CICC review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of CICC, scored 3.8 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. Our previous review of CICC scored it 4.2 out of 10; this review moves that down to 3.8, and the reason sits mostly in the platform and fees scores rather than in regulation. Regulation now sits at 5.6 of 10 because the Hong Kong public register register confirms a real Hong Kong licence, and the CSRC‘s own list of securities companies includes the mainland parent, though it gives no licence number. Platform scores 2 of 10 and fees score 3 of 10 because every attempt to fetch CICC’s own accounts, fees, platform and legal pages came back 404 or empty, which means the retail-style numbers attached to this firm cannot be checked against anything the firm itself publishes.

The entity itself is a large Chinese investment bank, not a retail broker in the way the name “CICC” gets used in some of the material we inherited. China International Capital Corporation Limited (中金公司) is the parent, listed on both the Shanghai Stock Exchange (601995.SH) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (3908.HK) according to its own about page. Underneath that sit at least seven distinct legal entities with their own phone lines and, in some cases, their own email domains: a Hong Kong subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (International) Limited (中国国际金融（国际）有限公司), CICC US Securities, Inc in New York, a Singapore subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH in Frankfurt, China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited in London, and a Japan subsidiary, all listed on the firm’s contact page. Which of those entities actually opens an account and handles a complaint depends on which office a client deals with, and the pages we could fetch do not resolve that.

Overview Table

Facts List

• The SFC register shows China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司) as CE number AEN894, a licensed corporation, checked by us on 29 Sep 2026.
• That SFC licence covers Type 1 dealing in securities (active since 31 Mar 2005), Type 2 dealing in futures contracts (28 Aug 2012), Type 4 advising on securities (20 Aug 2008), Type 5 advising on futures contracts (28 Aug 2012) and Type 6 advising on corporate finance (20 Aug 2008).
• The mainland parent, China International Capital Corporation Ltd, appears in the CSRC’s list of securities companies in its 2020 annual report and in its directory dated July 2026; neither list gives a licence number.
• We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and CICC appears on none of them.
• The parent company’s stock listings, 601995.SH on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and 3908.HK on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, are listing codes, not financial-services licences, and we hold no register entry for either exchange to check them against.
• Repeated fetches of cicc.com’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including /mt4, all returned a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body.
• The pages we did reach describe CICC as a full-service investment bank covering investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no retail account tiers, leverage figures, platform list or fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site.
• Our earlier review notes it found no published restricted-country list on cicc.com.cn after checking the homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages, then removed an earlier list of countries it could not tie to anything the broker published; that same review’s conclusion still asserted country restrictions despite that.
• The contact page also lists a China ICP filing (京ICP备07500352号-2) and a Beijing Public Security Bureau network filing (京公网安备11010502042217号); both are administrative filings, not financial licences, and we hold no register for either to check them against.
• Our previous score for CICC was 4.2 out of 10; this review restates it at 3.8, driven mainly by the platform score of 2 and fees score of 3, both reflecting that the firm’s own accessible pages carry none of the account, fee or platform detail the earlier review attributed to it.

Why CICC’s score moved

The regulation score of 5.6 out of 10 rests on a confirmed SFC licence and a CSRC listing: the SFC register corroborates the Hong Kong entity in detail, going back to 2005 for its earliest permission, and the mainland parent appears on the CSRC’s directory of securities companies dated July 2026, though that directory carries no licence numbers. The fees score of 3 and platform score of 2 both come from the same gap: the commission tiers, the $1,000 minimum deposit, the 1:50 leverage figure and the named trading platforms all trace back to the earlier review rather than to anything on cicc.com, because the fee, account and platform pages we tried to fetch were not there. A support score of 3.8 reflects that the contact details themselves are real and first-hand, spread across seven offices, but that spread also means a client’s actual escalation path depends on which entity took them on, and nothing we fetched resolves that. The reviews score of 4.5 carries over the reputational material from the earlier review, including the contradiction it flagged in its own conclusion about country restrictions it could not otherwise source.

Key Takeaways

Our previous score for CICC was 4.2/10; this review scores it 3.8/10. That is our assessment changing on the same firm, not the firm changing: the regulation score (5.6) now rests on one register entry we actually pulled rather than the unsourced licence claims the earlier review carried, and the platform score (2) reflects that every page we tried for CICC’s own account tiers, fee schedule, platform list and risk disclosure came back 404 or empty. Fees sit at 3, support at 3.8, reviews at 4.5, for an overall of 3.8.

What the SFC register confirms about CICC

• The Securities and Futures Commission’s Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions shows China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司) as a licensed corporation, CE number AEN894, checked 29 Sep 2026. It carries five regulated activities: Type 1 Dealing in Securities (active since Mar 31, 2005), Type 2 Dealing in Futures Contracts (Aug 28, 2012), Type 4 Advising on Securities (Aug 20, 2008), Type 5 Advising on Futures Contracts (Aug 28, 2012) and Type 6 Advising on Corporate Finance (Aug 20, 2008). That is a real, checkable Hong Kong licence sitting under the CICC name.
• The mainland claim is different. Our earlier review says the China Securities Regulatory Commission supervises CICC’s mainland operations, and the CSRC’s directory of securities companies dated July 2026 lists 中国国际金融股份有限公司 (China International Capital Corporation Limited) at row 108 of 150, registered in Beijing. That confirms the company is a CSRC-supervised securities company; the directory carries no licence numbers.
• The stock codes on CICC’s own about page, 601995.SH on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and 3908.HK on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, are listing codes for the parent company’s shares, not financial-services licences, and we hold no register for either exchange to verify them against. The same goes for the Beijing Public Security Bureau filing and the China ICP filing on CICC’s contact page: both are administrative registrations, not licences to deal or advise.
• We searched 1441 warning-list entries mirrored from CYSEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and CICC appears on none of them. We ran a positive control against a firm known to be listed before relying on that result, so the clean result means absence rather than a broken search. That check covers only the three regulators we mirror, not a global sweep.

