Guide
Regulators publish lists; beginners misread them in both directions — panic at a famous name, or calm because a platform 'isn't on the list'. Here is what a listing actually establishes.
Facts checked on October 22, 2026
A warning or alert list is a regulator publishing a fact about authorisation: this name is not authorised here, or is actively being warned against. It is not a quality ranking, not a fraud verdict, and not a complete map of risk. Read correctly, it is the single most useful document a beginner can consult — because it is the only one nobody paid to place.
Alert lists (India's RBI) name platforms unauthorised for residents — including, strikingly, famous regulated-elsewhere brands. Blocked lists (Indonesia's Bappebti, 1,222 sites) name what the state actively blocks. Warning lists (the FCA's) name unauthorised and clone firms, updated daily. Acts (Brazil's CVM declaratory acts) name companies for specific unauthorised solicitation. Different instruments, same core meaning: your regulator has put this name in writing.
Nothing — and our checker never prints it as safety. Lists lag reality; a platform can be unauthorised in your country without being named yet. Absence earns a pair the ordinary verdict from its entity (protected or offshore), never a bonus. The lists we build verdicts on are the positive hits: named means warned.
Take the platform's exact name (and the company name from its legal footer). Search your home regulator's list. Search the register too — for the entity. If the name is on a list, the answer is printed by your own regulator and outranks every other source, including this site. If it is not, run the entity check; that is where the remaining truth lives.
A brand arguing 'we are regulated, the list is about a different company with a similar name' deserves exactly one response: show me my entity, in my agreement, on my regulator's register. Everything else is weather.
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.