Investec: CBI licence C5297

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.