regulator warning names this domain, which is a point in its favour. But warning lists lag, and there is also no trace of any client: no reviews, no complaints, no forum threads, in English or Chinese. An operation with real customers usually leaves something behind.
- What our own record says is a suspicion, not a finding. The file carries a clone flag. We could neither confirm nor refute it, and we will not publish a suspicion as a conclusion.
Because a broker's own site could not be read and no licence or company registration could be tied to this operation, the minimum evidence standard for a verdict is not met. The figure shown is the honest midpoint we use when a case cannot be established in either direction. It is not a measure of how safe this operation is, and it should not be read as one.
Evidence ledger
Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.
E1The website on record does not resolve. Public DNS returns a non-existent domain result for both fil-fx.cn and www.fil-fx.cn, answered by the .cn registry's own name servers, meaning the domain is no longer registered in the zone.
ModerateGoogle Public DNSE2The web archive holds no snapshot of this domain at any date, so the operation's own pages, licence claims and terms cannot be recovered even historically.
E3FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited is a real Australian public company, ABN 34 006 773 575, active since 7 March 2000, based in Sydney NSW 2000 and formerly named Fidelity Investments Australia Limited. It is not a Chinese forex platform.
E4Fidelity's own legal disclosures confirm FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited holds Australian financial services licence 237865, that FIL Responsible Entity (Australia) Limited holds licence 409340, and that the group's Australian business operates at fidelity.com.au. None of these records mentions the domain under investigation.
E5A third-party broker directory records this website under the company name of the Fidelity subsidiary above, alongside a registered region of the United Kingdom and no forex licence. The Australian entity name and the British registration cannot both be right, and neither could be corroborated. Recorded as an unresolved lead only, since the site itself is gone and cannot be shown to have made the claim.
ModerateA third-party broker directoryE6The UK register holds no company matching this operation. The only close match, FILFX Limited of Edinburgh, was dissolved on 18 July 2017 and has no connection to this website, so the recorded British registration is unsupported.
ModerateUK Companies HouseE7No client footprint exists anywhere. Trustpilot holds no profile for this domain, and Forex Peace Army, Reddit and the Chinese-language complaint boards carry no reports about it. There are no complaints and no positive reviews of any kind.
ModerateTrustpilot, Forex Peace Army, Reddit and Chinese-language complaint boardsE8No regulator warning, enforcement action or fraud-related court record names this website. The published clone warnings concerning Fidelity and FIL name other domains and other operations, and none of them has been attributed to this one.
ModerateWarning-list sweep across the FCA, ASIC, IOSCO and CFTC lists
The other side
The strongest case in this broker’s favour.
The innocent readings deserve a fair hearing, and several are plausible.
- Small brokerages close. A modest operation that wound down and let its domain lapse looks exactly like this from the outside. A dead domain is not by itself evidence of harm to anyone.
- Nobody has complained. Across Trustpilot, Forex Peace Army, Reddit and the Chinese-language complaint boards where a .cn forex platform would surface first, there is not one account of a blocked withdrawal, a frozen balance or a demand for a fee to release funds. For a genuine fraud operating for years, that silence would be surprising.
- No regulator has acted. We found no warning notice, no enforcement action and no court record naming this website, in any jurisdiction.
- The name overlap may not be the operation's doing. FIL is a three-letter string that many businesses use. Aggregated broker records are compiled in bulk and do misattribute company names. The Fidelity subsidiary name may have been matched to this entry by a directory's own process rather than claimed by the site itself, and we have deliberately not scored it as though it were proven.
- Absence of an archive is not proof of anything. Low-traffic sites and sites that exclude crawlers routinely leave no snapshots.
None of this makes the operation safe. It does mean we have no business labelling it a scam on what we hold.
What would change this
What we would need to see to revise the verdict.
This file would move quickly in either direction on any of the following.
- Toward a negative verdict: an archived or cached copy of fil-fx.cn showing it presented itself as FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited, or displaying any licence number belonging to a Fidelity company. That would convert the identity overlap from a lead into confirmed use of another firm's identity.
- Toward a negative verdict: a regulator warning naming fil-fx.cn, or a first-hand complaint with the usual checkable detail of amounts, dates and account-manager names, especially any demand for a further payment before funds were released.
- Toward a negative verdict: evidence that the same operators moved to a successor domain, which would make this a rebrand rather than a closure.
- Toward clearing it: a company registration tying this website to a real, disclosed legal entity, together with any licence on a regulator's register naming that entity and this domain.
