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No Regulation
South Africa
,
Since 1969
Last Updated:

Trading Conditions

Min Deposit:
N/A
Max Leverage:
N/A
Account Types
N/A

Official website

Homepage of investec.com as we captured it

investec.com

Online · checked Sep 10, 2026

12 pages archived · Sep 9, 2026

Also on our record

  • investec.co.zaRegional

Funding Methods

No funding methods available

Trust rating

Good

75 out of 100 · 64% checked

It holds a valid FCA 172330 licence and 2 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.

We checked Investec on 2026-10-22 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 64% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is FCA 172330, with 2 more valid. The score of 75 is what the checked record adds up to; nothing held it down. What would move the score: policy risk, critical clauses, withdrawal rails. Our published investigation found it appears legitimate, with 31 years of track record. Its client terms have not been reviewed yet.

Score last calculated 2026/10/22

Regulatory Licenses

Regulatory Licenses:
Tier 1
United Kingdom flag
Regulated
FCA | United Kingdom
Regulatory Licenses:
Tier 2
South Africa flag
Offshore
FSCA | South Africa
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Company Information

Full Name:Investec
Founded:1969
Headquarters:South Africa
Enterprise Offices:2offices

Customer Support

Phone:
+27 11 286 7000
Live Chat:
Not Available
Response Time:
—
Languages:
English
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Broker Summary

What Wikilix has recorded about Investec: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.

Investec Broker Overview

Investec is the South African arm of a banking and wealth management group, published at . The company's own South African site describes Investec as a partner to private, institutional and corporate clients offering international banking, investments and wealth management services, and its About section states that Investec provides banking and wealth management services whether the client is an individual, a business, a corporate, an institution or an intermediary.

Investec does not publish a retail forex or contract for difference trading service on that site. Its foreign exchange pages cover currency services rather than leveraged speculation: one is written for private bank clients and small to medium sized businesses and covers buying, paying and exchanging foreign currency, and a second covers foreign exchange solutions for businesses, corporates and institutions. No trading accounts, trading platforms, spreads, leverage tiers or client funding channels are published for a retail trading product.

Is Investec Regulated?

No financial services licence was confirmed for Investec in this review. What was confirmed is the corporate registration of the operating company, and a company registration is not financial regulation: it shows that the company exists, not what it is permitted to do or what protection a client would have.

Because the South African site presents banking and wealth management rather than a leveraged trading product, there is no retail forex licence attached to this profile. Anyone dealing with Investec should confirm the specific permission covering the service they are buying with the relevant authority directly.

Investec Bank

The operating company behind the South African business is Investec Bank, recorded on the South African Companies and Intellectual Property Commission register as company 1969/004763/06, with a registered office at 100 Grayston Drive, Sandown, Sandton, 2196. The record shows an active public company created on 30 March 1969 and names Investec Limited, company 1925/002833/06, as its parent. Both companies give the same registered address, and it is the address published for the business.

Is Investec Safe?

The corporate identity behind the brand holds up, which is not the same thing as a verified regulatory permission. The operating company is an active, registry verified public company at a confirmed address with a corporate record going back decades, which is a long way from the anonymous operator pattern common to fraudulent trading sites.

The material risk for someone who arrives here looking for a trading account is impersonation rather than the company itself. Investec's own terms state that the websites to which they apply and for which the company is responsible are www.investec.com and associated microsites, and the company publishes a page covering how fraudsters target victims and who to contact for help. A site trading on the Investec name from any other domain is outside that statement.

Investec Support

Investec publishes a South African contact page at , which the company describes as carrying numbers for general queries, emergencies and support, office locations, ombudsman details and a route for compliments, suggestions and complaints. The head office switchboard recorded for the business is +27 11 286 7000.

Investec Pros and Cons

  • The operating company is verifiable: Investec Bank is an active South African registered public company at a confirmed registered address, with its parent on the same register.
  • The corporate record is long, running from 1969 for the bank and 1925 for its parent.
  • No financial services licence was confirmed, so the regulatory position of any service bought here is unestablished on this profile.
  • There is no retail trading offer: no accounts, platforms, spreads, leverage or funding methods are published for forex or CFD trading.
  • Brand impersonation is a live risk, and only www.investec.com and its microsites are covered by the company's own terms.

Investec Review and Assessment

Investec is a bank and wealth manager rather than a forex or CFD broker, and it should be read that way. The company behind the brand is real and verifiable; the trading proposition a forex client would be looking for does not exist on its site; and the permissions covering its actual banking and investment services were not confirmed here. The practical step before parting with money is to check that the site in front of you is the official domain, and to confirm with the relevant authority the permission that covers the specific service you are being sold.

Website archive
Captured

Website snapshots

12 full-page captures of Investec's own site, archived so what they said can still be read after the pages change.

12 pages
Homepage (South Africa)
Regulatory Disclosure
Consolidated Disclaimer & Group Entities
Legal Documents Hub
Service Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
About Investec
Contact & Support
Online Share Trading
Advisory Stockbroking
Complaints Policy (Wealth & Investment)
Banking Fees & Structures
Captured by Wikilix from the broker's live site. Open any shot to read it full size.
Regulation check
Checked

Regulatory Licenses

Investec holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each licence below opens its record of what that register says.

3 of 3 checked
Licences on record
3
Confirmed on register
3
Tier 1 or 2
2
Offshore
1

WIKILIX

Licence intelligence

The strongest of 3 licences on file

Licence Verification Record

Financial Conduct Authority 172330

Wikilix read the FCA register on Oct 22, 2026. This is what it said.

