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Independent safety report

Is MACRO MARKETS a scam?

Confirmed scamHIGH confidenceClone of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd (ASIC AFSL 363972)
Clone / impersonation of an ASIC-licensed firm

Yes. We rate MACRO MARKETS a confirmed scam at 90% risk, because ASIC lists macrogm.com as an imposter impersonating the Australian firm whose licence the site advertises.

  • On 25 August 2025 ASIC added four of this operation's websites to its investor alert list, each titled 'Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd': macrogm.com, macrofx.com, macroglobalmarkets.com and macromarketssolutions.com. ASIC names the impersonated firm as MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ACN 142210179, AFSL 000363972, and states that this licensee has no connection with the imposter entity.
  • The site still advertises that licence today. Its homepage reads that Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd is regulated by ASIC under licence no. 363972. That licence is real, in force and held by a separate Sydney company, which publishes a notice saying only macrogm.com.au and macrogmsecurities.com.au are its websites.
  • What this operation actually holds is low-tier offshore paper of its own: a Seychelles securities dealer licence (SD232), an Anjouan licence (L16030) valid to May 2027, and Hong Kong bullion-exchange membership no. 229. None of them protects a retail deposit, and none of them is Australian.
  • Clients report deposits accepted with a 20% bonus, then profits cancelled, accounts frozen and withdrawals held while the account is said to be 'under investigation from the risk department'. One report gives the login number, the amounts and the dates.
  • The advertised history is not this operation's. It markets a 2010 Sydney founding and '10+ years of industry experience'; its oldest entity is a Hong Kong company incorporated on 7 December 2017 that only took the Macro Markets Solutions name on 8 November 2022.

Safety verdict

Critical risk
0%Scam risk
1.5/5Safety rating 1.5 out of 5
Wikilix safety rating
high
Confidence
At a glance
Proof of regulationFound
Clone of another firmYes
TypeClone / impersonation of an ASIC-licensed firm
Evidence items18

Risk scorecard

Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.

Worst area: Critical
SeverityLowModerateHighCritical

Regulation

7/10 · High

Advertises ASIC AFSL 363972, which the register shows belongs to a different Sydney company, and sits on ASIC's imposter list for this exact domain. Credit for genuinely holding Seychelles SD232, Anjouan L16030 and Hong Kong exchange membership 229, all verified.

Identity & transparency

9/10 · Critical

Impersonation confirmed by the regulator and disavowed by the licensee, with contradictory Sydney addresses, two different Seychelles licence numbers across fronts, abandoned websites and no verifiable social presence. Credit for a real, traceable Hong Kong company and address.

Withdrawals & conduct

8/10 · Critical

Three credible fund-integrity reports describing one mechanism, withdrawals blocked under risk-department review after a bonus-funded profit, one fully specific with login number and amounts, corroborated by a law firm intake page. Not higher because the volume is small and two recovery-advert reviews were discounted.

Reputation

8/10 · Critical

Eight reviews at 2.2 on the principal front, 100% one star, no company reply to any negative review; the only positives are two same-day five-star posts with templated replies on a site that has since closed. Footprint is thin rather than an overwhelming multi-platform pattern.

Website claims

9/10 · Critical

Presents another firm's tier-one ASIC licence as its own, advertises a 2010 Sydney founding and 10+ years of experience it cannot evidence, calls a wholesale New Zealand registration a derivatives brokerage licence, and makes unverifiable claims about AA-rated banks and indemnity insurance.

Operational history

6/10 · High

Real corporate history of about nine years through the Hong Kong company incorporated 7 December 2017, but the brand dates only to November 2022, the retail Seychelles front to late 2025, and the advertised heritage overstates the verifiable record by roughly eight years.

Who they are

A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.

