Public Statement 22 of 2025 - OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE

OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE

Tortola, British Virgin Islands – 26 November 2025 - The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (the FSC) considers it necessary to issue this Public Statement in order to protect  the  customers,  creditors  or  persons  who  may  have  been  solicited  to conduct business by OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE and to make the general public aware that the entity has never been licensed or regulated by the FSC to carry on any type of financial services business.

The details are:
OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE is circulating a forged investment business licence and is falsely purporting to be licensed and regulated by the FSC as an Approved Investment Manager.

The FSC hereby informs the public that OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE is not a BVI company and has never been licensed or regulated by the FSC to carry on investment business, or any other financial services business in or from within the Territory of the Virgin Islands.

Members of the public are advised to exercise extreme caution if solicited at any time and to avoid conducting any business with OPTIONTRADES FINANCES SERVICE.  The public is invited to provide the FSC with any relevant information on any questionable entities which are purportedly operating in or from within the Territory, and on any improper activities engaged in by such entities.

The FSC has issued this Public Statement pursuant to Section 37A of the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001.