Fxview review.

Overview

Fxview is a brand, not a company, and the difference decides who is holding your money. Type fxview.com in Jakarta, Bangkok, Dubai or Johannesburg and the account you open belongs to FC Global Ltd, registered at Hamchako, Mutsamudu, on the Autonomous Island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros, under licence L16076/FCG and company number 16076. Type the same address in Berlin, Madrid or Tallinn and you get Charlgate Ltd, a Cypriot Investment Firm holding CySEC licence 367/18 since 30 July 2018. One website, one brand, two contracts, and the reader almost never notices which one they signed.

We verified the split rather than assuming it. Fetched through in-country exits in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Japan, India, the UAE, South Africa, Great Britain and Germany, fxview.com serves the same page to all of them. The eleven captures reduce to two variants of 597,411 and 598,111 bytes, and because several countries appear in both groups the difference is capture noise rather than geography. No country is served a page of its own.

The split is made afterwards, and in two places. In the browser, the page calls its own endpoint at expapi.fxview.com/get/geo and tests the country code against a list named europianCountryList: 28 entries, the 27 EU states and the United Kingdom, with no Switzerland. A match sets an isEU flag that swaps the onboarding host to app.fxview.com; everything else goes to global.fxview.com, whose registration footer names FC Global Ltd and Anjouan. At the origin, the same division is enforced independently: requested from a European address, every path beginning /global/ answers 302 to the homepage.

That the Cypriot licence is real is not in doubt. CySEC’s own register carries Charlgate Ltd at licence 367/18, company registration number 372060, address 319, 28th October Street, Kanika Business Center, Office 201B, 3105 Limassol, with [email protected] as the firm’s registered email. CySEC’s List of Approved Domains names Charlgate Ltd against two domains, www.fxview.com and www.dealing.com, which is the regulator confirming the identity key and revealing a second brand in the same line. What the Cypriot licence does not do is follow you outside the EEA, and Charlgate says so itself: its own footer reads “Charlgate Ltd does not offer its services to residents outside the EEA, including Cyprus, Belgium and France.”

Overview Table

Facts List

• Charlgate Ltd holds CySEC licence 367/18, dated 30 July 2018, company registration 372060.
• CySEC lists www.fxview.com and www.dealing.com as Charlgate’s approved domains, so one licence carries two consumer brands.
• Charlgate is granted reception and transmission, execution of orders, and portfolio management, each across instrument classes 1 to 10.
• Class 9 is defined by CySEC as “Financial contracts for differences”, so the CFD category is correct.
• Charlgate is not granted dealing on own account, so it cannot be the counterparty to your trade.
• Its RTS 28 disclosure for 2024 names MTG Liquidity Ltd (87.31% of retail CFD volume) and Triple A Experts Investment Services (12.69%).
• FC Global Ltd, the entity outside the EEA, is licensed only in Anjouan, Union of Comoros.
• Charlgate’s UK permission, FRN 850138, was recorded as no longer authorised with effect from 31 May 2023.
• CySEC’s List of Non Approved Domains carries charlgate.net (13 January 2022) and fxviewinvestment.com (17 June 2022).
• The FCA warning list carries “FxViewInvestment (clone of authorised firm)” as unauthorised.

Key Takeaways

• The brand is shared, the contract is not. Fxview is operated by Charlgate Ltd for the 27 EU states and the United Kingdom, and by FC Global Ltd of Anjouan everywhere else, Switzerland included. The switch is made by an IP lookup, and nothing on the page announces it.
• The Cypriot licence checks out at source. CySEC 367/18, company number 372060, and fxview.com itself named on CySEC’s List of Approved Domains against Charlgate Ltd.
• Charlgate cannot trade against you. Its CySEC permissions cover reception and transmission, execution and portfolio management, but not dealing on own account. Its 2024 RTS 28 filing names the firms that do take the other side.
• One licence, two brands. The same approved domains line covers dealing.com, a Charlgate share dealing platform quoting access to NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, XETRA and eleven other venues.
• Leverage differs by a factor of thirty three. 1000x on the first 5 lots of FX majors through the Comoros entity, against 30x for EEA retail clients.
• The 100% deposit bonus is advertised to some visitors and not others. The European view carries no promotions menu and not one link to it among 1,290 anchors, although the page itself still answers when requested directly.
• Negative balance protection is worded differently in each contract. Unconditional for Charlgate retail clients, discretionary for FC Global.
• Two impostor domains already exist. charlgate.net and fxviewinvestment.com sit on CySEC’s non approved list, and the FCA carries FxViewInvestment as a clone.
• We found no verified user withdrawal data, and we do not reprint other sites’ ratings, so that dimension is scored neutrally rather than guessed at.

