Risk scorecard
Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.
Regulation
6/10 · HighA genuine, current Seychelles FSA securities dealer licence (SD103) confirmed on the regulator's own register and held by this exact entity, but offshore and low-tier, with no compensation scheme or client money protection.
Identity & transparency
5/10 · ModerateLegal entity, company number, registered address and licence number are published and all match independent records, but no directors, no ownership, no team and no social presence are disclosed, and the office number on the site differs from the one on the register.
Withdrawals & conduct
3/10 · LowNo fund integrity complaints of any kind were found across the platforms swept, but the firm publishes no withdrawal terms and there is no client report confirming that payouts work either.
Reputation
6/10 · HighNo reviews at all, positive or negative, on any platform after several years of licensed operation; the only third-party scores are algorithmic aggregator ratings rather than client experience.
Website claims
3/10 · LowClaims are modest and accurate: the licence number and entity match the register, regional restrictions are disclosed and no founding year, award or profit promise is asserted; the only gap is that no register verification link is published.
Operational history
4/10 · ModerateVerified track record of about four years and ten months from a 13 October 2021 incorporation, with a 2023 website; the earlier retail brand run on the same licence has been wound down, which adds churn to an otherwise adequate history.
Who they are
A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.
The desk file on this operation:
- Brand: Limehouse Markets
- Legal entity: Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited, Seychelles company number 8431496-1, created 13 October 2021
- Registered: CT House, Providence, Mahe, Seychelles. The company gives Office No. 9A on its own site and on its LEI record, while the regulator lists Office 4D in the same building.
- Website: limehousesc.com, registered 27 July 2023 and built on a standard website builder
- Only licence: Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer Licence SD103, held by Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited
- Offers: the current site sells liquidity services for CFD trading to other businesses. There is no account opening page, no deposit page and no trading platform on it.
- Not accepted: the European Economic Area, the USA, British Columbia in Canada, and some other regions
- Age claim: none. The site advertises no founding year, so there is nothing here that contradicts what we verified.
- Earlier retail brand: the same company and the same licence ran a retail broker called Invaxa, launched in 2022 and run day to day from Cyprus. That website is now a parked domain.
Regulation
Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.
Proof of regulation on an official register: Yes
We confirmed this broker on a genuine regulator’s register.
Licences the broker publishes
Financial Services Authority (FSA) of Seychelles
Why we reached this verdict
How the evidence adds up.
This is a risk rating driven by what we could not find, not by anything bad that we did find.
- The regulation checks out as far as it goes. We opened the Seychelles FSA capital markets register and found Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited on the securities dealer list, with the phone number +248 4373413 and the email address [email protected]. That email is on the same domain we were asked to investigate, so the licence belongs to this operation and not to somebody else.
- A Seychelles securities dealer licence is a weak one. It is a real permission to deal in securities, but it comes with no compensation scheme, no deposit guarantee and light day to day supervision. It is not comparable to a UK, Australian or Cypriot licence.
- The company exists and is current. Its LEI record was last updated on 4 February 2026 and shows an active status, the Seychelles registration number 8431496-1 and an entity creation date of 13 October 2021. That gives a verified track record of about four years and ten months.
- Nothing adverse turned up. No regulator warning list names this firm or this website, and we found no report of a withdrawal being refused, an account being frozen, or a fee being demanded before funds are released.
- The problem is the silence. Trustpilot has no page at all for limehousesc.com. There is nothing on Reddit, nothing on the forex complaint forums, and the broker directories carry no user reviews or exposures either. A firm that has held a dealing licence since 2021 and once ran a retail brand should have left some trace, positive or negative.
- The retail arm has gone quiet. Invaxa, the consumer facing brand run by this same company under this same licence, was launched in 2022 and its website is now parked with the registrar. What the company does today, and with whose money, is not something an outsider can check.
- Because a two platform sweep found no complaints and no positive reviews of any kind, our rules lift the published figure to reflect a profile we cannot test. The evidence based figure was 48 percent. We publish 68 percent. Read that as unverifiable, not as proven misconduct.
Evidence ledger
Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.
E1Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited appears on the Seychelles Financial Services Authority capital markets register under Securities Dealer, listed with the address CT House, Office 4D, Providence, Mahe, the phone number +248 4373413 and the email [email protected]. The email is on the investigated domain, which ties the licence to this operation.
