Belize’s IFSC Warns Public that YieldOptions is not Authorised

The International Financial Services Commission of Belize (IFSC) today issued a ‎warning against another binary option broker purporting to be registered in the country. ‎The ‎Belize watchdog warned that a company calling itself ‘YieldOptions’ is not licensed by IFSC ‎or any other competent authority in the country to ‎conduct any trading business, ‎according to an official IFSC statement.‎

According to the Belize’s watchdog, ‎‎all persons concerned should exercise extreme caution and take note, as the ‎‎aforementioned entity is fraudulently claiming to hold a trading licence in financial and commodity-based derivative instruments and other securities licence ‎issued by the Samoa International Financial Authority.‎ YieldOptions, owned by HSBO Capital Ltd., claims to hold the Licence No. IFSC/60/241/TS/14 which carries its name and purports to be signed by Mr. Gian C. Gandhi, the former Director General of International Financial Services Commission of Belize.

A brief review of the broker's website reveals that YieldOptions lists its ‎‎address at HSBO Capital LTD. Level 5, Development Bank of Samoa Building, Beach Rd., Apia, Samoa. The website design is very poor, even the regulatory information has been taken down after the warning, therefore an expert eye can easily discover the alleged scam. However, it’s not clear how many clients may ‎be affected by the firm which has already been ‎cited yesterday for forgery over its ‎regulatory status. ‎

Belize is known as an offshore destination for brokers that want to meet fewer and ‎‎softer criteria and to comply with less strict rules and requirements than if they ‎‎registered in other jurisdictions.‎ However, the IFSC has recently made a number of ‎key changes to its fee requirements, with the IFSC application fee soaring to $1000, ‎doubling from just $500. The regulator also increased its annual license fee to ‎‎$25,000 from $5,000, and the capital requirement for Forex Forex Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different currency); for example, the converting of British Pounds into US Dollars, and vice versa. The exchange of currencies can be done over a physical counter, such as at a Bureau de Change, or over the internet via broker platforms, where currency speculation takes place, known as forex trading.The foreign exchange market, by its very nature, is the world’s largest tradi Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different currency); for example, the converting of British Pounds into US Dollars, and vice versa. The exchange of currencies can be done over a physical counter, such as at a Bureau de Change, or over the internet via broker platforms, where currency speculation takes place, known as forex trading.The foreign exchange market, by its very nature, is the world’s largest tradi Read this Term brokers to $500,000.‎