  • Brand: MACRO MARKETS, also trading as Macro Global Markets, Macro Prime and Macro Bullion.
  • Legal entity: Macro Markets Solutions Limited (Hong Kong, company no. 2620103) and a near-identically named Macro Markets Solutions Ltd (Seychelles), which is the counterparty on the retail CFD site.
  • Registered: Office B, 28/F, Plaza 88, 88 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. Telephone +852 3543 1017.
  • Website: macrogm.com is the group portal. Retail trading runs on macromarkets.sc and macrogmsc.com, with macrofx.com, macrobullion.com and macrokm.com as further fronts.
  • Only licence that touches client trading: Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer Licence SD232, plus an Anjouan (Comoros) licence L16030. Both are genuine and both are bottom-tier.
  • Offers: forex, indices, metals and energy, and crypto CFDs on MetaTrader, dynamic leverage to 1:1000, a 20% deposit bonus, 50% cashback, and a 200 USD minimum deposit.
  • Not accepted: the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, Russia, Belarus, Iran and North Korea. The Hong Kong front also excludes Hong Kong and Singapore.
  • Age claim: 'Founded in 2010 in Sydney' and '10+ Years of Industry Experience'. The 2010 Sydney company is the ASIC licensee it is accused of impersonating, not this operation.
The Macro Group homepage, still presenting ASIC licence no. 363972 as part of the group alongside the Seychelles SD232, Anjouan L16030, exchange member 229 and New Zealand FSP1010807 claims.
Macro Markets regulation section on the retail trading site, citing Seychelles Securities Dealer Licence No. SD232 and claiming 10+ years of industry experience and 70,000+ client accounts.
Legal footer of macrofx.com naming Macro Markets Solutions Limited, business registration number 68609094, at Plaza 88, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. ASIC lists this domain as an imposter entity.

Regulation

Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.

Proof found

Proof of regulation on an official register: Yes

We confirmed this broker on a genuine regulator’s register.

Licences the broker publishes

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia

UnverifiedNot a forex licenceLimited relevance
A genuine and current Australian Financial Services Licence authorising the issuing of and market-making in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail and wholesale clients. It is held by Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd, ACN 142 210 179, of Sydney, a separate company. ASIC states that licensee has no connection with this operation and lists this website as an imposter.
Protection: None for clients of this operation. The licence and its protections belong to another company.Official register

Financial Services Authority (FSA), Seychelles

VerifiedTier 3Limited relevance
A real Securities Dealer Licence under the Securities Act 2007, held by Macro Markets Solutions Ltd, which is the counterparty on the retail CFD site. Seychelles is a low-tier offshore jurisdiction with no retail leverage cap, no compensation scheme and no practical route to recover a refused withdrawal.
Protection: Low. Registration of the firm only, with no deposit guarantee or compensation scheme.Official register

Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority (AOFA), Comoros

VerifiedTier 4Limited relevance
A genuine Anjouan offshore licence for over-the-counter derivatives and leveraged spot foreign exchange, held by Macro Global Markets Ltd, company no. 16030. Anjouan is among the weakest jurisdictions available and provides essentially no supervision of how client money is handled.
Protection: Negligible. No deposit protection, no compensation scheme and no meaningful conduct supervision.Official register

Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange / Hong Kong Gold Exchange

VerifiedNot a forex licenceLimited relevance
Membership number 229 on the exchange's recognised e-trading member list, held by Macro Markets Solutions Limited. This is membership of a Hong Kong bullion exchange, which permits gold and silver dealing, and is not authorisation by a government financial regulator. Hong Kong's statutory regulator for securities and futures is the Securities and Futures Commission, which does not appear anywhere in this group's claims.
Protection: Very low. Exchange membership for bullion trading, not financial regulation and not protection for a CFD deposit.Official register

Financial Service Providers Register, New Zealand

VerifiedNot a forex licenceLimited relevance
A registration, not a licence. The register shows Macro Global Markets NZ Limited registered on 6 December 2025 for a client money or property service described as non-custodial and wholesale, and records that it provides no financial service to retail clients and therefore needs no dispute resolution scheme. The site calls this an FSP license number and says the company focuses on derivatives brokerage in New Zealand, which the register does not support. No Financial Markets Authority licence is held.
Protection: None. A directory entry that confers no authorisation and, on its own terms here, covers no retail business.