What CICC’s own pages do and don’t say about fees and accounts

• Repeated attempts to fetch CICC’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets and platform pages, including /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk-disclosure, /platforms and /mt4, all returned a 404 or an empty body. Nothing on the firm’s own reachable site currently supports a fee schedule, an account-tier table or a leverage figure.
• The commission tiers, minimum deposits and leverage figures used in the earlier published review, individual accounts from $1,000 with a 0.05% equity commission, corporate accounts from $10,000 at 0.02%, a $1,000,000 wealth-management tier, margin up to 1:50, all reached us from that earlier review rather than from anything we fetched, and none of it is corroborated on CICC’s own country versions of the site.
• The same applies to the payment details in circulation: a stated 2-3% credit card deposit fee, no CICC-side fee on wire transfers, and a $50,000/day withdrawal limit for individual accounts are all carried over from the earlier review, not confirmed against a CICC fees or terms page we could load.
• What CICC’s own fetched pages actually describe is a full-service investment bank, investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no retail account tiers, no platform list and no fee page anywhere on the reachable site. That doesn’t match the granular retail-broker framing (individual/corporate/institutional/wealth accounts, MT4-style platform links, named commission percentages) that the earlier review applied to it.

Platform claims for CICC we could not verify

• The earlier review’s description of a “CICC Proprietary Trading Platform” with real-time data, charting and research, plus integrations with Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade, comes entirely from that review. Every platform URL we tried on CICC’s own site, including platform, trading-platforms and mt4 paths, returned 404 or an empty body, so none of this is something we could check against the firm’s own published material.

Contact structure across CICC’s entities

• CICC’s own contact page lists at least seven distinct legal entities, the Beijing headquarters, CICC Hong Kong, CICC US Securities Inc in New York, the Singapore subsidiary, the Frankfurt-based Europe GmbH, the UK Limited entity in London and the Japan subsidiary in Tokyo, each with its own phone and fax number, and in several cases a distinct email domain: info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the Europe entity, ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for the UK entity. Which entity and escalation path a client actually gets depends on which office onboarded them.
• CICC’s asset-management pages also list a separate direct-sales hotline (010-65050105) and a toll-free client-service hotline (800-810-8802) alongside a dedicated client-service email, CIS@cicc.com.cn, distinct from the general corporate contacts.

A contradiction worth flagging in the earlier review

• The earlier review’s own fact-check notes state that no restricted-country list could be found anywhere on CICC’s site after checking the homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages, and that an earlier draft’s list of countries was removed because it couldn’t be tied to anything CICC publishes. That same review’s conclusion nonetheless asserts that restrictions on US residents and other jurisdictions limit CICC’s addressable market. The two statements can’t both stand: no country-restriction claim here should be read as something CICC has published.

Licenses & Regulation

China International Capital Corporation Limited is a listed investment bank based in Beijing, trading as CICC. Its own country versions of the site describe a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, and list at least seven distinct legal entities operating under the CICC name: the Beijing headquarters, a Hong Kong subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (International) Limited (中国国际金融（国际）有限公司), CICC US Securities, Inc in New York, a Singapore subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH in Frankfurt, China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited in London, and its Japanese company, China International Capital Corporation Japan Kabushiki Kaisha (中国国际金融日本株式会社), in Tokyo, each with its own phone number and, in several cases, a separate email domain (info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the German entity, ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for the UK entity). Which of these entities a client actually deals with, and which regulator therefore stands behind that relationship, depends on which office onboarded them.

What the SFC register confirms

We searched the Securities and Futures Commission’s Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions directly. It shows China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司), CE number AEN894, as a licensed corporation. The register lists five regulated activities: Type 1 (Dealing in Securities, active since 31 Mar 2005), Type 2 (Dealing in Futures Contracts, since 28 Aug 2012), Type 4 (Advising on Securities, since 20 Aug 2008), Type 5 (Advising on Futures Contracts, since 28 Aug 2012) and Type 6 (Advising on Corporate Finance, since 20 Aug 2008). We checked this on 29 Sep 2026, and before relying on any absence elsewhere we ran a positive control on the SFC register with a firm known to be listed, so an empty search result elsewhere in this review reflects genuine absence rather than a broken lookup. This is the one licence in this review that is confirmed against a primary source, and it covers only the Hong Kong entity’s securities and futures activities, not the group as a whole.

What is claimed but not checkable

Our earlier review says the China Securities Regulatory Commission supervises the mainland China operations of China International Capital Corporation Limited, and separately that CICC’s SFC licensing is mainly for futures and other securities work. Neither claim came with a licence number, and neither is corroborated on the firm’s own country versions of the site we fetched. The CSRC’s 2020 list of securities companies includes the mainland parent, which supports that claim as far as the company goes. The SFC claim from our earlier review happens to be broadly consistent with what the SFC register itself shows for CE AEN894, but we are reporting the register entry above as the checked fact, not the secondhand description.

What CICC’s own site shows that is not a financial licence

The firm’s own pages give a stock exchange listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under code 601995.SH and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under code 3908.HK, for China International Capital Corporation Limited. A listing code identifies where the parent company’s shares trade; it is not a financial-services licence and does not establish that any CICC entity is authorised to deal with clients in a given market. The contact page also carries two China-specific administrative filings: a Beijing Public Security Bureau network security registration (京公网安备11010502042217号) and a China ICP telecom registration (京ICP备07500352号-2), both routine filings for operating a website in China rather than markers of financial regulation. We hold no register entries for the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Beijing Public Security Bureau or the China ICP registry, so none of these four numbers has been checked against an authority; that is a directory gap on our side, not a verdict on the firm.

