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FCA licence 610534

Holder
CMS
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Investment Advisory License

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RecordModified Aug 19, 2026

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Financial Conduct Authority 610534

Recorded from the firm's own disclosure. Not yet checked against the register.

Issuing authority
Financial Conduct Authority
Holder
China Merchants Securities International Company Limited
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Licence type
Investment Advisory License

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wikilix.com/licenses/financial-conduct-authority/cms/610534Fields on file 2 / 11

Open CMSAbout FCA
Our check

What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 1
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Last checked
Never

Nobody at Wikilix has looked this licence up on the official register yet. Everything above comes from the record as supplied; treat it as a claim until you have checked it yourself.

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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
610534
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Investment Advisory License
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 CMS applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against CMS. Wikilix holds no separate company records for this holder, so we cannot say which legal company the register issued it to.

Broker
China Merchants Securities International Company Limited
Based in
Hong Kong
Wikilix score
67.3the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Wikilix has flagged CMS 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.

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
Never — nobody has looked this entry up yet
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
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Also on record

Other licences CMS holds

One other licence is on record for CMS.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions
CMS provides customer support via live chat during business hours and email at online@cmschina.com.hk. The support is available in English, and the company is located at 48/F., One Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong.
According to WIKILIX data, the maximum leverage offered by CMS is 500. This is higher than the leverage limits set by its regulators, which are 13 by the SFC and 30 by the FCA.
CMS supports deposits and withdrawals via bank transfer and online banking through institutions like Standard Chartered Bank and China Merchants Bank Hong Kong Branch. Deposits and withdrawals are processed within hours, and there are no specified fees for these transactions.
Not specified in the provided context.
China Merchants Securities International Company Limited is regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK. Both regulators are government authorities with high transparency and investor protection standards. However, the broker is marked as a suspicious clone on WIKILIX, so users should exercise caution.
Licence 610534 was issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial authority for United Kingdom.
CMS holds this FCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
Nobody at Wikilix has looked this entry up on the FCA register yet, so treat it as claimed rather than confirmed. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
Wikilix rates FCA tier 1 — the strictest band, with high capital requirements, segregated client money and a compensation scheme.
CMS has one other licence on record with Wikilix, across one jurisdiction. They are listed further down this page.
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