Boson Alfa Ltd review.

Overview

Boson Alfa Ltd is a Cyprus Investment Firm in Limassol, licensed by CySEC under number 314/16 since 20 September 2016 and registered in Cyprus as HE 349777. It is not a CFD broker, and the most useful thing this review can tell you is why. CySEC’s own record grants Boson Alfa four investment services across financial instruments 1 to 8. Point 9 on that list, “Financial contracts for differences”, is not among them. The word CFD does not appear anywhere in the firm’s Terms of Business, its Best Execution Policy, its 73 page Risk Disclosure Booklet or its annual execution reports. What Boson Alfa actually sells is discretionary portfolio management and investment advice to a small number of private clients, with orders passed to Interactive Brokers, UBS, Union Bancaire Privee and Eurobank Cyprus for execution and custody.

The scale is worth stating plainly, because it decides who this firm suits. Its Pillar III disclosure for the year ended 31 December 2025 puts assets under management at 33.95 million euro, client assets safeguarded at 28.38 million euro and segregated client money at 5.22 million euro. Six people drew remuneration in 2025, of whom three were executive directors. The firm’s 2024 execution report shows that retail clients traded exactly one instrument class all year, bonds, at fewer than one trade per business day, through a single execution broker. This is a boutique wealth manager, not a trading venue, and a reader who arrived here looking for leverage and spreads has arrived at the wrong kind of company.

We fetched bosonalfa.com through in-country exits in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Japan, India, the UAE, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Germany. Every exit that returned a page returned the same page: one entity, one regulator, one set of contact details, no country switching and no offshore sibling. That is unusual in this catalogue and it counts in the firm’s favour. The entity a client contracts with is the entity CySEC licensed, which removes the single most common way a retail investor is misled.

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Facts List

• CySEC licence 314/16, granted 20 September 2016, current on the Cypriot Investment Firms register and absent from the Former Investment Firms register.
• CySEC lists exactly one approved domain for this firm, www.bosonalfa.com, and gives [email protected] as the registered contact address.
• Authorised for reception and transmission of orders, execution on behalf of clients, portfolio management and investment advice, all in instruments 1 to 8.
• Not authorised to deal on own account, so the firm is never the counterparty to a client trade.
• Not authorised for financial contracts for differences, which are point 9 on the same CySEC list.
• Own funds of 858,000 euro against a 150,000 euro requirement at 31 December 2025, an own funds ratio of 572.26 per cent.
• Member of the Investor Compensation Fund, covering retail clients only, capped at 20,000 euro or 90 per cent of the claim.
• Client money held on a segregated basis, 5.22 million euro at the 2025 year end, with nothing reported non segregated.
• Execution and custody run through UBS AG, Interactive Brokers LLC, Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited, Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA and Hellenic Bank.
• The firm’s UK permission, FCA reference 837255, ended on 16 January 2022 and has not been replaced.

Key Takeaways

• The licence is real, current and covers the entity you would actually sign with. CySEC 314/16 sits against Boson Alfa Ltd, HE 349777, at the Limassol address on the firm’s own website, and bosonalfa.com is the single domain CySEC approves for it.
• This is not a CFD firm. Instrument 9 on the CySEC permission list, financial contracts for differences, is not granted, and no document the firm publishes mentions CFDs at all.
• Boson Alfa cannot deal on its own account, which is why its minimum capital is 150,000 euro rather than 750,000 euro. It never takes the other side of your trade. The counterparty is whoever the order reaches through Interactive Brokers, UBS, Union Bancaire Privee or Eurobank Cyprus.
• Capital is comfortable for the size of the book. Own funds of 858,000 euro against a 150,000 euro requirement, with a 2025 profit of 163,000 euro and no variable pay.
• Investor Compensation Fund cover stops at 20,000 euro and applies to retail clients only. With average client assets far above that, the cover is closer to symbolic than material for most of this firm’s clients.
• The cost of the actual product is not published. Execution and custody tariffs from three third parties run to ten pages, and the portfolio management fee appears in none of them.
• There is no platform, no app and no online account opening. Onboarding is by phone and notarised paperwork, and reporting is a quarterly statement by email.
• CySEC lists the lookalike domain www.boson-alfa.com on its List of Non Approved Domains, dated 19 September 2017. One hyphen separates it from the real site.
• The firm’s UK authorisation lapsed on 16 January 2022, so a UK resident has no FCA recourse here.
• We found no verifiable user reports, no CySEC sanction and no withdrawal complaint record. That is an absence of evidence, not a clean bill of health.