E2The legal entity record for LIMEHOUSE MARKETS (GLOBAL) LIMITED is active, shows Seychelles registration number 8431496-1, an entity creation date of 13 October 2021, a registered address of CT House, Office No 9A, Providence, Mahe, and was last updated on 4 February 2026.
E3The domain limehousesc.com was registered on 27 July 2023 through GoDaddy and runs on Amazon nameservers. It is newer than the company behind it.
E4The broker's own site names Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited and Securities Dealer Licence SD103 from the Seychelles FSA, and states it does not serve the European Economic Area, the USA or British Columbia. The licence number and entity match the regulator's register exactly.
ModerateLimehouse Markets about pageE5The current website offers liquidity services for CFD trading to other businesses. It has no account opening page, no deposit or cashier page and no trading platform, and the menu contains only Our Services, About Us, Legal and Contact Us.
ModerateLimehouse Markets services pageE6Trade press reported in April 2022 that the retail broker Invaxa was operated by Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited under Seychelles licence SD103, was run from Cyprus, and was headed by chief executive Marios Antoniou. This ties the retail brand to the same entity and the same licence.
ModerateFX News GroupE7The invaxa.com website, the retail brand operated by this company, now shows a registrar parking page instead of a broker site, indicating the consumer facing operation is no longer trading under that name.
Moderateinvaxa.com parked pageE8Trustpilot has no review profile at all for limehousesc.com, and none for invaxa.com either. Both addresses return a not found page rather than a page with zero reviews.
ModerateTrustpilotE9Searches of Reddit, the forex complaint forums and the general web produced no client account of this broker at all: no withdrawal complaint, no account freeze, no advance fee demand and no positive payout report. Third-party broker directories also show no user reviews or exposure filings against it.
E10Sweeps of regulator warning and alert lists produced no entry naming Limehouse Markets, Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited or limehousesc.com. A published alert exists for a similarly named but unrelated firm, LimeFX, which is a different entity and was not attributed to this broker.
ModerateIOSCO investor alerts portalE11The company's legal page publishes a terms of use, complaints procedure, risk disclosure, company information document and privacy policy, and names Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited as the contracting entity regulated by the Seychelles FSA. It publishes no link to the regulator's register for readers to verify the licence themselves.
E12The company gives its office as CT House, Office No. 9A on its website and its legal entity record, while the regulator's register and the site's own contact page give CT House, Unit 4D, Zone 18 in the same building. The addresses are inconsistent across the firm's own disclosures.
The other side
The strongest case in this broker’s favour.
The case for this firm being exactly what it says it is:
- The licence is genuine and current, and it is held by the same entity that owns the website. That is the single hardest thing for a fake operation to arrange, and it passed.
- The company is properly identified. It publishes its full legal name, its licence number and a real registered address, and all three match independent records.
- The website makes no extravagant claims. There is no promise of guaranteed returns, no invented founding year, no fake awards and no borrowed regulator logo. The regional restrictions are stated plainly.
- An absent review footprint is normal for a business to business liquidity provider. Firms that sell pricing to other brokers do not collect retail reviews, so the silence may simply mean it has no retail clients to complain.
- The people behind the earlier retail brand were named publicly in the trade press in 2022, with a chief executive who had held senior roles at established Cyprus brokers. Anonymous scam operations do not usually give interviews under their own names.
- Closing a retail brand is not misconduct. Brokers wind down consumer businesses for commercial reasons all the time, and no client of that brand has publicly complained about losing money in the process.
What would change this
What we would need to see to revise the verdict.
Concrete things that would move this rating in either direction:
- Down, toward low risk: a body of genuine client feedback across two or more independent platforms showing deposits and withdrawals working normally.
- Down: the company publishing audited financials, its directors, or a client money statement naming the bank that holds segregated funds.
- Down: a licence from a tier one or tier two regulator such as the FCA, ASIC or CySEC, verifiable on that regulator's own register.
- Up, toward likely scam: any credible, specific report of a withdrawal being refused, an account being closed with a balance on it, or a payment being demanded before funds are released.
- Up: a warning or alert from any regulator naming limehousesc.com or Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited.
- Up: the Seychelles FSA removing the firm from its securities dealer register, or the site continuing to advertise licence SD103 after it lapses.
- Up: the firm reopening a retail deposit taking operation while still disclosing no client money protections.
Check it yourself
Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.
Seychelles FSA securities dealer register
The regulator's own list, where the company appears with its Seychelles phone and email.