Financial Services Authority (FSA), Seychelles, second claim

UnverifiedTier 3
A second, different Seychelles number advertised by this group on its own company profile, given as regulatory no. SD139 under the name Macrofx (Seychelles) Limited at the Providence Complex. No entity of that name appears on the Seychelles register of licensed securities dealers, where the only Macro entry is Macro Markets Solutions Ltd.
Protection: Unestablished. We could not tie this number to any entity on the Seychelles register.Official register
ASIC investor alert entry dated 25 August 2025 headed Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd (macrogm.com), recording the website as www.macrogm.com and naming the impersonated licensee and its AFSL 000363972.
Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority verification page for Macro Global Markets Ltd showing licence L16030/MMSL, incorporation 8 May 2025 and licence end date 8 May 2027.
Seychelles Financial Services Authority register of licensed securities dealers listing MACRO MARKETS SOLUTIONS LTD, the counterparty behind the retail trading site.

Why we reached this verdict

How the evidence adds up.

Two findings decide this case, and both come from the Australian regulator whose licence the site displays.

  • ASIC has published a warning naming this exact website. Its investor alert list carries an entry added 25 August 2025, type Imposter, headed 'Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd (macrogm.com)'. The entry records the website as https://www.macrogm.com and the contact email as support@macrofx.com, both of which belong to this operation. It then names the business being impersonated, MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ACN 142210179, AFSL 000363972, and states plainly that this entity has no connection with the imposter entity. Three sister entries of the same date name macrofx.com, macroglobalmarkets.com and macromarketssolutions.com.
  • The licence checks out, for somebody else. ASIC's own licensee register records AFSL 363972 as held by MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ABN 84 142 210 179, Sydney NSW 2000, running since 25 August 2010, with a full authorisation to issue and make a market in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail and wholesale clients. The company register shows that firm was registered on 23 February 2010 and previously traded as Monex Securities Australia and IBFX Australia. That firm publishes an Important Notice stating it has identified websites and individuals falsely claiming association with it, and lists only macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au as its own. Its own About page describes a single Australian company with two divisions and names no Seychelles, Hong Kong, Comoros or New Zealand affiliate.

Everything else is consistent with that picture rather than against it.

  • The claim is still on the site. Fourteen months after the alert, the homepage still presents AFSL 363972 as part of the group. That is not a stale page, it is the central credential the site sells itself on.
  • The offshore licences are real, and they are not the point. The Seychelles FSA's register does list MACRO MARKETS SOLUTIONS LTD as a licensed securities dealer. The Anjouan authority's verification page confirms Macro Global Markets Ltd, company no. 16030, licence L16030/MMSL, incorporated 8 May 2025, licence end date 8 May 2027, status Active. The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange lists Macro Markets Solutions Limited as member no. 229. A licence verifies the entity it was issued to. It does not license a different company's Australian identity.
  • New Zealand is a registration, not a licence. The site calls FSP1010807 an 'FSP license number' and says the New Zealand company focuses on derivatives brokerage there. The Financial Service Providers Register shows Macro Global Markets NZ Limited registered on 6 December 2025 for a client money or property service described as non-custodial, wholesale, and records that it provides no financial service to retail clients and therefore needs no dispute resolution scheme. Registration on that list is not authorisation from the Financial Markets Authority.
  • Clients describe one failure, repeatedly. The Trustpilot page for macrofx.com carries 8 reviews at 2.2, every one of them a single star, with no company reply to any negative review. Three describe the same mechanism: money in, often with a bonus, a profit, then the withdrawal blocked. One is specific enough to check, naming login 660237, a 3,000 USD deposit on 23 October 2023, a 900 USD bonus credited the next day, a balance of 6,520 USD, a withdrawal request, then the account declared under investigation by the risk department and nothing paid for eight days. A Turkish law firm running a victim intake page for macrogm.com, dated 7 May 2025, describes that same risk-department review as the standard excuse used to stop withdrawals. Separately, a client reports profits cancelled, accounts frozen and introducing-broker rebates unpaid, and another reports the 20% bonus taken and neither profit nor capital returned.
  • The fronts move when the warnings land. macroglobalmarkets.com, flagged by ASIC on the same day as the others, no longer resolves, and its review profile records that the website has closed. Replacements were stood up around and after the listing: macrokm.com registered 22 October 2025, macromarkets.sc first archived 11 November 2025, and macrogmsc.com registered 9 March 2026 and pointing at macromarkets.sc.
  • The borrowed history and the borrowed address. On its own review profile the group describes itself as 'Founded in 2010 in Sydney' with 'top-tier regulatory licenses in Australia', gives a Seychelles address with an Australian mobile number, and cites a Seychelles number, SD139, under the name Macrofx (Seychelles) Limited. No entity of that name appears on the Seychelles register, where the only Macro entry is Macro Markets Solutions Ltd. Across its fronts it has also published two different Sydney addresses for the Australian licensee, neither of which is the address that licensee publishes.

