Scope Markets review.

Overview

TrueBroker is a free broker safety checker, and this page is our review of Scope Markets, scored 5.5 out of 10 across regulation, fees, platform, support and reviews. Our previous review of this broker scored it 4 out of 10; this review restates the score from current evidence, and the movement reflects our assessment rather than any change at the firm itself.

Who Runs Scope Markets

“Scope Markets” is not one company but a brand shared across several entities. RS Global Ltd, registered in Belize, is named as the operating entity on the firm’s Vietnam facing site. Scope Capital Ltd., registered in Saint Lucia, is named as the operating entity on the firm’s Australia facing root page. A third entity, SM Capital Markets Ltd of Cyprus, operates a related but separate brand called Scope Prime, aimed at a different client base under a different regulator.

RS Global Ltd carries a licence from the Financial Services Commission of Belize (FSC), registration number 1943611. We searched the FSC Belize LicenSys public register directly and confirmed the entry: RS Global Ltd, licence type Trading in Securities as Agent, Trading in Securities as Principal, Arranging Transactions in Securities, Providing Custodial Services, Providing Administration Services, status Active, registered 2025-01-01.

Scope Capital Ltd. is a different story. Its own AU root page displays a marketing trust badge reading “FSC regulated. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611”, the same Belize number that belongs to RS Global Ltd, not to Scope Capital Ltd. The same page’s legal footer names Scope Capital Ltd. as registered in Saint Lucia under number 2026-00075, with no financial services licence disclosed for that entity anywhere in the pages we fetched. We checked the Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies name search and found “Scope Capital Ltd. (IBC)” listed as an International Business Company, but that free search publishes no registration number, incorporation date or status, meaning the quoted number 2026-00075 was not itself verified against the register. An IBC listing is a company registration, not a licence to deal in forex or CFDs, so a reader onboarding through the AU facing site is trusting a trust badge that names a licence held by a different company.

SM Capital Markets Ltd, the entity behind Scope Prime, holds CySEC licence number 339/17. We searched the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register directly and confirmed SM Capital Markets Ltd holds Licence Number 339/17 as a Cypriot Investment Firm. We also searched the Cyprus Registrar of Companies via a point in time mirror and confirmed the company registration, HE 346068, registered 10 August 2015, status Active. But this CySEC licence covers Scope Prime, an institutional offering of multi asset OTC CFDs, DMA futures and options, DMA equities and ETFs, fixed income and funds, restricted to residents of the EEA (excluding Belgium), the EFTA states except Switzerland, and Belize, Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the UAE. It is not the entity a retail client of the Scope Markets brand deals with.

We also ran the firm’s name against 1441 warning list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and Scope Markets does not appear on any of them. That check covers only the three regulators we mirror, not every regulator worldwide, so a clean result there is limited but genuine.

Overview Table

Facts List

• RS Global Ltd (Belize) is confirmed on the FSC Belize LicenSys register, licence 1943611, status Active, registered 2025-01-01.
• SM Capital Markets Ltd (Cyprus) is confirmed on the CySEC register, licence 339/17, but this covers the separate Scope Prime brand, not Scope Markets retail clients.
• SM Capital Markets Ltd is separately confirmed on the Cyprus Registrar of Companies as HE 346068, status Active, registered 10 August 2015.
• Scope Capital Ltd. (Saint Lucia), the entity named on the AU facing Scope Markets site, is listed on the Saint Lucia IBC name search, but the free search does not confirm the registration number 2026-00075 quoted on the firm’s own page, nor any financial services licence for that entity.
• The AU root page’s FSC trust badge cites registration number 1943611, which the FSC register attributes to RS Global Ltd, not to Scope Capital Ltd., the entity named in the same page’s legal footer.
• Scope Markets does not appear on any of the 1441 warning list entries we searched, mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius.
• The firm’s own VN page states “Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions” and points to a “Restricted Countries” document; no country list itself was present in the pages fetched.
• The AU root page advertises “SpaceX CFDs” with up to 1:10 leverage, a CFD on a company that is not publicly listed.
• The VN root page advertises a “100% Deposit Bonus” of up to $100,000 with “T&Cs apply”, but no bonus terms text was present in the pages fetched.
• Fetch attempts for the firm’s Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU pages all failed, so no contract terms could be checked for this review.

What Changed Our Score for Scope Markets

The regulation score sits at 4 out of 10. RS Global Ltd’s Belize licence is confirmed and active, which supports some of that score, but the brand’s other regulatory claims do not hold up as cleanly: the AU site’s trust badge misattributes a licence number to the wrong entity, the Saint Lucia registration behind that same site could not be independently confirmed beyond a bare IBC name match, and the CySEC licence belongs to a related but separate brand that this catalogue does not treat as covering Scope Markets retail clients. Fees score highest, at 9 out of 10, reflecting the account terms reported in our earlier review: a $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.1 pips on Scope Invest, zero swaps and financing costs on that account, and no internal fees noted across bank transfer, card and e-wallet payment methods. Platform scores 5.9, support scores 5, and reviews scores 3.8. Taken together, the fee terms as reported and the confirmed Belize licence lift the overall score above our previous 4 out of 10, while the unresolved entity and disclosure questions around the Saint Lucia registered entity keep the regulation component low.

Key Takeaways

Scope Markets moves from 4/10 to 5.5/10 in this review. That is our assessment changing, not the firm. The criteria we scored against and the evidence in front of us both shifted, and the number reflects that, not any improvement or decline at Scope Markets itself.

Where the regulation score comes from

Regulation scores 4/10. The Financial Services Commission Belize LicenSys public register confirms registration number 1943611 for RS Global Ltd, covering Trading in Securities as Agent, Trading in Securities as Principal, Arranging Transactions in Securities, Providing Custodial Services and Providing Administration Services, status Active, registered 2025-01-01. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register separately confirms licence number 339/17, but that licence sits with SM Capital Markets Ltd, the entity behind the separate “Scope Prime” brand. SM Capital Markets Ltd does not accept retail clients of the Scope Markets brand this review covers. The retail brand runs instead through RS Global Ltd in Belize and Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia.

The Saint Lucia side is thinner. The Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies name search confirms “Scope Capital Ltd. (IBC)” exists as an International Business Company, but the free search publishes no registration number, incorporation date or status, so the 2026-00075 number quoted on the firm’s own AU root page was not verified against the register. An IBC listing is a company registration, not a licence to deal in forex or CFDs. On that same AU root page, a marketing trust badge states “FSC regulated, Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611,” while the page’s own legal footer names Scope Capital Ltd. as the contracting entity, with no financial services licence disclosed for that entity. The 1943611 licence belongs to RS Global Ltd, not Scope Capital Ltd. A reader signing up on the AU page could reasonably read the badge as covering the entity that actually onboards them, and the page’s own disclosure does not support that.

We searched four public registers directly: fsc_belize, cysec, the Saint Lucia company registry, and the Cyprus Registrar of Companies, running a positive control against a known-listed firm on each first so an empty result would mean absence rather than a broken search. The Cyprus Registrar of Companies confirms SM Capital Markets Ltd as company HE 346068, a limited company registered 10/08/2015, status Active, but again this is a company registry entry, not a regulator’s licence record, and it sits under the Scope Prime side of the business.

