PKF Capital: FSA licence SD001

WIKILIX found no evidence of one. The legal entity is named consistently across the site, it publishes a fixed registered office in Mahé with a telephone number and email address, the regulator's own register lists it as a securities dealer and a fund administrator, and it is a member firm of an established international accounting network. What a prospective client carries instead is ordinary offshore risk: a lower tier supervisor with no compensation scheme, commercial terms that are not published at all, and a securities dealer licence number, SD001, that the register itself does not print. Nothing here resembles a retail forex operation making leveraged trading claims.

The operating company was incorporated on 20 October 2011, giving roughly fifteen years of corporate history under the same name. Its website is current, carries a 2026 copyright line and still names the same two licence numbers and the same registered office in Mahé. The registration number C8410175 and the incorporation date match the company's record in the GLEIF legal entity register (LEI 89450012SQPOWKOODV68), which names the Seychelles Business Registry as its source.

Probably, outside the United States, but the firm does not publish a list. No restricted countries page and no accepted countries page exist on its website, and its client terms contain no clause excluding residents of any jurisdiction. The one restriction on record sits on the hosted client portal the firm's login page links to, which states that it is not directed at residents of the United States and that US clients are not accepted. Because accounts are opened by direct contact, whether a given jurisdiction is served is decided case by case.

The client agreement provides for a Segregated Funds Account in which client money is held, which is a meaningful protection. It is not, however, backed by an investor compensation scheme: the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles operates no client-fund insurance. In an insolvency, recovery would depend on the segregation arrangements and Seychelles law rather than on a statutory payout.

No public price list exists. The client terms refer to a Markets and Fees Schedule containing the applicable rates, fees, commissions and charges, published from time to time or available on request, and warn that a minimum fee can raise total trading costs where an order is split over a period. Investment-management fees are described as tiered according to engagement and assets invested, agreed with each client at the outset.

By electronic funds transfer only. Clause 13.1 of the firm's February 2022 terms and conditions requires all client money to be paid through electronic funds transfer, and withdrawals go only to a bank account the client has nominated, net of any outstanding fees, with no third party permitted to receive payment. Client money is held in a segregated funds account with registered banks in Seychelles or overseas and may be pooled with other clients' money. No fee, limit or processing time is published, and there is no card, wallet or crypto channel for a trading account.

By contacting the firm. The Trading Account page states that anyone wishing to open a brokerage account for trading on SECDEX Exchange should get in touch, and it links a login for existing clients. That login is hosted by the third-party provider Velocity Trade at login.velocity.trade, and it offers a public 'Create an account' route into the client portal, which collects an email address and a password at the first step, but the brokerage relationship itself is still opened by direct contact.

No MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 or cTrader offering exists. The firm refers to an unnamed Electronic Trading Platform in its client agreement and describes access to global markets through a trading and investment platform with visual and one-click trading for professional clients. Existing clients reach it through a hosted login linked from the Trading Account page. The platform is not named on the website, so WIKILIX has recorded none.

No leverage figure is published anywhere on the site. The February 2022 client terms contain no leverage or margin provisions, and the firm's published services are securities dealing, custody and investment management rather than leveraged derivatives. A separate margin client agreement and a margin product disclosure statement dated January 2017 do sit on the firm's client documents page, so margin dealing is documented, but no ratio or margin rate is stated in public.

The firm publishes one minimum: the PKF Investment Platform, its managed investment service, states 20,000 US dollars. No minimum is published for a brokerage trading account, which is opened by contacting the firm, and the client terms refer only to a Markets and Fees Schedule issued on request, so any other commercial minimum is quoted privately.

The operating company is PKF Capital Markets (Seychelles) Limited, a Seychelles company limited by shares, registration number C8410175, incorporated on 20 October 2011. It is a member firm of the PKF Global network, and its published directors are Carmen Turner (Managing Director), Nico Ackermann and Daniel Carter. The group also includes PKF Corporate Services Limited and PKF Business Solutions Limited.

Yes, but not as a forex broker. The Financial Services Authority of Seychelles lists PKF Capital Markets (Seychelles) Limited on its Securities Dealer register, with pkf.sc as its website, so its securities dealing is confirmed. The licence number SD001 comes from the firm's own site footer, because the register prints no licence numbers for securities dealers. The Seychelles Fund Administrator licence FA007 is recorded as active on the same regulator's register; it covers fund administration work and gives a trading client no protection. The Authority is an offshore, lower tier supervisor and operates no client money compensation scheme.

No. PKF Capital Markets (Seychelles) Limited does not offer foreign exchange or CFD trading. Its own website sets out a securities dealing, custody, investment management, fund administration and corporate services business, and its February 2022 client terms cover securities, custody and nominee services rather than foreign exchange or contracts for difference. Anyone looking for a leveraged currency account will not find one here.