Licenses & Regulation

Charlgate Ltd appears on the CySEC register of Cypriot Investment Firms with licence number 367/18, licence date 30 July 2018 and company registration number 372060. The registered address on the regulator’s record, 28th October Street, Kanika Business Center, Office 201B, 3105 Limassol, matches the address on the firm’s own Client Agreement and contact page, and the company number matches the HE 372060 the site publishes. Two independent sources agreeing on one company number is the strongest identity evidence available without paying for a filing.

What the instrument classes actually say

Reading the granted services rather than trusting the category matters here, and it changes the conclusion twice. CySEC grants Charlgate three investment services: reception and transmission of orders, execution of orders on behalf of clients, and portfolio management, each across instrument classes 1 to 10. Class 9 is defined in CySEC’s own text as “Financial contracts for differences”, and it sits on both reception and transmission and execution, so Charlgate may take a CFD order and execute it, not merely pass it along. Class 11, emission allowances, is not granted. Ancillary permissions cover safekeeping and administration, granting credits or loans, and investment research, each across classes 1 to 10.

The absent permission is the informative one. Dealing on own account does not appear on Charlgate’s record. On the identical register template, Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd and Safecap Investments Ltd both carry it. Charlgate therefore cannot be the counterparty to your position, and its 2024 RTS 28 disclosure names who is: MTG Liquidity Ltd, LEI 9845002C9B4DR1COEE25, took 87.31% of retail CFD volume and 75.88% of retail orders, and Triple A Experts Investment Services, LEI 213800GX9R75196DMH13, took the remaining 12.69% and 24.12%. MTG Liquidity is itself a Cypriot Investment Firm, licence 390/20, company registration HE 392680. Triple A Experts is a Greek firm, and Charlgate’s own Execution Quality Summary Statement discloses that “They are related entities, and common ownership structures exist.”

Which entity each country is served

That table is read off the site’s own code rather than inferred. The live routing sits in a function called getGeoLocation, which fetches the country code and evaluates three tests on it: membership of europianCountryList, equality with AE, and equality with ZA. It is worth saying what follows from the third and fourth rows, because it is easy to miss: the regulatory footer a visitor sees is itself geo-served, so the UAE and South African disclosures are shown to people in those two countries and to nobody else.

A second list, eu_country_list, does hold 29 keys including Switzerland, and an earlier version of this review described that one. It belongs to a separate function, getCurrentCountry, whose name appears exactly once across the 25 JavaScript bundles the site loads, meaning it is defined and never called. The list a Swiss visitor is actually measured against is the 28 entry one, so Switzerland is routed to Anjouan, not to Cyprus.

Fxview keeps a CFD risk warning on every version of the page we fetched, which is more than several of its peers manage outside Europe. It never quotes a percentage of losing retail accounts, saying instead that “The vast majority of retail client accounts lose money when trading CFDs.”

The three licences that are not CySEC

The South African licence is real and we checked it on the FSCA’s own FAIS register. FSP number 50410 returns FINVASIA CAPITAL SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD, status Authorized, registration number 2018/303451/07 and authorised since 10 December 2019, at 3rd Floor, 34 Whiteley Boulevard, Melrose Arch, Birnam 2196. Every one of those matches the footer. Its approved products run under Category I and Category II, covering shares, bonds, money market instruments, derivative instruments and collective investment scheme interests. What that licence is, though, is permission to advise and to intermediate, and in Category II to manage discretionarily. It is not permission to be the counterparty on an over the counter derivative, which South Africa licenses separately: Finvasia does not appear anywhere on the FSCA’s register of Over The Counter Derivative Providers, all 94 entries of which we read, and that register does carry IG Markets South Africa, AxiCorp Financial Services and Exness SC. So a South African client is dealing with an authorised intermediary, and the firm writing the contract is still FC Global Ltd.

The UAE licence checks out too, and more narrowly than the footer suggests. The register returns exactly one record for Finvasia, code CP-0001146, status Active, established 20 March 2024 at Unit 605, Level 3, The Offices 3, One Central, Dubai. Under Licenses Granted it shows a single activity, Introduction, and its accredited staff sit under the heading “Fifth category: Arrangement and advice”. That is an introducing licence and nothing more. One number does not reconcile: the footer cites licence 20200000253, and no field in any of the 314 records the register publishes contains that string. The regulator’s name, by contrast, is the firm’s to use. The Securities and Commodities Authority was renamed the Capital Market Authority with effect from the start of 2026, and sca.gov.ae now redirects to uaecma.gov.ae, so the footer is current.

