New Set of Unregulated Brokers listed in CONSOB Warning

The Italian Regulator alerted the investors against dealing with 100XFX, Centro Banc and Capital Markets Banc

18 June 2018 1606

On Monday, The Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) and the Italian regulatory published another list of unregulated FX companies suggesting illicit services to Italians. Unlike the general unregulated brokers, whose websites resemble Windows 95 clip-art, the companies CONSOB alerted users against today are processing fairly slick websites. This is worrying given that a more professional looking website is more likely to fool inexperienced investors into passing their means over to the shady figures running unregulated brokers.

The first broker CONSOB informed the users about today is Capital Markets Banc. The organization is aimed to have offices in Dominica and Bulgaria but it is not clear as to whether they have any factual presence in either country. Outside of the site itself, users report, that the site is a scam operation, with clients complaining that they cannot withdraw their funds from their site accounts.

The next exchange included in the list is 100XFX. Built in that hub of commercial activity, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the company declares that it applies Barclays, HSBC and CitiBank as liquidity providers. Although also listing a phone number in the UK, the organization appears to be Russian in origin. Referring CONSOB’s warning, and a litany of negative reviews, this author recommends against doing any business with 100XFX.

The owners of Capital Markets Banc are actually operating another site that CONSOB warned about today - Centro Banc. Conducting out of Liechtenstein, the firm proposes almost the same services as Capital Markets Banc. Considering that it is exactly the same people processing the site, there seems to be no reason that this site is registered.

It is really important for regulators today to stay on top and alert investors against trading with such firms. These organizations tarnish the reputation of an industry that is currently observed with suspicion, or even disdain, by many people.

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DEAPCOIN IEO to be Held at OKEx on 8.04

The project is planning to raise $2M a the price of 1 DEP on IEO will be $ 0.0025

25 March 2020 1058

OKEx Exchange announced Wednesday the 11th initial exchange offering (IEO). It will be conducted by the DEAPCOIN Project (DEP) and will be held on April 8th.

As in previous OKEx campaigns, the selection of participants and the selection of the allocation coefficient will be carried out according to two criteria: the average daily balance of OKB and the trading volume on the exchange. For each of the groups, allocation of 400 million DEP tokens is allocated.

The price of 1 DEP on IEO will be $ 0.0025. Thus, the project intends to attract up to $ 2 million from OKEx users. Trading in USDT and USDK pairs will start on the same day.

The DEP token was released by DEAPCOIN to shape the economy around the PlayMining entertainment platform they are developing, where users can earn cryptocurrency during games. DEP is presented as an ERC-20 standard token, while game items on the blockchain will use the ERC-721 standard.

Despite the generally negative dynamics of the IEO space recently, the token of the previous placement of the OKEx platform - HyperDAO - that passed at the end of February is currently trading almost 3 times higher than the initial selling price.