Licenses & Regulation

Boson Alfa Ltd appears on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s register of Cypriot Investment Firms with licence number 314/16, granted 20 September 2016, against Cyprus company registration HE 349777. The register gives the firm’s telephone as +357 25 558 225, its email as [email protected] and its sole approved domain as www.bosonalfa.com. We checked the Former Investment Firms (Cypriot) register and Boson Alfa is not on it, so the authorisation is current rather than surrendered or withdrawn. We also checked CySEC’s own warnings page and found nothing against the firm.

The permission list is where this review earns its keep. CySEC records four investment services and three ancillary services, each tagged with the financial instruments it covers, and every one of them stops at instrument 8. Instrument 9 in Cyprus law, which CySEC’s own tooltip defines as “Financial contracts for differences”, is not granted. Nor are 10 or 11. Boson Alfa may handle transferable securities, money market instruments, fund units, derivatives on securities, currencies and rates, cash settled and physically settled commodity derivatives, and credit risk transfer derivatives. It may not offer CFDs, and its published documents are consistent with that: the Product Distribution Policy runs to 19 appendices covering equities, penny stocks, depositary receipts, fund units, ETFs, ETNs, ETCs, certificates of deposit, government and corporate bonds, and futures and options on stocks, bonds, ETFs, indices, volatility, currencies and commodities, with no CFD appendix among them.

Dealing on own account is also absent, and the firm confirms the consequence itself. Its 2025 Pillar III disclosure states that because it is not authorised for dealing on own account but is permitted to hold client money and assets, its initial capital requirement is 150,000 euro rather than the 750,000 euro that applies to firms that trade against their clients. In plain terms, Boson Alfa is never your counterparty. Its Terms of Business for Brokerage put it more bluntly still: where the firm has acted as agent, “it is the other party to the transaction and not us who is responsible for all obligations, including settlement”. Your counterparty risk sits with the executing broker and the market, not with the Limassol office.

The passport covers 29 states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The CySEC entry carries no “Provision of Services to Countries Outside EU” block at all, so the regulator records no third country markets for this firm.

Two things a reader should know that the firm does not advertise. First, its UK authorisation is gone. FCA reference 837255, BOSON ALFA LTD, is recorded as a service of an overseas firm and marked No longer authorised with effect from 16 January 2022, consistent with the end of the post Brexit temporary permissions regime. Second, CySEC’s List of Non Approved Domains carries www.boson-alfa.com with a date of 19 September 2017. That domain differs from the real one by a single hyphen and is, by the regulator’s own account, not authorised to provide investment services under any Cypriot licence. Boson Alfa publishes its own announcement about impersonation, naming www.bosonalfa.com as its only official domain and Boson Alfa Asset Management as its registered trademark. Check the address bar before you send anything.

Registers we checked and where the firm does not appear: the Seychelles FSA capital markets list and the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority list of licensed companies. Both returned nothing for this name, which is what a Cyprus only wealth manager should look like.

How to Trade

There is no self directed trading here in the sense a retail reader will expect. Boson Alfa offers two services and its website lists no others: Portfolio Management, where the firm makes the decisions inside a strategy you have agreed, and Investment Advisory, where it recommends and you decide. Orders reach the market through third parties. The firm’s Appendix 5 to both sets of Terms of Business names its banks, brokers, depositories and custodians as UBS AG in Zurich, Interactive Brokers LLC in Greenwich, Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited in London, Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA in Geneva and Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd in Limassol.

The annual execution reports show what that actually looked like. In 2024, retail client business consisted of a single instrument class, debt instruments and bonds, flagged as fewer than one average trade per business day. All of it was routed through one execution broker, Eurobank Cyprus Ltd, and spread across four venues at 25 per cent of orders each: Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE took 33.71 per cent of volume, Zurcher Kantonalbank 33.05 per cent, UBS Europe SE 16.73 per cent and Barclays Bank Ireland 16.50 per cent. Every retail order was passive. Professional client business was far broader, covering equities in all three tick size liquidity bands, bonds, exchange traded products and futures and options on equities, commodities, currencies and interest rates, executed through Interactive Brokers LLC and Societe Generale Private Banking (Suisse) SA on venues including NASDAQ, NYSE, NYSE Arca, CME, CBOT, COMEX, NYMEX, ICE and the Hong Kong Stock Connect links.