The Anjouan licence is the one we cannot stand behind. FC Global Ltd states L16076/FCG and company number 16076 in its client agreement and on its registration page, and we have no evidence against it. But several different websites present themselves as the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority, two of which we fetched and found to be entirely separate sites each carrying its own register, and none of them sits on a Comoros government domain. We are not willing to treat any of them the way we treat CySEC, the FCA, the FSCA or the UAE register, so the licence stands as the firm’s own claim, unverified. A reader should weigh it as exactly that.

Passports, clones and the UK problem

Charlgate’s CySEC record lists cross border notifications into Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The firm publishes the corresponding local numbers itself: BaFin 157125, ACPR 85051, CONSOB 5151, CNMV 4892, Finanstilsynet FT00118545 and MNB K8805342. Its record also carries a block headed Provision of Services to Countries Outside EU naming Brazil, Singapore and South Africa. That block lists third countries the firm may serve, not countries it excludes, and we have not used it as a restriction anywhere in this review.

The United Kingdom is where the firm’s own materials disagree with its own website. The FCA register shows CHARLGATE LTD, FRN 850138, business type Services (UK) of an Overseas Firm, status no longer authorised with effect from 31 May 2023. Charlgate’s Client Agreement of October 2025 says the platform is not for anyone “who is a citizen or resident of jurisdictions outside of the European Union”, and its footer says it does not serve residents outside the EEA. The United Kingdom is outside both. Yet the site’s own routing list places GB alongside the EU states, so a visitor in London is sent to the Cypriot portal rather than the global one.

Searching the registers by name also turned up two impostors trading on this firm’s identity. CySEC’s List of Non Approved Domains carries charlgate.net, added 13 January 2022, and fxviewinvestment.com, added 17 June 2022. The FCA warning list carries FxViewInvestment as a clone of an authorised firm. Neither is Fxview, and both are the more likely way a reader loses money here. We found no CySEC administrative sanction, board decision, announcement or warning naming Charlgate, and it does not appear on the Former Investment Firms list.

How to Trade

Fxview runs an agency model on the Cypriot side, and the paperwork is unusually explicit about it. Charlgate is not permitted to deal on own account, so every CFD order is passed to an external venue. Its Best Interest and Order Execution Policy describes the firm as relying on “the Execution Venue(s) of the Liquidity Provider for prices and available liquidity”, and its Execution Quality Summary Statement for 2024 states plainly that “The Company passes to its Clients the exact spread of the underlying CFD it receives from its execution venues, without altering it/adding a markup.” Routing to Triple A Experts Investment Services began on 30 March 2022 and to MTG Liquidity Ltd on 15 January 2024.

The global entity reserves more room. FC Global Ltd’s Client Agreement of 26 November 2025 says at clause 7.5 that the company “will operate as an electronic communications networks (ECN) broker which may pass the trades to a liquidity provider or execute the same internally.” Executing internally means the firm can be your counterparty, and nothing in the Anjouan licence constrains how it manages that book. Readers who care about who is on the other side of their position should note that the two contracts do not say the same thing.

Margin, stop out and position limits

All four account types publish the same risk mechanics: a margin call at 70% and a stop out at 50%, a minimum trade size of 0.01 lots and a maximum of 100 lots per position. Hedged positions are margined net rather than gross, which the leverage page works through with a worked example: 100 buy lots against 250 sell lots of USDCAD is margined on the 150 lot net exposure.

Dynamic leverage, and how quickly it falls

The advertised 1000x is a first tier, not a flat rate. On the global entity, FX majors run at 1000x for the first 5 lots, 500x from 5 to 30 lots, 400x from 30 to 50, 200x from 50 to 100 and 100x above 100 lots. FX minors start at 500x and step down through 300x and 200x to 100x. FX exotics run 300x, 150x and 60x. Gold starts at 1000x for the first 2 lots and falls through 500x, 200x and 100x to 50x above 30 lots. Other commodities run 100x, 50x and 25x, indices 500x down to 100x, and both stocks and cryptocurrencies are fixed at 10x.

Inside the EEA the same page shows two columns, and the higher one is not for you unless you have been reclassified. The firm’s wording is that “Fxview uses a dynamic leverage model to increase or decrease the maximum leverage it offers to Professional Clients”, so the 500x majors and 500x gold figures belong to that category. Retail clients in the EEA get 30x on FX majors, 20x on minors, exotics and gold, and 10x on other precious metals, which is the ESMA ceiling rather than anything the firm chose.