On the arithmetic, the six scored dimensions give a weighted mean of 8.3, which is 83%. Two independent hard findings from the regulator's own records raise the published figure to the 90% floor that pairing carries. We assess the risk of fraud as high. We are not describing a weak licence or a poor product, we are describing an operation selling another company's Australian credentials.

Evidence ledger

Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.

12 against4 in favour
  • E1ASIC's investor alert list carries an entry added 25 August 2025, type Imposter, headed 'Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd (macrogm.com)', recording the website as https://www.macrogm.com and the email as support@macrofx.com, naming the impersonated licensee as MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ACN 142210179, AFSL 000363972, and stating that this entity has no connection with the imposter entity.

  • E2Three further ASIC alert entries of the same date, all headed 'Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd', name macrofx.com, macroglobalmarkets.com and macromarketssolutions.com. Two of those are authoritative websites of this operation.

  • E3ASIC's current published licensee register data for October 2026 records AFS Licence 363972 as held by MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ABN 84142210179, Sydney NSW 2000, start date 25 August 2010, authorising the licensee to issue and make a market in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail and wholesale clients. The licence is real, current and not this operation's.

  • E4ASIC's company register shows MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, ACN 142 210 179, registered 23 February 2010, status Registered, registered office in Sydney NSW 2000, with former names MARCO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD, MONEX SECURITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD and IBFX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD. A second company of the same name, ACN 629 717 184, is deregistered.

  • E5The homepage of macrogm.com, read on 5 October 2026, still states that Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd is an Australian based company regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under licence no. 363972, fourteen months after ASIC listed this domain as an imposter of that company. The same page lists the Seychelles SD232, Anjouan L16030, exchange member 229 and New Zealand FSP1010807 claims.

  • E6The ASIC licensee publishes an Important Notice stating it has identified websites and individuals falsely claiming to be associated with the company, and names only macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au as its websites, with email domains macrosecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au.

  • E7The ASIC licensee's About page describes a single Australian company, ABN 84 142 210 179, at Suite 2 Level 30, 25 Bligh Street, Sydney, operating two divisions on macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au, and names no Seychelles, Hong Kong, Comoros or New Zealand affiliate. The corporate-group explanation for the shared brand therefore fails at the parent.

  • E8Trustpilot for macrofx.com, a profile the company claimed in March 2023, shows 8 reviews at 2.2 with 100% one star and a note that the company has not replied to negative reviews. Three reports describe one mechanism: a deposit with bonus, a profit, then a blocked withdrawal. The most specific names login 660237, a 3,000 USD deposit on 23 October 2023, a 900 USD bonus, a 6,520 USD balance, and the account declared under investigation by the risk department with nothing paid after eight days. Others report profits cancelled, accounts frozen and introducing-broker rebates unpaid, and the 20% bonus taken with neither profit nor capital returned.

  • E9A Turkish law firm's case page dated 7 May 2025, naming macrogm.com and the Hong Kong +852 contact number, describes investors' money not being returned and identifies a sudden claim that the account is under review by the risk department as the standard excuse used to stop withdrawals after a 24-hour processing promise. This matches the mechanism described in the client reports.

  • E10The New Zealand Financial Service Providers Register shows MACRO GLOBAL MARKETS NZ LIMITED, FSP1010807, NZBN 9429049913552, Level 28, 151 Queen Street, Auckland, registered 6 December 2025, for a client money or property service described as non-custodial and wholesale, and records that it provides no financial service to retail clients and so needs no dispute resolution scheme. The site calls this an FSP license number for derivatives brokerage.

  • E11On its own claimed review profile the group describes itself as founded in 2010 in Sydney with top-tier regulatory licences in Australia, Hong Kong and Seychelles, gives a Seychelles address with regulatory no. SD139 and an Australian mobile number, and the profile now records that the company's website has closed. macroglobalmarkets.com, flagged by ASIC on 25 August 2025, no longer resolves.