Read that split carefully. The interesting business at this firm is professional, and professional clients get no Investor Compensation Fund cover. A retail client in 2024 got a bond desk, and the report flags that it averaged fewer than one trade per business day across the whole year.

Instructions are given by phone, email or in person. The Terms of Business require that face to face meetings be recorded for date, time, location, attendees, who initiated the meeting, and the price, volume and type of every order. After a trade, the firm sends a report no later than the first business day after execution, or after it receives the third party’s confirmation. Quarterly reports follow within 10 business days of quarter end, and 20 business days for the fourth quarter. The default reporting currency is USD unless you agree otherwise.

One clause deserves attention before you sign. All reports “shall be considered accepted unless a detailed objection is received by the Company within 1 (one) business day”. A single business day to check a statement and raise a detailed objection is a short window by any standard, and it applies to the quarterly reports as well as the trade confirmations.

Best execution is documented properly. The policy sets out price, cost, size, speed, likelihood of execution and certainty of settlement as the factors, explains the legitimate reliance test, and states that where a client gives a specific instruction the firm’s best execution duty is discharged by following it. The firm has also published an annual execution quality summary and the RTS 28 venue and broker tables every year from 2017 through 2024, which is a longer unbroken run of disclosure than most firms in this catalogue manage.

Account Types

Boson Alfa publishes no account tiers, no comparison table and no pricing menu. What exists instead is two contractual relationships and a client classification, and the combination decides what you can access and how much protection you keep.

The two agreements are the Terms of Business for Brokerage, which covers reception and transmission of orders, execution and investment advice, and the Terms of Business for Portfolio Management, which covers discretionary management inside an agreed strategy. Each has its own appendix set. The portfolio management terms confirm that minimum amounts exist for initial funding, additional funding and reallocation between strategies, that these are “determined in special terms of each Investment Strategy”, and that the firm may refuse assets below the minimum and return them net of transfer costs. The figures themselves are not published anywhere on the site or in any appendix, so anyone comparing this firm against another has nothing to compare on.

Client classification carries more weight than any account tier. Under the Client Categorization Policy, an elective professional client must satisfy at least two of three criteria, one of which is a portfolio of cash deposits and financial instruments above 500,000 euro. Moving up that ladder is not a status upgrade. The Investor Compensation Fund covers retail clients and expressly excludes professional clients and eligible counterparties, so electing to be treated as professional means giving up the only compensation scheme in play. Boson Alfa’s execution reports show its professional book is where the real activity sits, which makes this an unusually consequential decision at this particular firm.

Access to the client area is not something you can arrange yourself. The “My Account” page carries one sentence: “Access to My Account is provided only to existing Clients”, followed by a Limassol phone number. The Terms of Business define a “Platform” holding completed transactions, open positions, orders and balances, but no public page describes it, no screenshots exist and no demo is offered. Whatever it is, you will not see it before you are a client.

Discretionary clients receive a quarterly portfolio management statement within 10 business days of the quarter end, or 20 business days after the fourth quarter. Withdrawing from a managed portfolio is done by transferring cash from the bank account or instruments from the custody account, and the terms state that the form of assets released, cash or securities, is “determined by us at our own discretion, unless otherwise is agreed”. That is a clause to negotiate at the outset rather than discover at the exit.

Negative Balance Protection

Negative balance protection is a CFD concept, and Boson Alfa does not offer CFDs. ESMA’s retail protections on leveraged contracts, including the negative balance rule, apply to instrument 9 products the firm has no permission to sell. Asking whether it provides negative balance protection is the wrong question here, so this section answers the right one: can you end up owing Boson Alfa more than you put in?

You can, and the mechanism is lending rather than leverage. CySEC grants the firm the ancillary service of “granting credits or loans to one or more financial instruments, where the firm granting the credit or loan is involved in the transaction”, across instruments 1 to 8. Its Risk Disclosure Booklet, version 6, effective 16 June 2025, sets out what that means with an unusually direct worked example. A client pledging a 12 million euro portfolio and borrowing 10 million euro to buy more of the same investments would, on a 10 per cent fall, lose 1.2 million euro on the original portfolio and 2.2 million euro across the enlarged one. The booklet then says the part that matters: “The borrower’s liability to the Company remains even if the investments lose all of its value.”

