Check jurisdiction-specific restrictions. An available website does not establish local authorisation.
Before using any platform, review notices from your country's relevant financial regulator, verify the legal entity and product type, and assess deposit, withdrawal and dispute-resolution limitations.
Research status: checklist only — individual verification pending. Website accessibility or app availability does not establish approval.
For each location we separate three questions: the exact operating company, the financial product offered, and the permissions or warnings published by the local authority. A broker website opening in your browser does not establish local approval.
Country pages remain research checklists until an authoritative regulator source and local legal/product scope have been documented. We do not assign a global "legal/illegal" badge without evidence.
Selected official sources, reviewed October 2026. These summaries distinguish products, customer categories and legal entities. They do not certify any broker as permitted, safe or profitable.
RBI authorisation and its forex/ETP Alert List have a defined remit. SEBI has warned investors about certain unregulated foreign trading portals. Check company, instrument and customer terms before interpreting either source.
Read the India evidence guide → SEBI: overseas trading portal advisoryFCA rules prohibit firms acting in or from the UK from marketing, distributing or selling binary options to retail consumers. The permanent restriction took effect on 2 April 2019. This is a product-specific rule, not a judgement about every service associated with a brand.
FCA: permanent binary-options prohibitionASIC extended its product intervention order banning the issue and distribution of binary options to retail clients until 1 October 2031. The order is specific to the product and retail customer type; ordinary access to an offshore trading website is not evidence of an exception.
ASIC: ban extended to 2031Canadian securities administrators report that some provincial and territorial jurisdictions prohibit offering or otherwise trading binary options with maturities under 30 days to individuals. Certain event contracts also require registration or recognition under applicable securities or derivatives rules.
CSA/CIRO: prediction markets and binary-options requirementsThe CFTC and SEC warn about unregistered internet binary-options platforms. Legality turns on the instrument, offering and registration requirements; some appropriately registered exchanges can offer certain products. Check the actual counterparty or exchange, not a brand or advertising page.
CFTC and SEC: binary-options investor alertBelgium's FSMA describes a ban on distribution of certain OTC derivative products, including binary options, to consumers. The measure relates to distribution and product type and must be read within its stated scope, not as universal commentary on exchange-traded derivatives.
FSMA: binary-option product restrictionsPakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Brazil, Indonesia, the UAE and other territories still require individual product- and entity-specific source verification. No unresearched jurisdiction is assigned a permission label. See the official source ledger.
