Is Schroders a scam?

• Brand: Schroders, used without permission. The genuine group is Schroders plc, listed in London and trading at schroders.com.
• Legal entity: none of its own. The site published シュローダー・インベストメント・マネジメント株式会社, which is another company.
• Registered: no company registration of its own could be established anywhere.
• Website: schroders-jp.co (main) and schroders.click. Neither resolves any longer and no registration record exists for either.
• Only licence: none. It displayed 関東財務局長（金商）第90号, which belongs to Schroder Investment Management (Japan) Limited, and NFA 0563282, which matches no firm on the NFA register.
• Offers: retail FX margin trading with zero advertised commissions on schroders.click, and asset management marketing copied from the genuine Schroders Japan site on schroders-jp.co.
• Not accepted: no restricted country list was ever published. The whole operation was aimed at Japanese residents, in Japanese.
• Age claim: 50 years in Japan. Its earliest evidenced infrastructure dates from 30 March 2024.

Two independent regulators' records each show a false identity claim, and either one alone would carry this verdict.

• It wore another company's registration. The number in the footer, 関東財務局長（金商）第90号, is the Japanese financial instruments business registration of Schroder Investment Management (Japan) Limited, a real asset manager at TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower in Otemachi, registered since 30 September 2007. That firm's own disclosure and the Japanese regulator's register of financial instruments business operators both carry the number against that company. It was never this website's.
• It also displayed a number that exists nowhere. NFA 0563282 returns no record on the National Futures Association's BASIC register. Searching that register for Schroder returns 20 group entities, including Schroders plc and Schroder Investment Management North America, and not one of them carries 0563282. A genuine Japanese asset manager would have no reason to advertise a US futures ID in the first place.
• The product does not match the permission. schroders.click sold retail FX margin trading, complete with loss cut rules and swap point disclosures. The registration it borrowed is an asset management and Type II registration. Retail FX dealing in Japan requires a different registration entirely, and membership of the futures industry association.
• The identity check fails on the domain. The FCA records the genuine firm as Schroder Investment Management Limited, reference 119348, website schroders.com. The genuine Japanese arm publishes at schroders.com as well. Neither schroders-jp.co nor schroders.click appears in any authorised listing.
• The history was invented. The homepage advertised 50 years in Japan. Certificate records place the first appearance of schroders.click at 30 March 2024 and schroders-jp.co at 16 April 2024. The operation ran a matter of months, and both domains have since been abandoned.
• The brand is a known target. The FCA has maintained a clone firm warning for Schroders since November 2019, naming more than twenty counterfeit domains, and Schroders publishes its own notice confirming fake sites and apps use its name. Those name other addresses rather than these two, so we treat them as strong context rather than a direct hit, but they establish an ongoing pattern that these two sites fit exactly.

No complaints could be tied to these particular addresses. That reflects how briefly they operated and the absence of any review footprint, not good conduct. Other counterfeit Schroders domains carry substantial reported losses, and we have deliberately not counted those here because they are separate addresses.