We also ran the firm’s name against 1441 warning list entries mirrored from CYSEC, the FCA and FSC Mauritius, and it appears on none of them. That is a clean result worth stating, though it only covers the three regulators we mirror, not a global sweep.

What Scope Markets charges

Fees score 9/10. Our earlier review reported three account tiers, restated here in our own words rather than as quotes since we did not fetch the account pages ourselves. The One Account carries a $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.9 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, MT4 and MT5, and a swap-free option. Scope Invest also opens at $10, with spreads from 0.1 pips, 1:1 leverage, fractional share sizing down to 0.01 contracts, zero swap and financing costs, and MT5 only. Scope Elite requires $20,000, with raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50 per lot commission, a dedicated account manager and swap-free trading for up to seven days, on both MT4 and MT5. The same earlier review reported no internal fees on bank transfer, card or e-wallet deposits or withdrawals, with processing windows of one to five business days depending on the method and a $100 minimum withdrawal across all three.

Platforms and instruments

Platform scores 5.9/10. The firm’s own pages confirm MT4, with 30 plus indicators, nine timeframes and three chart types across desktop, web and mobile, and MT5, with 21 timeframes, 38 indicators, four order execution types and an economic calendar on desktop, webtrader, iOS and Android. A separate “Scope Trader” web platform and matching mobile app appear only in our earlier review’s text and are not corroborated by any broker page we fetched. Instrument range spans forex, index, energy, metal, share, commodity and crypto CFDs, plus futures, drawn from the firm’s own AU and VN pages, though the two country versions of the site do not list an identical instrument set against each other.

One instrument stands out: the AU page advertises “SpaceX CFDs” with up to 1:10 leverage, describing SpaceX as public and calling it one of “the world’s most talked about IPOs.” SpaceX is not a publicly listed company, so this is a CFD referencing an unlisted company’s shares or a synthetic price, a product category that ordinary listed share CFD disclosures do not cover. The same VN page separately advertises a “100% Deposit Bonus,” matching deposits of $100 or more up to $100,000, marked “T&Cs apply” with no bonus terms text present anywhere in the pages we fetched. Deposit matching bonuses commonly carry volume or withdrawal conditions; we cannot say what this one requires because we did not retrieve the terms.

Fetch attempts for the Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU pages all came back empty or unrendered, so the contractual terms most likely to carry liability, set-off and governing law clauses were not available to check.

Support and reviews

Support scores 5/10. The firm’s pages list support@scopemarkets.com and support@lc.scopemarkets.com by geo, phone numbers of +44 20 3051 6959 and +1 (758) 457-9560, and a Freshchat live chat widget on the ZA page. Reviews scores 3.8/10, the weakest line on the card alongside regulation.

Licenses & Regulation

Scope Markets is not one company. The pages we fetched show three different operating entities behind the brand: RS Global Ltd in Belize, Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia, and SM Capital Markets Ltd in Cyprus, the last of which trades under the separate “Scope Prime” brand rather than the retail Scope Markets offering. Our regulation score for this firm sits at 4/10, the lowest of the criteria we scored, and the register checks below explain why: the licences that exist are real, but they don’t sit cleanly under the entity a retail client would actually be signing up with.

What the Belize and Cyprus registers show

We searched the Financial Services Commission of Belize’s LicenSys public register directly and confirmed RS Global Ltd there: registration number 1943611, licence types covering Trading in Securities as Agent, Trading in Securities as Principal, Arranging Transactions in Securities, Providing Custodial Services and Providing Administration Services, status Active, registered 2025-01-01.

We also searched the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s register of Cypriot Investment Firms and confirmed licence number 339/17 there, held by SM Capital Markets Ltd. That confirmation comes with a catch the CySEC register itself makes clear on inspection: SM Capital Markets Ltd is the entity behind “Scope Prime,” an institutional-facing brand offering multi-asset OTC CFDs, DMA futures and options, DMA equities and ETFs, fixed income and funds. It is not the entity behind the retail Scope Markets CFD offering reviewed here, which is instead run through RS Global Ltd (Belize) and Scope Capital Ltd. (Saint Lucia). A retail trader opening a Scope Markets account is not opening one with the CySEC-licensed firm. The Cyprus Registrar of Companies separately confirms SM Capital Markets Ltd as a registered company, HE 346068, Limited Company, registered 10/08/15, status Active, via a point-in-time mirror of that registry, which confirms the company’s existence and nothing about a licence.

Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia

The AU root page’s legal footer names Scope Capital Ltd., registered in Saint Lucia under number 2026-00075, as an operating entity. We searched the Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies name search (via the Pinnacle St. Lucia portal) and found “Scope Capital Ltd. (IBC)” listed, marked as an International Business Company. The free search doesn’t publish a registration number, incorporation date or status, those sit behind a paid, account-only search, so we could not verify the 2026-00075 figure the firm quotes. More to the point, an IBC registration is a company registration, not a licence to deal in forex or CFDs, and no financial-services licence is disclosed for Scope Capital Ltd. on any page we fetched.

A mismatched trust badge on Scope Markets’ own page

The AU root page carries a marketing trust badge reading “Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611.” That number is the same one the FSC Belize register confirms for RS Global Ltd. But the same page’s legal footer names a different company, Scope Capital Ltd., as the operating entity, with no financial-services licence disclosed for it. A reader relying on the trust badge to conclude the entity onboarding them is FSC-regulated may in fact be contracting with a differently named company whose own licensing status isn’t stated on the page. We’re reporting the discrepancy between the badge and the footer as we found it; we can’t say from this evidence which entity actually holds the client relationship.

What we could not check

Fetch attempts for Scope Markets’ Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement, and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU pages all failed, returning 0 bytes or unrendered content. That means the documents most likely to state which entity a client actually contracts with, and under which jurisdiction’s law, were not retrievable in our evidence. We also note a restricted-jurisdictions reference on the Vietnam-facing page (“Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions. Please read carefully our Restricted Countries document”), but no country list itself was present in any page we fetched, only the document title in a Legal Documentation listing. Separately, SM Capital Markets Ltd’s own disclosed service area, for the Scope Prime brand, covers the EEA excluding Belgium, the EFTA states excluding Switzerland, and Belize, Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the UAE; that restriction applies to Scope Prime clients, not to the retail Scope Markets entities examined above.

Warning-list search

We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC Mauritius, and Scope Markets, RS Global Ltd, Scope Capital Ltd. and SM Capital Markets Ltd appear on none of them. We ran a positive control against a firm known to be listed before treating the empty result as an absence rather than a broken search, so the clean result stands. It covers only the three regulators we mirror, not a global sweep of every warning list in existence.

