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HF Markets licences

6 licences are on record for HF Markets. 6 have been checked against an official register.

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At a glance
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Regulation on record for HF Markets

Counts of what is on record, not a rating. Each figure describes the register entries Wikilix holds and the checks it has run against them.

Licences on record
6
Issuing authorities
6
From tier-1 or tier-2 authorities
4
Found on an official register
6

HF Markets has 6 licences on record with Wikilix, issued by 6 authorities across 6 jurisdictions. 4 of them were issued by tier-1 or tier-2 authorities — the regimes with the strictest capital, reporting and client-money rules. We located 6 of 6 on the issuing authority’s own register.

2 licences come from authorities classed as offshore. An offshore regime can be a legitimate registration, but it typically carries lower capital requirements and no compensation scheme.

Issuing authorities

Jurisdictions

Licence record

Licences on record

Every licence on record for HF Markets, strongest authority first.

6 records
A licence we could not confirm, or one a register has closed, is listed with that finding rather than left out.
Check it yourself

Look these up on the official registers

Each authority below publishes a register you can search. The name a register prints is often a separate legal entity, not the trading brand — search for the name given here.

  • FCA registerSearch for number 801701, issued to HF MarketsOpen register
  • DFSA registerSearch for number F004885, issued to HF MarketsOpen register
  • CySEC registerSearch for number 183/12, issued to HF MarketsOpen register
  • FSA registerSearch for number SD015, issued to HF MarketsOpen register
  • CMA registerSearch for number 155, issued to HF MarketsOpen register
Register links are published by the authorities, not by Wikilix.
Protection

What this licence protects

FCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how HF Markets applies it.
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the licences held by HF Markets

Answered from the register entries on this page.

Most Popular Questions

The brand's client-facing address forwards through a series of separate domains rather than resolving to one stable site, and one of those domains is not currently serving pages. A shifting domain chain makes it harder for a client to know which site is genuinely the broker's, so confirm any address independently before entering credentials or card details.

There is no regulator you could escalate to. With no confirmed licence, no compensation scheme and no published complaints procedure, a dispute would be a matter between you and an offshore company, pursued in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The operating company was incorporated on 10 June 2015 and its entity record is still active, so the corporate vehicle has a history of about ten years. That is a genuine record, and it is separate from the question of whether the trading service is licensed.

The registered office of HF Markets (SV) Ltd is care of a corporate services provider at Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre, P.O. Box 1510, Beachmont, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. That is a registered-agent address, not evidence of a trading office at that location.

By telephone on +44 2030978571 or by email at support@hfm.com. No live chat, published support hours or dedicated complaints address is confirmed.

We could not establish this. No terms document, restricted-countries page or registration form for the brand could be read, so the list of jurisdictions it accepts or refuses is unknown. A 2017 warning by Japan's financial regulator indicates it was not registered to serve clients there.

Unknown. No withdrawal fee schedule is published for any funding channel. Silence is not the same as free, so treat the withdrawal cost as undetermined rather than zero.

This is not published anywhere we could read. No withdrawal processing time, fee or amount limit is confirmed for any channel, which means the cost and timing of getting money out are unknown before you deposit.

The recorded channels are credit card, Neteller, Skrill, Webmoney, wire transfer, Bitcoin and Fasapay. Card and Fasapay funding are described as instant. No deposit fee or minimum amount is published for any of them.

MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. We could not confirm server names, official download locations or any proprietary platform for this operating entity.

Leverage is advertised at up to 2000:1. That is far above the limits any onshore regulator allows retail clients, and at that ratio a very small adverse price move is enough to wipe out an account balance.

Only the PRO tier has a confirmed figure, at 100 USD or 100 EUR. For the Cent, Zero and Premium tiers no minimum deposit is confirmed, and the brand does not publish a verifiable account-opening minimum we were able to read.

We found no proof of outright fraud, but we cannot call HF Markets safe either. It operates with no confirmed licence, a national regulator has publicly named the entity as conducting financial instruments business without registration, and its own client-facing site could not be read to check its terms. Treat it as high risk and unverified.

The operating company is HF Markets (SV) Ltd, an international business company registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines under number 22747 IBC 2015. Its direct and ultimate parent is recorded on the official entity record as HF Markets Holdings Ltd.

HF Markets has 6 licence records with Wikilix, issued by 6 authorities across 6 jurisdictions. A licence on record means an authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
HF Markets holds licence records issued by FCA, DFSA, FSCA, CySEC, FSA, CMA. Each authority’s own record — its tier, jurisdiction and client-protection rules — is linked from this page.
4 of the licence records held by HF Markets come from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (1 tier-1, 3 tier-2). Those regimes set the strictest capital, reporting and client-money requirements.
We located 6 of the 6 licence records held by HF Markets on the issuing authority’s own register. Every entry has been looked up. An unchecked entry is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
HF Markets has licence records in United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Cyprus, Seychelles, Kenya. A licence applies in the jurisdiction that issued it; it does not by itself cover clients elsewhere.
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