Repeated fetch failures on CICC’s retail-facing pages

Attempts to fetch cicc.com’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk-disclosure, /platforms and /mt4, all returned a 404 or an empty body. The pages we did reach describe CICC purely as an investment bank, with no retail account tiers, leverage figures, platform list or fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site. That leaves the account-tier and leverage detail in our earlier review’s original source unverifiable against anything CICC currently publishes online. Our earlier review also records its own fact-check note that no published restricted-country list could be found on cicc.com.cn after checking the homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages, and that an earlier list of restricted countries could not be tied to anything the broker publishes and was removed, while that same earlier review’s conclusion nonetheless asserted restrictions on US residents and other jurisdictions. We are not carrying that contradiction forward: no restriction list is treated as broker-published in this review.

Warning-list search

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius warning lists, and CICC appears on none of them. That covers only the three regulators we mirror, not a global sweep, but it is a clean result on the lists we hold.

Our previous score for this section was part of an overall 4.2/10; this review scores regulation at 5.6 within an overall 3.8/10. The move reflects our current assessment against current evidence rather than any change at the firm: one SFC licence is now confirmed directly against the register with a CE number and five specific regulated activities, which supports the score, while the CSRC’s directory dated July 2026 confirms the mainland parent as a securities company, and the stock exchange codes and Chinese administrative filings remain unchecked, and the firm’s own retail-facing legal and disclosure pages could not be fetched at all.

How to Trade

What CICC actually lets someone trade is hard to pin down from the firm’s own website. We tried repeatedly to fetch cicc.com’s accounts, fees, platforms, risk-disclosure and markets/instruments pages, including specific paths for /accounts, /fees, /platforms and /mt4, and every one of them came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. The pages that did load (covering the homepage and contact page) describe CICC purely as a full-service investment bank, covering investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no retail account tiers, no leverage figures, no platform list and no fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site. Everything below on instruments, accounts, leverage and platforms comes from our earlier review not from anything we could load ourselves, and we say so at each point rather than passing it off as the firm’s own words.

What CICC is licensed to do in Hong Kong

The one piece of this we could check directly sits with the regulator, not the firm’s marketing. The SFC’s Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions lists China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司) under CE number AEN894, as a licensed corporation covering five regulated activities: Type 1 (dealing in securities, active since March 2005), Type 2 (dealing in futures contracts, since August 2012), Type 4 (advising on securities, since August 2008), Type 5 (advising on futures contracts, since August 2012) and Type 6 (advising on corporate finance, since August 2008). That is a real, checkable scope of what the Hong Kong entity may deal in and advise on. It says nothing about retail leverage, commission tiers or platform access, because the register doesn’t cover that ground.

Instruments and account tiers, as reported by the earlier review

The earlier review’s asset-class table covered equities (A-shares, H-shares and international stocks), fixed income (government bonds, corporate bonds, structured products), currencies (CNY-focused pairs plus major and emerging-market pairs), commodities (energy, metals, agriculture futures), derivatives (options, futures, swaps and structured products) and alternative investments through CICC Capital, focused on technology, healthcare, consumer and manufacturing private equity. The same review set out four account tiers: an Individual account with a $1,000 minimum deposit, margin trading up to 1:50 leverage varying by asset class, and a 0.05% equity commission; a Corporate account at a $10,000 minimum with multi-user access and a 0.02% equity commission; an Institutional account with a negotiable minimum and negotiated fees, including a prime brokerage desk; and a Wealth Management account requiring $1,000,000 in investable assets, covering investment management, estate planning and pre-IPO or private-equity co-investment access at a 0.03% equity commission. None of this appears on the pages we were able to load ourselves.

Platforms CICC is said to run

The earlier review described a CICC proprietary trading platform combining real-time data, charting and research, plus integrations with Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade. We could not find any of this on the firm’s own site; the platform and MT4-style URLs we tried all 404’d or returned nothing. That gap is a large part of why this review’s platform score sits at 2 out of 10: there is no first-hand way to confirm what a client actually trades on, what order types are available, or whether the third-party integrations described even still exist.

Execution rules and market access we could not confirm

The earlier review’s own fact-check notes say it found no published restricted-country list anywhere on cicc.com.cn, after checking the homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages, and that an earlier draft’s list of excluded countries had to be pulled because it couldn’t be tied to anything the broker publishes. Despite that, the same review’s conclusion still asserted that restrictions on US residents and other jurisdictions limit the addressable market. We’re flagging that contradiction rather than repeating it: no restriction list should be treated as something CICC has published, because the source that raised it says outright that it couldn’t find one.

Our previous score for CICC was 4.2 out of 10; this review scores it 3.8. The platform component, at 2 out of 10, and the fees component, at 3 out of 10, are doing most of that work: the account tiers, leverage figures and commission schedule above all trace back to the earlier review rather than to a page we could fetch ourselves, and the firm’s own reachable site describes an investment bank with no retail trading infrastructure visible at all. That’s our assessment of what current evidence supports, not a claim that CICC’s terms changed.

Account Types

What we have on CICC’s account structure comes almost entirely from the earlier review of this firm, not from pages we could fetch ourselves. We tried repeatedly to load cicc.com’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk disclosure, markets and platform pages, including /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk disclosure, /platforms and /mt4, and every one of them came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. The pages that did load for us (the contact and about pages) describe CICC only as a full service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no retail account tiers, leverage figures, platform list or fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site. Everything below on tiers, minimums and commission rates is what the earlier review reported, restated in our own words rather than quoted, because we have not read the documents it describes.

The four tiers CICC’s account structure claimed, per the earlier review

• Individual: a minimum deposit of $1,000, access to the full range of tradable assets, margin trading up to 1:50 leverage depending on asset class, research access, basic platform features and standard support, per the earlier review.
• Corporate: a minimum deposit of $10,000, multi user access, advanced reporting tools, a dedicated relationship manager and preferential pricing, per the earlier review.
• Institutional: a negotiable minimum deposit, a dedicated institutional desk, tailored liquidity and prime brokerage, with fees negotiated individually, per the earlier review.
• Wealth Management: a threshold of $1,000,000 in investable assets, buying investment management, financial and estate planning, and access to pre IPO and private equity co investment opportunities, per the earlier review.

