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CFD · CHECKED 10 OCT 2026

JKV review.

CFD broker holding one non-tier-1 licence from FSC Mauritius

5.1
RISKY
OUT OF 10
FSC_MAURITIUS

THE VERDICT, IN PLAIN ENGLISH

JKV is a CFD broker trading as JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, holding one confirmed licence from FSC Mauritius as an Investment Dealer. The licence carries no compensation scheme, ombudsman, or leverage cap, and the firm's own pages name three slightly different entities, leaving it unclear which one a client actually contracts with.

HOW THE SCORE BREAKS DOWN

Regulation

4.3
Fees

5.8
Platform

4.9
Support

6.5
Reviews

4.1

Each criterion is scored 1 to 10 from primary sources. The overall score is their unweighted mean. How scoring works.

THE QUICK FACTS

Founded 2020
Headquarters MU
Minimum deposit $1,000
Maximum leverage 400:1
Account opening 1-3
Platforms MetaTrader 5, MT5 platform tiles (Android App, iOS App, Desktop Platform, Web Platform)

WHAT WORKS

  • Licensed entity confirmed on the FSC Mauritius register (GB23201820)
  • Registered as an Investment Dealer under SEC-2.1B with FSC Mauritius
  • Reachable by email, live chat, and a published phone number
  • Support staffed in the client's own language, with published hours
  • MetaTrader 5 available, including the web terminal

WHAT DOES NOT

  • FSC Mauritius is a non-tier-1 regulator, the low end of the one-licence band
  • No compensation scheme or ombudsman under this licence
  • No leverage cap or negative-balance protection requirement under this licence
  • Three different entity names used across its own About, Contact, and Terms pages
  • Unclear which entity a client actually contracts with
  • Which entity handles support and escalation depends on who onboarded the client

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of JKV, scored 5.1 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. Our previous review of this broker scored it 4.5 out of 10; this review moves that to 5.1, and the move is our assessment based on current evidence, not any change on the firm’s part. The regulation score of 4.3 reflects a split register result: the Mauritius Online Public Register Mauritius Online Public Register confirms a licensee called JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holding an SEC 2.1B Investment Dealer licence dated 30/06/2023, but does not publish a licence number, so the quoted number GB23201820 is not itself confirmed. A search for “JKV Global Markets Ltd”, the name used in our earlier review and in the Terms and Conditions scalping clause, returned no match on that same register. Support scores highest at 6.5, fees sit at 5.8, platform at 4.9 and reviews at 4.1.

Overview Table

Headquarters Registered address at The Gardens, Bagatelle Office Park, Moka, Mauritius, per the firm’s contact page
Established Not stated
Countries Served Not stated as a positive list; the site publishes two different restricted country lists (see below)
Regulated By Financial Services Commission (FSC), Mauritius: SEC 2.1B Investment Dealer licence confirmed for JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, licensed 30/06/2023
Minimum Deposit Not stated on the firm’s live account selector; our earlier review gives $1,000 for a Standard account, but that account structure does not match the BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN tiers shown on the live site
Maximum Leverage Up to 1:400, per the live site’s account tiers (BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO, ECN)
Total Instruments Over 20,000 trading instruments, per the live account tier descriptions
Platforms MetaTrader 5, available for desktop (Windows and macOS), web and mobile
Customer Support Firm’s own Contact Us page: Our team is online Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM.
Languages Not stated

Facts List

  • The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register confirms JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd as a licensed SEC 2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting), licensed 30/06/2023, though the register does not publish the licence number itself.
  • A separate search for “JKV Global Markets Ltd” on the same FSC Mauritius register, searched by name across two returned rows, found no matching licensee.
  • We searched 1,441 warning list entries mirrored from CYSEC, the FCA and FSC Mauritius, and JKV appears on none of them.
  • Before relying on that clean result, we ran a positive control on two of the registers we searched, confirming a known listed firm returns a match, so the empty result reflects absence rather than a broken search.
  • The site uses two different entity names across its own pages: JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, and JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD in the Terms and Conditions scalping clause.
  • The firm’s Terms and Conditions, under the Scalping and High Frequency Trading clause, define any trade closed in under 120 seconds, or VPS based algorithmic trading, as an “abusive trading practice.”
  • The firm’s Risk Disclosure Agreement states it “strictly prohibits the use of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for trading activities on its platform, except under specific circumstances,” with unauthorised use able to lead to rejected withdrawal requests.
  • The same VPS clause states the Company “shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non-compliant VPS usage.”
  • The live site publishes two different restricted country lists: one bars residents of the UAE, United States, Cuba, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea and Sudan, the other bars residents of China, North Korea, the USA and FATF blacklisted countries.
  • The firm’s own contact page lists a phone number of +971 4 570 6453 and support on WhatsApp, alongside an email address of enquiry@jkvglobal.com.

What JKV actually is, and the naming problem around it

The evidence gathered for this review names JKV three different ways depending on which page is read. The original source material calls it JKV Global Markets Ltd. The live site’s disclaimers, restricted region notice and contact address all use JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, based at The Gardens, Bagatelle Office Park, Moka, Mauritius. The Terms and Conditions scalping clause names a third variant, JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD. Only one of these, JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, is the name confirmed against the FSC Mauritius register; a search for JKV Global Markets Ltd on that same register came back with no match. Which entity a client actually contracts with, and which entity holds the licence a client might rely on in a dispute, is not something the evidence resolves.

Location claims add to the same problem. The firm’s contact page gives a Mauritius registered address, and marketing on the site, including a +971 phone number and testimonials labelled “UAE,” leans heavily toward Dubai based readers. Yet the site’s own restricted regions notice bars “citizens/residents of the United Arab Emirates” from its services. A UAE based reader responding to the site’s own marketing could be relying on a broker whose own published terms say it will not serve them.

What JKV’s terms say about scalping, VPS use and withdrawals

The Terms and Conditions page defines any trade held for less than 120 seconds as scalping, and defines VPS based algorithmic trading as High Frequency Trading, both labelled “abusive trading practices.” The Risk Disclosure Agreement’s VPS clause goes further: unauthorised VPS use can trigger “immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities,” “rejection or delay of withdrawal requests,” and “potential termination of the account,” with “any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage” placed solely on the account holder. The same clause states JKV “reserves the right to amend, modify, or update this clause at any time, with or without prior notice,” with continued use of the platform counting as acceptance of the revised terms. A client using an automated strategy, or simply closing trades quickly, is trading under rules the firm can redraw without notice, and against which the firm carries no liability for withdrawal delays that follow.