Worked through with numbers, the gap is stark. Three lots of USDCAD at 500x requires 600 USD of margin on the firm’s own example. The same three lots at the EEA retail 30x requires 10,000 USD. That is not a small difference in convenience, it is a different product with a different failure rate, sold under one brand name.

Account Types

Fxview publishes four accounts, and three of the four are only visible on the non EEA version of the site. The EEA navigation offers the Raw ECN account and nothing else, while the global navigation adds Premium ECN and Islamic, and the global homepage carries a fourth card for a Zero Commission account. Every account carries the same margin call and stop out levels of 70 and 50, the same 0.01 to 100 lot position range, and negative balance protection recorded as Yes.

The commission inversion is worth pausing on, because it runs the opposite way to most brokers with a European arm. An EEA client on the Raw ECN account pays 1 USD per 100,000 per side, or 2 USD round turn per standard lot. A client on the same account through the Comoros entity pays 2 USD per side, or 4 USD round turn. The EEA client pays half the commission and four times the minimum deposit, and is capped at a thirty third of the leverage. Neither is straightforwardly better, but the trade is real and the site never states it.

Base currency options also differ. The global Raw ECN account offers EUR, USD, AUD, CAD and ZAR, reflecting a client base in Africa and Australasia. The EEA version offers EUR, USD and GBP. The Islamic account is USD only. Anything credited, debited or charged in a currency other than your base currency is converted at the prevailing market rate, which is a real cost on an account funded in one currency and traded in another.

The Premium ECN account is the one worth reading carefully, because its advantage over Raw ECN is the commission rate and nothing else. Both quote spreads from 0.0 pips, both run on MT5 and ActTrader, both carry the same margin mechanics. The 5,000 USD minimum buys a saving of 1 USD per 100,000 per side, so it pays for itself only at volume. The firm’s own arithmetic on commission helps here: one lot of EURUSD at 1.1100 is a contract of 111,000 USD, on which the 1 USD rate charges 2.22 USD at the moment the trade opens.

The Zero Commission account trades the commission away for a wider floor, 0.6 pips rather than 0.0. On EURUSD that is a straight comparison a reader can do: 0.6 pips on one standard lot is roughly 6 USD of spread, against 0.0 pips plus 4 USD round turn commission on Raw ECN. The Islamic account is swap free with the same 0.6 pip floor and a 2 USD per 100k commission, and it is the only account restricted to a single platform.

Negative Balance Protection

Both Fxview entities advertise negative balance protection, and both account pages record it as Yes. The client agreements do not say the same thing, and the difference is the sort of clause that only matters on the one day it matters.

Charlgate’s Client Agreement of October 2025 states at clause 22.4 that the company “does operate on a negative balance protection basis with respect to Retail Clients”, that a retail client “cannot lose more than the total funds in their Trading Account”, and that the firm “has arranged to enter into adequate arrangements with its Liquidity Provider(s)” to deliver it on a per account basis. There is no carve out. This is the EEA regulatory position, and Charlgate has backed it with a stated arrangement upstream rather than leaving it as a promise.

FC Global Ltd’s Client Agreement of 26 November 2025 states at clause 18.3 that the company does operate on that basis, and then adds that it “reserves its right to provide negative balance protection, unless, however, the Client has arrived at negative balance due to abuse of Company’s pricing/platform or breach of any of the terms of this Agreement or any Company’s policy. In such a case, the Client is liable to pay the Company the negative amount and the Company can terminate the relevant Trading Account.”

Read plainly, that is protection at the firm’s discretion, forfeited on a breach of any term of the agreement or of any company policy. Combined with 1000x leverage on the first 5 lots of FX majors, and with an account balance that can be as small as 50 USD, the reader outside the EEA is carrying a residual liability that the reader inside it is not. The safeguarding language is otherwise reasonable on both sides: clause 20 of the global agreement requires client money to be placed in segregated accounts, kept apart from the firm’s own funds, and not used in the course of its business.

Trading Instruments

Fxview counts its own range at over 500 instruments across five classes: forex, commodities, indices, stocks and cryptocurrencies. Its currency page puts the FX book at up to 70 pairs and its stocks page at over 300 stock CFDs. We have taken those as the firm’s own figures rather than counting the platform ourselves, and readers should treat them as marketing counts until they see the symbol list in the terminal.

