The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission () on Friday confirmed that it has wholly suspended the Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) License of Centralspot Trading, which operates binary options broker Opteck.
CySEC ordered the company to take corrective measures within a set framework; otherwise, additional measures will be taken, such as the imposition of new fines and/or even the withdrawal of their licenses.
More specifically, Centralspot now have 15 days to take the necessary actions in order to comply with the specified provisions. During this time, they cannot provide any services or enter into a business relationship with any person and take on any new clients.
In addition, the broker is not allowed to execute any orders from clients for buying financial instruments or provide any investment services in or outside of Cyprus.
Furthermore, the suspended brand is not permitted to advertise themselves as an investment services provider or has relating advertisements. They must also close all open positions in relation to clients’ contracts on their maturity date, or at an earlier date if the client so wishes, as well as return any funds and profits earned to existing clients.
Centralspot redirects visitors to offshore brand
CySEC also stipulates that any firm that has its licence suspended should mention on all its websites that its CIF licence has been suspended, which in this case, has yet to take effect.
A visit to the broker’s website shows that Centralspot Trading is now redirecting traffic of its binary options brand to another domain, opteck.biz, which represents an offshore FX and CFDs broker.
As reported in 2017, for non-compliance and had its license temporarily suspended by CySEC following several allegations of multiple violations. According to the CySEC regulatory manifest, the company was fined €50,000 for outsourcing its services to third parties and at times was misrepresenting the qualifications of its personnel to clients and prospective clients.
Earlier this week, the Cypriot regulator excluded 11 trading brands from its lifeboat scheme. The list includes some now-defunct FX brokers, including , , and , which earlier this year shut down its services to retail customers in Europe.
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