Why the score moved

Our previous review scored this broker 4/10 overall; this review scores 5.5/10. Regulation itself is scored at 4/10 here, the weakest of the criteria we assessed, which reflects what the registers actually showed: real, confirmed licences at RS Global Ltd (Belize) and SM Capital Markets Ltd (Cyprus), sitting alongside a Saint Lucia entity with no disclosed financial-services licence, a trust badge pointing to a licence number that belongs to a different legal entity than the one named in the same page’s footer, and core contractual documents that could not be fetched at all. The overall score moved because our other criteria, fees at 9/10 and platform at 5.9/10 among them, weighed in above this regulation figure, not because anything about the firm’s licensing itself changed between reviews.

How to Trade

Scope Markets splits its retail range across three account tiers, and what we can say about them comes from our earlier review rather than any page we fetched ourselves. The One Account is described there as carrying a $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.9 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, and access to MT4 and MT5 with a swap free option. Scope Invest is described as also opening at $10 but running 1:1 leverage only, with fractional share trading down to a 0.01 contract size, spreads from 0.1 pips, and zero swaps or financing costs, on MT5 alone. Scope Elite is described as the top tier at a $20,000 minimum, raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50 per lot commission, a dedicated account manager, and swap free trading for up to seven days, on both MT4 and MT5. We have not verified any of these figures against the firm’s own account pages.

The instrument range we did read directly, across the firm’s Australia and Vietnam pages, covers forex CFDs in majors, minors and exotics, index CFDs (the Australia page states leverage up to 1:3000, the Vietnam page states up to 1:1000 for the same asset class), energy CFDs in crude oil, gas and Brent with no commissions stated, metal CFDs in gold and silver, share CFDs, commodity CFDs, and futures on metals, energies and indices (up to 1:3000 on the Australia page, or 24 futures up to 1:500 on the Vietnam page). The Australia markets page also lists over 100 crypto CFDs including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Ripple at variable spreads, though this category does not appear in the Vietnam page’s own trading instruments listing. The Vietnam page separately lists fractional stocks executed as CFDs, at a 0.01 contract size, spreads from 0.1 pips, and zero commission, swap or financing costs, a category that does not appear in the Australia root page’s instruments section. The two country versions of the site list different instrument sets, which readers trading index or futures CFDs should check directly against the account opening documents for their own region rather than relying on either page alone.

The Australia root page also advertises “SpaceX CFDs”, telling traders to “Go long on the world’s most talked about IPOs” with “up to 1:10 leverage” on SpaceX. SpaceX is not a publicly listed company, so this is a CFD referencing an unlisted company’s shares (or a synthetic reference price) rather than an ordinary listed equity CFD, and the ordinary listed share CFD disclosures on the same page do not obviously cover that distinction.

A separate institutional brand, Scope Prime, run by SM Capital Markets Ltd under the CySEC licence discussed in the regulation section, offers a different and wider product set: multi asset OTC CFDs, DMA futures and options, DMA equities and ETFs, fixed income and funds. That range sits outside the retail Scope Markets offering covered above and is not available to the retail client onboarding onto RS Global Ltd or Scope Capital Ltd.

Platforms Scope Markets actually puts you on

The firm’s own pages confirm MetaTrader 4, available on desktop, web and mobile with over 30 indicators, nine timeframes, three chart types and support for expert advisors, and MetaTrader 5, with 21 timeframes, 38 technical indicators, four order execution types, an economic calendar, and desktop, webtrader, iOS and Android access. Our earlier review also describes a browser based “Scope Trader” web platform and a native “Scope Trader App” for iOS and Android, but neither of those two claims is corroborated by any broker page in our evidence, so we cannot confirm them as the firm’s own words.

We were not able to read the contractual documents that would set out execution rules, margin close out levels, or slippage handling: fetch attempts for the Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU versions of the site all failed, returning either zero bytes or unrendered pages. That leaves the rules that actually bind a position, what happens on a margin call, how requotes or slippage are handled, what happens to an open position if the account is deemed inactive, unverified in our evidence. A trader relying on the account tier list above should get those documents directly from the firm before funding an account, since none of the binding mechanics behind execution are established here.

Our overall score for Scope Markets moves from 4/10 in our previous review to 5.5/10 in this one. That is a restatement of our own assessment against current evidence and the current scoring criteria, not a claim that the firm’s product or execution has changed. The fees criterion scores highest, at 9/10, reflecting the tight spreads and zero swap terms described in the account tiers above, none of which we independently verified. Platform scores 5.9/10, credited for the confirmed MT4 and MT5 feature sets but held back by the unverified extra platform claims and by the missing execution documents. Regulation, covered in full elsewhere in this review, remains the weakest criterion at 4/10, and that is the main drag on the overall figure.

Account Types

Scope Markets is not one company but three, and the account list depends on which one signs you up. RS Global Ltd, licensed in Belize under registration number 1943611 on the Financial Services Commission Belize LicenSys register, runs the retail offering described on the firm’s Vietnam-facing pages. A separate entity, Scope Capital Ltd., appears in the footer of the Australia-facing page with a Saint Lucia company number the free Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies name search confirms only as an International Business Company registration, not a trading licence. A third entity, SM Capital Markets Ltd, holds Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission licence number 339/17, confirmed on the CySEC register of Cypriot Investment Firms, but that licence sits under the separate “Scope Prime” institutional brand and is not available to retail clients signing up for Scope Markets.

The three account tiers Scope Markets advertises

An earlier review of the firm’s marketing material, which our evidence did not independently fetch, describes three retail tiers. The One Account is pitched as the entry tier: a $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.9 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, and access to both MT4 and MT5, with a swap-free option. Scope Invest is positioned for share trading rather than leveraged speculation: the same $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.1 pips, leverage capped at 1:1, fractional share dealing down to a 0.01 contract size, zero swap or financing charges, and MT5 only. Scope Elite sits at the top: a $20,000 minimum deposit, raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50 per lot commission, a dedicated account manager, swap-free dealing for up to seven days, and both MT4 and MT5. None of these figures come from a page our review process fetched directly; they are restated from that earlier review, not quoted from the firm’s own site.

What the fetched pages add and where they conflict

The pages our review process did fetch describe the tradable range rather than the account tiers themselves: forex majors, minors and exotics; index CFDs with leverage quoted as high as 1:3000 on the Australia-facing page against 1:1000 on the Vietnam-facing page for the same product class; energy CFDs on crude oil, gas and Brent with no stated commission; metal CFDs on gold and silver; share and commodity CFDs; more than 100 crypto CFDs on the Australia-facing page, a range not listed in the Vietnam-facing page’s own trading-instruments section; and futures on metals, energies and indices, again quoted at up to 1:3000 on the Australia-facing page against a narrower 24-futures, up to 1:500 range on the Vietnam-facing page. The Australia-facing page also carries a trust badge reading “Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611,” yet that page’s own legal footer names Scope Capital Ltd. as the contracting entity, a company for which no financial-services licence is disclosed on that page; the 1943611 licence belongs to the differently named RS Global Ltd. A reader signing up from the Australia-facing page cannot tell from that page alone which of these two companies they are actually contracting with.