The forex book visible on the live price ticker runs from the majors through a long minors list and into genuinely thin exotics: USDTRY, USDZAR, USDHUF, USDCZK, USDRON, USDILS, USDTHB, USDCNH, EURRUB and USDRUB all quote. Metals cover XAUUSD, XAUEUR, XAUAUD, XAGUSD and XAGAUD. Energies cover USOUSD, UKOUSD and XNGUSD. The index book is short and conventional: 100GBP, 200AUD, 225JPY, D30EUR, E35EUR, E50EUR, F40EUR, H50HKD, NASUSD, SPXUSD and U30USD.

Stock CFDs are US heavy, with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Tesla, the semiconductor names in Intel and Qualcomm, the large banks in JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, plus European names such as Ferrari and international ones such as Alibaba and Teva. Stock CFDs and cryptocurrency CFDs both carry fixed leverage of 10x, which is the sensible end of the firm’s range.

What EEA clients do not get

The cryptocurrency page is present in the global navigation and absent from the EEA one. So is the Islamic account, the Premium ECN account, the ZuluTrade copy trading integration and the free VPS. An EEA reader comparing this review against the site they can actually see will find a shorter menu, and the reason is regulatory rather than commercial.

Trading hours and swaps

FX pairs quote from 00:05 on Monday to 24:00 on Friday with a daily break from 00:00 to 00:05, and crypto pairs follow the same pattern rather than trading through the weekend, which is worth knowing before leaving a position open on a Saturday. Financing is charged nightly at 00:00 server time, GMT+3 during daylight saving and GMT+2 otherwise. The triple swap day is not uniform: Wednesday for currencies and commodities, Thursday for USDCAD, USDTRY, EURRUB and USDRUB, and Friday for indices. Swap rates themselves are published per instrument on the site and through a swap calculator rather than as a headline number, so we have recorded no single figure.

Education & Analysis

Fxview’s analysis offering is built almost entirely on MetaTrader add ons and calculators rather than on original research, which is honest enough as a positioning but sets expectations. There is no in house strategy desk, no named analyst and no daily market call with an author’s name on it. What there is instead is a set of tools that attach to the terminal a client is already using.

The Trader’s Toolbox is the substantial piece. It bundles an Alarm Manager that fires notifications on account and market events and can trigger automatic actions or push updates to email, SMS or social accounts, and a Correlation Matrix that displays live correlation between instruments so a trader can see when several open positions are effectively the same trade. That second tool is the more useful of the two for anyone running the leverage this broker offers, because correlated exposure is how a 1000x account is usually lost.

Separately, Fxview sells indicator packages for MT4 and MT5: a Mini Chart indicator that opens resizable popup windows for multi timeframe comparison, a Magnifier that zooms a selected area into a lower timeframe chart, and a Pivot Points indicator calculated from the previous candle’s open, high, low and close. These are conventional third party style add ons rather than proprietary signals.

Calculators

The calculator set is unusually complete and, notably, geo aware. Fxview ships eleven of them, and two are separate margin calculators, one for the CySEC entity and one for the global entity, reflecting the split between 30x and 1000x described earlier. The other nine cover pip value, swap, profit and loss, position size, commission, currency conversion, Fibonacci levels, pivot points and multi target trades. For a broker whose headline number is dynamic leverage across volume tiers, a margin calculator that knows whether you are on Charlgate Ltd or FC Global Ltd is more than a convenience.

Written and video material

The education menu covers a forex glossary, educational blogs, market news, market insights, webinars, a market holidays calendar, a market trading hours table and an economic calendar. Webinars are described as expert led sessions on trading strategies and concepts. Automated trading is supported through MQL5 and an API trading route, with a free VPS offered outside the EEA to keep expert advisors running with low latency. ZuluTrade is integrated for copy trading at no subscription fee, again outside the EEA only.

What is missing is any published research a reader could evaluate before depositing. There is no sample analyst note, no track record of calls, and no disclosure of who writes the market news. For a firm that discloses its execution venues and its conflicts of interest in unusual detail, the silence on who produces its market commentary is a gap rather than a scandal, but it means the education section should not weigh in a decision to fund an account.

Special Offers

The promotions list is the clearest single demonstration that Fxview is two products. On the non EEA view the Promotions menu carries five items: a 100% deposit bonus, a loyalty programme, a free VPS, zero cost funding and a refer a friend scheme. On the European view that menu does not exist. Rendered from a European address, the page carries 1,290 links and not one of them points at the bonus, the loyalty programme, zero cost funding or the referral scheme. That is consistent with CySEC and ESMA rules, which prohibit monetary inducements to retail clients.