Margin calls follow the same logic. The booklet lists three triggers, a fall in the value ascribed to the collateral, a fall in the market value of the investments, and a currency mismatch between the borrowing and the collateral. If a call is not met promptly, the collateral “may be liquidated at a time which may be disadvantageous to you”, and the client may lose the whole of the investments held as collateral. Separate margin call warnings appear for uncovered option writing and for futures positions.

What does protect client assets is segregation rather than a loss cap. Client money is placed with a central bank, an EU authorised credit institution or a bank authorised in a third country, and at 31 December 2025 the firm reported 5.22 million euro of segregated client money and nothing non segregated. Financial instruments are deposited only in jurisdictions where safekeeping for another person’s account is specifically regulated and supervised, in separately titled accounts. The firm also states the residual risk honestly: in some jurisdictions client securities held by a third party cannot be separately identified, and could be withdrawn or used to meet that third party’s obligations, or lost entirely if it becomes insolvent.

Trading Instruments

Boson Alfa publishes no instrument count, and its coverage is best read from the regulator’s permission list and the firm’s own product documents rather than a marketing page. CySEC authorises it across instruments 1 to 8: transferable securities, money market instruments, units in collective investment undertakings, derivatives on securities, currencies, interest rates or yields, cash settled commodity derivatives, physically settled commodity derivatives traded on a regulated market or MTF, other physically settled commodity derivatives with the characteristics of financial instruments, and derivatives for the transfer of credit risk.

The Product Distribution Policy, updated in March 2026, carries a target market appendix for each product line the firm distributes. There are 19 of them: equities other than penny and pink sheet stocks, penny and pink sheet stocks, depositary receipts including GDRs and ADRs, units in collective investment undertakings, non leveraged ETFs, leveraged ETFs, exchange traded notes, exchange traded commodities, certificates of deposit, sovereign and other public bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, non investment grade corporate bonds, and futures and options on stocks and bonds, ETFs, stock indices, volatility indices, currencies, commodities and a residual other category.

The Risk Disclosure Booklet goes wider still, covering equities, bonds and fixed income, certificates of deposit, regulated funds, private equity and unquoted companies, borrowing and margin, structured products, options, caps and floors, forwards and futures, swaps, commodities, exchange traded commodities, real estate, initial public offerings, emerging markets, securities lending and borrowing, short selling, client asset protection in insolvency, cryptoassets, sustainable investments, pink sheet and penny stock trading, and OTC market trading. The booklet calls these the principal types of investment the firm may offer or recommend, so chapter 3.19 on cryptoassets is not evidence of a crypto desk. No crypto instrument appears in the 2024 RTS 28 tables, no crypto appendix exists in the Product Distribution Policy, and MiCAR authorisation is a separate CySEC permission we could not reach a register to check.

What the 2024 execution report shows being traded in practice is narrower than any of those lists. Professional clients transacted in equities across all three tick size liquidity bands, bonds, exchange traded products, and options and futures admitted to trading on a trading venue in equity, commodity, currency and interest rate underlyings. Retail clients transacted in bonds and nothing else. Every derivative class named is exchange traded. There is no over the counter leveraged product anywhere in the record, which is exactly what a permission list that stops at instrument 8 should produce.

Education & Analysis

Boson Alfa holds the ancillary permission for “investment research and financial analysis or other forms” across instruments 1 to 8, and its Investment Advisory service is built around it. The advisory page sets out five inputs the firm says it works from: investment goals and expected rate of return, the client’s risk profile, portfolio allocation, investment horizon and liquidity considerations. The service is described as assisting in forming a strategy, advising on execution and settlement within it, reviewing allocation against market conditions, developing structured products on request and supplying information on global markets.

None of that reaches the public site. There is no research library, no market commentary, no economic calendar, no charting package and no webinar programme. The News page holds four items and the most recent is dated 30 September 2023, about World Investor Week. The one before it is from 10 April 2021, the one before that from 22 December 2017 about MiFID II coming into force, and the oldest announces that the website design has been updated. A prospective client cannot read a sample of the firm’s thinking before signing, which is a real gap when the product being sold is judgment.

The educational material that does exist is the Risk Disclosure Booklet, and on its own terms it is substantial: 73 pages across 22 product categories, versioned, dated 16 June 2025 and scheduled for review on 16 June 2026. It explains margin calls with worked figures, sets out how omnibus accounts differ from individually designated ones, and describes settlement risk in delivery versus payment terms. It is written for someone who already invests. It is also uneven. The cryptoasset chapter drifts into describing mining rewards, faucets and bounty distributions, and asserts that exchange trading is “the most profitable but extremely risky cryptocurrency earning”, which is promotional phrasing in a document whose job is disclosure.

