FCA Warns Against EVFX, Scottish Widows and Others

​The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today issued warnings against seven companies that are soliciting customers in the UK jurisdiction without any licenses or are clones of authorized platforms.

The companies include EVFX, Scottish Widows, Cress Capital, Etf Market UK Ltd, Remington Securities LLC, Hillwood and Safe Assurance.

According to the regulator, the companies are using or giving out the following details:

EVFX (Clone of FCA authorised firm)

Address: Hong Kong Gold and Silver Commercial Building

Email: evfxgroup@gmail.com

Website:  http://en.evfxgroup.com/index.html

 

Scottish Widows (Clone of FCA authorised firm)

Telephone: 0208 064 0442

Email: info@scottishwidows-funds.com

 

Cress Capital / Cress-Capital.com (Clone of FCA authorised firm)

Address: 52 Park Avenue, London WC09 7EK

Telephone: +441083897843, +442080897893

Email: support@cress-capital.com

Website: www.cress-capital.com

 

Etf Market UK Ltd (Clone of FCA authorised firm)

Address: 1 Canada Square, E145AB

Email: contact@etfmarket.co.uk

Website:  www.etfmarket.co.uk

 

Remington Securities LLC

Address: 230 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10169, United States

Telephone: +1 917 795 8250, +1 917 724 2363

Fax: +1 917 924 4670

Email: info@remingtonsecurities.com

Website: www.remingtonsecurities.com

 

Hillwood (Clone of EEA Authorised firm)

Address: Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street, London EC3V 4AB

Telephone: 02030513229

Email: info@hillwood-ltd.com, robert.edwards@hillwood-ltd.com

Website: www.hillwood-ltd.com

 

Safe Assurance (Clone of EEA Authorised firm)

Address: 23 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2QP

Telephone: 02037406079

Email: info@safeassurancesa.com

Website: www.safeassurancesa.com

 

The FCA warns that all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by them.

It strongly advises the public to only deal with financial firms that are authorised, and to check the Financial Services Register to avoid scams and unauthorised firms.