Products sold alongside the account tiers

The Australia-facing page advertises “SpaceX CFDs” with up to 1:10 leverage, describing SpaceX as public and inviting readers to “go long” on it; SpaceX is not a listed company, so this is CFD exposure to an unlisted stock rather than the ordinary listed-share CFD product the account tiers otherwise describe. The Vietnam-facing page separately advertises a “100% Deposit Bonus,” matching a deposit of $100 or more up to $100,000 in bonus funds, marked “T&Cs apply.” No bonus terms document was present in the pages fetched for our evidence, so what a client must do to withdraw that bonus money, or the account balance it is attached to, is not something our review process could check.

Minimum deposits and what they buy across payment methods

Also drawn from the earlier review rather than a fetched page: bank transfer, credit or debit card, and e-wallet deposits all carry the same stated $10 minimum and $100 minimum withdrawal, with no internal fee noted for any of the three. Processing times differ by method in that same source: bank transfer runs three to five business days each way, card one to three business days each way, and e-wallets one to two business days each way. None of this was confirmed against the firm’s own payments page in our evidence.

Why this score moved from a 4

Our previous review scored Scope Markets 4 out of 10. This review scores it 5.5, built from a fixed set of criteria scores rather than a single blended number: regulation at 4, fees at 9, platform at 5.9, support at 5, and reviews at 3.8. That is our assessment on this pass, not a claim that the firm changed; the criteria and the evidence behind them both differ from the prior review. On the account and fee evidence here, the wide tier spread and stated zero-commission entry deposit point toward a strong fees score, while the split between three differently regulated entities, the unresolved CySEC licence that does not cover this retail brand, and the trust-badge mismatch on the Australia-facing page all weigh against regulation.

Negative Balance Protection

Loss limits, margin call levels and any promise to cap a client’s losses at their account balance normally sit inside a risk disclosure, a client agreement or a set of terms and conditions. We tried to fetch exactly those documents for Scope Markets across the GB, AE, ID and AU versions of the site, and all four attempts failed, coming back either empty or unrendered. That leaves no contract text to quote on negative balance protection and no stated stop out or margin call percentage to report.

Leverage by account, according to the earlier review

Our earlier review describes three account tiers rather than a single loss policy. One Account carries leverage up to 1:1000. Scope Invest is priced at 1:1 leverage, which means the account puts up the full value of a position rather than trading on margin, so there is no margin to call on that tier in the first place. Scope Elite, the $20,000 minimum deposit tier, also runs up to 1:1000 leverage alongside a $3.50 per lot commission. These three figures come from that earlier publication, not from a Scope Markets account page we read ourselves, and we report them as its description rather than as the firm’s own words.

Leverage by instrument, from Scope Markets’ own pages

The AU and VN pages we fetched directly add leverage figures by instrument rather than by account. Index CFDs run up to 1:3000 on the AU page, against up to 1:1000 for the same instrument class on the VN page. Futures run up to 1:3000 on the AU page, against up to 1:500 for the 24 futures listed on the VN page. Neither page states a stop out percentage, a margin call trigger, or whether a client’s balance can be pushed negative and left there.

A leveraged product with nothing listed behind it

The AU page also advertises “SpaceX CFDs”, telling visitors to “Trade SpaceX CFDs with up to 1:10 leverage” and to “go long on the world’s most talked about IPOs.” SpaceX is not a publicly listed company, so this is leverage on an unlisted company’s shares or a synthetic reference price, sitting outside whatever disclosures the ordinary listed share CFDs on the same page carry, and we have no separate risk text for it either.

What happens if a Scope Markets account goes negative

We hold no clause, from any of the three entities behind these brands, RS Global Ltd in Belize, Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia, or SM Capital Markets Ltd in Cyprus, on liability for a negative balance, on a margin call trigger, or on a stop out level. The account and instrument pages we drew on set out spreads, commission and leverage, and say nothing about what happens once a position moves against a client faster than the platform can close it. That gap is a direct result of the document fetch failures above rather than a page that addresses the question and stays silent on it.

Trading Instruments

Scope Markets advertises a wide retail range: forex CFDs across majors, minors and exotics, index CFDs, energy CFDs, metal CFDs, share CFDs, commodity CFDs, crypto CFDs and futures. But the exact list, and the numbers attached to it, shift depending on which country-facing version of the site a visitor lands on, and the firm operates that site under more than one entity: RS Global Ltd in Belize and Scope Capital Ltd in Saint Lucia both carry the Scope Markets brand, while a related but separate brand, Scope Prime, is run by the CySEC-regulated SM Capital Markets Ltd in Cyprus.

What Scope Markets lists, and where the pages stop agreeing

The Australia-facing root page lists forex CFDs, index CFDs with leverage up to 1:3000, energy CFDs (crude oil, gas and Brent) described as carrying no commissions, metal CFDs (gold and silver) with a low minimum lot size, share CFDs with no stated trading volume limits, commodity CFDs, and futures with leverage up to 1:3000. A separate Australia-facing markets page adds more than 100 crypto CFDs, naming Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Ripple among others, priced on variable spreads; that crypto range does not appear in the Vietnam-facing root page’s own instrument list. The Vietnam-facing page in turn caps index leverage at 1:1000 rather than 1:3000, lists 24 futures contracts at up to 1:500 rather than 1:3000, and includes fractional stocks executed as CFDs, with a 0.01 contract size, spreads from 0.1 pips and zero commission, swap or financing costs, a line item that does not appear in the Australia-facing root page’s instrument list. Which leverage cap or which product actually applies depends on which geo-targeted page is read.

A CFD on an unlisted company

The Australia-facing root page markets a CFD on SpaceX, offered with leverage up to 1:10, and pitches it as a way to go long on “the world’s most talked about IPOs.” SpaceX is not a publicly listed company, so this is leveraged exposure to an unlisted firm’s shares, or to some synthetic reference price standing in for them, a different product to an ordinary listed-share CFD and one that ordinary share-CFD disclosures don’t obviously cover.

Scope Markets’ account tiers and what each one can actually trade

An earlier review of this broker, which we are restating here rather than quoting, described three account tiers that gate access to parts of this range. A One Account, opened from a $10 minimum deposit, was said to carry spreads from 0.9 pips, leverage up to 1:1000 and access to MT4 and MT5. A Scope Invest account, also from a $10 minimum, was described with spreads from 0.1 pips, leverage capped at 1:1, fractional share trading from a 0.01 contract size, zero swaps or financing costs, and MT5 only, which lines up with the fractional-stock product the Vietnam-facing page lists separately. A Scope Elite tier, requiring a $20,000 minimum deposit, was described with raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50 per-lot commission, a dedicated account manager and swap-free trading for up to seven days. None of this account detail came from a Scope Markets page we fetched ourselves; it reached us secondhand from that earlier writeup, so the specific numbers should be read as reported rather than as something we verified against the firm’s own account page.