What each tier pays to trade, per the earlier review’s account comparison table

The earlier review’s comparison table put the equity trading commission at 0.05% for the Individual account, 0.02% for the Corporate account and 0.03% for the Wealth Management account, with the Institutional account’s commission described as negotiable rather than fixed. None of these figures appear on the firm’s own pages we could reach; the account comparison table is the earlier review’s, not CICC’s.

The same review reported that funding by credit card costs 2% to 3%, varying by card issuer and jurisdiction, on top of typically instant deposits capped around $10,000 per transaction, and that credit cards are not typically usable for withdrawals. Wire transfers and bank transfers carry no fee from CICC itself in that account, though the receiving or originating bank may charge its own fees; wire deposits were reported to take 1 to 3 business days, and withdrawals 1 to 2 days domestically or 3 to 5 days internationally, with a $50,000 per day limit stated for individual accounts.

What buying into a CICC account actually gets a client

The earlier review described access through a CICC proprietary trading platform said to integrate real time data, charting and research, plus claimed integrations with Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade. We found no trace of any of this on the firm’s own reachable pages, since every platform related URL we tried returned a 404 or empty response, so we cannot confirm a client actually receives any named platform for the deposit tiers above. The instrument list carried over from the same review spans equities (A shares, H shares and international stocks), fixed income (government and corporate bonds, structured products), currencies weighted toward CNY pairs plus majors and emerging market pairs, global commodity futures across energy, metals and agriculture, derivatives including options, futures, swaps and structured products, and private equity access through CICC Capital in technology, healthcare, consumer and manufacturing sectors. None of this is corroborated by anything we could load ourselves.

The one licensing fact we could check independently sits apart from this account structure: the SFC Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions lists China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited under CE number AEN894 as a licensed corporation for dealing in securities, dealing in futures contracts, advising on securities, advising on futures contracts and advising on corporate finance, checked by us on 29 Sep 2026. That entry confirms the Hong Kong entity’s licensed activities; it says nothing about which account tier, minimum deposit or commission rate above actually applies to business done through it, since none of the account terms are published anywhere we could reach.

Negative Balance Protection

We could not find a page on cicc.com that states a margin-call threshold, a stop-out level, or a negative-balance policy for any CICC account. Repeated attempts to fetch the firm’s risk-disclosure, accounts, fee and platform pages, including URLs for /risk-disclosure, /accounts, /fees and /platforms, all came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. That is a fetch failure on our side, not a register finding, and it means the loss-limit terms below rest on thinner ground than a licence check would.

What CICC’s own reachable pages describe instead

The pages we did reach on cicc.com (the the firm’s home page and the firm’s about pages) describe CICC as a full-service investment bank built around investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity. None of those pages lists a retail account tier, a leverage figure, a margin-call rule or a negative-balance guarantee. The granular retail framing in the earlier review, individual and corporate account tiers, a stated 1:50 leverage cap, MT4-style platform links, does not match what CICC’s own accessible site currently publishes.

The 1:50 leverage figure is secondhand

The only leverage number we have for CICC comes from our earlier review: its account comparison table describes the Individual account as offering margin trading up to 1:50 leverage (varies by asset class). That figure reached us from that earlier review, not from a page we fetched ourselves, so we can report it only as what the earlier review stated, not as something CICC’s own accounts or risk-disclosure pages confirm. We have no firsthand source for how that cap is applied per instrument, what triggers a margin call, or at what equity level a position would be force-closed.

Negative-balance protection: an open question

Our own notes flag negative-balance protection specifically as one of the claims in the earlier review that cannot be verified against the firm’s own accessible pages, alongside the leverage figure and platform list, because the risk-disclosure and accounts pages that would carry such a policy returned no content. We hold no page of CICC’s stating that client losses are capped at deposited funds, and no page stating the opposite. That is a gap in what we could fetch, not a finding that CICC does or does not offer the guarantee.

What the SFC register confirms, and what it doesn’t reach

The Securities and Futures Commission’s Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions lists China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited under CE number AEN894 as a licensed corporation, active for Type 1 (Dealing in Securities, since 31 Mar 2005), Type 2 (Dealing in Futures Contracts, since 28 Aug 2012), Type 4 and Type 6 (Advising on Securities and on Corporate Finance, since 20 Aug 2008), and Type 5 (Advising on Futures Contracts, since 28 Aug 2012), checked 29 Sep 2026. That entry confirms which regulated activities CICC’s Hong Kong business is licensed for; it does not itself set out margin-call thresholds or negative-balance rules, and we have no SFC or CSRC document in front of us that does. The claim that mainland China operations sit under the China Securities Regulatory Commission carries no licence number, but the CSRC’s own 2020 list of securities companies includes China International Capital Corporation Ltd.

A firm split across seven entities complicates any single answer

CICC’s own contact page lists at least seven distinct legal entities, in Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo, each with its own phone line and, in several cases, its own email domain. A margin-call or loss-limit policy at the Hong Kong dealing entity licensed under AEN894 would not necessarily be the same policy that applies to a client booked through CICC US Securities, Inc or China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH, and nothing we fetched ties any single stop-out rule to a named entity.

Our previous score for CICC was 4.2 out of 10; this review scores it 3.8 out of 10 overall. That is our assessment, not a change in what CICC does: the criteria we scored against this time include a platform score of 2 out of 10 and a fees score of 3 out of 10, both pulled down by the same fetch failures described above, an inaccessible risk-disclosure page and an inaccessible fee schedule leave loss-limit and margin terms, including whether losses can ever exceed a deposit, without a firsthand source to check them against.

Trading Instruments

The account-comparison table carried over from the earlier review lists six broad asset classes under CICC’s name: equities (A-shares, H-shares and international stocks), fixed income (government bonds, corporate bonds and structured products), currencies (CNY-focused pairs alongside major and emerging-market pairs), commodities (energy, metals and agriculture futures), derivatives (options, futures, swaps and structured products), and alternative investments reached through CICC Capital, described as private equity in technology, healthcare, consumer and manufacturing sectors. None of this came from a page we fetched ourselves; it is restated from our earlier review and we did not read a CICC document that sets out this list.

