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iFOREX Europe CySEC licence 143/11

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Confirmed on the register
Issuing authority
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Licence type
Market Making(MM)
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026

This is Wikilix's record of a licence issued by Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. It sets out what the register says, what we checked, and what the authority's own rules protect.

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RecordModified Nov 5, 2026

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Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission 143/11

Wikilix read the CySEC register on Oct 15, 2026. This is what it said.

Holder
ICFD Ltd logoICFD Ltd
Issuing authority
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission logoCyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Name on the register
ICFD Ltd
Jurisdiction
Cyprus flagCyprus
Licence type
Market Making(MM)
Effective
May 23, 2011
Register status
Active on the CySEC register of Cypriot investment firms, held by ICFD Ltd with iFOREX Europe as an approved trade name and www.iforex.eu among the approved domains

Checked Oct 15, 2026

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wikilix.com/brokers/iforex-europe/licenses/cyprus-securities-and-exchange-commission/143-11Fields on file 11 / 11

Our check
Checked

What we checked

We found this licence on the issuing authority's own register.

Wikilix check
Confirmed on the register
Authority strength
Tier 2
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026
Register says
Active on the CySEC register of Cypriot investment firms, held by ICFD Ltd with iFOREX Europe as an approved trade name and www.iforex.eu among the approved domains

Finding

A full Cyprus Investment Firm licence under MiFID II, permitting reception and transmission of orders, execution of orders on behalf of clients and dealing on own account, with safekeeping of client financial instruments. This is the licence under which European clients contract, and it is passported into 28 European states. Client protection: Segregated client money, Investor Compensation Fund cover for eligible claims up to 20,000 euros, retail leverage capped at 1:30, negative balance protection, and access to the Cyprus Financial Ombudsman. Effective: 23 May 2011.

Exhibit

Register screenshot, captured Oct 15, 2026

Verification note

The CySEC register lists the licence under ICFD Ltd. Approved domain: row 112 of CySEC's List of Approved Domains gives "ICFD Ltd" the domains "www.iforex.eu; www.iforex.pl; www.iforex.nl; www.iforex.es; www.iforex.fr; www.iforex.it; www.iforex.gr; www.iforex.hu; de.iforex.eu; https://hu.iforex.eu;" and www.iforex.eu is the broker's main website (https://www.iforex.eu). Corroborated by the licence number (entry prints "Licence Number: 143/11", equal to the stored number), by the exact entity name "ICFD Ltd" in Cyprus, and by the entry's "Approved Trade Names: iFOREX Europe" plus e-mail info@iforex.eu. The register records the licence as effective from 23 May 2011.

In detail
Updated

About this CySEC licence

What this authorisation is, what it establishes, and what it leaves open.

CySEC granted Cyprus Investment Firm licence 143/11 on 23 May 2011, and the authority's current list still carries it. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) records the holder as ICFD Ltd, the Cypriot company behind the iFOREX Europe brand, and the entry carried no status qualifier when read on 15 October 2026, which on this list means the authorisation is in good standing.

CySEC is Cyprus's statutory financial regulator and its MiFID II national competent authority, so a CIF authorisation is an EU investment-firm licence rather than an offshore registration or a trade body membership. The current holders are published as a single dated list that gives each licence number and the date it was granted, but gives no permission categories for individual firms.

An entry establishes that the authority recorded the firm as authorised when the list was compiled. It says nothing about solvency, conduct or service quality, and it does not prove the licence is in force today, since CySEC can suspend or withdraw one and moves withdrawn licences to a separate Former Investment Firms list. The authorisation belongs to ICFD Ltd, not automatically to every site the brand operates.

This check read the CIF Regulated Entities List as of 4 May 2026. It printed ICFD Ltd, licence number 143/11, licence date 23 May 2011, company registration number 254495, a telephone number, the e-mail info@iforex.eu and the approved trade name iFOREX Europe. CySEC's separate approved-domains list records www.iforex.eu among ten domains approved for the firm. No expiry date, registered address or licence category appears on the entry.

A reader can confirm this by opening the Investment Firms (Cypriot) list on cysec.gov.cy and searching for 143/11 or ICFD Ltd. A qualifier such as Suspended beside the number, a move to the Former Investment Firms list, or a new company name, which CySEC shows inline as an ex name, would each signal a change.

Written from what the issuing authority's own register published when we last read it. It describes a record, not the firm's conduct, and it is not advice.
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
143/11
Issued to
ICFD Ltd
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Market Making(MM)
Register status
Active on the CySEC register of Cypriot investment firms, held by ICFD Ltd with iFOREX Europe as an approved trade name and www.iforex.eu among the approved domains
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Telephone
+357 25 204 600
The authority

About CySEC

Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Cyprus.

Full name
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Strength
Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established
2001
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
216 firms
Regulates
Forex, Stocks, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Securities, Futures, CFD
Licences it issues
CIF – Own Account / Matched Principal (CFDs)
Typical cost of a licence
€50000-100000
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

CySEC's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to €20000 (ICF)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeCyprus Financial Ombudsman
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how iFOREX Europe applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

iFOREX Europe logo
Broker
ICFD Ltd
Named on the register
ICFD Ltd
Based in
Cyprus
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
43.6the 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.

  • ICFD LIMITEDCyprus · Reg. HE254495 · Sep 7, 2009
Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

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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Also on record

Other licences iFOREX Europe holds

One other licence is on record for iFOREX Europe.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions
Licence 143/11 was issued by Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the financial authority for Cyprus.
iFOREX Europe holds this CySEC licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the CySEC 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 CySEC register prints it under ICFD Ltd, not iFOREX Europe. 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 CySEC tier 2: a well-established regime with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than a tier-1 authority.
This page links straight to the CySEC register. Search it for 143/11, and for the name ICFD Ltd rather than the trading brand.
iFOREX Europe has one other licence on record with Wikilix, across one jurisdiction. They are listed further down this page.
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