What sits behind a different brand entirely

The Germany-facing page describes a considerably wider range, multi-asset OTC CFDs, DMA futures and options, DMA equities and ETFs, fixed income and funds, but that range sits under Scope Prime, the institutional brand run by SM Capital Markets Ltd, the CySEC-licensed entity confirmed on the CySEC register under licence 339/17. Scope Prime is not the same offering as retail Scope Markets, and the firm’s own pages state that Scope Prime does not accept retail clients of the Scope Markets brand. A client account opened through RS Global Ltd or Scope Capital Ltd does not reach that institutional product list.

What we could not check

Fetch attempts for Scope Markets’ Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU versions of the site all failed, returning zero bytes or unrendered pages, according to our evidence’s own failure log. That means contract-level detail behind these instruments, lot sizes, futures expiry and rollover rules, margin close-out levels, was not something we could read past what the marketing pages state. Whatever the account and instrument pages advertise is what we have; the underlying contractual specification for any of it remains unverified in our evidence.

Education & Analysis

The MT4 and MT5 stack is the part of Scope Markets’ offering we can source to the firm’s own pages rather than to our earlier review. RS Global Ltd’s Vietnam-facing page describes MetaTrader 4 with desktop, web and mobile versions, more than 30 indicators, nine timeframes and three chart types, and support for expert advisors. The firm’s Australia-facing platforms page describes MetaTrader 5 separately, giving it 21 timeframes, 38 technical indicators, four order execution types and a built-in economic calendar, again across desktop, webtrader, iOS and Android. Those are two different platforms with two different feature counts on two different regional pages, and neither page states that both are offered to the same client at the same time, so the specifics above should be read as what each page claims for its own platform rather than as a combined feature list for the account a given trader opens.

What Scope Markets actually built versus what it licenses

MT4 and MT5 are third-party platforms; Scope Markets is one of many brokers that plugs into them, and the indicator counts, timeframe counts and order types above come from MetaQuotes’ software, not from anything the firm built. The account pages carried in our evidence tie specific account tiers to specific platforms: the One Account and Scope Elite tiers list both MT4 and MT5, while Scope Invest is MT5 only, according to our earlier review rather than to a page we fetched ourselves. We did not fetch an account-comparison or platforms page that confirms this tier-to-platform mapping directly, so treat the pairing as reported rather than verified.

The same material from our earlier review also describes a “Scope Trader” web platform, pitched as a browser-based, no-download, one-click-trading tool, and a matching “Scope Trader” mobile app for iOS and Android. Neither of those two claims appears on any of the broker pages we fetched for our evidence (the Belize, Australia, Germany or South Africa root pages, or the Australia platforms and markets pages). We cannot say Scope Markets does not run a proprietary web or mobile platform; we can only say the pages we pulled describe MT4 and MT5 and say nothing about a Scope Trader product, so that part of the offering rests entirely on the earlier review’s account of it and not on anything this pass confirmed first-hand.

Charting depth versus the instrument list

The instrument range sits across several pages with some inconsistency. The Australia root and markets pages list forex, index, energy, metal, share and commodity CFDs plus futures and more than 100 crypto CFDs including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Ripple with variable spreads. The Vietnam root page lists a broadly similar set of CFD classes and 24 futures at up to 1:500 leverage, but adds fractional stock CFDs at 0.01 contract size with spreads from 0.1 pips and zero commission, swap or financing costs, a product line that does not appear in the Australia root page’s own instrument section. Index CFD leverage also differs by page: up to 1:3000 on the Australia root page against up to 1:1000 on the Vietnam root page. None of this is a charting or tooling gap by itself, but it means the depth of MT4/MT5’s 9 to 21 timeframes and 30-plus indicators is being applied to a instrument list that changes depending on which regional page a prospective client happens to land on.

A separate, institutional-grade product range, DMA futures and options, DMA equities and ETFs, fixed income, funds and multi-asset OTC CFDs, is described on the German page under the Scope Prime brand, run by CySEC-licensed SM Capital Markets Ltd (licence 339/17, confirmed on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register). That register entry is for Scope Prime, not for the retail Scope Markets brand covered here, which the firm’s own pages route through RS Global Ltd in Belize and Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia instead. Any charting or execution advantage tied to the CySEC entity’s institutional tooling does not transfer to the retail Scope Markets accounts this section is otherwise describing.

Where the platform score lands

This review scores Scope Markets 5.5 out of 10 overall, up from a 4 out of 10 in our previous pass, on a rebuild against current evidence rather than a claim that the firm changed. The platform criterion itself scores 5.9 out of 10. The evidence above is why it sits in the middle rather than at either end: MT4 and MT5 are real, specified in detail on the firm’s own pages, and cover desktop, web and mobile access with a genuine spread of indicators and timeframes, which supports a mid-range score rather than a low one. What keeps it from scoring higher is that the account-to-platform mapping and the proprietary Scope Trader web and app products both rest on our earlier review rather than on a page we fetched, and we were unable to retrieve the firm’s Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement or Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU regions to check what those documents say, if anything, about platform availability, execution model or order types. A platform section built on strong third-party tooling but with its own-brand claims and governing documents unverified is a fair description of a mid-table score, not a high one.

Special Offers

The only promotional offer that turned up in the pages we fetched is a deposit-matching bonus on the Vietnam-facing root page for the Belize entity, RS Global Ltd (registration number 1943611 on the Financial Services Commission Belize register, confirmed as Active when we searched it directly). The page reads: “100% Deposit Bonus! Deposit $100 or more, and we’ll match it by 100%! Get up to $100,000 in bonus funds,” followed by an asterisked “T&Cs apply.”

What Scope Markets does not show about the bonus

The page carrying the offer stops at the asterisk. No linked terms page, minimum trading-volume requirement, lock-in period, or withdrawal condition for the bonus funds appears anywhere in the pages our evidence fetched. That matters because deposit-matching bonuses of this kind are the promotion type most likely to carry a turnover requirement before either the bonus or the underlying deposit can be withdrawn, and we have no page from Scope Markets that states one way or the other what applies here. We can only report what the page in front of us says: a headline match up to $100,000, and a reference to terms we were not shown.

That gap is not isolated to the bonus. Our evidence’s own failures log shows that fetch attempts for Scope Markets’ Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement, and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU country pages all came back empty or unrendered. Those are the documents most likely to hold the actual conditions attached to a “T&Cs apply” bonus, and none of them loaded for us to check.

Which entity is behind the offer

The bonus appears on the page for RS Global Ltd, the Belize-licensed entity (FSC registration 1943611, licensed for trading in securities as agent and as principal, arranging transactions in securities, and providing custodial and administration services). The same “Scope Markets” branding is also used elsewhere for a second entity, Scope Capital Ltd. of Saint Lucia, whose name turns up on the Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies as an International Business Company, with no registration number, incorporation date or status published on that free name search. Saint Lucia’s IBC listing is a company registration, not a licence to deal in forex or CFDs, so which of the two “Scope Markets” entities a given visitor would actually be signing up with when they claim this bonus depends on which country page they land on, and the bonus page itself does not say.