  • E12Domain records show the fronts being rotated: macrogm.com registered 4 November 2018, macrofx.com 22 January 2004, macrobullion.com 8 July 2024, macrokm.com 22 October 2025 and macrogmsc.com 9 March 2026, the last redirecting to macromarkets.sc, whose earliest archived copy is 11 November 2025. Several were stood up around and after the August 2025 alert.

  • E13The Seychelles Financial Services Authority's own register of licensed securities dealers lists MACRO MARKETS SOLUTIONS LTD. No entity named Macrofx (Seychelles) Limited appears anywhere on that list, although fronts of this group have advertised a Seychelles number SD139 under that name.

  • E14The Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority's licence verification page for Macro Global Markets Ltd shows company number 16030, licence number L16030/MMSL, date of incorporation 8 May 2025, licence end date 8 May 2027 and status Active, confirmed on 5 October 2026. The licence is genuine and current, and the company is under eighteen months old.

  • E15The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange recognised e-trading member list, updated 5 October 2026, shows member no. 229 as Macro Markets Solutions Limited with telephone (852) 2726 5008. This is a Hong Kong exchange membership for bullion trading, not authorisation by a government financial regulator such as the Securities and Futures Commission.

  • E16macrofx.com names Macro Markets Solutions Limited, business registration number 68609094, at Office B 28/F, Plaza 88, 88 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, telephone +852 35431017. The address and telephone match the Hong Kong company record and the exchange membership entry, so this Hong Kong entity is real and traceable.

  • E17The retail CFD site names Macro Markets Solutions Ltd, incorporated in Seychelles under Securities Dealer Licence SD232, advertises dynamic leverage to 1:1000, a 20% bonus on standard accounts and 50% cashback, and claims 70,000+ client accounts and 10+ years of industry experience while publishing no link to any regulator's register.

  • E18BaFin's warning of 3 June 2025 names macrobee.com, operated by MACRO GLOBAL LIMITED, and macroforexs.com, operated by MACRO GLOBAL MARKET LTD, for lacking required authorisation. Neither is a website of this operation, and none of this broker's domains appears in that notice, so the warning is not attributed here.

The group's own company profile for the now-closed macroglobalmarkets.com front, describing itself as founded in 2010 in Sydney with top-tier regulatory licences in Australia and citing Seychelles regulatory no. SD139.
Important Notice published by the ASIC licensee Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd, naming macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au as its only websites and warning that others falsely claim association with it.
Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange recognised e-trading member list showing member 229, Macro Markets Solutions Limited, an exchange membership rather than government financial regulation.

The other side

The strongest case in this broker’s favour.

The case against this operation is strong, so the innocent explanations deserve a fair hearing. Here is what can honestly be said for it, and where each argument runs out.

  • It is not a phantom, and it does hold real paper. The Hong Kong company is traceable: company no. 2620103, business registration 68609094, incorporated 7 December 2017, status live, at an address that matches the one printed on its own site and the telephone number on its exchange membership entry. The Seychelles licence is on the regulator's register. The Anjouan licence verifies with a 2027 end date. The exchange membership verifies. Plenty of operations in this queue have none of that.
  • Could this be a regional arm of one real group? That was the first hypothesis we tested, and it is the one that would change the verdict. It fails on the Australian firm's own evidence rather than on ours. That firm's site describes a single Australian company with two divisions and two .com.au websites, names no overseas affiliate, and publishes a notice that websites and individuals are falsely claiming association with it. ASIC states there is no connection. A genuine group structure is normally easy to show, because the parent says so.
  • The brand history is genuinely tangled, and we say so. The Australian licensee itself adopted the Macro Global Markets name, having previously been IBFX Australia and then Monex Securities Australia, and ASIC records an earlier spelling of its name as MARCO GLOBAL MARKETS PTY LTD. This operation's own review profile calls itself MARCO Holdings Group, with the same unusual spelling. That may point to a shared origin at some point, or to a deliberate echo. We found no public record of any sale, transfer or separation, so we cannot resolve it. What we can say is that whatever happened earlier, the regulator's current position and the licensee's own public notice are both unambiguous, and neither entitles this operation to advertise that licence now.
  • It stays out of the strict jurisdictions. The sites exclude the United States, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Russia and others. That is consistent with staying inside the reach of the licences it does hold, and it is the opposite of the pattern where an offshore broker aggressively solicits tier-one markets.
  • The complaint pile is small, and we discounted part of it. There are eight reviews, not eighty. Two of the loudest, including one claiming 453,000 USD lost, end by steering the reader to a named recovery service, which is the signature of a recovery scam harvesting victims rather than an account of this broker, so we excluded both from the count. Two others are one-liners with no mechanism. That leaves three credible fund-integrity reports. Three is enough to establish a pattern when the mechanism is identical and one is fully specific, but it is not a flood, and we have not treated it as one.
  • Warnings about similarly named firms are not warnings about this one. BaFin warned on 3 June 2025 about macrobee.com and macroforexs.com, run by MACRO GLOBAL LIMITED and MACRO GLOBAL MARKET LTD, and the FCA has an entry for MACROFXTRADE. None of those is a website of this operation, so we excluded all of them. Only ASIC's four entries name its actual domains.

