The Defamation Campaign Of Cyprus Broker Scheme XBPrime!

We brought an initial review of the XBPrime broker operated by the offshore entity MarketFinancials Ltd, a securities dealer registered by the FSA Seychelles. The truth is that XBPrime is run out of Cyprus via M&N Equity Research Ltd. The offshore entity is said to be owned by Cyprus-registered Proverial Ltd, where Israeli Asher Afriat is registered as a director. This guy also used to be the director of the CySEC-regulated K-DNA Financial Services Ltd, which later became FTX (EU) Ltd.

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Non-Compliant Activities

On 14 November 2022, Andreas Ioannis, Head of Legal and Compliance at XBPrime, contacted FinTelegram and complained about our latest reviews. He argued that XBPrime would not accept clients from EEA regions. However, in our latest review on 10 December 2022, our staff was able to register as residents of different EEA member states. Absolutely no restrictions here.

Consequently, Andreas Ioannis filed an abuse report (screenshot left) with our hosting company, claiming that we would defame them and spread misleading information. Sorry, but we don’t! All information provided in our reviews has been triple-checked and perfectly documented.

The offshore broker XBPrime accepts clients from EEA, for example, although it does not have an authorization to do so.

In our reviews, would have been able to make unlimited pre-KYC deposits via crypto or crypto payment processor bitwallet, in theory. We would also have been able to deposit higher amounts via AstroPay without having to confirm our identity or our place of residence. No restrictions here, either.

The Similarweb analysis shows that more than 90% of XBPrime‘s website visitors come from Brazil, while some 5% visit the website from Ireland.

This approach is certainly not compliant with the regulatory frameworks in EEA or any other Western regulatory regime. They operate illegally without regulatory permission in these regulatory regimes.

Clients of these offshore brokers are not eligible for Investor Compensation Schemes in the UK, EU, or Australia. Furthermore, there is no supervision or monitoring of whether client funds are held in segregated accounts. Offshore regulators do not even check whether investments or trading occur through authorized exchanges or liquidity providers. And finally, clients are not entitled to the assistance of Financial Ombudsman Services.

MarketsFinancial And FTX Europe

Until 2020, MarketFinancials was part of TechFinancials, a fintech software provider. In Jan 2019, the then-AIM-listed TechFinancial announced that it signed an agreement with Cyprus-based M&N Equity Research Ltd to sell its shares in MarketFinancials. Other public sources (screenshot left found by Twitter user @FanFabric) said that MarketFinancial was acquired by Proverial Ltd, a Cyprus company.

The director of Provial is the Israeli Asher Afriat, who is also a director of FTX (EU) Ltd (previously K-DNA Financial Services Ltd). FTX acquired the CySEC-regulated investment firm in March 2022.

According to The Times of Israel, K-DNA Financial Services Ltd has received funds from the operators of Israeli binary options scams. The company also has economic ties to the worldwide scam network, the so-called Lau Scheme. The company’s previous beneficial owners were Asher Afriat and Israeli businessman Daniel Azougy, The Times of Israel remarks. It is unknown how much FTX paid to buy the company in March 2022.

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If you have any information about XBPrime, MarketsFinancial, FTX (EU), or M&N Equity Research group, please share it with us through our whistleblower system, Whistle42.