The Mission page carries the other tension worth naming. It states a goal of “delivering stability and consistent returns for our clients” and describes actions that “lead to superior returns”. The footer on every page of the same site says the value of investments may fluctuate and you may lose all of your invested capital, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Both statements cannot be doing the same work. No performance record, audited or otherwise, is published to settle it.

Special Offers

There are none, and the absence is a fact about the business model rather than an oversight. Boson Alfa runs no bonus scheme, no deposit match, no rebate programme, no referral offer, no trading competition and no affiliate arrangement that appears anywhere on its site or in its legal documents. CySEC’s product intervention rules would prohibit most of these on leveraged retail products in any case, but this firm sells none of those either.

The nearest thing to a commercial incentive in the paperwork is the Inducements Policy, and it points the other way. Boson Alfa’s Terms of Business bar it from accepting or retaining any fee, commission or non monetary benefit paid by a third party in connection with the service unless the policy’s tests are met. Its Best Execution Policy commits it to sufficient measures against taking any remuneration, discount or non monetary benefit for routing orders to a particular trading or execution venue where that would infringe the best execution, conflicts of interest or inducements rules. Its costs disclosure must itemise any third party payment it does receive. The firm also publishes a Conflicts of Interest Policy, both Terms of Business and their appendix sets, and a Product Distribution Policy, all reissued in March 2026.

Two structural features do the work an offer would do elsewhere. Execution is priced at the underlying brokers’ own tariffs rather than a marked up house rate, so a US share trade costs the Interactive Brokers rate of USD 0.005 per share with a USD 1.00 minimum, and a German or UK share trade 0.05 per cent of value with a EUR 3.00 or USD 3.00 floor. And CySEC grants Boson Alfa the ancillary service of granting credits or loans against instruments 1 to 8, which is a priced service rather than a promotion, carrying the margin call triggers and residual liability set out in the negative balance section above.

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Opening an Account

There is no online application. The client area page states that “Access to My Account is provided only to existing Clients” and gives a Limassol telephone number, +357 25 558 225. Onboarding starts with a conversation, not a form, and the documentary requirements published in the firm’s account opening list are those of a private bank rather than a retail broker.

An individual under the standard procedure supplies a passport, or a national ID card if resident in Cyprus, plus confirmation of residential address no older than six months in the form of a utility bill, bank statement or bank reference. A client who cannot attend in person faces a heavier requirement: the signature on the Individual Client Questionnaire or Client Status Form must be legalised by a Cypriot or foreign Notary Public. Enhanced due diligence applies at the firm’s discretion to higher risk clients, politically exposed persons among them, with the additional list communicated case by case.

A corporate applicant faces twelve items, including identification for every person operating the account, every registered director, every registered shareholder and every ultimate beneficial owner, disclosure of each layer of corporate shareholding, trust deeds where nominee shareholders are used, a board resolution authorising the account in Boson Alfa’s own format unless another format is agreed in advance, recent audited financial statements or certified management accounts, and an organisational structure. A simplified procedure cuts this to six items where the applicant is itself an authorised investment company, bank or insurer in the EEA or in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa, the United States, certain French overseas territories or the UK Crown Dependencies. That list is a due diligence equivalence test for regulated applicants. It is not a list of countries the firm serves or refuses.

No funds are accepted before KYC completes. The firm states it will not provide any investment or ancillary service, and will not accept money, until the process is finished, and it reserves the right to freeze an account or refuse a pending order where it believes AML obligations are at risk, without necessarily explaining why. Clients who contract at a distance get a 14 calendar day right of withdrawal from the agreement, though orders already executed inside that window still stand and still carry their fees.

Account opening time is not published. Given notarisation for remote individuals and audited accounts for companies, a same day start is not a realistic expectation, but we have no sourced figure and are not going to invent one.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Boson Alfa publishes no funding page. There is no deposit method list, no card option, no e wallet, no processing time table and no fee schedule for moving money in and out under the firm’s own name. We probed the conventional paths on the site and every one returned the firm’s 404 page. Money moves by bank transfer to accounts opened for the purpose, and the specifics arrive with the client agreement rather than on the website.

