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SCA licence 20200000154

Holder
CFI
Jurisdiction
United Arab Emirates
Licence type
Leveraged foreign exchange trading

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RecordModified Jul 27, 2026

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Securities and Commodities Authority 20200000154

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

Issuing authority
Securities and Commodities Authority
Holder
CFI International Ltd
Jurisdiction
United Arab Emirates
Licence type
Leveraged foreign exchange trading

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Our check

What we checked

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Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 2
Jurisdiction
United Arab Emirates
Last checked
Never

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
20200000154
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Leveraged foreign exchange trading
The authority

About SCA

Securities and Commodities Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is United Arab Emirates.

Full name
Securities and Commodities Authority
Jurisdiction
United Arab Emirates
Strength
Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established
2000
Firms we track under it
13 firms
Licences it issues
Brokerage licence incl. CFDs
Typical cost of a licence
Not specified
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium
Protection

What this licence protects

SCA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeDeposit Guarantee Scheme covers up to AED 100,000 per depositor
  • Complaints routeSCA complaints
  • Maximum leverage1:100
This describes the authority's regime, not how CFI applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

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

Broker
CFI International Ltd
Based in
Mauritius
Operating
10-15 years
Wikilix score
58.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

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

  • CREDIT FINANCIER INVEST LIMITEDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 11634673 · Oct 22, 2018
  • CFI INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDHong Kong · Reg. 1097587 · Sep 25, 2012
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 CFI holds

10 other licences are on record for CFI.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

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

Most Popular Questions
CFI International Ltd provides customer support via phone, live chat during business hours, and email. Support is available in English, and the broker maintains active social media channels for additional communication.
CFI International Ltd does not offer client fund insurance in most jurisdictions, with exceptions such as coverage up to €20,000 under the Cyprus Investor Compensation Fund (ICF) and up to £85,000 under the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). In other regions, no mandatory client fund insurance is provided.
The minimum deposit amount to open an account with CFI International Ltd is 0 USD, indicating no mandatory minimum deposit. However, specific account types or jurisdictions may have different requirements not specified in the provided context.
According to WIKILIX data, CFI International Ltd offers a maximum leverage of up to 500:1 depending on the regulatory jurisdiction. Some regulators associated with CFI allow leverage as high as 1000:1, but the highest confirmed leverage for CFI is 500.
CFI International Ltd offers the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform, which supports multiple asset classes including Forex, stocks, and futures. MT5 provides advanced analytics, faster execution, and algorithmic trading tools, and is available on desktop and various other device types.
CFI International Ltd is regulated by multiple authorities including the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA), Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC), British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC), Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, and others. These regulators vary in jurisdiction and regulatory tier, with some licenses classified as offshore and others onshore.
Licence 20200000154 was issued by Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), the financial authority for United Arab Emirates.
CFI holds this SCA 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 SCA 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 SCA tier 2: a well-established regime with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than a tier-1 authority.
CFI has 10 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 5 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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