Separately, the CySEC-regulated entity in this group, SM Capital Markets Ltd (licence 339/17, confirmed on the CySEC register of Cypriot Investment Firms), trades under the different brand name “Scope Prime” for an institutional product range, and its own page states it is authorised to serve clients only in the EEA excluding Belgium, the EFTA states excluding Switzerland, and Belize, the Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the UAE. Nothing in the pages we fetched shows this CySEC entity offering the deposit bonus; the bonus sits on the Belize-facing page only.

Account tiers and the absence of tier-linked promotions

Reporting what the earlier published review described (not a page we fetched ourselves), Scope Markets lists three account tiers: a One Account from a $10 minimum deposit with spreads from 0.9 pips, a Scope Invest account also from $10 with fractional share trading, and a Scope Elite account requiring a $20,000 minimum deposit with raw spreads from 0.0 pips, a $3.50 per-lot commission and a dedicated account manager. The pages we fetched do not describe any of these three tiers as carrying its own sign-up bonus, fee waiver or matched-deposit offer beyond the single $100,000 bonus banner on the Belize page; where the evidence is silent, that is what we can say, not that no such tier promotion exists anywhere in the firm’s materials.

There is also a restricted-countries notice on the same Belize page: “Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions. Please read carefully our Restricted Countries document.” The page links to a document by that title in its legal documentation listing, but no country list from that document appears in what we fetched, so we cannot say whether bonus eligibility is affected by it.

Where this leaves a reader chasing the bonus

A reader who wants to claim the $100,000 bonus is being asked to deposit into an account with an entity the page does not fully disambiguate, against terms the page does not display, backed by underlying contractual documents that failed to load for us across four country versions. None of that means the bonus is illegitimate; it means the conditions that would tell a reader how the bonus actually behaves once trading starts, whether it can be withdrawn, and what volume it requires, sit in a document we could not reach.

Opening an Account

Opening a Scope Markets account means working out which legal entity signs the client agreement, because the site names different companies depending on the country version. On the Vietnam-facing site the broker trades as RS Global Ltd, licensed in Belize; on the Australia-facing site the footer names a different company, Scope Capital Ltd., registered in Saint Lucia. A third brand, Scope Prime, is run by SM Capital Markets Ltd out of Cyprus and is a separate institutional offering, not the retail sign-up covered here.

Which entity you actually sign with

The Australia root page carries a marketing badge reading “Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611,” but that number belongs to RS Global Ltd, the Belize entity named on the Vietnam page. The same Australia page’s own legal footer names a different company, Scope Capital Ltd., under Saint Lucia registration number 2026-00075, with no financial-services licence shown for that entity anywhere in the pages we fetched. The Financial Services Commission Belize LicenSys register confirms registration 1943611 as Active and held by RS Global Ltd, covering trading in securities as agent and as principal, arranging transactions in securities, and custodial and administration services. Its holder is RS Global Ltd, not Scope Capital Ltd. Anyone opening an account through the Australia-facing pages should establish for themselves, before funding anything, which of the two companies is named on the account-opening documents, since the badge and the footer point to different ones.

The Saint Lucia registry search (Pinnacle St. Lucia) confirms Scope Capital Ltd. (IBC) exists as an International Business Company, but the free search does not publish a registration number, incorporation date or status, so the 2026-00075 figure quoted on the Australia page was not itself confirmed against the register. An IBC listing is a company registration, not a trading licence, so it says nothing about what, if anything, regulates the Saint Lucia entity’s dealings with retail clients.

Scope Prime, the CySEC-licensed brand under SM Capital Markets Ltd (licence 339/17, confirmed on the CySEC register of Cypriot Investment Firms, company also confirmed at the Cyprus Registrar of Companies as HE 346068, Active since 10/08/15), is a distinct product line for multi-asset OTC and DMA business and does not accept retail clients of the Scope Markets brand. Someone opening an account expecting CySEC oversight because the Scope name appears on a CySEC register would be opening it with the wrong company.

Choosing an account and funding it

The site lists three account tiers to open into. The One Account carries a $10 minimum deposit, spreads from 0.9 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, and runs on MT4 and MT5 with a swap-free option. Scope Invest, also a $10 minimum, is built around fractional share trading (0.01 contract size), spreads from 0.1 pips, 1:1 leverage, zero swaps and financing costs, and MT5 only. Scope Elite requires a $20,000 minimum deposit for raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50-per-lot commission, swap-free dealing for up to seven days, MT4 and MT5, and a dedicated account manager. These figures come from the earlier review of the broker rather than a page we fetched directly, so treat them as reported rather than confirmed against a current Scope Markets page.

Funding methods reported the same way show a $10 minimum deposit across bank transfer, credit or debit card, and e-wallets, against a $100 minimum withdrawal on all three, with no internal fee stated for any of them. Processing times were given as 3 to 5 business days for bank transfer, 1 to 3 for cards, and 1 to 2 for e-wallets, in both directions.

The Vietnam page also advertises a “100% Deposit Bonus,” matching a deposit of $100 or more up to $100,000 in bonus funds, marked with an asterisk for terms and conditions. Those terms were not among the pages fetched, so what trading volume or lock-in a depositor would need to clear before withdrawing that bonus is not something we can report.

What we could not check about verification

The documents most likely to spell out identity verification, proof-of-address requirements, or any restriction on who is eligible to open an account, the Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement, and Risk Disclosure, failed to load across every jurisdiction page we attempted (GB, AE, ID, AU); our fetch log records them as 0 bytes or unrendered. That means we have no first-hand account of what KYC documents Scope Markets asks for, how long verification takes, or what happens to an application that fails it. Nothing in the pages we did fetch describes a verification process.

Who is told they cannot sign up

For the CySEC-regulated Scope Prime brand, SM Capital Markets Ltd states it is authorised to offer investment and ancillary services only to residents of the European Economic Area (excluding Belgium), the European Free Trade Association states of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (excluding Switzerland), and Belize, the Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, the Seychelles and the United Arab Emirates. That restriction applies to the Cyprus entity’s own client base, not to the Belize or Saint Lucia entities offering the retail Scope Markets accounts described above.

For the Scope Markets brand itself, the Vietnam page states only that “Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions,” pointing to a “Restricted Countries” document listed in the site’s legal documentation. No list of those jurisdictions appears on any page in our evidence, so we cannot say which countries are excluded.

Getting help opening an account

Contact details differ by region page: the Vietnam site lists support@scopemarkets.com and a UK phone number, +44 20 3051 6959; the Australia site lists a different address, support@lc.scopemarkets.com, and a different phone number, +1 (758) 457-9560. A Freshchat live-chat widget also appears on the South Africa page’s cookie declaration. None of the pages we fetched describe a dedicated onboarding or account-opening contact separate from general support.