What the documents do establish is where client assets sit. Client money is placed with a central bank, a credit institution authorised under Directive 2013/36/EU, or a bank authorised in a third country. Instruments are deposited only where safekeeping for another person’s account is specifically regulated and supervised. The named counterparties are UBS AG in Zurich, Interactive Brokers LLC, Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited, Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA in Geneva and Hellenic Bank in Limassol. At the 2025 year end the firm reported 5.22 million euro of segregated client money, nothing non segregated, and 28.38 million euro of assets safeguarded and administered.

The charges that do exist are the custodians’ own, reproduced in the firm’s fee schedule. Through UBS AG: safekeeping of 0.35 per cent a year up to CHF 5 million, 0.30 per cent to CHF 20 million and 0.20 per cent above, with a minimum of CHF 5 per position per month, plus 0.15 per cent a year for foreign securities held with third parties; delivery free of payment CHF 50 and delivery versus payment CHF 200. Through Union Bancaire Privee: custody of 0.15 per cent a year on 1 to 10 million, 0.10 per cent on 10 to 20 million and negotiated above that; an outgoing SWIFT payment CHF 70; a securities transfer out CHF 100 per item; hold mail CHF 750 a year; a generic tax statement CHF 150.

Two clauses shape what withdrawal actually feels like. In a managed portfolio, the form in which assets are released, cash or securities, is decided by Boson Alfa “at our own discretion, unless otherwise is agreed”, and the client must confirm the destination bank or custody account details in writing. In the brokerage relationship, the firm is under no obligation to settle or account to a client until it has received all necessary documents or assets, and delivery or payment is at the client’s risk. Neither is unusual for an agency wealth manager, and both are worth settling in writing before funding.

There is no published withdrawal processing time and no published withdrawal fee charged by Boson Alfa itself, so both stay unrecorded here. We found no complaint record alleging blocked or delayed withdrawals at this firm, and equally no positive evidence that payouts run smoothly, because a firm with roughly 34 million euro under management and a retail book that averaged fewer than one trade per business day leaves very little public trace either way.

Customer Support

Support at Boson Alfa is a switchboard to a named team, not a support desk. The contacts page publishes the Limassol office address, a working day of 09:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday, a telephone number, a fax number, an email address and a web form. There is no live chat, no ticketing system, no out of hours cover and no second office in another timezone.

The team page names the two people a client deals with, which is more disclosure than most firms in this catalogue offer. Elena Christodoulou (Gamaonova) is General Manager and the Chief Compliance, AML and Risk Manager Officer, holds the CySEC Advanced Certificate, is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association and works in Russian, English, Greek and French. Yan Chandra is Head of Asset Management and Head of Investment Advisory, has worked in financial markets since 2006, previously managed Russian corporate and private fund assets and mutual funds with more than USD 100 million under management, holds the CySEC Advanced Certificate and works in Russian, English and German. The Pillar III disclosure names the wider board: Alexander Royce as Chief Executive Officer, Elena Christodoulou and Yan Chandra as executive directors, and Constantinos Constantinides and Raluca G. Petre as independent non executive directors.

The scale behind that is small. The 2025 remuneration table lists six beneficiaries in total, three executive directors sharing 181,000 euro, one key management figure on 30,000 euro and two non executive directors sharing 9,000 euro, all of it fixed with no variable component. A client gets direct access to decision makers. A client also has very few people to escalate to if one of them is unavailable.

The published site is English only. The Russian route on the domain redirects to the English pages, although both named staff list Russian among their working languages and the site’s legacy browser notice is written in Russian, so Russian is plainly spoken even if it is not published.

Complaints handling is documented properly and is the strongest part of the support picture. Complaints go to [email protected], by fax to +357 25 558 224, or by post to the Limassol office marked for the Complaints Handling Officer. The firm sends a written acknowledgement within five business days carrying a Unique Reference Number to be quoted in all later contact, aims to resolve within two months, and may extend to a maximum of three months with reasons given. An unsatisfied client with a compensation claim can take it to the Financial Ombudsman of the Republic of Cyprus, whose address, phone and email the firm prints in full. Records are kept for at least five years. That is a real, checkable escalation path, and it is worth more than a 24 hour chat widget.