Asset access tied to account tier, per our earlier review

The same table from our earlier review ties asset access to account type rather than listing it as a single open menu. An Individual account, opening at a $1,000 minimum deposit, is described as carrying access to the full range of tradable assets along with margin trading up to 1:50 leverage that varies by asset class. A Corporate account, at a $10,000 minimum, adds multi-user access and preferential pricing on top of the same asset range. An Institutional account carries no stated minimum beyond “negotiable,” with a trading desk, customised liquidity solutions and prime brokerage services. A Wealth Management account requires $1,000,000 in investable assets and adds pre-IPO and private-equity co-investment access on top of standard investment management. All four tiers, their minimums and their asset-access descriptions come from our earlier review, not from a CICC page we fetched.

What CICC’s own pages describe

The pages we did reach on cicc.com.cn and cicc.com.hk describe the firm as a full-service investment bank organised around investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity as lines of business. Nowhere on those pages did we find a retail asset list, a leverage figure, an account-tier table or a fee schedule. That is a gap between how our earlier review frames CICC, as a broker with tiered retail accounts and a stated 1:50 leverage cap, and how the firm’s own accessible pages frame itself, as an institutional bank describing business divisions rather than tradable-instrument menus.

Pages we could not reach

We made repeated attempts to fetch cicc.com’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including paths for /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk-disclosure, /platforms and /mt4. Every one of these returned either a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. That means the commission tiers, the leverage figures, the platform claims and the asset-class table in our earlier review cannot be checked against anything CICC currently publishes at those addresses. We are not asserting that CICC publishes no such pages elsewhere; we are reporting that the specific paths we tried did not return one.

Platforms claimed for accessing these assets

Our earlier review names a CICC proprietary trading platform, described as integrating real-time data, charting and research, plus third-party integrations with Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade for order routing. We could not verify any of the three against a CICC page: the platform and MT4-style URLs we tried both returned 404 or empty responses, so which platform an account holder would actually use to trade the equities, fixed income, FX, commodities or derivatives listed above is not something we can confirm from CICC’s own site.

Education & Analysis

CICC’s own website gives no account of what a client actually trades on. We attempted to fetch cicc.com’s platforms, platform, trading-platforms and mt4 pages directly, alongside its fees, accounts, legal, terms and risk-disclosure pages, and every one of them returned a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. The pages that did load, covering the Beijing head office and the Hong Kong, US, Singapore, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo subsidiaries, describe CICC purely as a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity. None of them lists a trading platform, a charting package, or an analysis tool of any kind.

What the earlier review claimed about CICC’s platform

Everything in this section beyond the 404s comes from our earlier review restated here in our own words rather than the firm’s, because we could not find the underlying pages ourselves. That review described a “CICC Proprietary Trading Platform” said to integrate real-time data, charting and research, plus third-party access to Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade. It also carried a fuller retail picture built around that platform claim: an Individual account from a $1,000 minimum deposit with margin trading up to 1:50 leverage, a Corporate account from $10,000, a negotiable Institutional tier with a dedicated trading desk and prime brokerage services, and a Wealth Management tier requiring $1,000,000 in investable assets. None of this, the platform name, the Interactive Brokers or TD Ameritrade integrations, the leverage figure, or the account minimums, appears anywhere on the firm’s own reachable pages. We are not able to confirm any of it as CICC’s own claim.

A mismatch worth naming

The gap here is not just missing detail, it is a mismatch in kind. Our earlier review frames CICC as a retail-style broker with tiered accounts, a named proprietary platform, and MT4-style links. What CICC’s own site actually publishes, on the pages that load at all, is an institutional investment bank’s description of itself: dealing and advising across securities and futures, corporate finance advisory, and asset management, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under 601995.SH and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 3908.HK. Those two codes are stock listing identifiers for the parent company, not markers of any retail trading infrastructure, and we hold no register entry against either exchange to check them further. Where a review of this kind would normally set out charting tools, order types, mobile app coverage or research-terminal access, CICC’s own site gives us nothing to check against, and the specifics attributed to it in circulation did not survive a direct fetch.

Where this leaves the score

We scored CICC 4.2/10 in our previous review; this review scores it 3.8/10. That is our assessment being restated from what we could establish now, not a claim that CICC itself has changed. The platform criterion sits at 2 out of 10 here, and the evidence above is why: the one concrete platform claim in circulation, the proprietary platform with its charting and third-party integrations, has no corroboration on any page CICC’s own site actually serves. A client weighing CICC on its trading and analysis tooling is, on the record we could assemble, weighing an investment bank’s public profile against a set of platform claims we could not verify at the source.

Special Offers

We found no promotions page anywhere on cicc.com. The pages we could actually fetch describe China International Capital Corporation as a full-service investment bank covering investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, and none of them mentions a bonus, welcome credit, referral reward or discounted fee period. That is not the same as saying CICC runs no promotions anywhere; it is what those three reachable pages say and do not say.

What CICC’s own site would not show us

We tried fetching cicc.com’s fees, accounts, terms, legal, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages directly, including the /mt4 path, and every one of those requests came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. If CICC publishes a promotions or offers page, it was not reachable through any of the paths we tried, so we are not in a position to say whether one exists.

The pricing tiers reported in the earlier CICC review

Our earlier review set out an account comparison table with four tiers, and it is worth restating because none of the four reads as a promotional rate. It described an Individual account with an equity commission around 0.05% and a $1,000 minimum deposit, a Corporate account at 0.02% commission with a $10,000 minimum, a Wealth Management account at 0.03% commission requiring $1,000,000 in investable assets, and an Institutional account with commission described only as negotiable and no fixed minimum. These figures come from that earlier review’s table, not from a CICC document we read ourselves, and the table presents them as this firm’s standing commission structure by account type rather than as introductory or limited-time pricing.