Fees, accounts and what does not match between sources

The live site’s account selector shows four tiers, BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN, each offering leverage up to 1:400, over 20,000 instruments and MT5 access, with average spreads running from 2.5 pips down to 0.8 pips across the first three tiers and raw spreads plus a $5 charge on ECN; none of these show a published minimum deposit. This does not match our earlier review’s account structure of Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo accounts with $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and no minimum deposits respectively, and leverage capped at 1:500 rather than 1:400. Our earlier review also describes a withdrawal fee structure, a free first withdrawal each month followed by an unpublished small fee, applied across bank wire, cards, e-wallets and cryptocurrency, and a welcome bonus of 20% up to $2,000 for new live accounts depositing at least $500. None of this fee or bonus detail appears in the pages we fetched directly from the firm. Readers should treat the account structure and fee figures as unresolved between the two sources rather than settled.

Support

The firm’s own Contact Us page states Our team is online Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM, and lists an enquiry email, a separate support desk email for VPS requests, a phone number, WhatsApp contact and a web contact form. This conflicts with our earlier review’s claim of 24/5 coverage. Where the two disagree, the firm’s own published hours are the ones we can source directly.

Key Takeaways

Why the score moved

Our previous review scored JKV 4.5 out of 10. This review scores it 5.1 out of 10. That is our assessment being recalculated against the evidence gathered this time, not a claim that the firm has changed. Support sits at 6.5 on the strength of the working channels JKV’s own contact page lists: email, phone, WhatsApp, a contact form and a Moka, Mauritius address. Reviews scores 4.1, weighed down by the contradictions between the earlier published review and JKV’s live pages, detailed below.

What the FSC Mauritius register shows about JKV

  • The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register lists JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holding an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence, dated 30/06/2023. The register publishes the licence type and date but not a licence number, so the entity and its permission are confirmed while the number GB23201820 quoted on JKV’s own about page is not.
  • A separate search of the same FSC Mauritius register for “JKV Global Markets Ltd” against “License No. GB23201820” returned no matching licensee across 2 rows checked by name. We ran a positive-control search on a known-listed firm first, so an empty result here means absence, not a broken search. The register stores legal names, so a firm trading under a different name could be licensed under a name we did not match.
  • Two different entity names appear across JKV’s own materials for what is presented as one broker: JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited (used in the live site’s disclaimers and licence page) and JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD (named in the Terms & Conditions scalping clause). Which entity a client actually contracts with is not established by the pages we read.
  • JKV does not appear on any of the 1,441 warning-list entries we mirror from the CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius lists. That is a clean result, and it covers only those three regulators’ lists, not every regulator that might have flagged the firm.

What JKV’s terms do to a client

  • JKV’s Risk Disclosure Agreement bars VPS trading without prior written approval: unauthorised use “may result in non-compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.”
  • Point 4 of that clause lists the consequences as “Immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities,” “Rejection or delay of withdrawal requests,” and possible account termination, with “any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage” borne “solely by the account holder.”
  • Point 7 goes further: JKV “shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities” arising from a rejected, delayed or suspended withdrawal or trade over a VPS dispute, so a client has no recourse if the broker invokes this clause.
  • Point 8 lets JKV “amend, modify, or update this clause at any time, with or without prior notice,” and treats continued platform use as acceptance of the new terms.
  • JKV’s Terms & Conditions define any trade closed inside 120 seconds as scalping, and VPS-based algorithmic trading as High-Frequency Trading, both of which the terms label “abusive trading practices”, a classification that can be used to restrict an account trading fast or automated strategies.
  • The same Terms & Conditions page has clients sign acknowledgement of an Investor Compensation Fund and several other named policies, none of which are shown or linked on that page.

Where JKV’s own pages disagree with each other, and with the earlier review

  • JKV’s Restricted Regions notice bars UAE, US, Cuba, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea and Sudan residents, while a second restriction elsewhere on JKV’s site bars China, North Korea, USA and FATF-blacklisted countries. The two lists do not match, and JKV’s own marketing (a +971 phone number, Dubai/UAE claims and testimonials labelled “UAE”) targets the same UAE audience one of its own notices excludes.
  • JKV’s Contact Us page states support runs “Monday-Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM,” which does not match the 24/5 coverage described in our earlier review.
  • JKV’s About Us FAQ says its team “operates from both UAE and India,” while the contact address given is in Moka, Mauritius, and the earlier review placed headquarters in Dubai.
  • The account tiers on JKV’s live site (BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO, ECN, with spreads from 2.5 down to 0.8 pips and no published minimum deposit) do not match the Standard/Premium/VIP/Demo tiers with $1,000/$5,000/$10,000 minimums described in the earlier review.
  • JKV’s own Instruments page lists only Forex, Metals and CFDs; the earlier review’s claim of cryptocurrency trading and crypto funding is not reflected there.
  • The earlier review’s support phone numbers, +1 (123) 456-7890 and +971 (12) 345-6789, follow a placeholder pattern and do not match the number on JKV’s own contact page, +971 4 570 6453.
  • The withdrawal fee (first withdrawal each month free, a small fee after that) and the 20% up to $2,000 welcome bonus for a $500 minimum deposit both come from the earlier review; JKV’s own fee amount for withdrawals beyond the first is not published anywhere we read.

Licenses & Regulation

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of Mauritius Online Public Register lists JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holding an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer licence (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting), licensed 30/06/2023. That much the register confirms directly, because we searched it ourselves rather than taking the firm’s word for it. What the register does not confirm is the number GB23201820: the FSC record publishes the licence type and the date it was granted, not a licence number, so the company and its permission check out but the specific digits quoted on jkvglobal.com do not.

A second name that does not appear on the register

A separate search for “JKV Global Markets Ltd”, the entity name and licence number (“License No. GB23201820”, described as a “Retail Forex License”) reported in the earlier published review of this broker, returned no matching licensee on the same FSC Mauritius register, searched by name across two returned rows. We ran a positive control on this register first, searching for a firm we already knew was listed, so that this empty result reflects absence from what we searched rather than a broken search. The register stores legal names, so a firm trading under a variant of a name it holds elsewhere could in principle be licensed under a name we did not match. But on the two entity names actually in play here, only one, JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, comes back with a licence on record; the other does not.

That gap matters because the site itself is not consistent about which entity a client is dealing with. The live site’s disclaimers, restrictions notice, and contact address all name JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, based in Moka, Mauritius. The Terms and Conditions page, in its clause on scalping and high-frequency trading, instead names the contracting entity as “JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD”. A client signing up cannot tell from the site alone which of these two names they are actually contracting with, and only one of them has a confirmed entry on the Mauritius regulator’s public register.

