OW Markets: FSA licence SD187

There is no compensation scheme behind it. A Seychelles securities dealer licence carries no statutory client-money insurance and no investor protection fund, so if the firm fails or refuses to pay, no scheme makes you whole and the route to redress runs through the Seychelles. That is the single most important fact about the broker and it applies no matter how well your own account has been handled to date.

The operating company was incorporated on 26 January 2023, so the firm is roughly three years old. That is short. A broker has not really been tested until it has run a client book through a period of market stress, and there is not yet enough operating history here to judge how it behaves under one.

Yes. WIKILIX research records client accounts alleging that trading profits were deleted from MetaTrader 5 balances and that withdrawal requests went unpaid, alongside a smaller number of clients reporting fast and successful payouts. The negative accounts are unverified individually, but they are specific, recent and consistent with one another, and they describe the exact failure an offshore licence offers no remedy for.

Through Visa and Mastercard cards and bank transfer. WIKILIX could not read a published schedule of fees, processing times or withdrawal limits, which is a real gap at a broker whose most frequent complaint concerns payment. Ask for those terms in writing before you fund an account, and test a small withdrawal early.

Spreads are variable. The ZERO account is quoted from zero spread with a commission of USD 8 per round turn; the CLASSIC account carries no commission and a wider spread. Which is cheaper depends entirely on your typical trade size, so compare them against your own volume before choosing.

MetaTrader 5 only, available on web, Windows, Android and iOS. Trading runs on one live server, OWMarkets-Server, hosted in the United Kingdom. MetaTrader 4 is not offered and there is no proprietary terminal.

Up to 1:500 on both live accounts. Leverage at that level is several times what an onshore regulator permits a retail client, and it is the largest single source of loss risk in the offering regardless of how the broker behaves. A 0.2 percent move against a fully leveraged position wipes out the margin behind it.

USD 500 on both published live accounts, CLASSIC and ZERO. That is a high entry point for an offshore broker of this age, and WIKILIX was unable to confirm it against the broker's own published account page this run.

WIKILIX does not rate OW Markets as a confirmed scam. The company exists, the registration is verifiable, and the licence is genuine. It does rate the broker high risk. There are unresolved client accounts of trading profits being removed from MetaTrader 5 balances and withdrawals going unpaid, and the offshore licence provides very little practical recourse if that happens to you. Treat it as a place where your money is not protected, rather than as a proven fraud.

The operating company is ONE WORLD MARKETS LTD, an international business company limited by shares, incorporated in the Seychelles on 26 January 2023 under registration number 8434358-1 and registered at CT House, Office No. 9A, Providence, Mahe. WIKILIX confirmed the entity as active on the Seychelles Business Registry record published through GLEIF. The same company is the named holder of licence SD187, so the operating entity and the licensed entity match, which is a genuinely positive sign.

Yes, but only offshore. OW Markets operates under a single Seychelles Financial Services Authority securities dealer licence, number SD187, held by ONE WORLD MARKETS LTD. The licence is real and in force. It is not equivalent to authorisation by a first-tier regulator such as the FCA, ASIC or CySEC, and it carries no investor compensation scheme.