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FCA licence 838656 (belongs to the genuine Archax Ltd, not this operation)

Holder
Archax LTD
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Sep 6, 2026

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RecordModified Sep 8, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 838656 (belongs to the genuine Archax Ltd, not this operation)

Wikilix read the FCA register on Sep 6, 2026. This is what it said.

Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Holder
Archax LTD
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Register status
Belongs to another firm (identity theft), not this website's licence

Checked Sep 6, 2026

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Our check
Checked

What we checked

This authorisation is in force but limited — it does not carry the same protections as a full trading licence.

Wikilix check
Limited
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Sep 6, 2026
Register says
Belongs to another firm (identity theft), not this website's licence

Finding

The FCA authorisation with reference 838656 belongs to the genuine Archax Ltd (archax.com), a different company. BaFin describes this website's use of the Archax identity as identity theft. This operation holds no licence of its own. Client protection: None for users of this website. The authorisation protects clients of the genuine Archax Ltd, not anyone dealing with the clone..

A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence number
838656 (belongs to the genuine Archax Ltd, not this operation)
Register status
Belongs to another firm (identity theft), not this website's licence
The authority

About FCA

Financial Conduct Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United Kingdom.

Full name
Financial Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Strength
Tier 1The strictest regimes: high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
Established
2013
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
108 firms
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Fund, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Loan, Retail Investment
Licences it issues
MiFID Investment Firm – Dealing on Own Account / Matched Principal (retail & market-making CFDs)
Typical cost of a licence
£100000+ (including compliance setup)
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

FCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how Archax LTD applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against Archax LTD. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
Archax LTD
Based in
United Kingdom
Wikilix score
62.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Wikilix has flagged Archax LTD as a suspected clone of another firm. That is a finding about the firm, not about this licence — the register’s own wording above is what states this entry’s standing.

Recorded companies

None of these matches the name the register printed, so we do not say which one holds this licence.

  • ARCHAX LTDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 11302455 · Apr 10, 2018
Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

Last checked by Wikilix
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
Wikilix records what an authority published. It does not issue or endorse authorisations.
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

Stop sending further funds immediately. Preserve every record you hold: transfer receipts, card or bank references, account statements, emails and chat logs. Raise a chargeback or recall with your card issuer or bank as quickly as possible, since those routes are time limited, and report the matter to the financial crime or fraud authority in your own country. Ignore anyone who contacts you offering to recover the money for an upfront fee.

Unknown. The operation publishes no reachable terms, onboarding form or restricted country list, so WIKILIX records no accepted or refused jurisdictions rather than inferring any.

No protection could be confirmed. Without a licence there is no supervised segregation requirement, no compensation scheme and no regulated complaints route covering money sent to this operation.

WIKILIX rates it as high risk and likely an impersonation operation rather than a genuine broker. The combination of a borrowed corporate identity, no verifiable trading licence and a website that has gone offline is the profile of an operation a retail client should avoid entirely.

No deposit or withdrawal channels, fees, limits or processing times could be confirmed, because no funding page is reachable. With no licence and no working site, anyone holding a balance should assume recovery is difficult.

None could be confirmed. No MetaTrader, cTrader or proprietary platform, and no server name or download link, could be attributed to this operation.

Unknown. No leverage limit is published anywhere WIKILIX could reach, and none is assumed.

Unknown. The operation publishes no reachable account or funding page, so no minimum deposit figure can be quoted. WIKILIX does not estimate figures a broker has not disclosed.

No. During this review archax-finance.com did not resolve in DNS. Neither a direct request nor a full browser could reach any page on it, over https or http.

No connection could be established. The registered UK company of that name is a separate, long standing London financial services business that is publicly associated with a different domain. Reusing a registered company name on an unrelated domain is a brand impersonation pattern, and clients should not assume the two are the same operation.

That is precisely what could not be established. The brand borrows the name of ARCHAX LTD, a real UK company registered at Companies House under number 11302455, but no link between that company and the archax-finance.com website could be confirmed. The party actually behind the trading brand is undisclosed.

No. WIKILIX established no forex or CFD trading licence for the operator of archax-finance.com, and no issuing authority or licence number could be attributed to it. Treat it as an unlicensed operation.

Licence 838656 (belongs to the genuine Archax Ltd, not this operation) was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
Archax LTD holds this FCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the FCA register. Note that confirming a register ENTRY is not the same as confirming a live licence — the register’s own wording on this page is what states its current standing.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
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