What JKV Global’s own pages say about where it operates

The firm’s About Us FAQ states that “our team operates from both UAE and India,” while the registered and contact address given on the Contact page is in Moka, Mauritius, the same address tied to the FSC-listed entity. The site’s marketing leans on Dubai and UAE positioning, a +971 phone number, and testimonials labelled “UAE,” yet the site’s own Restricted Regions notice bars “citizens/residents of the United Arab Emirates” from its services. A second, non-identical restricted-country list published elsewhere on the same site bars China, North Korea, the USA, and FATF-blacklisted countries instead, with UAE and China each appearing on only one of the two lists. A reader in the UAE responding to the site’s own marketing cannot tell from these pages whether they are inside or outside the firm’s stated service area, and neither list is presented as the authoritative one.

Warning-list search

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from the CYSEC, FCA, and FSC Mauritius regulators and found no match for this firm on any of them. That is a clean result within the scope of what we mirror, and it counts in the firm’s favour, but it covers only those three regulators’ published warnings, not every regulator worldwide, so it should be read as narrow and not as a general clearance.

What the licence covers and does not answer

The FSC licence confirmed on the register is an Investment Dealer permission (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting), which establishes that JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited holds a dealer authorisation in Mauritius as of its 2023 licensing date. The Terms and Conditions page has clients sign an acknowledgement of “The Investor Compensation Fund,” “The Client Classification Policy,” “The Summary of Conflicts of Interest Policy,” “The Summary Best Interest and Order Execution Policy,” “The Risk Disclosure and Warnings Notice,” and “The Complaints Procedure for Clients” as part of the agreement, but none of those documents, their coverage, or any compensation cap are shown or linked on the page a client signs. A client is asked to attest to terms, including a named investor compensation scheme, that this review could not locate or read.

Our previous review of this broker scored regulation at 4.5 overall; this review scores it lower on the regulation criterion specifically, at 4.3, and 5.1 overall. That move reflects our assessment against the current evidence, not any change at the firm: the register work done for this review confirms a Mauritius dealer licence for one of the firm’s two public names, leaves the licence number and the second name unconfirmed, and surfaces the FSC entity, the Terms and Conditions entity, and the marketing address as three points that do not line up cleanly against a single confirmed permission.

How to Trade

JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited offers MetaTrader 5, on desktop for Windows and macOS, on web and on mobile. The firm’s own platforms page describes real time ECN connectivity on what it calls SpotX accounts, hedging supported without FIFO rules, and low latency servers for order execution.

What JKV Global says is tradable

The firm’s own Markets page lists three groups: Forex, described with leverage up to 500 to 1, spreads from 0.0 pips and an average execution speed of 20 milliseconds; Metals, framed as safe haven assets with multiple trading options and tight spreads; and CFDs generally, pitched as a way to speculate on forex, commodities, shares, stocks and indices without owning the underlying asset. That page does not mention cryptocurrencies. Our earlier review had described gold, silver and copper CFDs plus trading in major cryptocurrencies, and a crypto deposit and withdrawal method with fast processing and no deposit fee. We did not find a page confirming crypto as a tradable instrument or funding method on the live site, so a trader arriving expecting crypto exposure on the strength of that review would need to check current account opening materials rather than rely on it.

Two account structures that do not match

The live homepage’s account selector shows four tiers named BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN, each quoting leverage up to 1:400. BUSINESS is listed with average spreads of 2.5 pips and zero commission, PRIME at 1.5 pips and zero commission, PRO at 0.8 pips and zero commission, and ECN with raw spreads plus a $5 charge, alongside a claim of over 20,000 tradable instruments and MAM and PAMM availability across all four. None of these four list a minimum deposit on the page we fetched. Our earlier review instead described a different set, Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo, with minimum deposits of $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and none, spreads from 1.5, 1.0 and 0.0 pips respectively, and leverage up to 1:500 rather than 1:400. The two structures share no tier names, so we cannot say which one, if either, is what a new applicant will actually be offered.

Rules JKV Global Capital Market Services enforces on how a position is worked

The firm’s Risk Disclosure Agreement carries a general prohibition on VPS usage: it “strictly prohibits the use of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for trading activities on its platform, except under specific circumstances,” and warns that using one without prior authorization “may result in non compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.” Point 4 of that same clause spells out the consequences of unauthorized use: Immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities… Rejection or delay of withdrawal requests… Potential termination of the account, with “any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage” borne solely by the account holder. Point 7 removes the firm’s own liability if that happens, stating it “shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non compliant VPS usage.” Point 8 lets JKV change this clause at any time, “with or without prior notice,” and treats continued use of the platform as acceptance of whatever the revised terms turn out to be.

A separate clause in the Terms and Conditions, attributed to JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD, defines any trade closed in under 120 seconds as scalping, and classifies “High Frequency Trading (HFT) using high speed Ultra Execution Virtual Private Server (VPS) based algorithmic trading” as HFT trading practice, then states plainly that “such practices are deemed abusive trading practices.” Read together with the VPS clause above, a client running an automated or fast manual strategy is exposed on two fronts: the VPS itself needs advance written authorization, and the speed of the trades can independently get them labelled abusive, with withdrawal rejection and account restriction as the stated consequences for either.

What the client signs without seeing

The Terms and Conditions page also includes a signature declaration in which the client acknowledges having read and agreed to “The Investor Compensation Fund,” “The Client Classification Policy,” “The Summary of Conflicts of Interest Policy,” “The Summary Best Interest and Order Execution Policy,” “The Risk Disclosure and Warnings Notice” and “The Complaints Procedure for Clients.” None of those documents, their coverage, or any compensation cap are shown or linked on that page, so the acknowledgement covers terms a client cannot check at the point of signing.

This review scores JKV 5.1 out of 10, up from our previous score of 4.5. The move is our own reassessment against current evidence rather than any change at the firm: the platform criterion here sits at 4.9, weighed down by the two irreconcilable account and leverage structures published under the same brand and the VPS and scalping clauses that let the firm restrict withdrawals and label fast trading abusive at its own discretion, with no clause in the material we read that limits how those powers are used.

Account Types

JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited’s own account-selector page, fetched from the live site, lists four current tiers: BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN. None of the four carries a published minimum deposit figure on that page, and all four are quoted with the same 1:400 maximum leverage and “0 Commission Charges” claim except ECN, which charges a flat $5 instead.

The four tiers JKV Global’s site currently shows

Tier Average spread (as published) Commission Leverage
BUSINESS 2.5 pips 0 up to 1:400
PRIME 1.5 pips 0 up to 1:400
PRO 0.8 pips 0 up to 1:400
ECN Raw spreads $5 up to 1:400

All four are described on that page as giving access to “over 20,000 trading instruments” on MT5, with MAM and PAMM availability and a “dedicated relationship manager” attached to every tier, not just the higher ones.

