LEKFI: FSA licence SD193

Not long. The site's own copyright line reads 2024 and its published assets date from September 2024, which puts the brand roughly two years old at the time of review. A short track record is not itself a fault, but it means there is no multi-year record of how the firm handles withdrawals or disputes.

We found no evidence of fraud. The company behind the brand is real and confirmed on the Seychelles Business Register, the licence number it publishes is a genuine one, and the registered address it gives matches the registry entry. What we did find is thin disclosure: no pricing, no funding terms, no leverage, a very short operating history, and a claim to MetaTrader platforms the site itself does not back up. That makes it high-risk and unverified on the commercial side rather than a demonstrated scam.

LEKFI states it does not open accounts for residents of the United States, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar and Russia, or of any jurisdiction where doing so would be contrary to local law. Because the firm holds only an offshore licence, it is also not authorised to solicit clients in most onshore regimes, so residents of the UK, the EU and Australia would be dealing with an unauthorised firm from their regulator's point of view.

The site markets stocks, indices, commodities, forex and cryptocurrencies, traded as contracts for difference. It does not publish an instrument count for any of those categories, nor a symbol list.

Three tiers. Bronze offers standard spreads, fast execution, desktop and mobile trading, analysis reports and basic training. Silver adds lower spreads and commissions plus a dedicated account manager. Gold is described as interbank spreads with advanced training sessions, a dedicated account manager and free webinars. No tier has a published minimum deposit, leverage cap or commission figure.

The broker states no withdrawal processing time. With no published policy and no independent record of completed payouts, the honest answer is that withdrawal speed is unknown. If you open an account, test a small withdrawal early rather than after building a balance.

LEKFI publishes no funding page. There is no list of cards, bank transfers, e-wallets or crypto channels, no fee schedule, no minimum or maximum amounts and no processing times anywhere on the public site. Treat the absence seriously: you cannot establish how your money would come back before you send it.

Two browser-based platforms: the broker's Web Trader and Match Trader, the latter presented as the mobile application. Both run in a browser with no download, and offer charting, real-time quotes, trading directly from charts, and market, limit, stop and trailing-stop orders. Note that the About page separately claims MetaTrader 4 and 5 are available; the Platforms section does not offer them, and we found no MetaTrader server for this broker.

No maximum leverage is published anywhere on the site. The broker warns repeatedly that leveraged trading in currency contracts and CFDs carries a high level of risk, but gives no ratio. Seychelles-licensed firms are commonly permitted very high leverage, so confirm the figure in writing before you trade.

LEKFI does not publish one. The account types page describes Bronze as suitable for "any budget" but names no figure, and no minimum deposit appears on the homepage, the FAQ or the contact page. You would have to ask support before funding, which is itself a transparency gap worth noting.

LEKFI is a brand name of Emerald Ltd, incorporated in the Seychelles. The company appears on the Seychelles Business Register as EMERALD LTD, registration number C8436162, entity type Company, which matches the number 8436162-1 published in the broker's own site footer. Its registered address is CT House, Office 9A, Providence, Mahe, Seychelles, with a stated physical office at Office A17.G, Providence Complex, Providence, Mahe.

Yes, but only offshore. LEKFI is the brand of Emerald Ltd, which its own website states is authorised by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority under licence number SD193. That is a genuine government licence, but the Seychelles is a light-touch jurisdiction with no statutory investor compensation scheme, so it does not give the deposit protection an FCA, ASIC or CySEC authorisation would.