The same earlier review listed payment-related charges rather than discounts: a credit card deposit carries a 2 to 3% fee set by the card issuer and jurisdiction, and typically maxes out around $10,000 per transaction, while wire transfers and bank transfers carry no fee from CICC itself, though the sending or receiving bank may charge its own. Wire withdrawals were reported at a $50,000 per day limit for individual accounts. None of these numbers is framed in that table as a bonus for funding an account or for hitting a deposit threshold; they read as ordinary transfer terms attached to each payment method.

Why CICC Hong Kong Securities being licensed does not tell us about offers

The SFC Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions confirms China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, CE number AEN894, as a licensed corporation for dealing in securities, dealing in futures contracts, advising on securities, advising on futures contracts and advising on corporate finance. That register entry tells us the Hong Kong entity is licensed for those activities; it says nothing about pricing, discounts or promotional terms, and licensing registers generally do not carry that kind of commercial detail.

Institutional structure, not a public offer

CICC’s own contact page lists seven separate legal entities, Beijing headquarters, Hong Kong, CICC US Securities in New York, the Singapore subsidiary, the Frankfurt-based Europe GmbH, the UK Limited in London and CICC Japan in Tokyo, each with its own phone line and, for several, a distinct email domain. The Institutional account tier in the table above sets its commission as negotiable rather than fixed, which is consistent with an operation run through separate regional entities and direct relationship management rather than a single advertised offer, though we found nothing on CICC’s own pages describing how those institutional terms actually get set or who signs off on them.

Set against 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, CICC’s name matched none of them. That check covers sanctions and warning notices, not promotional practice, so it has no bearing on whether any offer terms exist or how they are structured; we mention it only so it is not mistaken for evidence either way on this section.

Opening an Account

Our earlier review sets out four account tiers with published minimum deposits: an Individual account at $1,000, a Corporate account at $10,000, an Institutional account with a negotiable minimum, and a Wealth Management account requiring $1,000,000 in investable assets. That same material from our earlier review describes the Individual tier as carrying a 0.05% equity commission, Corporate at 0.02%, Wealth Management at 0.03%, and Institutional commissions negotiated case by case. None of these figures come from a page we fetched from cicc.com; they are restated here from the earlier published review, not confirmed against the firm’s own site.

What CICC’s own pages show about opening an account

We tried repeatedly to reach cicc.com’s account-opening, legal, terms, fees, and risk-disclosure pages, including direct requests to /accounts, /legal, /terms, /fees, and /risk-disclosure. Every one of those requests came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. The pages we did reach on the firm’s own site describe CICC in the language of a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management, and private equity, with no account-tier table, no leverage figures, no platform list, and no fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site. So the tiered retail-style account structure, the 1:50 leverage figure, and the commission percentages carried in the earlier review describe something the firm’s own accessible pages simply do not show us. We report the tiers above because the earlier review published them, not because we read them on cicc.com.

Verification and onboarding: what we could not confirm

We found no identity-verification steps, document requirements, or onboarding workflow on any cicc.com page we could reach, for the same reason: the relevant pages returned 404s or empty bodies during our fetches. We are not in a position to describe what CICC demands from a new client at sign-up beyond what our earlier review states, which does not itself detail a verification procedure.

Which CICC entity actually opens the account

CICC operates as at least seven separate legal entities that we found listed on its own contact page: the Beijing headquarters, a Hong Kong subsidiary, CICC US Securities, Inc in New York, a Singapore subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH in Frankfurt, China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited in London, and a Japan subsidiary, plus a number of Chinese branch offices. Each carries its own phone number and, in several cases, its own email domain: info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the Frankfurt entity, and ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for the London entity. Which of these entities a prospective client actually contracts with, and which regulator therefore stands behind the account, depends on which office does the onboarding. Of these entities, we were able to check only one against a public register directly: the SFC Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions shows China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司) as CE number AEN894, a licensed corporation active for Type 1 Dealing in Securities since March 2005, Type 2 Dealing in Futures Contracts since August 2012, Type 4 Advising on Securities since August 2008, Type 5 Advising on Futures Contracts since August 2012, and Type 6 Advising on Corporate Finance since August 2008. The parent entity appears on the CSRC’s directory of securities companies dated July 2026, which publishes no licence numbers; we have not checked the Beijing Public Security Bureau filing and the China ICP registration listed on the firm’s contact page, which are network and telecom filings rather than financial-services licences in any case.

Who the earlier review says cannot open an account

Our earlier review’s concluding section states that restrictions on US residents and certain other jurisdictions limit CICC’s addressable market. That same earlier review’s own fact-check notes, however, record that no restricted-country list could be found published anywhere on cicc.com.cn after checking the homepage, legal, terms, and legal-documents pages, and that an earlier draft’s list of named countries could not be tied to anything the broker itself publishes and was removed. We are carrying forward the contradiction as it stands rather than resolving it in the firm’s favour or against it: there is a claim that eligibility is restricted, and there is no sourced list, from the firm or otherwise, of who is excluded. A prospective client working out whether they qualify to open a CICC account will not find that answer on the pages we were able to reach.

Deposits & Withdrawals

CICC’s payment rails come almost entirely from our earlier review not from anything we could pull off cicc.com ourselves. We tried the firm’s own legal, terms, fees, accounts and risk-disclosure pages and every one of them came back a 404 or empty body, so none of the numbers below carry a first-hand source. Treat this section as a restatement of our earlier review’s figures, not as something checked against the firm’s current site.

What CICC is reported to charge on the way in

Our earlier review lists wire transfer as taking one to three business days to land, with no maximum stated and no fee charged by CICC itself, though the receiving bank may apply its own charges. Domestic bank transfer within China is put at one to two business days with no fee stated. Credit card deposits are shown as instant, capped at roughly $10,000 per transaction, and carrying a 2 to 3 percent fee that varies by card issuer and jurisdiction. None of these figures appear on any page of cicc.com that we were able to reach.