A different account structure exists in the review

The earlier published review we are working from described a different lineup entirely: Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo accounts, priced with stated minimum deposits of $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 respectively, spreads quoted from 1.5 pips down to 0.0 pips, and 1:500 leverage rather than the 1:400 shown on the live site. That structure is not something we read on JKV Global’s own pages; it comes to us second-hand, from the prior review, and we restate it here as what that review reported rather than as the firm’s current offering. The two structures do not reconcile: different tier names, different deposit minimums and no ECN-style account in our earlier review at all. A reader comparing the two would not be able to tell which set of tiers, if either, JKV Global is actually running today.

The Demo account described in that earlier review, a no-minimum-deposit practice account on MT5 with a virtual balance, does not appear as a line item on the live account-selector page we fetched, though a demo option may sit elsewhere on the site outside what we checked.

The welcome bonus, as reported by the earlier review

The same earlier review reported a “Welcome Bonus” of 20% up to a maximum of $2,000, for new clients opening a live account with a minimum deposit of $500, subject to the broker’s own terms and conditions. We did not fetch a promotions page from JKV Global’s own site, so we cannot confirm this offer is currently running or attach it to the firm’s own wording; it is included here as what the prior review found.

What it costs to get money back out

That same earlier review also reported a withdrawal fee structure applied across Bank Wire Transfer, Credit/Debit Cards, E-wallets and Cryptocurrencies: the first withdrawal in a calendar month free, a small fee on each one after that, with the amount itself not published in any source available to us. Deposits were reported as free across those same methods. None of this pricing appears on the live pages we fetched for this review, so it carries the same second-hand caveat as the account tiers above.

Negative Balance Protection

None of the pages we fetched publish a margin-call level or a stop-out percentage. What the evidence does contain is a set of leverage figures that disagree with each other, and a run of contract clauses that put the cost of a rejected trade, a rejected withdrawal, or a “non-compliant” trading style squarely on the client. Those are the two things worth setting out here.

Leverage figures that don’t agree with each other

JKV’s own markets page advertises “flexible leverage up to 500:1” for forex, but the account-selector page on the same live site gives “Leverage up to 1:400” for its Business, Prime, Pro and ECN tiers. An earlier review of the site described a different tier structure entirely, Standard, Premium and VIP accounts, with leverage up to 1:500; that structure is not the one currently shown on JKV’s own site. A reader cannot tell from the firm’s own pages which leverage cap actually applies to a live account, and higher leverage is what turns a normal drawdown into a fast run toward zero equity, so the figure matters. None of the pages we fetched say what happens once an account’s margin level falls toward that point.

What JKV’s terms say about who carries a loss

The Risk Disclosure Agreement’s clause on Use of Virtual Private Servers (VPS), point 4, sets out the consequences of trading through a VPS without prior authorisation: Immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities… Rejection or delay of withdrawal requests… Potential termination of the account… Any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage shall be borne solely by the account holder. Point 7 of the same clause goes further: “The Company shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non-compliant VPS usage.” Read together, these two points mean that if JKV freezes a withdrawal or a trade over a VPS dispute while a position is moving against a client, the client has no route to recover whatever that freeze cost them. Point 8 of the same clause adds that JKV “reserves the right to amend, modify, or update this clause at any time, with or without prior notice,” and that continuing to use the platform after such a change counts as accepting it.

JKV Global Markets Ltd’s scalping and HFT clause

The Terms & Conditions, in a clause naming the entity JKV Global Markets Ltd, define fast trading in a way that can catch exactly the kind of order a trader places to limit a loss: “JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD defines trades with a duration of less than 120 seconds as Scalping. Engaging in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) using high-speed Ultra Execution Virtual Private Server (VPS) based algorithmic trading constitutes HFT trading practice. Such practices are deemed abusive trading practices.” A trade closed inside two minutes, or any VPS-based automated strategy, is labelled abusive under this clause. Combined with the VPS clause above, a client running an automated system to cap losses during a fast market move is the profile this wording targets, and “abusive trading practices” is the kind of label a broker can use to withhold or claw back profit on the trades concerned.

A compensation fund the client signs for but cannot read

The same Terms & Conditions page carries a client signature declaration in which the client attests to having read and agreed to “The Investor Compensation Fund,” “The Risk Disclosure and Warnings Notice,” and several other named policies. None of those documents, their coverage limits, or their caps are shown or linked on the page we fetched. If a negative balance or a disputed loss ever came down to what the Investor Compensation Fund actually covers, that is a document a client would have signed for without being able to check it on JKV’s own site.

What this leaves out

The instruments, platform and account pages we fetched describe spreads, leverage caps and platform features for each tier and say nothing about a stop-out level or how margin calls are triggered or communicated. The markets page does say JKV offers “risk management tools like stop-loss orders and negative balance protection,” but no page we fetched explains how that protection works or what it covers.

Trading Instruments

JKV’s own live site describes three instrument groups: forex, metals, and CFDs generally. The markets page advertises forex with flexible leverage up to 500:1, spreads from 0.0 pips, average execution speed of 20ms, and frames metals as safe-haven assets with “multiple trading options, tightest spreads.” The same page’s CFD language is generic, inviting clients to speculate on the rise and fall of diverse markets such as forex, commodities, shares, stocks, indices without owning the asset, without naming which specific commodities, shares, stocks or indices are actually listed.

The earlier published review described a wider lineup, including gold, silver and copper CFDs and access to “major cryptocurrencies” through crypto deposit and withdrawal rails. We have not verified either claim against JKV’s own pages: the firm’s own markets page names only forex, metals and CFDs, with no cryptocurrency asset class listed anywhere on it. A trader arriving at JKV expecting to trade Bitcoin or Ethereum on the strength of that earlier review would be relying on a claim this catalogue could not confirm against the site as it now stands.

What JKV Global Capital Market Services actually shows for account access to these assets

The live account selector on JKV’s own site lists four tiers, BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN, each advertising leverage up to 1:400 and, on every tier, the same figure: “Over 20,000 trading instruments”; three of the four also advertise “0 Commission Charges.” That instrument count sits oddly next to a markets page naming only three asset groups, and none of the account tiers, fee tables or instrument pages we read break the 20,000 figure down by asset class, so it is not possible to say from JKV’s own pages how many of those instruments are forex pairs, metals, indices or anything else. The earlier review instead described a separate structure, Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo accounts with minimum deposits of $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 and spreads quoted from 1.5 pips down to 0.0 pips, which does not match the tier names, spread figures or minimum-deposit disclosure on the live site at all. We cannot reconcile the two account structures from the evidence we hold, and a reader comparing the two would be comparing pricing for what appear to be two different products.

