On 2 February 2023, Italian regulator Consob announced that it ordered five abusive financial websites to black out. The total number of black-out orders increase to 833. Consob has been authorized by the so-called “Growth Decree” to order ISPs to inhibit access from Italy to illegal financial websites. The black-out by Italian Internet service providers is ongoing, but it can take several days for the black-out to come into effect. Below are the websites Consob has ordered to be blacked out:
- SwissFX Bank Limited with website www.swissfxbank.live;
- JKCforex Group Limited d/b/a JKCForex with website www.jkcforex.com;
- Axicapitals with website www.axi-capitals.com;
- CRYPTONEYX with website www.cryptoneyx.net;
- Vantage Global Limited d/b/a VantageFX and Vantage Markets with websites www.vantagefx.com, www.vantagemarkets.com;
- N 26 PTY LTD d/b/a BinanFX with website www.binanfx.com;
- Digitalcurrency Exchange with website https://digitalcurrency-exchange.uk.
The number of websites blacked out since July 2019, when Consob got the power to order that the websites of fraudulent financial intermediaries be blacked out, has thus risen to 833.
