Is Schroders a scam?
Wikilix independent safety report
No. The investment website at schroders-jp.co and schroders.click is a clone that impersonates the genuine Schroders. It is not run by the real firm, and any money sent to it is at serious risk. It c…
Risk scorecard · each area scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst)
Broker Summary
What Wikilix has recorded about Schroders: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
Schroders Broker Overview
This profile covers the trading operation that used the Schroders name at schroders-jp.co, together with a second address at schroders.click. It was presented as an investment and multi-asset trading service and is described as having started in 2023. Neither address resolves today.
No operating company, registered address, telephone number or email contact could be established for it. No trading platform, account tier, fee schedule, leverage figure or funding method could be established either.
Schroders Regulation and License
No financial licence of any kind was found for this operation. It named no regulator, quoted no licence number and pointed at no register entry, so there is no authority supervising it and no compensation or complaints scheme standing behind it.
The name is shared with a long established and entirely separate British company. Schroders plc is on the Companies House register under company number 03909886, was incorporated on 14 January 2000, is active, and has its registered office at 1 London Wall Place, London EC2Y 5AU. That registration describes a head office business incorporated in London in 2000. The operation reviewed here is described as having started in Japan in 2023 and corresponds to no company on the United Kingdom register. No connection between the two could be established.
Is Schroders Regulated?
No. The operation at schroders-jp.co held no financial licence that could be established and named no authority as its supervisor. A client dealing with it would have had no regulated counterparty, no requirement that client money be held separately, and no statutory route of redress.
Is Schroders Safe?
Nothing was found that would support treating this operation as safe. It held no licence, disclosed no operating company, published no verifiable contact route, and traded under the name of a separate registered British firm on an address unconnected to it. Both of its domains are now offline, so there is no published route through which a client could contact it or ask for a balance to be returned.
Schroders Review and Assessment
Read as a whole, this is a short lived operation that took its name from a well known British asset manager while running on an unrelated address, disclosing no company and holding no licence, and it has since gone dark. The single most important point for a reader is that the Schroders name appearing on a website is not on its own evidence of any link to the registered British company of that name, and the address itself has to be checked.
Regulatory Licenses
Schroders holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each row below shows what that register says about it.
How far our check got
- 1 confirmed on a register
FSATier 1Confirmed on registerChecked
What the register says
- Licence number
- 関東財務局長(金商)第90号
- Register status
- Belongs to the real Schroder Investment Management (Japan) Limited, not to this operation
- Effective
- Sep 30, 2007
- Expires
- No expiry shown
What our check found
A genuine Japanese Financial Instruments Business Operator registration that belongs to the real Schroder Investment Management (Japan) Limited (schroders.com). The clone copied the number; it is not the licensee. Client protection: Strong for the genuine holder; none for clients of this clone, which is not the licensee..
Client protection under this licence
- No compensation schemeNo mandatory insurance (but strict fund segregation)
- Client money kept separate
- Negative balance protection
- Complaints routeFINMAC
- Maximum leverage1:25
These are the rules FSA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how Schroders applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.
About Financial Services Agency
Onshore regulatorGovernment bodyCompensation: No mandatory insurance (but strict fund segregation)Public registerTransparency: high- Licences this authority issues
- Type I Financial Instruments Business
- Typical cost of this licence
- JPY 50000000+
Company Registration
Registered in United Kingdom.
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- Registry
- UK Companies House

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