Both structures agree on one point: the platform is MetaTrader 5, offered across desktop, web and mobile, which JKV’s own platforms page describes as carrying “real-time ECN connectivity on SpotX accounts” with hedging supported and no FIFO restriction.

Trading restrictions that bear on who can actually hold these positions

JKV’s own root page carries two separate restricted-country notices that do not match each other. One bars “citizens/residents of the United Arab Emirates, United States, Cuba, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan.” The other, on the same page, bars residents of “China, N.Korea, United States of America and FATF black listed countries.” UAE and China each appear on only one list, not both, so which restriction actually governs a UAE- or China-based applicant is not something JKV’s own site resolves. That gap matters here specifically because the same site’s marketing leans on a Dubai and UAE presence, a +971 phone number, and testimonials labelled “UAE,” while one of its own restricted-region notices names UAE residents as barred from its services.

Against that, the firm’s clean run on the warning lists is worth noting on its own terms: we searched 1441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and JKV does not appear on any of them. That is a genuine finding, not a guarantee, since it covers only the regulators we mirror and says nothing about the underlying accuracy of the instrument or account claims above.

Score

Our previous score for JKV was 4.5 out of 10; this review scores it 5.1 out of 10. That is a restatement of our own assessment against current evidence and criteria, not a claim that JKV has changed. The regulation score (4.3) reflects a register that confirms the licence type and date for JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd but not the quoted licence number, alongside a second licence citation, under a differently named entity, that the FSC Mauritius register does not carry at all. The reviews score (4.1) is pulled down by exactly the kind of mismatch documented above: instrument claims, account structures and even support hours that do not agree between what an earlier review reported and what JKV’s own live pages now show.

Education & Analysis

JKV’s own platform page names one trading platform: MetaTrader 5, offered on desktop for Windows and macOS, on the web, and on mobile for iOS and Android. The same page describes real time ECN connectivity on what it calls SpotX accounts, hedging supported without FIFO rules, and low latency servers for order execution. The homepage repeats this with a set of MT5 tiles, an Android app tile, an iOS app tile, a desktop tile and a web tile, linked to the Google Play and App Store badges. That is the full platform offering the pages we fetched describe; they say nothing about a second platform such as MetaTrader 4 or cTrader, and nothing about a standalone charting or analysis add on such as TradingView.

What JKV Global Capital Market Services puts around the platform

Beyond the terminal itself, the tools attached to an account come from the account tier, and the tier descriptions do not agree with each other. An earlier review of this firm described Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo tiers, with the VIP tier at a $10,000 minimum carrying a dedicated account manager, priority support, VIP webinars and invitations to exclusive events. The firm’s own homepage instead shows a BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN selector, each listing a dedicated relationship manager and market analysis but no published minimum deposit and no mention of webinars at all. Both sets of tiers claim MT5 as the trading platform, but a reader comparing the two cannot tell which structure, and which set of analysis extras, is the one actually on offer today.

Automated trading and VPS use

The firm’s Risk Disclosure Agreement, under a clause on the use of Virtual Private Servers, states that JKV Global “strictly prohibits the use of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for trading activities on its platform, except under specific circumstances,” and that unauthorised use “could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.” Point 4 of the same clause lists the consequences as “immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities,” “rejection or delay of withdrawal requests,” and “potential termination of the account,” adding that “any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage shall be borne solely by the account holder.” Point 7 goes further: the company “shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non compliant VPS usage.” Point 8 lets JKV “amend, modify, or update this clause at any time, with or without prior notice,” with continued platform use counting as acceptance of whatever the new wording says.

For anyone running an expert advisor or any kind of algorithmic strategy through MT5, this is the clause that governs it, and it puts the whole VPS question, and the fee, funds and account consequences of getting it wrong, inside the broker’s own discretion. The Terms and Conditions add a separate definition, naming the contracting entity as JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD, that any trade closed in under 120 seconds counts as scalping, and that “High Frequency Trading (HFT) using high speed Ultra Execution Virtual Private Server (VPS) based algorithmic trading” is classed as an abusive trading practice.

Instruments shown against the platform

The firm’s own Instruments page lists forex, metals and CFDs, describing forex spreads from 0.0 pips with an average execution speed of 20ms, and metals as a safe haven asset class with what the page calls the tightest spreads. That page does not list cryptocurrencies among the tradable instruments, though an earlier review of this firm described crypto CFDs and crypto funding methods; the two sources simply do not match on this point, and we cannot say from the Instruments page alone whether crypto trading has been added, removed, or was never there.

Special Offers

JKV publishes one promotional offer across the material we reviewed: a Welcome Bonus of 20% up to a maximum of $2,000 for new clients opening a live trading account with a minimum deposit of $500, subject to the broker’s terms and conditions, as reported in our earlier review rather than a page we fetched ourselves.

What we could not confirm about JKV’s bonus

We did not fetch a promotions or bonus page from the live site, and the pages we did fetch, the account selector showing BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN tiers and the instruments page listing Forex, Metals and CFDs, say nothing about a welcome bonus, its terms, or how the 20% figure is calculated. The account tiers named in our earlier review, Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo with $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 minimum deposits, do not match the tier names or structure shown on the live site at all, so we cannot say which set of account terms, if either, still governs a bonus offered against a $500 deposit.

The withdrawal fee that sits alongside any bonus

Separate from the welcome bonus, our earlier review describes a recurring cost that would apply to anyone drawing down bonus or trading funds: a first withdrawal each month free, then a small unpublished fee, applied across Bank Wire Transfer, Credit/Debit Cards, E-wallets and Cryptocurrencies. Neither the amount of that fee nor the mechanics of the bonus itself, such as a trading volume requirement, an expiry date, or whether it is credited as cash or as a non-withdrawable trading credit, appear in any of the material available to us.

Why this matters against JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited’s own terms

The site’s Terms & Conditions page, fetched directly from the live site, requires a client’s signature to acknowledge a list of policy documents, including an Investor Compensation Fund, a Client Classification Policy, and a Summary of Conflicts of Interest Policy, none of which are shown or linked on that page. A bonus offer sits on top of that same account relationship, and a reader accepting a 20% credit against a $500 deposit would be doing so without sight of the underlying policies the site itself says govern the account, or of the bonus’s own conditions beyond the headline percentage and cap reported in the earlier review.

We searched 1441 warning list entries mirrored from the CYSEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius regulators and JKV does not appear on any of them, which is a clean result on the lists we hold, though it says nothing about how the bonus itself operates. Our own score for this section reflects an overall move from 4.5 to 5.1 out of 10 across this review; on the offers evidence specifically, that verdict rests on a single promotional term carried over from an earlier review, unconfirmed against the firm’s current live pages, sitting next to an unpublished withdrawal fee and a set of acknowledged policy documents the client cannot read.

