Terms for using FX Licence Check South Africa
What this site is, how it is paid for, and what it does not promise.
Who pays for this site
Some outbound links to brokers are partner links: if you open an account through one, we may be paid by the broker. No extra payment is required from you, and the payment alters nothing on this site. The register extract comes as a copy from the regulator, and no firm can pay for inclusion in it, for removal from it or for its status to be described differently.
Each partner link carries a sponsored marking in the markup and is placed behind a label stating its destination. Editorial placement is not for sale here, and we do not rank brokers.
Where the line runs
- General information about how licensing and trading work
- That is what this site publishes
- A recommendation of a broker, a pair or a position size
- Not here, and not by mail
- Anything adjusted to your income, debts or tolerance for loss
- We do not know them and never ask
- Advice as the FSCA defines it
- A regulated activity; we are not licensed for it
If you want advice, take it from someone the FSCA authorises to give it.
Accuracy and its boundaries
Registers change daily, brokers change their terms, and a page is a snapshot of the day it was written. To let you check it at the source, the only current version, we date our published material and say where it came from.
It is not warranted by us that the site is complete, free of errors or uninterrupted. Where a figure matters to a decision about money, check it against the FSCA register or the broker's own documents before you act on it.
| What | How it ages | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| The FSCA register extract | Changes whenever the regulator updates it | Re-read it at fsca.co.za before you deposit |
| A broker's terms and fees | Change without notice | The broker's own documents are the current version |
| Session hours | Shift by an hour when London and New York change clocks | The page says which period it shows |
| USD/ZAR | Moves every trading day | Indicative only; your broker converts at its own rate |
The site is a snapshot dated on the page. Check at the source whenever a figure makes a decision about money.
The risk of trading
Leveraged forex and CFD trading can lose you more than a small share of your deposit, quickly. Most retail accounts lose money. A firm holding a licence is supervised; your money is not thereby safe from trading losses, and no page on this site should be read as suggesting it is.
The question of a position going against you is not the same as supervision and solvency. A FSCA licence speaks to how a firm must hold client money, report and handle complaints; it says nothing about the market. The arithmetic below is the part that decides how long a position survives, and it is the same at every broker: leverage sets the margin, and the margin sets how small a move takes it.
| Step | What happens | When |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · You write | The page address and what the correct value is | Any time |
| 2 · We check it | Against the public source you name, not against our own page | Same week |
| 3 · The page changes | The figure is replaced and the page says it was corrected | With the date on it |
A number is never quietly edited to leave the page looking as though it always said that.
Other sites, other rules
We link to regulators, exchanges, central banks and brokers. We do not control those sites, their published content is not our responsibility, and a link should not be read as an endorsement, particularly not a link to a warning about a firm.
The links that matter most here are the ones to the FSCA register and to a broker's own terms, because those are the documents that decide the question, and ours is only a reading of them. Wherever this site departs from the source, the source is correct, and we would like you to let us know.
| Mechanism | Used here | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Cookies | No | Nothing is set, first or third party |
| Local and session storage | No | Nothing is written to your browser |
| Analytics of ours | No | No script, no pixel, no tag manager |
| Accounts or logins | No | There is no database with your name in it |
| Newsletter or forms | No | Nothing to subscribe to |
| Fingerprinting | No | No device or canvas identification |
Check it yourself: developer tools, the storage tab and the network tab, on any page here.
What you may do with this
Read it, print it, quote it with a link back. Republishing whole pages as your own is not permitted, and scraping the site to rebuild it elsewhere is not permitted either. The extracts from the register come from public records and are owned by nobody; our own writing surrounds them.
Questions about reuse, and anything else about these terms: contact@licencelookupza.com.
| Party | What it sees | Why it is there |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | The request, your IP and browser string, in its own logs | It serves the files |
| The broker, after you follow a partner link | Whatever its own site collects, under its own policy | You left this site |
None of it passes through us, and we build no profile from any of it.
Read this as information
Everything on FX Licence Check South Africa is general information about how forex trading and broker licensing work in South Africa. It is neither financial advice, nor a recommendation, nor an offer. We do not know your income, your obligations or your tolerance for loss, and nothing here is adjusted to them.
Giving investment advice in South Africa is a regulated activity. We are unlicensed for it and do not carry it on. If you want advice, take it from someone the FSCA authorises to give it.
| What it is | How it is marked | Who pays |
|---|---|---|
| A partner link to a broker | Marked sponsored, behind a label saying where it goes | The broker may pay us if you open an account |
| The register extract | Copied from the regulator | Nobody can pay to be in it, out of it, or described differently |
| Everything else on the page | Not for sale | No editorial placement, no paid ranking |
You pay nothing extra for using a partner link, and the payment changes nothing on the page.
Questions we are asked
No. It is general information. Advice in South Africa is regulated and we are not licensed to give it.
No. A copy of the register extract is taken from the regulator. It is not possible for a firm to pay for entry, for omission, or for its status to be put differently.
Yes, with a link back. Republishing entire pages is not permitted, nor is scraping the site to rebuild it elsewhere.