The removal is from the navigation only, and it is worth being exact about the difference. Requested directly from a European address, fxview.com/deposit-bonus still answers 200 and still serves the page titled “Trade with 100% Deposit Bonus”, and fxview.com/loyalty-program does the same. What the origin does block for a European visitor is the /global/ prefix: /global/deposit-bonus, /global/loyalty-program and every other /global/ path answer 302 to the homepage. So the offer is hidden from European menus rather than withheld from European browsers, and whether a Charlgate account could actually claim it is decided in the client portal, which we did not open.

The deposit bonus doubles a deposit of at least 200 USD, is credited instantly and, in the firm’s own description, “Supports Margin”, meaning the credited amount counts toward margin rather than sitting apart from it. The advertised worked example is a 1,000 USD deposit becoming 2,000 USD of account equity. Bonus accounts are capped at 300x leverage rather than 1000x, which the firm states as an advantage and which is better read as a condition. The terms are published as a separate document, and the usual questions about withdrawal conditions on bonus funds are answered there rather than on the promotion page.

The loyalty programme runs four tiers named Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond, with points earned for verifying and funding an account and for trading activity. Zero cost funding means Fxview absorbs its own deposit and withdrawal charges, which is consistent with the funding tables showing No Fees against every method. The free VPS is aimed at expert advisor users and is offered outside the EEA only.

A trading bonus that supports margin increases position size without increasing the money a client can lose only in the sense that the bonus is not theirs to withdraw. Anyone considering it should read the bonus terms and the negative balance clause in the FC Global agreement together, because that combination is where a 50 USD account meets a discretionary protection clause.

Opening an Account

There are two front doors and the site chooses one for you. Registration from the 27 EU states and the United Kingdom runs through app.fxview.com/register and creates a relationship with Charlgate Ltd. Rendered from a Dutch address, the homepage carried 12 links to app.fxview.com and none at all to global.fxview.com. Registration for everyone else runs through global.fxview.com/register and creates one with FC Global Ltd, whose footer on that page reads “FC Global LTD is authorised and regulated by the Union of Comoros-Anjouan with license number L16076/FCG, company number:16076. Its registered office is at Hamchako, Mutsamudu, The Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros”. Before completing the form, read the footer on the page you are actually on.

The global registration form asks for residence country, name, email address, phone number and a password, and states that signing up constitutes agreement to the privacy policy. Fxview advertises the process as taking under five minutes, which describes the form rather than the verification. Identity checks are governed by a published Identification Procedure on the EEA side and an AML Policy on both, and the firm has not published how long approval takes, so we have left that field empty rather than estimate it.

Client categorisation matters more here than usual

On the EEA side, Charlgate publishes a Client Categorisation Policy as a standalone document, and the leverage page states that its dynamic model applies to Professional Clients. The practical effect is that the 500x majors and 500x gold figures on the EEA leverage table are reachable only by opting up to professional status, which forfeits retail protections including the leverage cap itself. A reader who sees those figures on the European site and assumes they apply is reading a table written for someone else.

Funding the account you just opened

Minimums are set by the entity, not by preference. The global Raw ECN and Zero Commission accounts open from 50 USD, the Premium ECN from 5,000 USD, and the EEA Raw ECN from 200 EUR. Note that the minimum deposit and the minimum funding method amount are not the same thing: a global bank transfer has a 500 USD floor, so a client aiming at the 50 USD entry point needs a card, an e wallet, crypto or a local transfer rail.

Both agreements forbid third party funding. The wording is that “Fxview does not accept payments from third parties. Please ensure that all deposits into your trading account come from a bank account in your name”, with joint accounts accepted where the trading account holder is one of the parties. Deposits can only be withdrawn by the method used to fund them, and profits cannot be withdrawn to a card, which shapes how a first deposit should be made rather than being a problem discovered later.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Fxview charges nothing of its own on either side. Every row of both funding tables reads No Fees, qualified by the note that “Fxview does not charge any fees, but the payment provider may do so.” Withdrawals outside the EEA are quoted at one working day across every method, with a 50 USD minimum.

Outside the EEA

That last row is the one that tells you where this broker sells. Vertu Pay carries Vietnamese dong, Indonesian rupiah, Thai baht, Philippine peso and Malaysian ringgit, which are local rails for exactly the markets the Cypriot licence does not cover. Note also that FC Global’s own client agreement excludes residents of Malaysia, so the presence of a ringgit rail is not an invitation.