Opening an Account

Opening an account with JKV starts on the account selector page, which lists four current live tiers, BUSINESS, PRIME, PRO and ECN, each set at leverage up to 1:400 with average spreads ranging from 2.5 pips down to 0.8 pips, or raw spreads plus a $5 charge on ECN. JKV’s welcome bonus of 20% up to $2,000, which an earlier review reported applies to new clients opening a live account with at least $500, subject to the broker’s terms and conditions. That earlier review also described a different Standard, Premium, VIP and Demo tier structure with $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 minimum deposits and its own spread figures. We could not reconcile the two sets of tiers from the pages we fetched, so a prospective client should confirm which structure and minimum actually applies before funding an account.

Verification and the paperwork behind it

The Terms and Conditions page carries a signed client acknowledgement covering acceptance of the Investor Compensation Fund, the Client Classification Policy, the Summary of Conflicts of Interest Policy, the Summary Best Interest and Order Execution Policy, the Risk Disclosure and Warnings Notice, and the Complaints Procedure for Clients. None of those documents, their scheme details, or any coverage caps are shown or linked on that page, so a client signs on to terms that are named but not visible at the point of signing. The same Terms and Conditions page describes data collected for identity checks as usable for wider purposes than verification alone, including responding to credit reference enquiries, searching the electoral register, making enquiries to credit reference and other agencies, and assisting other organisations for crime prevention and credit purposes.

Who JKV Global Capital Market Services will not open an account for

The live site publishes two restricted country notices that do not match each other. One, on the homepage, bars services to citizens and residents of the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Cuba, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea and Sudan. A second, also on the homepage, bars residents of China, North Korea, the United States and FATF blacklisted countries. UAE residents fall under the first list only and China falls under the second only, so which restriction actually governs a given applicant is not clear from the pages we fetched. That matters here specifically because the site’s own marketing, including a Dubai and UAE team framing, a +971 phone number, and testimonials labelled UAE, is aimed at the audience that one of its own restriction notices excludes.

Which entity a client is actually signing with

Three different names appear across the material for what is presented as one broker. The licence page names JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, the Terms and Conditions scalping clause names JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD, and an earlier review referred to the firm as JKV Global Markets Ltd. The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register confirms JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holds an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence, licensed 30/06/2023; the register publishes the licence type and date but not a licence number, so the number GB23201820 quoted on the firm’s own about page is not itself confirmed by the register. A separate search of the same FSC Mauritius register for a licensee named JKV Global Markets Ltd, the name and licence number given in the earlier review, returned no match across the rows searched. The register stores legal names, so a firm trading under a different name can be licensed under one we did not match, but the practical result is that we cannot tell which of these names is the entity a new client actually contracts with. We also searched 1,441 warning list entries mirrored from the CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius warning lists, run against a positive control so an empty result means absence rather than a broken search, and none of JKV’s names appears on any of them.

Trading conduct rules that follow account opening

Once an account is open, JKV’s Risk Disclosure Agreement prohibits Virtual Private Server use for trading without prior written authorisation, stating that unauthorised use “may result in non compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.” A further clause sets out that unauthorised VPS use can bring “immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities” and “rejection or delay of withdrawal requests,” with “any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage” borne solely by the account holder, and a companion clause states JKV is not liable for losses arising from a trade or withdrawal rejected or delayed over a VPS dispute. The same document reserves JKV’s right to amend the VPS clause “at any time, with or without prior notice,” treating continued use of the platform as acceptance. The Terms and Conditions separately define any trade closed in under 120 seconds as scalping and classify VPS based algorithmic trading as High Frequency Trading, both labelled abusive trading practices, a classification that can be used to restrict an account or void profits for a client running fast or automated strategies.

Our previous review scored JKV 4.5 out of 10; this review scores it 5.1. Regulation sits at 4.3, driven by the register findings above: the licensed entity is confirmed on the FSC Mauritius register but its licence number is not, a second name tied to the same firm did not match on that register at all, and the site itself cannot settle which of three entity names and two restricted country lists actually applies to a new client. Support scores higher, at 6.5, on the range of channels the firm’s own contact page lists, including email, phone, WhatsApp and a physical Moka, Mauritius address, set against a conflict between the firm’s own stated Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM hours and an earlier review’s claim of 24/5 coverage.

Deposits & Withdrawals

JKV’s funding rails, as described by the earlier review of this broker rather than anything JKV’s own site currently shows, run through bank wire, Visa/Mastercard cards, e-wallets (Skrill, Neteller, FasaPay) and cryptocurrency. That same earlier review put deposits as fee-free across all four rails, with wire transfers taking 1 to 3 business days, cards landing instantly, e-wallets within a few hours, and crypto also within a few hours. Card withdrawals in that account were capped at 5 business days and tied to a same-card rule: the money has to go back out on the card it came in on. None of that comes from a page we fetched from JKV, and it sits awkwardly next to the firm’s own Instruments page, which lists only Forex, Metals and CFDs and never mentions cryptocurrency as a tradable asset or a funding method at all. A trader relying on the crypto rail described by the earlier review may find nothing of the kind on the live site.

What JKV charges to withdraw

The fee structure carried over from the earlier review is the same across every rail: the first withdrawal in a calendar month is free, and every withdrawal after that draws “a small fee.” The earlier review never gave a figure, and we have found no page of JKV’s own that publishes one either. That leaves a client unable to work out, before requesting a payout, what a second or third withdrawal in the same month will actually cost them. The same earlier-review source also carried a 20% welcome bonus up to $2,000 for new clients funding a live account with at least $500, again with no bonus terms visible to us beyond that headline figure.

The VPS clause and what it does to a pending withdrawal

Separately from all of that, JKV’s own Risk Disclosure Agreement, which we read directly, ties withdrawal outcomes to a Virtual Private Server policy that has nothing to do with payment rails on its face. The general prohibition clause states that VPS use “without prior authorization may result in non-compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.” Point 4 of the same clause spells out the consequence directly: Immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities… Rejection or delay of withdrawal requests… Potential termination of the account… Any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage shall be borne solely by the account holder. Point 7 closes off any recourse: “The Company shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non-compliant VPS usage.” Point 8 lets JKV change these terms “at any time, with or without prior notice,” with continued platform use counted as acceptance. Put together, a client trading through a VPS, common for automated strategies, who hasn’t cleared it with JKV in advance can have a withdrawal held or refused and has no contractual claim back against JKV for whatever that costs them.