What the earlier review says about getting money out

Withdrawals by wire transfer are reported at one to two days for domestic transfers and three to five days for international ones, with a stated limit of $50,000 per day for individual accounts. Credit card is reported as not typically supported for withdrawals at all, which means a client who funded by card would have to route money out through a different rail, likely wire or bank transfer, each with its own timeline and any bank-side charges layered on top. Again, none of this sits on a fetched CICC page; it is what our earlier review recorded.

Commission tiers tied to account type

The same source from our earlier review ties equity trading commission to which of CICC’s account tiers a client holds: 0.05% for an Individual account, 0.02% for Corporate, 0.03% for Wealth Management, and “negotiable” for Institutional. Minimum deposits are reported alongside these tiers as $1,000 for Individual, $10,000 for Corporate, $1,000,000 in investable assets for Wealth Management, and negotiable for Institutional. A commission rate that moves by account tier is itself a cost-of-entry question: the cheapest rate on paper sits behind the highest minimum, and the account comparison table gives no sliding scale between the two.

What we could not confirm about rails and jurisdiction

We could not verify currency support, payment-processor names, or any published maximum on wire deposits, because the fee and accounts pages we tried on cicc.com returned nothing to read. Our earlier review itself flags a related problem: an earlier version of that same review listed specific restricted countries for withdrawal or account opening, then the review’s own fact-check found no published restricted-country list anywhere on cicc.com.cn and removed it, only for the review’s conclusion to assert a country restriction anyway. We are not carrying that restriction claim forward in any form, sourced or otherwise, because the review that produced it already disclaimed having a source for it.

Which CICC entity actually processes the payment

CICC’s own contact page lists at least seven distinct legal entities handling business from Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo, each with separate phone and fax numbers and, in several cases, a different email domain: info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the Europe GmbH entity, ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for the UK entity. A deposit or withdrawal request is processed by whichever entity onboarded the client, and the payment terms, currencies handled, and business days observed for a wire will follow that entity’s home jurisdiction rather than a single group-wide schedule. Nothing on the reachable part of the site sets out a group-wide payments policy that would apply the same way across all seven.

Why this pulls the fees score down

Our fees score for CICC sits at 3 out of 10 this review. The commission figures and withdrawal limits above come from our earlier review rather than from CICC’s own published pages, which we tried to reach directly and could not; a client cannot check a credit card fee or a $50,000 daily withdrawal cap against anything CICC currently publishes online. That gap between what our earlier review reports and what the firm’s own site currently shows is the main driver of the low score here, alongside the lack of any fee schedule we could confirm ourselves.

Customer Support

Our previous score for CICC was 4.2/10. This review scores it 3.8/10. The support criterion itself sits at 3.8/10, and the move is our assessment against current evidence, not a change at the firm: the pages we could actually fetch turn out to be corporate contact listings for a full-service investment bank, not a retail broker’s support desk, and the account tiers, live-chat claims and escalation paths the earlier review described don’t show up anywhere on the reachable site.

What we could check on cicc.com.cn

The pages we fetched on cicc.com.cn give a directory of phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses across seven separate legal entities: the Beijing headquarters, the Hong Kong subsidiary, CICC US Securities, Inc in New York, the Singapore subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH in Frankfurt, China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited in London, and a Japan subsidiary in Tokyo, plus a network of Chinese branch offices. Each entity has its own contact point, and some use entirely different email domains: info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the Frankfurt entity, ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for the London one. There is no single global support line; which office and which entity a client reaches depends on which one onboarded them in the first place.

The Beijing headquarters lists a phone number, (+86-10) 6505 1166, and a fax number, (+86-10) 6505 1156, alongside a general email address, info@cicc.com.cn. Hong Kong has its own line at (+852) 2872 2000. New York, Singapore, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo each have a separate direct-dial number. The home page also lists two hotlines specific to asset management clients: a direct-sales line at 010-65050105 and a toll-free service hotline at 800-810-8802, described on the page as free for landline users, along with a client-service email, CIS@cicc.com.cn. A WeChat official account link appears in the site footer, but no handle is given. None of this is a support ticketing system, live chat widget, or stated response-time commitment; it is a list of phone numbers and mailboxes sorted by entity and, for the asset-management line, by product.

What we tried to check and could not

We repeatedly tried to fetch cicc.com’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk-disclosure, /platforms and /mt4. Every one of those returned a 404 “page cannot be found” or came back empty. That means we hold no page of CICC’s own describing a complaints process, a service-level commitment, a dispute-resolution clause, or any contractual term that would bind or protect a client who raises a problem with support. Nothing in the evidence we hold names a complaints-handling procedure, an ombudsman referral, or a stated hours-of-operation window for any of the phone lines above.

Our earlier review described 24/7 live chat and a retail-style support tier structure tied to account type. We are not carrying that forward: it is not corroborated by any page we were able to reach, and the firm’s own accessible pages describe CICC as a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no retail account tiers, no platform list and no fee schedule anywhere on the reachable site. The earlier review’s own fact-check note also states that no published restricted-country list could be found on cicc.com.cn after checking the homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages, and that an earlier draft’s list of restricted countries could not be tied to anything the broker publishes and was removed, yet that same review’s concluding section went on to assert that restrictions on US residents and other jurisdictions limit CICC’s addressable market. We are not repeating that claim; a review that disclaims a sourced list in one section and asserts one anyway in another is not a source we can carry a contractual claim from.

Reaching CICC in practice

A client dealing with CICC support has a phone number and an email address for whichever entity handled their account, and, for asset-management clients specifically, a toll-free hotline. That is what the firm’s own contact page gives us. We hold no evidence of a complaints escalation path, no stated response-time target, and no register or first-hand document describing what happens when a client dispute with any of these seven entities is not resolved at the first point of contact.

Prohibited Countries

We tried to find a prohibited-countries list on cicc.com the same way we try for every firm in this catalogue: by pulling the pages that would normally carry it. Repeated attempts to fetch the site’s legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including the /legal, /terms, /fees, /accounts, /risk-disclosure, /platforms and /mt4 paths, all came back as a 404 “page cannot be found” or an empty body. There is no eligibility page, no restricted-jurisdiction list, and no terms-of-service document reachable at any of the URLs we tried.