What would change this

What we would need to see to revise the verdict.

This verdict rests on the regulator's position and on the site's own words, so it is falsifiable in specific ways.

  • ASIC removing the entries. If the four alert-list entries added on 25 August 2025 were withdrawn, the central hard finding would go with them and we would re-rate immediately.
  • The Australian licensee acknowledging the group. A statement on macrogmsecurities.com.au or macrogm.com.au naming Macro Markets Solutions Limited or Macro Markets Solutions Ltd as a group company, or listing macrogm.com among its websites, would convert this from impersonation into a legitimate international structure.
  • Removing the Australian claim. If the group simply stopped advertising AFSL 363972 and the 2010 Sydney founding, and presented itself honestly as a Seychelles and Hong Kong operation on offshore licences, the clone finding would fall away. The offshore risk would remain, but the verdict would soften substantially.
  • Evidence of a severance we could not find. Documentation of a past ownership link and a clean separation, with dates, would reframe the brand overlap as corporate history rather than misuse.
  • Documented payouts at scale. Independent, verifiable withdrawal confirmations from clients of macromarkets.sc, with amounts and dates, would weaken the fund-integrity finding, though not the licensing one.
  • What would harden it further: an enforcement action or court proceeding naming these entities, a warning from the Seychelles or Hong Kong authorities, any credible report of a client being asked to pay a tax or release fee before a withdrawal, or the Seychelles licence lapsing while still advertised.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about this broker’s safety.

13 questions
Is Macro Markets a scam?

Yes, on our assessment. ASIC placed macrogm.com, macrofx.com and two sister sites on its investor alert list on 25 August 2025, each entry headed 'Impersonation of Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd', and stated that the licensee being impersonated has no connection with them. The site nevertheless still advertises that company's ASIC licence number 363972 as its own. We rate the risk at 90%.

Is Macro Markets a fraud?

We do not state that as a legal conclusion, and no court has. What we can point to is specific: ASIC classifies these websites as imposter entities impersonating a licensed Australian firm, and clients report deposits accepted and withdrawals then blocked while accounts are said to be under risk-department review. On that record we assess the risk of fraud as high.

Is Macro Markets regulated by ASIC?

No. AFSL 363972 is a genuine Australian licence, but ASIC's register shows it is held by Macro Global Markets Pty Ltd, ABN 84 142 210 179, of Sydney, a separate company that publishes its own websites as macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au. ASIC states that firm has no connection with the operation at macrogm.com.

Does Macro Markets hold any real licence at all?

Yes, but not an Australian one. The Seychelles Financial Services Authority lists Macro Markets Solutions Ltd as a licensed securities dealer, the Anjouan authority confirms licence L16030 to Macro Global Markets Ltd until May 2027, and the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange lists Macro Markets Solutions Limited as member 229. These are low-tier credentials that do not protect client deposits or give you access to a compensation scheme.

Can I withdraw my money from Macro Markets?