Deposits & Withdrawals

Scope Markets runs deposits and withdrawals through separate legal entities depending on where a client signs up, and our evidence shows those entities do not carry the same licence. RS Global Ltd holds the Belize FSC registration (number 1943611, status Active, registered 2025 to 01 to 01 per the register), while the entity actually named in the legal footer of the AU root page is Scope Capital Ltd, a Saint Lucia company. The Saint Lucia registry’s free name search confirms “Scope Capital Ltd. (IBC)” exists as an International Business Company, but that free search publishes no registration number, incorporation date or status, so the 2026 to 00075 number quoted on the site was not verified against the register, and an IBC listing is a company registration rather than a licence to deal in forex or CFDs. A trust badge on the AU markets and legal pages reads “Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Commission. Registration Number 1943611.”, which is RS Global’s number, not Scope Capital’s. Anyone funding an account through the AU signup flow should know which of these two companies is actually named on their client agreement, because the badge and the footer point to different entities.

What it costs to move money with Scope Markets

Our earlier review reported that bank transfer, credit or debit card, and e-wallet deposits and withdrawals carry no internal fees on any of the three methods, each with a minimum deposit of $10 and a minimum withdrawal of $100. Processing times reported by that earlier review varied by rail: bank transfers took 3 to 5 business days for both deposits and withdrawals, cards took 1 to 3 business days each way, and e-wallets were fastest at 1 to 2 business days each way. We have not fetched a payments or fees page ourselves to confirm these figures; they come from the prior published review and are restated here in our own words, not read from any Scope Markets document in our evidence.

The account tiers set the deposit floor and the cost of trading once funds land, again as reported by the earlier review rather than any page we fetched. The One Account and Scope Invest accounts both open with $10, while Scope Elite requires $20,000. One Account is described as spreads from 0.9 pips with leverage up to 1:1000 and swap-free available. Scope Invest is described as spreads from 0.1 pips, 1:1 leverage, fractional share trading from a 0.01 contract size, and zero swaps or financing costs. Scope Elite is described as raw spreads from 0.0 pips, leverage up to 1:1000, a $3.50 per lot commission, a dedicated account manager, and swap-free trading for up to 7 days. None of these figures were confirmed against a live fee schedule in our evidence.

The 100% deposit bonus and what is missing

The VN root page advertises “100% Deposit Bonus! Deposit $100 or more, and we’ll match it by 100%! Get up to $100,000 in bonus funds” with a “*T&Cs apply” marker. The terms those T&Cs actually impose were not present in any page fetched for our evidence, so we cannot say what trading volume or withdrawal conditions attach to the matched funds, only that the promotional headline itself makes the deposit look larger than the cash a client puts in.

Restricted countries and documents we could not open

The VN root page states that “Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions” and points to a “Restricted Countries document,” but no country list appeared on any page we fetched, only the document title in a Legal Documentation listing. Separately, our evidence’s failures log shows that fetch attempts for the Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement, and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU versions of the site all failed, returning zero bytes or unrendered content. Those are the documents most likely to set out withdrawal conditions, liability caps and governing law, so this section cannot report clause level detail on what happens when a withdrawal is delayed, refused, or subject to a lien, because we were not able to read the source.

Regulatory standing behind the money

We searched four public registers directly: fsc_belize, cysec, the Cyprus Registrar of Companies, and the Saint Lucia company registry, running a positive control against a known listed firm on each before treating any result as an absence. RS Global Ltd’s Belize FSC listing (1943611) is confirmed active. SM Capital Markets Ltd’s CySEC licence (339/17) is confirmed, but that entity runs the separate Scope Prime brand for institutional clients, and its own page states it is authorised to serve clients in the EEA (excluding Belgium), the EFTA states of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (excluding Switzerland), plus Belize, Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the UAE, not the retail Scope Markets brand covered here. SM Capital Markets Ltd is also confirmed on the Cyprus Registrar of Companies as HE 346068, active since 10 to 08 to 15, which confirms the company but is not a trading licence. We also searched 1441 warning list entries mirrored from the CySEC, FCA and FSC Mauritius blacklists, and Scope Markets appears on none of them, a clean result worth noting even though it covers only the three lists we mirror.

Our previous score for this broker was 4 out of 10; this review scores it 5.5 out of 10. That move is our assessment under a different scoring pass, not a claim that the firm changed. The fees criterion scores 9, pulled up by the no internal fee claims on all three payment rails and the low $10 entry point on two of the three accounts. Regulation still scores only 4, held down by the entity mismatch between the FSC badge and the Saint Lucia footer entity, the unverified Saint Lucia registration number, and the unreadable Terms, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents that would normally set out withdrawal conditions in binding language.

Customer Support

Scope Markets does not run one global support desk; the contact details change depending on which regional page is loaded, which matters given the firm already operates through several differently licensed entities. The Vietnam-facing page lists an email address of support@scopemarkets.com and a phone number of +44 20 3051 6959, a UK dialling code. The Australia-facing page gives a different email, support@lc.scopemarkets.com, and a different phone number, +1 (758) 457-9560, a Saint Lucia country code that lines up with the Scope Capital Ltd. entity named on that page’s footer. Neither page states operating hours for phone or email support, so we cannot say whether either line is staffed around the clock or during set business hours.

Live chat and what backs it

A South Africa-facing page’s cookie declaration shows a Freshchat live-chat widget embedded on the site, referencing wchat.freshchat.com and a Freshchat CRM cookie. That confirms a chat widget is present and running on third-party infrastructure, not that it is staffed live, and none of the fetched pages describe response times, escalation paths, or whether chat is routed to the same team handling the regional email inboxes.

What Scope Markets’s own terms say about complaints

Nothing that we could retrieve. Fetch attempts for Scope Markets’s Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement, and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID, and AU pages all failed, returning 0 bytes or unrendered content, per our evidence’s failures log. That means we hold no clause on complaint-handling procedures, guaranteed response times, internal dispute-resolution steps, or any limit the firm places on its own liability for support failures. A support desk’s real value to a client who is already unhappy sits in those terms, and our evidence does not contain them.

Knowing which Scope Markets you are complaining to

The regional split in contact details is not cosmetic. The firm’s brands run through at least three separate companies: RS Global Ltd in Belize, Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia, and SM Capital Markets Ltd in Cyprus (the last operating under the separate Scope Prime brand, not open to retail clients of Scope Markets). The Australia root page carries a trust badge stating “FSC regulated” under registration number 1943611, but that number belongs to RS Global Ltd on the Belize register; the same page’s legal footer names a different entity, Scope Capital Ltd., registered in Saint Lucia under 2026-00075, with no financial-services licence disclosed for that entity on the page. A client who needs to escalate a complaint, or take a dispute to a regulator, first has to work out which of these companies actually onboarded them, and the marketing badge and the legal footer on the same page do not point to the same one.

Set against a previous score of 4 out of 10, this review’s support score of 5 out of 10 rests on current evidence: a working email and phone number are published for each region, and a live-chat widget is confirmed running on the site, which is more than a bare pass. It stays in the middle of the range because the contact details are not unified across regions, no hours are stated for any channel, and the documents that would set out how a complaint is actually handled could not be fetched at all.

Prohibited Countries

Scope Markets is not one company under one licence. The brand is split across three entities: RS Global Ltd in Belize, Scope Capital Ltd. in Saint Lucia, and SM Capital Markets Ltd in Cyprus, which trades as the separate “Scope Prime” brand rather than as Scope Markets itself. Which countries a person can or cannot open an account from depends on which of these entities is actually taking them on, and our evidence does not give a full answer for any of them.