Crypto deposits carry a warning worth repeating in full, because it is the one that costs people money: Fxview supports the ERC20 network for ETH, USDT and USDC and the TRC20 network for USDT only, and states that “if you deposit via any other network your assets may be lost.” Card withdrawals carry a live caveat as well, that “withdrawals via master card are temporarily unavailable”, with clients directed to the methods shown in their portal instead.

Inside the EEA

The EEA rails are European rather than global: bank transfer, Visa and Mastercard, Skrill, Neteller, Rapid Transfer, Klarna (formerly Sofort) and Giropay. There is no crypto option. Deposits are quoted in EUR, USD and GBP, with a 200 EUR minimum on every method and card deposits capped at 5,000 EUR. Bank transfer deposits are quoted at 1 to 7 working days, longer than the global table. Withdrawals take one working day, with a 50 EUR minimum on cards, Skrill and Neteller, and a 200 EUR minimum on bank transfer.

Rules that apply to both

Deposits can only be withdrawn through the method that made them, profits cannot be withdrawn to a card, and third party payments are refused. Availability of individual methods varies by country and the firm says so rather than implying a universal menu. Withdrawal requests are quoted as processed the same day if made inside business hours of 09:00 to 18:00 GMT+3 during daylight saving and GMT+2 otherwise, Monday to Friday, and the next business day otherwise, subject to the account having been pre approved.

Inactivity

Charlgate charges 10 EUR a month after twelve consecutive months without trading activity, capped at the remaining balance, with nothing charged on a zero balance and nothing charged at all if the client holds any other active account. The fee is flagged in advance and applied for up to three months, after which a dormant account is closed. One inconsistency in the firm’s own paperwork: the Costs and Associated Charges document dated February 2025 still describes the same fee as applying after six months, while the Client Agreement of October 2025 says twelve. The later document should govern, but the older one is still published. FC Global charges no inactivity fee, and instead reserves the right to close an account after six months without deposits, withdrawals or trades.

Customer Support

Support is split along the same line as everything else, with separate contact details for each entity, and a reader who uses the wrong set will be talking to a company they do not have an account with.

Live chat is the only channel that runs around the clock on weekdays, and it is the one to use. Phone cover is a single nine hour European window, which is the weakest part of the offering given where the global entity actually sells. A client in Jakarta reaching for the phone at a sensible local hour is calling outside support hours, and the number they are given is a London one belonging to a Comoros registered company whose stated office address is in Johannesburg. None of that is improper, but it is three jurisdictions in one contact block and it does not inspire confidence about escalation.

Beyond chat, phone and email, Fxview publishes a WhatsApp line on +357 99397317 and a Telegram support bot at t.me/FxviewSupportBot, both promoted with QR codes on the site. Press and media enquiries go to [email protected]. The contact form promises a response within 24 hours. Live chat is powered by LiveChat, with the EEA queue on a distinct endpoint from the global one.

Languages

The site’s own language switcher offers six: English, Spanish, Estonian, Greek, Arabic and Indonesian. The content system behind the site holds the homepage in 15 language codes, adding Turkish, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Thai, Filipino, Urdu and both simplified and traditional Chinese, but those are not exposed on the public switcher, so a reader should expect support in the six listed rather than the 15 stored. Estonian is a notable inclusion for a Cypriot firm and lines up with the Baltic passporting on the CySEC record.

Complaints

Both entities publish a complaints document, and the difference in what stands behind them is the whole point of this review. Charlgate publishes a Complaints Procedure under CySEC rules, with escalation to the Cypriot Financial Ombudsman and, in the event of failure, a claim on the Investor Compensation Fund up to the lower of 90% of the covered claim and 20,000 EUR. FC Global publishes a Complaints Management Framework, and behind it sits the Anjouan registry, which operates no ombudsman and no compensation scheme we can point a reader to. Finvasia Capital South Africa additionally publishes a PAIA manual and an upfront disclosure document under South African rules.

We could not test response times ourselves, and we do not reprint other sites’ user ratings, so nothing in this section should be read as a measure of how support behaves in a dispute.

Prohibited Countries

Fxview publishes real exclusion lists, in its own contracts, and they differ by entity. Everything below comes from the firm’s own words rather than from inference.

FC Global Ltd, in clause 3.1(c) of its Client Agreement dated 26 November 2025, states that its platform is not available to any person “who is a citizen or resident of certain jurisdictions such the Canada, Crimea, Cuba, Cyprus, India, Iran, Malaysia, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, United States, as the Company does not accept Clients from these countries”. India is the one to note: Finvasia Group is an Indian house, and its offshore CFD arm excludes Indian residents.