JKV’s Terms & Conditions page also has clients sign an acknowledgement of “The Investor Compensation Fund” alongside several other named policies, as part of agreeing to the contract. We read that page directly too, and none of those documents, the fund’s coverage, or any cap on it, is shown or linked anywhere on the page. A client is asked to accept a compensation scheme they cannot actually inspect on the site before they fund an account.

Score

Our previous score for this broker was 4.5 out of 10; this review scores 5.1 out of 10. The fees criterion sits at 5.8, and the evidence behind it cuts both ways: the withdrawal fee amount is undisclosed on every rail we have evidence for, and the account tiers conflict outright between sources, the earlier review’s Standard/Premium/VIP structure against the live site’s BUSINESS/PRIME/PRO/ECN tiers, each with different spreads and none with a published minimum deposit. That undisclosed pricing and internal inconsistency is what keeps the fees score down. The move from 4.5 to 5.1 is our reassessment against the current scoring criteria and the evidence gathered this round, including a clean run against 1,441 mirrored warning-list entries from CYSEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, not a change in anything JKV itself has done.

Customer Support

JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited lists four ways to reach it on its own contact page: an email address for general enquiries (enquiry@jkvglobal.com), a phone number (+971 4 570 6453), a WhatsApp line described as offering 1-on-1 support… for quick resolutions, and a “Send us a message” contact form asking for name, email, subject and message. The same page gives a registered address at The Gardens, Ground Floor Bagatelle Office Park, Bagatelle, Moka 80832, Mauritius, and links Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn in the footer.

JKV’s stated hours don’t match what circulated about it

The firm’s own Contact Us page states: “Our team is online Monday–Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM.” An earlier published review of JKV, which we are restating rather than quoting, described 24/5 coverage running Monday to Thursday around the clock and Friday until 20:00 GMT. Those two accounts don’t describe the same support window, and only the Monday-to-Saturday, 9-to-9 hours come from the firm’s own page. The same earlier review listed a UK-format placeholder-style English support number and a separate Arabic-language number; neither matches the +971 4 570 6453 number published on JKV’s own contact page, so we’re only reporting the number the firm itself publishes.

Who a complaint is actually against

Three different entity names show up across JKV’s own materials for what is presented as one broker. The About Us page names the licence holder as JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited. The Terms & Conditions page, in its scalping and high-frequency-trading clause, instead names the contracting party as JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD. The firm’s About Us FAQ also states “Our team operates from both UAE and India,” which sits alongside a Mauritius registered address on the contact page. A client escalating a dispute is left to work out which of these names and locations the agreement actually runs against, since the site itself doesn’t say the three refer to the same legal person.

The Terms & Conditions page has clients sign an acknowledgement listing acceptance of “The Investor Compensation Fund,” “The Client Classification Policy,” “The Summary of Conflicts of Interest Policy,” “The Summary Best Interest and Order Execution Policy,” “The Risk Disclosure and Warnings Notice,” and “The Complaints Procedure for Clients.” None of these documents, including the Complaints Procedure a client would need if a support issue turned into a formal dispute, is shown or linked on that page, so a client attests to accepting terms, and a compensation scheme, that aren’t there to read.

Terms that bite once a client asks for money out

JKV’s risk disclosure carries a clause on Virtual Private Servers that goes well past a technical restriction. It states: JKV Global strictly prohibits the use of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for trading activities on its platform, except under specific circumstances… The use of a VPS without prior authorization may result in non-compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests. Point 4 of the same clause spells out the consequences: Immediate suspension or restriction of trading activities… Rejection or delay of withdrawal requests… Potential termination of the account… Any losses, penalties, or liabilities incurred due to unauthorized VPS usage shall be borne solely by the account holder. Point 7 then closes off recourse: “The Company shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non-compliant VPS usage.” Point 8 lets JKV change the rule on its own terms: The Company reserves the right to amend, modify, or update this clause at any time, with or without prior notice… Continued use of the platform following such amendments constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. Together these mean a client running a VPS without prior sign-off, common for automated trading, can have a withdrawal refused or delayed, the account suspended or closed, no compensation for any resulting loss, and no advance warning if JKV changes the policy itself.

The Terms & Conditions page separately defines any trade closed within 120 seconds as “Scalping,” and defines “High-Frequency Trading (HFT) using high-speed Ultra Execution Virtual Private Server (VPS) based algorithmic trading” as a form of it, stating that “Such practices are deemed abusive trading practices.” A client trading fast or through automation is exposed to that “abusive” label being applied to their account, which the VPS clause ties directly to withdrawal rejection.

What else the terms hand over on the way to a complaint

The Terms & Conditions page’s Data Protection and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance section states client information may be used for “Responding to credit reference enquiries… Searching the electoral register… Making enquiries to credit reference and other agencies… Assisting other organisations for crime prevention and credit purposes,” which is a wider use of KYC data than identity verification alone. Separately, the withdrawal terms circulated in the earlier review describe a fee applied from the second withdrawal in a calendar month onward, on bank transfer, card, e-wallet and crypto methods alike, without publishing the amount; we can’t confirm that figure ourselves since it wasn’t on any page we fetched.

Prohibited Countries

JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited’s own homepage carries two separate restricted-country notices, and they do not name the same countries.

The first list on JKV’s homepage

One notice on the homepage states that the firm “does not provide services for citizens/residents of” the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Cuba, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea and Sudan.

  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States
  • Cuba
  • Iraq
  • Myanmar
  • North Korea
  • Sudan

The second list on the same page

A second, separately worded notice on the same homepage states that JKV “does not offer financial services to” residents of China, North Korea, the United States, and countries on the FATF blacklist.

  • China
  • North Korea
  • United States
  • Countries the notice describes as FATF blacklisted, without naming them

The two lists overlap only on North Korea and the United States. The United Arab Emirates appears on the first list and not the second; China appears on the second and not the first. The homepage does not explain why the two notices differ or which one governs a given applicant, and it does not itself enumerate which countries the FATF reference is meant to cover.

JKV Global Capital Market Services markets into the country its own notice excludes

The same homepage that carries the UAE exclusion also markets to UAE-based traders: it lists a phone number with a UAE country code (+971 4 570 6453, also given on the contact page), references a Dubai/UAE-based team, and carries testimonials the page itself labels as coming from the UAE. The firm’s About Us page separately states that “our team operates from both UAE and India.” A reader responding to that marketing from inside the UAE would be applying to a broker whose own first restricted-countries notice names UAE residents as excluded.