What Scope Markets says about restricted countries

The firm’s Vietnam-facing root page states plainly: “Scope Markets does not offer its services to the residents of certain jurisdictions. Please read carefully our Restricted Countries document.” That is the only statement on the subject we found on a fetched Scope Markets page, and it names no countries itself; it points to a separate document titled “Restricted Countries” in the site’s Legal Documentation listing. Fetch attempts for the firm’s Terms and Conditions, Client Agreement and Risk Disclosure documents across the GB, AE, ID and AU versions of the site all failed to return usable content, and the Restricted Countries document itself was not among the pages retrieved in our evidence. We cannot report which countries it names.

The one explicit list we found belongs to a different brand

SM Capital Markets Ltd, the CySEC-licensed entity (licence 339/17, confirmed on the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission register) operates a separate institutional brand called Scope Prime, not the retail Scope Markets product this review covers. Its own page states it is authorised to offer investment and ancillary services only to residents within the European Economic Area (excluding Belgium), the European Free Trade Association members Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (excluding Switzerland), and Belize, Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the United Arab Emirates. That is a list of who SM Capital Markets Ltd can take on, not an exclusion list, and the CySEC register confirms this entity does not accept retail clients of the Scope Markets brand at all. So this scope does not describe who can or cannot open a Scope Markets account with RS Global Ltd or Scope Capital Ltd.

RS Global Ltd’s Belize licence and Scope Capital Ltd’s undisclosed status

RS Global Ltd holds Financial Services Commission of Belize registration number 1943611, confirmed on the FSC Belize LicenSys public register as active since 2025-01-01, covering trading in securities as agent and as principal, arranging transactions in securities, and providing custodial and administration services. Scope Markets’ Australia-facing root page displays a trust badge citing that same FSC registration number, but its legal footer names a different company, Scope Capital Ltd. of Saint Lucia, registration number 2026-00075. That number is a company registration, not a financial-services licence, and the page discloses no separate licence for Scope Capital Ltd. itself. A visitor reading that page cannot tell from it whether the entity actually opening their account is the FSC-licensed RS Global Ltd or the Saint Lucia company with no licence shown on that page, which matters for anyone trying to work out which jurisdiction’s rules, if any, would apply to a dispute or a withdrawal.

What that leaves unanswered

With the Restricted Countries document unretrieved and no country-by-country breakdown on any fetched page, we cannot state which nationalities or residencies Scope Markets excludes, or confirm whether US residents, EU retail clients, or any other commonly-restricted group are turned away by RS Global Ltd or Scope Capital Ltd. We searched 1,441 warning-list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and the FSC of Mauritius, running a positive control against four registers first to confirm the search method actually catches a listed firm, and Scope Markets does not appear on any of the 1,441 entries. That is a clean result on the lists we mirror; it says nothing about which countries the firm itself chooses not to serve.

Conclusion

Scope Markets scores 5.5 out of 10 in this review, up from the 4 out of 10 we gave it previously. The move is ours, not the firm’s: this review rests on register checks and page fetches our review process ran fresh, and fees came out stronger than the earlier assessment had them, at 9 out of 10, which pulls the overall figure up even as regulation stays weak at 4 out of 10 and reviews sit at 3.8 out of 10.

What the registers actually confirm

RS Global Ltd, the entity behind the Belize side of the Scope Markets offering, is on the Financial Services Commission Belize LicenSys public register under registration number 1943611, licence type Trading in Securities as Agent and as Principal, Arranging Transactions in Securities, and Providing Custodial and Administration Services, status Active. That is a real licence tied to a real entity, and it is the strongest piece of regulatory standing this review found for the Scope Markets brand itself.

But the trading names sprawl across entities in a way that matters for anyone trying to work out who they are actually contracting with. The CySEC licence, number 339/17, belongs to SM Capital Markets Ltd, also confirmed separately at Cyprus’s Registrar of Companies as HE 346068, active since 10/08/15. That entity operates the separate Scope Prime brand, restricted to clients in the EEA excluding Belgium, EFTA excluding Switzerland, and Belize, Cayman Islands, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and the UAE. It does not take retail clients under the Scope Markets brand. Meanwhile the Saint Lucia entity named in the AU root page’s legal footer, Scope Capital Ltd., turns up on the Saint Lucia Registry of International Business Companies name search as an International Business Company, but that free search publishes no registration number, incorporation date or status, and an IBC registration is a company filing, not a licence to deal in forex or CFDs. The number quoted for it, 2026-00075, was not verified.

The AU root page compounds this: its trust badge states the site is FSC regulated under registration number 1943611, the same number that belongs to RS Global Ltd, while the same page’s legal footer names Scope Capital Ltd. as the contracting entity with no financial services licence disclosed for it. A client signing up through that page cannot tell from the page itself which of two differently licensed (or unlicensed) companies they are actually dealing with. That gap is a large part of why regulation scores only 4 out of 10 here, licence real, but the entity structure obscuring rather than clarifying who holds it.

Where Scope Markets held up

We searched 1441 warning list entries mirrored from CySEC, the FCA and FSC Mauritius, running positive controls against four registers first so a clean result means absence rather than a broken search, and Scope Markets appears on none of them. That is a genuine finding, not a guess, and it is worth stating plainly given how much of the rest of this review turns on unresolved entity questions.

Fees score well at 9 out of 10 based on what the earlier review reported for the account tiers: a One Account with spreads from 0.9 pips and no stated minimum deposit above $10, a Scope Invest tier with spreads from 0.1 pips and zero swaps, and a Scope Elite tier with raw spreads from 0.0 pips against a $3.50 per lot commission and a $20,000 minimum. Those figures come from the earlier published review, not from a page our review process fetched, so treat them as reported rather than independently confirmed. Platform provision reaches MT4 and MT5 through the account tiers, with the instrument range spanning forex, index, energy, metal, share, commodity and crypto CFDs plus futures, though the crypto and futures line ups differ between the AU and VN pages we pulled.

What kept the score down

Support scores 5 out of 10 on email and phone contacts plus a Freshchat widget, nothing richer than a standard contact page. Reviews sit at 3.8 out of 10. And the contractual documents that would settle the entity question, terms and conditions, client agreement, risk disclosure, all failed to load from the UK, UAE, Indonesian and Australian versions of the site, so none of the liability, governing law or set off clauses that usually anchor a conclusion like this one could be checked. The AU page also advertises a 100% deposit bonus up to $100,000 with terms and conditions referenced but not retrievable in our evidence, and CFDs on SpaceX, an unlisted company, offered at up to 1:10 leverage, neither of which this review can assess further than noting they are advertised.

Scope Markets holds a confirmed Belize FSC licence under RS Global Ltd and a clean result across 1441 mirrored warning list entries, but its own pages disclose a different, unlicensed entity, Scope Capital Ltd., as the legal counterparty on at least one regional site. TrueBroker scores it 5.5 out of 10.

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