Is PKF Capital a scam?

• Brand: PKF Capital (PKF Seychelles)
• Legal entity: PKF Capital Markets (Seychelles) Limited
• Registered: 104 First Floor, Waterside Property, Eden Island, Mahe, Seychelles. The same address appears on the regulator's register, on the firm's own contact page and on its Google business listing.
• Website: www.pkf.sc. The older address pkf-capital.com now redirects to the same site.
• Licences: Seychelles Financial Services Authority Securities Dealer SD001, and Seychelles Fund Administrator FA007. Both entries are on the regulator's own public register. Sister companies in the same group hold a corporate services licence (ICS013) and an accountancy licence (308275).
• Memberships: Member of SECDEX Exchange, member and registered sponsor advisor of MERJ Exchange, and member firm of PKF Global.
• Offers: Corporate finance, sponsor advisory for exchange listings, fund administration, private wealth management, securities broking, direct market access trading accounts and custody, company formation.
• Not offered: Retail forex and CFD trading, MetaTrader 4 or 5, high leverage, deposit bonuses. Its clients are companies, funds and private wealth clients rather than retail day traders.
• Age claim: Company profiles give 2011 as the founding year. We can independently evidence the operation back to June 2017 under the same name and the same licence number.

We reached this verdict from primary sources, not from opinion sites. Here is what settled it.

• The licences are genuine and they belong to this firm. The Seychelles Financial Services Authority lists PKF Capital Markets (Seychelles) Limited on its Capital Markets register under Securities Dealer, showing the Eden Island address, the phone number +248 4346770, the contact person Nico Ackermann and the website https://www.pkf.sc. That website field matches the site we investigated exactly, so the clone test passes on name, domain and contacts.
• The second licence checks out too. The same entity appears on the regulator's Collective Investment Scheme register under Seychelles Fund Administrator, with the same contact details.
• Two independent institutions vouch for the same website. MERJ Exchange shows the firm as an active sponsor advisor at the same address with www.pkf.sc, and PKF Global lists PKF Seychelles at Eden Island with http://www.pkf.sc/ as its website. A clone cannot get itself written into a stock exchange's advisor list and an international network's member directory under the impersonated firm's own domain.
• The history is real. An archived copy of pkf.sc from 6 June 2017 shows the same legal entity, the same licence number SD001 and the same exchange sponsor role. That is more than nine years of continuous, same-brand history. The firm's own material describes an earlier name, Direct Markets Africa, which joined the PKF network. We found no adverse history under either name.
• The site does not overclaim. It names its licence numbers, names the entity that holds each one, and claims no top-tier regulator. An older version of the site also referenced South African regulation, and that claim has since been removed rather than left standing, which is the correct behaviour.
• Nothing adverse anywhere. No regulator warning list names the brand or the domain. The Seychelles regulator's own enforcement page does not name the firm. We found no withdrawal complaints, no fund-integrity reports and no advance-fee demands.
• On the thin public review footprint. There is no Trustpilot profile for pkf.sc and no forum threads about it. Normally we treat a total absence of client feedback as a warning sign, because a real brokerage with real clients leaves a trace. We did not apply that adjustment here, and we want to be open about why: this firm serves companies, funds and private wealth clients rather than retail traders, so consumer review sites are the wrong place to look, and its institutional trace is unusually strong (two government register entries, a stock exchange listing, an international network listing, a verifiable staffed office and a nine-year archive record).
• What we could not do. The Seychelles company registry is not publicly searchable and the .sc domain registry publishes no public ownership record, so we could not read an incorporation date or a domain registration date from an official source. That is why our confidence is medium rather than high, and why the age figure we publish is based on evidenced web presence rather than a registry document.
• Why the risk is not lower than 22 percent. Seychelles is a low-tier offshore regulator. There is no investor compensation scheme, client money protection is weaker than in the United Kingdom, Australia or Singapore, and if a dispute goes wrong your recourse is a small offshore authority. That jurisdictional weakness is the score, not any misconduct we found.

Note on operating history: the 9.2-year track record rests on domain registration alone. No company incorporation date could be established, so this is an upper bound rather than a confirmed age.

Risk-profile adjustment: the evidence-based score was 22%. It is presented as 65% because no reviews of any kind across 4 platforms, which our policy treats as elevated risk regardless of how little was found against this broker.