Name on the register
Investec Bank PLC
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Authority strength
Tier 1
Register status
active
Effective
Dec 1, 2001
Shown on the Investec website
Shown

Checked Oct 22, 2026

Permissions

  • Accepting Deposits
  • Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
  • Assisting in the administration and performance of a contract of insurance
  • Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
  • Administering a regulated mortgage contract
  • Advising on regulated mortgage contracts
  • Arranging (bringing about) regulated mortgage contracts
  • Entering into a regulated mortgage contract as lender
  • Making arrangements with a view to regulated mortgage contracts
  • Credit Broking
  • Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
  • Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
  • Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
  • Advising on P2P agreements
  • Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
  • Causing dematerialised instructions to be sent
  • Dealing in investments as agent
  • Dealing in investments as principal
  • Managing investments
  • Safeguarding and administration of assets (without arranging)

What our check found

UK banking and investment authorisation held by Investec Bank plc, dual-regulated by the FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Client protection: Strong: FSCS deposit protection up to GBP 85,000 and access to the Financial Ombudsman.

Client protection under this licence

  • Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
  • Maximum leverage1:30

These are the rules FCA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how Investec applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.

A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.

Open the FCA licence recordCheck it on the registerAbout FCA

Tier 1 and 2 authorities

2 licences
Websites

Global Domains

One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.

1 domain
  • South Africawww.investec.co.zaRegionalSouth AfricaActiveHTTPS
Domains recorded by Wikilix. Only a domain listed here is known to belong to this broker.
Social channels

Social Presence

5 official channels on record.

5 channels
Channels as published by the broker, recorded by Wikilix.
Legal entities

Corporate Network

2 legal entities behind the Investec brand.

2 entities
  • Investec BankActiveSouth AfricaRegistration 1969/004763/06Established Mar 30, 1969South African banking entity of the Investec group, recorded on the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission register as company 1969/004763/06 and carrying LEI 549300RH5FFHO48FXT69.
  • Investec LimitedActiveSouth AfricaRegistration 1925/002833/06Established Dec 10, 1925Parent company of Investec Bank, recorded on the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission register as company 1925/002833/06 and carrying LEI 213800CU7SM6O4UWOZ70.
Entities named in the broker's own documents and company registers, recorded by Wikilix.
Company registry check
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Company Registration

The operating company is Investec Bank Limited. Registered in South Africa. Registration number 1969/004763/06.

Verified on registry
Legal entity
Investec Bank Limited
Registration number
1969/004763/06
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Registry
FSCA FAIS Register (FSP 11750) / South African CIPC
Registered address
Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Investec

Most Popular Questions

Nothing establishing a client money segregation arrangement was found for this profile, and no such commitment could be read on the company's published pages in this review.

Because no trading account is offered here, the segregation question that applies to a broker does not arise in the same form; for a banking or investment product, ask the company directly which protections apply.

The operating company, Investec Bank, has been on the South African company register since 30 March 1969, and its parent, Investec Limited, since 10 December 1925.

Both are recorded as active public companies, so the corporate record is long and independently checkable.

Check the domain. The company's own terms state that the websites to which they apply, and for which it is responsible, are www.investec.com and associated microsites.

Anything using the brand from another domain falls outside that statement, and the company publishes a Know fraud page on how fraudsters approach victims and who to contact.

Investec publishes a South African contact page at investec.com/en_za/welcome-to-investec/contact-us.html, which it describes as carrying numbers for general queries, emergencies and support, office locations, ombudsman details and a route for complaints.

The head office switchboard recorded for the business is +27 11 286 7000.

No onboarding country policy was established for this profile. The company publishes 13 territory editions of its site, covering South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Latin America, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Those are the markets it publishes for, not a list of accepted nationalities, and no restricted country list was found on its site.

Yes, but as a currency service rather than leveraged trading. One page covers buying, paying and exchanging foreign currency for private bank clients and small to medium sized businesses, and another covers foreign exchange solutions for businesses, corporates and institutions.

Neither is a speculative retail forex product, and neither publishes spreads, leverage or trading accounts.

No trading deposit or withdrawal channels are published, because there is no trading account to fund. The site lists no cards, wallets or crypto funding routes for a trading product.

Money movement for its banking and investment services is handled inside those services through the client's own banking channels.

None are published. There is no MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or proprietary trading terminal offered on the company's site.

Client access to its banking services runs through the company's own secure login, not a trading platform.

None is published. Investec does not advertise a leveraged retail trading product on its site, so no maximum leverage applies to this profile.

If you have been offered leveraged trading in this name, you are not looking at the business described here.

There is no published trading minimum deposit, because Investec publishes no retail trading account.

Any minimum applying to its banking or investment products is set within those products and is not disclosed as a trading account funding threshold.

The registered office of both Investec Bank and Investec Limited is 100 Grayston Drive, Sandown, Sandton, 2196, South Africa.

That is the same address the business publishes for itself, so the office details match the official register exactly.

The parent of Investec Bank on the South African company register is Investec Limited, company 1925/002833/06, an active public company registered at the same address.

The register records no known controlling person above Investec Limited, which is consistent with a widely held company.

Nothing established in this review suggests the company itself is fraudulent. The operating company, Investec Bank, is on the South African register as an active public company at the same address the business publishes for itself.

The real risk attached to this brand is impersonation: sites using the Investec name on other domains are outside the company's own terms, which cover www.investec.com and its associated microsites.

No. Investec's own South African site publishes banking, investments and wealth management, and no retail forex or contract for difference trading service.

There are no trading accounts, no trading platforms, no spreads and no leverage tiers published anywhere on the site.

No financial services licence was confirmed for Investec in this review. The corporate registration of the operating company was confirmed on the official South African register, and a company registration is not financial regulation: it proves the company exists, not what it is permitted to sell.

Before buying any service, ask for the licence number and the exact legal entity and check both against the issuing authority's own public register.

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