Charlgate Ltd states in its footer that it “does not offer its services to residents outside the EEA, including Cyprus, Belgium and France”, and in clause 2.1 of its own Client Agreement that the platform is not for use by anyone “who is a citizen or resident of jurisdictions outside of the European Union”. Belgium prohibits the retail marketing of CFDs outright, and Cyprus being excluded by a Cypriot firm is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight. On dealing.com, the sister brand under the same licence, the wording is that Charlgate does not offer services to residents outside the EEA and Belgium.

Finvasia Capital South Africa (PTY) Ltd publishes its own list in the site footer, covering the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Mali, North Korea, the Russian Federation, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, the United States, the United Kingdom, British Columbia, European Union countries, Mauritius, Cyprus and China.

One list we deliberately did not use

Charlgate’s CySEC record carries a block headed Provision of Services to Countries Outside EU naming Brazil, Singapore and South Africa. It looks like a restriction list and it is the opposite of one. CySEC prints its own explanation above the names, that firms “may provide their services to countries outside the EU provided that they comply with the regulatory regime of the third country”. Those are markets Charlgate is cleared to serve, and publishing them as exclusions would tell a reader in Singapore they are shut out of an entity specifically permitted to take them. It appears nowhere in the lists above.

Practically, the reader’s question is usually simpler than any of this. If you live in one of the 27 EU states you get Charlgate and the Cypriot protections. If you live anywhere else that is not on the FC Global exclusion list, you get Anjouan, and that includes Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, which are inside the EEA and outside the list the site actually tests against. The United Kingdom is the awkward case in the other direction: British visitors are routed to the Cypriot portal even though Charlgate’s UK permission ended on 31 May 2023 and its own contract excludes residents outside the European Union.

Conclusion

Fxview is a genuine regulated business with a real Cypriot licence, and for most of the people who will read this it is not the regulated business they will be dealing with. That sentence is the review. Charlgate Ltd holds CySEC 367/18, has held it since July 2018, publishes a Pillar III disclosure every year from 2018 to 2025 with an external auditor’s verification attached from 2021 onward, files RTS 28 execution venue tables, names its own conflicts of interest and has attracted no sanction, board decision or warning from its regulator that we could find. Those are not the habits of a bad firm. They also stop at the edge of the EEA.

Outside it, the same brand, the same platform and the same support desk are provided by FC Global Ltd of Anjouan, on a licence we were not able to verify against anything we would call a register, with no compensation scheme, no ombudsman, leverage up to 1000x, a 100% deposit bonus and a negative balance protection clause the firm may withhold. Nothing about that is hidden exactly, since the footer names the entity on every page. But nothing announces it either, and the switch is made by an IP lookup rather than by anything the client chooses.

What the firm gets right is worth saying plainly, because it is unusual. Charlgate is not authorised to deal on own account, so it cannot take the other side of a client’s trade, and rather than leave that as an inference it publishes the venues that do: MTG Liquidity Ltd at 87.31% of retail CFD volume and Triple A Experts Investment Services at 12.69%, together with a disclosure that the second is a related party under common ownership. Very few brokers in this catalogue tell a reader that much about who is on the other side of their position. The commission structure is competitive at 1 USD per 100,000 per side in the EEA and 2 USD outside it, funding carries no house fee on either leg, and the inactivity charge is 10 EUR rather than the escalating fees common elsewhere.

The cons are structural rather than sordid. The onboarding entity for nearly every non European client is offshore. The advertised 1000x is a first tier that falls to 100x by the hundredth lot, which the leverage page discloses but the homepage does not. Support runs to a single nine hour European phone window for a client base sold on Vietnamese dong and Indonesian rupiah rails. The UK routing contradicts both the FCA register and the firm’s own contract. And the UAE footer cites a licence number, 20200000253, that appears in none of the 314 records the Emirati register publishes, although the single record it does hold for the company is active and the authority’s name in that footer is correct and current.

Who it suits: a resident of the EEA who wants raw spreads at 2 USD round turn per lot from a CySEC firm that discloses more than most, and who accepts MT4 rather than MT5 and 30x leverage. Who should think harder: anyone outside the EEA treating the CySEC licence in the footer as protection for their own account. It is not, and the contract they will sign says so. Read the footer on the registration page you are actually shown, and take the entity named there as the answer to every question about what happens if this goes wrong.

We have not scored user experience of withdrawals, because we found no verified first hand reports and we do not reprint other sites’ ratings. That dimension is scored neutrally and flagged here rather than filled with a number we cannot defend.

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