Prohibited Countries

Boson Alfa publishes no list of prohibited or restricted countries, and we are not going to construct one for it. No page of the website, and no clause in the Terms of Business for Brokerage, the Terms of Business for Portfolio Management, the Client Categorization Policy or the account opening requirements, names a nationality or a residence the firm refuses. The section says so and lists nothing, which is the honest answer.

Two documents look like restriction lists and are not. The first is the account opening pack’s simplified due diligence provision, which names the EEA plus Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa, the United States, certain French overseas territories and the UK Crown Dependencies. Those are jurisdictions whose regulated firms qualify for a shortened document list. It is an equivalence test for corporate applicants, and reading it as a market list in either direction would be wrong. The second is the CySEC register’s usual “Provision of Services to Countries Outside EU” block, which lists markets a Cypriot firm may serve rather than ones it excludes. Boson Alfa’s register entry carries no such block at all, so CySEC records no third country permissions for it either way.

What the record does establish is where the firm is positively authorised. Its cross border passport covers 29 EEA and EFTA states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, alongside its home market of Cyprus.

The United Kingdom is the one country a reader can draw a firm conclusion about, and it comes from the FCA rather than from Boson Alfa. Reference 837255, recorded as “Services (UK) of an Overseas Firm”, was marked No longer authorised with effect from 16 January 2022. Whatever arrangement a UK resident might reach with this firm today, it would not be under FCA authorisation, would carry no Financial Services Compensation Scheme cover and would give no access to the Financial Ombudsman Service in London. That is a change from the position before 2022 and the firm’s website does not mention it.

Conclusion

Boson Alfa Ltd is a real, currently licensed Cyprus Investment Firm that has been miscategorised by everyone who assumed a CySEC licence number means a CFD broker. CySEC 314/16 has been live since 20 September 2016, sits against company HE 349777 at the Limassol address on the firm’s own site, and names bosonalfa.com as the single approved domain. The firm is absent from the Former Investment Firms register, and absent from CySEC’s warnings, and we found no administrative sanction recorded against it. Its 2025 own funds of 858,000 euro stand at 572 per cent of a 150,000 euro requirement. On the questions this catalogue exists to answer, it checks out.

What it is not is a place to trade. There are no CFDs, because instrument 9 is not on the permission list. There is no dealing on own account, so the firm never takes the other side of a client position and its capital floor is 150,000 euro rather than 750,000 euro. There is no platform, no app, no demo, no leverage table and no public research. Orders go by phone and email to Interactive Brokers, UBS, Union Bancaire Privee or Eurobank Cyprus, and statements come back quarterly by email. In 2024 the entire retail book was bonds, at fewer than one trade per business day.

The genuine reservations are about disclosure and about proportion. The fee schedule runs to ten pages of other people’s tariffs and never states what Boson Alfa charges to manage a portfolio. The minimum investment is set per strategy and published nowhere. No performance record exists to test the Mission page’s language about stability and consistent returns against the footer’s warning that you may lose all your capital. Investor Compensation Fund cover stops at 20,000 euro and applies only to retail clients, which sits oddly against a book averaging in the millions per client and a professional segment that gets no cover at all. The website’s copyright still reads 2022 and the newsroom stopped in September 2023, even as the compliance library was refreshed in March and April 2026. Small inconsistencies run through the paperwork too: the Pillar III text puts the fixed overhead requirement at 99,000 euro while its own table says 103,000, and the custodian appendix names UBS AG while still giving a credit-suisse.com website, above a fee section that twice refers to Credit Suisse by name years after the merger.

The score of 5.6 reflects a firm that is strong where it is checkable and silent where it matters most to someone deciding. Regulation scores well because the licensed entity is the entity you sign with, capital is comfortable and client money is segregated. Fees, platform and support score modestly because the product’s price is unpublished, there is nothing to trade on, and one office in one timezone with six paid people is a thin operation to lean on. The user review dimension is scored neutrally because we found no verifiable reports at all, in either direction, and absence of data is not a finding.

Who this suits: an investor with a substantial portfolio who wants a small Cyprus manager to run or advise on a mandate in listed securities, who is comfortable negotiating fees and minimums privately, and who accepts 20,000 euro of compensation cover on a much larger balance. Who this does not suit: anyone looking to trade CFDs, forex or anything on margin from a screen, anyone in the United Kingdom expecting FCA protection, and anyone who wants to know the price before the phone call. Before you send anything anywhere, check the address bar reads bosonalfa.com. CySEC has listed the hyphenated lookalike on its non approved domains list since 2017.

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