Which entity the restriction actually binds is not clear-cut

The restriction notices on the homepage are issued in the name of JKV Global Capital Market Services Limited, the entity also named in the site’s contact page and licence page, with a registered address at The Gardens, Ground Floor Bagatelle Office Park, Bagatelle, Moka 80832, Mauritius. The Terms & Conditions page, however, names the contracting party in its scalping and high-frequency-trading clause as “JKV GLOBAL MARKETS LTD,” a differently formatted name. The site does not reconcile the two names, so which entity a client from an excluded or non-excluded country would actually be contracting with is not established on the pages we read.

What the FSC Mauritius register shows about the licensed entity

The Financial Services Commission (FSC), Mauritius register confirms a licensee named JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holding an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer excluding Underwriting) licence, dated 30/06/2023; the register does not publish a licence number, so the number GB23201820 quoted on the firm’s own About page is not itself confirmed by the register. A search of the same register for “JKV Global Markets Ltd,” the name and licence number quoted in our earlier review, returned no match among the rows the register returned. Since the FSC register stores legal names, that non-match does not by itself establish that no licence exists under a name we did not search; it establishes that the specific name and number quoted in our earlier review are not what the register shows.

None of this affects the warning-list result: JKV does not appear in the 1,441 entries mirrored from the CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius warning lists that we searched.

Conclusion

The FSC Mauritius Online Public Register confirms JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd as an SEC-2.1B Investment Dealer, licensed 30/06/2023, but it does not publish a licence number, so the GB23201820 figure quoted in our earlier review sits outside what the register can check. A second search by the name “JKV Global Markets Ltd” returned nothing on that same register, which is not evidence of an unlicensed firm, only evidence that the register indexes by legal name and this name did not match. Between those two results, and the fact that the site itself uses two different entity names, a reader cannot cleanly confirm which entity they would actually be contracting with.

Why JKV Global scores 5.1/10, down from our earlier 4.5

This review scores JKV Global at 5.1 out of 10, against 4.5 in our previous write-up of this broker. That is our assessment, not a change in the firm: the criteria we scored against and the evidence we worked from are both different this time, including a direct FSC Mauritius register check and a search across 1,441 mirrored warning-list entries that returned no match. The regulation score sits at 4.3, held down by the licence-number mismatch above and by the site’s own conflicting claims about where the company is actually based, which the About page gives as UAE and India while the contact page gives a Moka, Mauritius address. Fees score 5.8; the account tiers, withdrawal fees, and welcome bonus we can report come from our earlier review rather than a page we fetched, and they describe a Standard/Premium/VIP structure that does not match the BUSINESS/PRIME/PRO/ECN tiers currently shown on the firm’s own site.

What holds the platform and reviews scores down

Platform scores 4.9. JKV Global’s own platform page describes MetaTrader 5 across desktop, web, and mobile, with hedging supported and no FIFO restriction, but the firm’s Terms & Conditions attach conditions to how a client can use it: any trade closed within 120 seconds is defined as scalping, and VPS-based algorithmic trading is classified outright as an abusive trading practice. The Risk Disclosure Agreement goes further on VPS use specifically, prohibiting it without prior written authorisation and warning that unauthorised use “may result in non-compliance with the Company’s policies and could lead to restrictions or penalties, including but not limited to the rejection of withdrawal requests.” A separate clause states the company “shall not be liable for any losses, damages, or missed trading opportunities arising from the rejection, delay, or suspension of trading activities or withdrawal requests due to unauthorized or non-compliant VPS usage,” and another reserves JKV’s right to amend the VPS policy “at any time, with or without prior notice,” with continued platform use counting as acceptance. For a trader running any automated or fast-turnaround strategy, that is a broker that can withhold a withdrawal over a compliance judgment call it can also change unilaterally, with no liability if it gets that call wrong.

Reviews scores 4.1, and the notable conflicts we found explain why. Support hours are a plain contradiction: our earlier review claims 24/5 coverage, while the firm’s own Contact Us page states “Our team is online Monday-Saturday, 9 AM to 9 PM.” Our earlier review also lists English and Arabic phone numbers that follow a placeholder pattern and don’t match the real number on the firm’s contact page, +971 4 570 6453. The instruments page names only Forex, Metals, and CFDs, with no cryptocurrencies, despite crypto trading and crypto payment methods appearing in our earlier review. None of this is evidence of dishonesty on JKV’s part; it is evidence that the material from our earlier review and the live site disagree with each other often enough that a reader should treat account structures, fees, and contact details as unconfirmed until checked directly against the current site.

What supports the score

Support scores highest of the five criteria at 6.5. The contact page gives a named support desk email, a phone number, WhatsApp support, a physical Mauritius address, and stated hours, and the firm appears on none of the 1,441 entries we checked across the CYSEC, FCA, and FSC Mauritius warning-list mirrors. That is a real, checkable clean result, though it covers only those three regulators’ published warning lists, not a global guarantee.

JKV Global Capital Market Services Ltd holds a confirmed FSC Mauritius dealer licence, but its own site uses three different company names, two different restricted-country lists, and contact and account details that contradict earlier published material about it, landing the broker at 5.1 out of 10.

What we saw

Pages captured from JKV’s own site when this review was written. Brokers change their terms; these are what we read.

JKV live-about page as we captured it
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JKV live-contact page as we captured it
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JKV live-legal page as we captured it
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JKV live-markets-2 page as we captured it
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JKV live-root page as we captured it
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JKV live-terms page as we captured it
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Score history

Recomputed daily; every move is on the record. The current score is always the latest row.

Date Score Move
2026-09-29 5.1 ▲
2026-07-25 4.5 ▼
2026-07-18 4.6 ▲
2026-07-11 4.5 ·

FAQ

Is JKV regulated?

Yes, one licence is confirmed: FSC Mauritius GB23201820, as an Investment Dealer under SEC-2.1B. FSC Mauritius is a non-tier-1 regulator with no compensation scheme or ombudsman.

Which entity does JKV operate under?

Its own About, Contact, and Terms pages name three slightly different entities, so it’s unclear which one a client actually contracts with.

What does JKV charge?

USD 15.00 round turn on 1 lot of EURUSD (average spread) on the PRIME account. Minimum deposit is not published.

What trading platform does JKV offer?

Only MetaTrader 5, including the MetaTrader web terminal.

How can I contact JKV support?

By email, live chat, or a published phone number, with staff in the client’s own language and published hours. Which entity actually handles the query depends on who onboarded the client.

What do reviews say about JKV?

A blended 3.05 stars across 11 ratings.

How this review works

Written by the TrueBroker research team from primary sources: regulator registers, the broker’s own legal documents and verified trader reports. Every licence is checked against the register that issued it. Last checked 10 Oct 2026.
Read the editorial policy and the risk disclaimer. Scores are opinions built from data, not financial advice.

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