What CICC’s own reachable pages describe instead

The pages that did load, covering the firm’s about and contact pages, describe China International Capital Corporation as a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity. Nothing on those pages sets out retail account tiers, a leverage schedule, a platform list, a fee schedule, or a statement of which residents the firm will or will not onboard. The contact page lists at least seven distinct legal entities under the CICC name: the Beijing headquarters, a Hong Kong subsidiary, CICC US Securities, Inc. in New York, a Singapore subsidiary, China International Capital Corporation (Europe) GmbH in Frankfurt, China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited in London, and a Japan subsidiary, each with its own phone number and in several cases its own email domain (info@cicc.com.cn versus info_eu@cicc.com versus ukinfo@cicc.com.cn). Which of those entities actually onboards a given client, and what eligibility rules that entity applies, is not stated anywhere we could reach.

A contradiction in the earlier review of CICC

Our earlier review of this firm carried its own fact-check note, which is worth reporting directly because it undercuts a claim the same review goes on to make. The earlier review states that it checked cicc.com.cn’s homepage, legal, terms and legal-documents pages and found no published restricted-country list, and that an earlier draft of its own text had listed specific barred countries, including Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba, which it could not tie to anything the broker actually publishes, so it removed that list. Despite recording that, the same earlier review’s concluding section still asserted that limits on US residents and some other jurisdictions narrow the firm’s addressable market. That is the earlier review contradicting its own sourcing note, and we are not carrying the unsourced half of it forward. We did not find that list either, on the pages we were able to fetch or in the pages we could not fetch at all.

What this leaves a prospective client with

Nobody using this catalogue’s evidence, our own crawl of cicc.com or the pages our earlier review says it checked, can point to a page where CICC states who it will not accept as a client. That is a gap in what is published and reachable, not a finding that the firm has no such restrictions and not a finding that it accepts clients from anywhere. Given seven separate legal entities across mainland China, Hong Kong, the US, Singapore, Germany, the UK and Japan, each presumably subject to its own local onboarding rules, a client cannot currently check eligibility against anything CICC itself has put in writing on the pages we could reach. Anyone relying on residency eligibility for this firm needs to get that confirmed directly from whichever CICC entity they are dealing with, in writing, before funding an account, because nothing on the reachable site substitutes for that.

Conclusion

CICC scores 3.8/10 in this review, down from the 4.2/10 we gave it previously. The move is ours, not the firm’s: we rebuilt our evidence against the firm’s own site rather than relying on the earlier published review, and most of what that earlier review described as verified turned out to be unreachable when we went to fetch it ourselves.

What the SFC register actually confirms

The one licence claim we could check out held up. The Securities and Futures Commission’s Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions lists China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (中國國際金融香港證券有限公司) under CE number AEN894, a licensed corporation approved for Type 1 Dealing in Securities since March 2005, Type 2 Dealing in Futures Contracts since August 2012, Type 4 Advising on Securities since August 2008, Type 5 Advising on Futures Contracts since August 2012, and Type 6 Advising on Corporate Finance since August 2008. That is a real, current Hong Kong licence tied to a named entity.

The mainland claim is not in the same position. The firm is described as regulated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for its mainland operations, and the CSRC’s directory of securities companies dated July 2026 lists it at row 108 of 150. The company is confirmed as a CSRC-supervised securities company; the directory gives no licence number. The other numbers CICC’s own pages surface, the 601995.SH and 3908.HK stock exchange codes, the Beijing Public Security Bureau filing, and the China ICP telecom registration, are listing and filing references, not financial-services licences, and we hold no registers for any of those authorities either.

CICC’s own site versus the account and fee tables

Fees score 3 and platform scores 2 largely because of the same problem: we tried to check the retail-facing detail against cicc.com directly, and the legal, terms, fees, accounts, risk-disclosure, markets/instruments and platform pages, including the MT4 URL, all came back as a 404 or an empty body. The commission tiers by account type, the $1,000 to $1,000,000 minimum deposits, the 1:50 leverage figure, and the claimed links to a proprietary trading platform, Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade all trace back to the earlier published review rather than to anything we fetched. What CICC’s own reachable pages describe instead is a full-service investment bank spanning investment banking, equities, fixed income, wealth management, asset management and private equity, with no account tiers, leverage figures, platform list or fee schedule anywhere on the pages that loaded. We’re not in a position to confirm the retail framing the earlier review used, because the pages that would carry that detail didn’t return content when we asked. Worth flagging too: that earlier review’s own fact-check notes say it found no published restricted-country list on cicc.com.cn, then its conclusion asserted one anyway. We haven’t carried that restriction claim forward.

Reaching CICC: seven entities, no single line

Support scores 3.8 on the strength of volume rather than simplicity. The contact page lists phone and fax numbers for Beijing headquarters, Hong Kong, CICC US Securities Inc in New York, Singapore, CICC Europe GmbH in Frankfurt, CICC UK Limited in London, and CICC Japan in Tokyo, plus separate asset-management hotlines and a WeChat account. But the email domains split by entity too: info@cicc.com.cn for most offices, info_eu@cicc.com for the Frankfurt entity, ukinfo@cicc.com.cn for London. Which entity and which escalation path a client lands on depends on which office onboarded them, and nothing on the pages we reached ties those entities together into one client-facing support desk.

The warning-list check

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, having first run a positive control against a firm known to be listed to confirm the search actually works, and CICC matched none of them. That’s a genuinely clean result, and it’s more than the earlier review had to offer, but it only covers those three regulators’ lists, not a global check.

China International Capital Corporation holds a confirmed Hong Kong licence (SFC, CE number AEN894) and a clean result across 1,441 mirrored CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius warning-list entries, but its fee schedule, account terms and trading platform could not be verified on its own site, which is why TrueBroker scores it 3.8/10.

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