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FSCA licence 50726

Holder
Investec
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Last checked
Sep 10, 2026

This is Wikilix's record of a licence issued by Financial Sector Conduct Authority. It sets out what the register says, what we checked, and what the authority's own rules protect.

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Financial Sector Conduct Authority 50726

Wikilix read the FSCA register on Sep 10, 2026. This is what it said.

Issuing authority
Financial Sector Conduct Authority
Holder
Investec
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Effective
Sep 9, 2014
Register status
Authorised

Checked Sep 10, 2026

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wikilix.com/licenses/financial-sector-conduct-authority/investec/50726Fields on file 6 / 11

Open InvestecAbout FSCA
Our check
Checked

What we checked

We found this licence on the issuing authority's own register.

Wikilix check
Confirmed on the register
Authority strength
Tier 2
Jurisdiction
South Africa
Last checked
Sep 10, 2026
Register says
Authorised

Finding

South African authorised FSP, Investec Markets (Pty) Ltd. Client protection: Moderate: FSCA conduct supervision of markets and trading services..

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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
50726
Register status
Authorised
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
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 Investec applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
Investec
Based in
South Africa
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
79.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Wikilix records Investec as having no regulation on file. 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.

  • Investec BankSouth Africa · Public Company · Reg. 1969/004763/06 · Mar 30, 1969
  • Investec LimitedSouth Africa · Public Company · Reg. 1925/002833/06 · Dec 10, 1925
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.
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Also on record

Other licences Investec holds

2 other licences are on record for Investec.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions

Nothing establishing a client money segregation arrangement was found for this profile, and no such commitment could be read on the company's published pages in this review.

Because no trading account is offered here, the segregation question that applies to a broker does not arise in the same form; for a banking or investment product, ask the company directly which protections apply.

The operating company, Investec Bank, has been on the South African company register since 30 March 1969, and its parent, Investec Limited, since 10 December 1925.

Both are recorded as active public companies, so the corporate record is long and independently checkable.

Check the domain. The company's own terms state that the websites to which they apply, and for which it is responsible, are www.investec.com and associated microsites.

Anything using the brand from another domain falls outside that statement, and the company publishes a Know fraud page on how fraudsters approach victims and who to contact.

Investec publishes a South African contact page at investec.com/en_za/welcome-to-investec/contact-us.html, which it describes as carrying numbers for general queries, emergencies and support, office locations, ombudsman details and a route for complaints.

The head office switchboard recorded for the business is +27 11 286 7000.

No onboarding country policy was established for this profile. The company publishes 13 territory editions of its site, covering South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Latin America, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Those are the markets it publishes for, not a list of accepted nationalities, and no restricted country list was found on its site.

Yes, but as a currency service rather than leveraged trading. One page covers buying, paying and exchanging foreign currency for private bank clients and small to medium sized businesses, and another covers foreign exchange solutions for businesses, corporates and institutions.

Neither is a speculative retail forex product, and neither publishes spreads, leverage or trading accounts.

No trading deposit or withdrawal channels are published, because there is no trading account to fund. The site lists no cards, wallets or crypto funding routes for a trading product.

Money movement for its banking and investment services is handled inside those services through the client's own banking channels.

None are published. There is no MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or proprietary trading terminal offered on the company's site.

Client access to its banking services runs through the company's own secure login, not a trading platform.

None is published. Investec does not advertise a leveraged retail trading product on its site, so no maximum leverage applies to this profile.

If you have been offered leveraged trading in this name, you are not looking at the business described here.

There is no published trading minimum deposit, because Investec publishes no retail trading account.

Any minimum applying to its banking or investment products is set within those products and is not disclosed as a trading account funding threshold.

The registered office of both Investec Bank and Investec Limited is 100 Grayston Drive, Sandown, Sandton, 2196, South Africa.

That is the same address the business publishes for itself, so the office details match the official register exactly.

The parent of Investec Bank on the South African company register is Investec Limited, company 1925/002833/06, an active public company registered at the same address.

The register records no known controlling person above Investec Limited, which is consistent with a widely held company.

Nothing established in this review suggests the company itself is fraudulent. The operating company, Investec Bank, is on the South African register as an active public company at the same address the business publishes for itself.

The real risk attached to this brand is impersonation: sites using the Investec name on other domains are outside the company's own terms, which cover www.investec.com and its associated microsites.

No. Investec's own South African site publishes banking, investments and wealth management, and no retail forex or contract for difference trading service.

There are no trading accounts, no trading platforms, no spreads and no leverage tiers published anywhere on the site.

No financial services licence was confirmed for Investec in this review. The corporate registration of the operating company was confirmed on the official South African register, and a company registration is not financial regulation: it proves the company exists, not what it is permitted to sell.

Before buying any service, ask for the licence number and the exact legal entity and check both against the issuing authority's own public register.

Licence 50726 was issued by Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), the financial authority for South Africa.
Investec holds this FSCA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the FSCA 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 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.
Investec has 2 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 2 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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