GLEIF legal entity record
Confirms the company number, the 2021 creation date and the registered address.
Limehouse Markets legal documents
The firm's own terms, risk disclosure and complaints procedure.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this broker’s safety.
Is Limehouse Markets a scam?
We found no evidence that it is. There are no regulator warnings, no complaints about money not being returned, and its licence and company details are genuine. We still rate it 68 percent risk because there is almost no independent trace of it operating, and a firm nobody can check should not be treated as a safe one.
Is Limehouse Markets regulated?
Yes, but only offshore. Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited holds Securities Dealer Licence SD103 from the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, and we found the entry on the regulator's own register. Seychelles is a low-tier jurisdiction, so the licence gives far less protection than a UK, Australian or EU one.
Is my money safe with Limehouse Markets?
There is no guarantee that it would be. Seychelles has no investor compensation scheme, and the firm publishes nothing about segregated client accounts or which bank holds client funds. If it stopped paying, you would have no protection fund to claim from.
Can I withdraw my money from Limehouse Markets?
We could not test this. The company publishes no withdrawal terms, no processing times and no fee schedule, and we found no client reports of either successful or failed withdrawals. That is an open question, not a clean answer.
Who owns Limehouse Markets?
The operating company is Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited, registered in Seychelles as company 8431496-1. The company does not name its directors or shareholders on its website, and Seychelles does not publish that information openly.
How old is Limehouse Markets?
The company was created on 13 October 2021, which gives it about four years and ten months of history. The limehousesc.com website is newer, registered on 27 July 2023. The firm makes no founding-year claim on its site, so nothing here is being overstated.
What is a Seychelles FSA securities dealer licence worth?
It is a real licence that permits dealing in securities as principal and as agent, so it is not fake. But Seychelles is a low-cost offshore jurisdiction with light supervision, no compensation scheme and no deposit protection. Treat it as a minimum standard, not as a safety net.
Is Limehouse Markets a clone of another broker?
No. We checked licence SD103 against the Seychelles register and it is recorded to Limehouse Markets (Global) Limited itself, with a contact email on the same domain as the website. It is not wearing another company's credentials.
What happened to Invaxa?
Invaxa was a retail trading brand launched in 2022 by this same company under the same licence SD103, and it was run day to day from Cyprus. Its website is now parked with the domain registrar, which means that retail operation is no longer trading under that name.
Does Limehouse Markets offer trading accounts to individuals?
Not on its current website. The site sells liquidity services for CFD trading to other businesses, and has no account opening page, deposit page or trading platform. If someone offers you a personal Limehouse Markets trading account, verify it with the company before sending money.
Why are there no reviews of Limehouse Markets anywhere?
Trustpilot has no page for the website, and we found nothing on Reddit, the forex forums or the broker directories. Part of that is explained by it being a business-to-business service rather than a retail broker, but a complete absence of trace after several years is also the main reason we rate it as unverified.
What should I check before depositing with any offshore broker?
Look up the licence on the regulator's own register rather than trusting a badge on the website. Check that the company on the licence is the same one that will hold your money. Read the withdrawal terms before you deposit, and always test a small withdrawal before committing a serious amount.
What do I do if I was scammed by a broker like this?
Stop sending money immediately, especially if anyone asks for a tax, fee or unlock payment to release your funds, because that request is itself the scam. Report it to the regulator named on the licence, to your own national regulator, and to your bank or card issuer so they can attempt a recovery.
What we recommend
The practical takeaway from everything above.
What we would tell a person considering this firm today:
- Do not treat the Seychelles licence as protection for your money. If the firm fails or refuses to pay, there is no compensation scheme to fall back on and pursuing it means going through Seychelles.
- If you are a retail trader, note that this website does not currently offer accounts, deposits or a trading platform. If someone contacts you offering a Limehouse Markets trading account, verify with the company directly before sending anything.
- If you are a business considering it as a liquidity provider, ask for audited accounts, the identity of the directors and the banking arrangements before you route flow or post collateral.
- Check the licence yourself on the Seychelles FSA register before doing anything. The company does not publish a verification link, so use the register directly.
- Whatever you do, start small and test getting money back out before you commit an amount you would mind losing.
- If you have already lost money, contact the Seychelles Financial Services Authority and your own national regulator, and report the payment to your bank or card issuer straight away.
This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed August 17, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.