Broker entity check
Exness is a brand, not a company. The company you get is chosen by your address. Below: the verdict for all 12 countries in our dataset, the entity behind each, and its regulator — checked on October 22, 2026.
Facts checked on October 22, 2026
The largest beginner brand in the emerging-market SERPs, and the most instructive entity map: its Cyprus and UK companies state on Exness's own regulation page that they do not offer services to retail clients, so EEA and UK retail are refused outright — not protected. South Africans and Kenyans get real local entities; most of the world sits in the Seychelles entity, where there is no compensation scheme. Its affiliate program pays up to $1,850 per funded account — the bounty behind most 'best broker' lists.
Advertised minimum deposit: $10 — that is the accepted minimum from the platform's own pages. The viable minimum on your rails is on your country's page; the two numbers are rarely the same story.
| Your country | Verdict | The entity that would hold your account | Its regulator | Home-regulator status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | |
| India | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | Named on the RBI Alert List |
| Philippines | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | Named on an SEC Philippines advisory |
| Brazil | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | Named on a CVM declaratory act (Ato Declaratório 19.485, January 2022) |
| South Africa | Deposit has real protection | Exness ZA (Pty) Ltd | FSCA (South Africa) | |
| Pakistan | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | Home-regulator position bars or warns against this route |
| Kenya | Deposit has real protection | Exness KE Limited | CMA (Kenya) | |
| Indonesia | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles | Home-regulator position bars or warns against this route |
| United States | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | Does not accept residents | — | |
| United Kingdom | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | Does not accept residents | — | |
| European Union (EEA) | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | Does not accept residents | — | |
| Australia | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Exness (SC) Ltd | FSA Seychelles |
Run your exact pair through the checker for the five-line verdict with your regulator's status and your rails.
The free check gives you the verdict for one country and one broker. The Deposit Safety Kit gives you the complete walkthroughs: how to verify the entity in the broker's own legal footer, where on your regulator's site the register and the warning lists live, how to read a compensation scheme, and the first-withdrawal test protocol — deposit small, withdraw first, then decide.
Included in the $39 Deposit Safety Kit
Sources: the brokers' own legal and entity pages as published on the check date; the Reserve Bank of India Alert List; the UK Financial Conduct Authority Register and Warning List; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers; Bappebti (Indonesia) licensed and blocked lists; CVM (Brazil) declaratory acts; the FSCA (South Africa) FSP register; the Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) licensee list; the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) advisory list; SECP/PMEX (Pakistan) membership; SEC Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria publications. Affiliate bounty figures from the programs' own published terms (Exness, XM, Plus500, eToro affiliate pages). If a fact has moved since our check date, the regulator's or broker's own publication wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.