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FSCA licence 51024

Holder
Exness
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Licence type
Financial Service

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RecordModified Sep 7, 2026

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Financial Sector Conduct Authority 51024

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

Issuing authority
Financial Sector Conduct Authority
Holder
Exness Technologies Ltd
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Licence type
Financial Service

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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 2
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Last checked
Never

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
51024
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
The authority

About FSCA

Financial Sector Conduct Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is South Africa.

Full name
Financial Sector Conduct Authority
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Strength
Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established
1991
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
19 firms
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Fund, Derivatives, CFD
Licences it issues
ODP Category IIA – Principal & Agency OTC Derivatives
Typical cost of a licence
USD 50,000-100,000 + ~USD 270k capital
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High

FSCA is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

FSCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to ZAR 500,000
  • Complaints routeFSCA Dispute Resolution
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how Exness applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
Exness Technologies Ltd
Based in
Cyprus
Operating
10-15 years
Wikilix score
63.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence
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 Exness holds

4 other licences are on record for Exness.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions
Yes, Exness prohibits clients from the USA, North Korea, Iran, and other sanctioned countries. This restriction is consistent with the regulatory requirements of their licensing authorities.
Clients can reach Exness customer support via phone at +357 25245730 or +44 0800 014 852. Support is also available through live chat during business hours and by email at support@exness.com. The support is provided primarily in English.
Exness offers leverage up to 100:1 according to the provided trading conditions. However, regulatory limits such as those from CySEC and FCA restrict the highest leverage to 30:1 for retail clients.
The minimum deposit amount to open an account with Exness is 200 USD. This requirement applies across their trading accounts, allowing access to their offered instruments and platforms.
Exness offers the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms. MetaTrader 4 is popular for Forex and CFDs with features like advanced charting and automated trading. MetaTrader 5 supports multiple asset classes including Forex, stocks, and futures, with faster execution and advanced analytics.
Exness Technologies Ltd is regulated by multiple authorities including CySEC in Cyprus, FCA in the UK, FSCA in South Africa, and FSA in Seychelles. Client funds are insured up to €20,000 under CySEC and up to £85,000 under FCA. The broker operates with high transparency and offers complaint mechanisms such as the Cyprus Financial Ombudsman and the UK Financial Ombudsman Service.
Licence 51024 was issued by Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), the financial authority for South Africa.
Exness holds this FSCA 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 FSCA 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 FSCA tier 2: a well-established regime with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than a tier-1 authority.
Yes, FSCA is classed as an offshore regime. That can be a legitimate registration, but it usually means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.
Exness has 4 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 4 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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