Some clients say they could not. Three reports describe the same sequence of a deposit, often with a bonus, a profit, and then a withdrawal that is blocked while the account is placed under review by a risk department. One names the login number, the amounts and the dates. If you hold a balance, request a full withdrawal in writing now and keep every record.

Is my money safe with Macro Markets?

We would not treat it as safe. The site says client funds are segregated with AA-rated banks and covered by a liability protection mechanism and indemnity insurance, but it publishes nothing that lets you verify any of that. Under a Seychelles or Anjouan licence there is no deposit guarantee and no statutory compensation scheme behind your balance.

Who owns and operates Macro Markets?

The two contracting entities are Macro Markets Solutions Limited, a Hong Kong company registered as no. 2620103 at Plaza 88, Tsuen Wan, and a near-identically named Macro Markets Solutions Ltd in Seychelles, which is the counterparty on the retail CFD site. An Anjouan company, Macro Global Markets Ltd, and a New Zealand company, Macro Global Markets NZ Limited, sit alongside them.

How old is Macro Markets really?

The oldest entity we could date is the Hong Kong company, incorporated on 7 December 2017 and renamed to Macro Markets Solutions Limited on 8 November 2022, so roughly nine years of corporate existence and about four under this brand. The '2010, founded in Sydney' history it advertises belongs to the Australian licensee it is accused of impersonating.

Is Macro Markets a clone firm?

Yes, that is exactly how ASIC has classified these websites. A clone is an operation that borrows a real regulated company's name, licence number or details to look authorised. The tell here is simple: search licence 363972 and the register returns a different company at a different address with different websites.

What is the Seychelles SD232 licence worth to me?

Very little in practice. It is a genuine securities dealer licence, which means the Seychelles authority has registered the firm, but Seychelles does not cap retail leverage, does not run a compensation scheme, and offers no realistic route to get a deposit back if the firm refuses to pay. It is a long way below an ASIC, FCA or similar licence.

Why does the site advertise 1:1000 leverage and a 20% bonus?

Those are offshore marketing terms that no tier-one regulator would permit for retail clients. Leverage at 1:1000 means a very small move against you can wipe out the account. One client specifically reports taking the 20% bonus and then receiving neither the profit nor the original capital, so read the bonus conditions before any deposit.

What should I do if I have already lost money with Macro Markets?

Stop depositing, put a full withdrawal request in writing, and preserve every chat log, ticket number, receipt and bank or wallet reference. Report it to ASIC through Moneysmart if you were dealt with as an Australian resident, and otherwise to your own regulator, your bank and your card issuer. Do not pay anyone who promises to recover your funds for an upfront fee, because two of the reviews on this brand are advertisements for exactly that.

I was looking for the Australian broker called Macro Global Markets. Where is it?

The ASIC-licensed firm trades at macrogmsecurities.com.au for securities and macrogm.com.au for wholesale foreign exchange, and it has published a notice confirming those are its only websites. It is a real Sydney company, registered in February 2010, formerly Monex Securities Australia and IBFX Australia, and it is the party being impersonated here rather than the subject of this report.

What we recommend

The practical takeaway from everything above.

Our advice

Treat this as an operation to avoid, and act on the Australian angle specifically.

  • Do not deposit. The licence that makes this group look safe is another company's, and the licences it does hold offer no meaningful protection for a retail deposit.
  • Check which company you would actually be contracting with. On macromarkets.sc that is a Seychelles company. On macrofx.com it is a Hong Kong company. Neither is the ASIC licensee named on the homepage.
  • If you were looking for the Australian firm, go to its own site. The ASIC licensee publishes macrogmsecurities.com.au and macrogm.com.au, and nothing else.
  • If you already have money there: stop depositing, request a full withdrawal in writing, and keep every receipt, chat log, ticket number and bank or wallet reference. Report it to ASIC through its Moneysmart reporting page if you were approached as an Australian resident, and to your own national regulator and your bank or card issuer otherwise.
  • Ignore anyone who offers to recover your funds for a fee. Two of the reviews on this brand are advertisements for exactly that, and paying a recovery fee is how a single loss becomes two.
  • For the platform: flag the broker page as a suspicious clone, name the impersonated firm clearly so the real Sydney licensee is not tarred, carry a warning banner, and notify ASIC that the listing is still being advertised.

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 October 5, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.

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