- Toward clearing it: credible client accounts of deposits placed and withdrawals actually paid.
If the domain is registered again and a site returns, the operation should be reassessed from scratch, because a new operator may hold it.
Check it yourself
Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.
Australian Business Register: FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited
The government registry entry for the Sydney company whose name appears against this website in third-party records.
Fidelity Australia: important information
Fidelity's own page confirming its Australian entities, their licence numbers and the domain it actually uses.
UK Companies House: search for fil-fx
Shows the only UK company matching this name was dissolved in 2017 and is unconnected to this website.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this broker’s safety.
Is FIL a scam?
We could not establish that, and we will not say it without evidence. The website on record, fil-fx.cn, no longer resolves and was never archived, so there is nothing left to examine. The honest answer is that this operation cannot be verified either way, which is not the same as saying it is safe.
Is FIL a fraud?
We found no regulator warning, no enforcement action and no fraud-related court record naming this website or the people behind it. That is not a clearance. It reflects how little this operation left behind, and warning lists also lag new cases by months.
Is the FIL website still working?
No. fil-fx.cn does not resolve, and the domain is no longer present in the .cn registry at all. There is no live site behind this brand at the address we hold.
Is FIL regulated?
No regulator anywhere lists a licence for this operation. We found no authorisation under this brand or this domain in any register we checked.
Is FIL connected to Fidelity International?
We found no evidence that it is, and every indication that it is not. Third-party records attach the name FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited to this website. That is a genuine Fidelity company based in Sydney, holding Australian licence 237865 and operating at fidelity.com.au. A Chinese-language site on a .cn domain with no licence is not that firm.
Why does the name overlap matter?
Using a real regulated firm's name is one of the most common ways a fake broker borrows credibility. It is the single most important question in this case. We could not settle it, because the site that would have carried the claim no longer exists.
Can I withdraw my money from FIL?
There is no working site or contact route left at the address on record, so there is no ordinary withdrawal process to use. If you hold a balance, treat it as money at risk, collect your records now and raise it with your bank or card issuer and your national regulator.
How old is FIL?
We could not date it. The domain cannot be dated from any record available, no archived copy of the site exists, and no company registration could be tied to it. Third-party records describe 5 to 10 years of operation, but nothing dated supports that figure.
Are there complaints about FIL?
None that we could find. We swept Trustpilot, Forex Peace Army, Reddit and Chinese-language complaint boards and found no reports of blocked withdrawals or lost funds. We also found no positive reviews. A complete absence of both is itself unusual for a broker said to have traded for years.
Does no complaints mean it is safe?
No. No complaints and no reviews of any kind mean there is no discoverable client base, which tells you nothing about how the operation treated the clients it did have. Absence of evidence is not a clean record.
Why is the risk figure 50 percent?
Because this is an unresolved file rather than a finding. Fifty is the midpoint we use when a case cannot be established in either direction. It is deliberately not a low number, so that a broker nobody could verify never reads or sorts as a safe one.
What should I check before depositing with any broker?
Find the legal entity name in the site's terms, then search that exact name on the regulator's own register, not on the broker's page. Check that the register lists the same website you are on. Confirm the licence permits dealing rather than advice only, and make sure the entity holding your money is the one named on the licence.
What happens to this report now?
It stays open. If the domain is registered again, if an archived copy of the site surfaces, or if any first-hand complaint appears, the case should be reassessed from the beginning, since a new operator may now hold the name.
What we recommend
The practical takeaway from everything above.
For anyone who has come here looking for this platform, the practical position is straightforward.
- Do not send money to any site presenting itself as FIL at this address. The domain on record is dead. Anything now answering under that name is, by definition, something else, and would need checking from the beginning.
- Do not treat the Fidelity name as reassurance. Fidelity International's Australian business operates at fidelity.com.au. If a trading site invokes a Fidelity company name on a different domain, verify it against the regulator's register before doing anything else.
- If you already deposited, gather your transfer records, account statements and all messages now, then report it to your bank or card issuer and to the financial regulator where you live. Evidence gets harder to collect once a site is gone.
- Be wary of recovery offers. People who lost money to defunct platforms are routinely approached by operations promising to get it back for an upfront fee. That is a second scam.
- For our reviewers: leave the existing status unchanged and requeue this file. It should be revisited if the domain is registered again or if any archived copy of the site surfaces.
This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed September 16, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.