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Exness review
The entity behind Exness, its licence, and how to confirm both yourself.
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Exness is a real firm and not an outright scam, though enough is unverified here that we would want the gaps closed before recommending it. Regulated by Seychelles FSA (SD025); FSCA South Africa; CySEC; FCA; CBCS Curacao (0003LSI); BVI FSC (SIBA/L/20/1133); Mauritius FSC; Kenya CMA; Jordan JSC; UAE CMA; Belize FSC, offering MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, Exness Terminal, Exness Trade.
Our rating
One rating, identical across our sites - only the way it is shown changes. It averages six assessments: regulation, trading costs, platforms, markets, support and education.
Regulation and safety
- Regulated by
- Seychelles FSA (SD025); FSCA South Africa; CySEC; FCA; CBCS Curacao (0003LSI); BVI FSC (SIBA/L/20/1133); Mauritius FSC; Kenya CMA; Jordan JSC; UAE CMA; Belize FSC
- Regulator tier
- Tier 1
- Register entry
- Seychelles FSA Securities Dealer Register, licence SD025
- Client money segregated
- Yes
- Held at
- Regulated banking institutions
- Negative balance protection
- Yes
- Compensation scheme
- No statutory investor compensation scheme for Exness (SC) Ltd retail clients
- Audited by
- Independent external auditors
- Not available to
- United States, United Kingdom, European Economic Area retail market and various sanctioned/restricted jurisdictions
A licence is the first thing a fake broker cannot produce, so it is the first thing to check.
Exness holds tier-one authorisations from FCA and CySEC. That matters more than any headline spread: it determines your leverage cap, whether losses can exceed your deposit, and what happens to your money if the firm fails.
It also operates an offshore entity (FSC and FSA). Which one you are onboarded to depends on where you live, and the two carry very different protections - worth confirming before you deposit.
The FCA caps retail leverage at 1:30, mandates negative balance protection, and covers eligible clients under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
CySEC licences passport across the EU and follow the 1:30 retail leverage cap, with the Investor Compensation Fund covering eligible claims.
The FSCA licenses derivative providers in South Africa without a fixed retail leverage cap, so headline leverage is often higher than an FCA or ASIC entity may offer.
Check the licence yourself: the Seychelles FSA list of regulated entities, the FSCA list of regulated entities, the CySEC register of investment firms, the FCA Register, the Mauritius FSC register of licensees.
The company behind the brand
- Legal entity
- Exness (SC) Ltd
- Company number
- 8423606-1
- Headquarters
- Limassol, Cyprus
- Founded
- 2008
- Publicly listed
- No
- Parent company
- Exness Group
- Employees
- 2,000+
- Also trades as
- Exness
Deposits and withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- Bank cards, bank transfer, e-wallets, cryptocurrency and extensive regional/local payment systems
- Withdrawal methods
- Bank cards, bank transfer, e-wallets, cryptocurrency and supported local payment systems
- Deposit time
- Many methods instant; otherwise generally processed within 24 hours
- Withdrawal time
- Many withdrawals instant; otherwise generally processed within 24 hours
- Minimum withdrawal
- From $1, payment-method dependent
- Local payment methods
- Extensive country-specific bank transfers, mobile money, e-wallets and regional payment systems
What it costs to trade
- Spread from
- 0.0 pips
- EUR/USD spread
- Approx. 0.9 pips, Standard
- GBP/USD spread
- Approx. 1.1 pips, Standard
- Commission
- Up to $3.50 per side / $7 round turn, Raw Spread
- All-in cost, EUR/USD
- Approx. 0.7 pips, Raw Spread
- Spread type
- Variable
- Overnight swap
- Both; overnight swaps can be charged or credited, with swap-free trading available
- Deposit fee
- Generally none; fees may apply to specific payment methods
- Withdrawal fee
- Generally none; method-specific charges may apply
- Currency conversion
- Conversion at applicable exchange rate
Costs matter less than whether you can withdraw, but an offer that looks impossible usually is.
A quoted spread from 0.0 pips is a raw-spread figure, which almost always means a separate commission per lot. Compare the two together - a "zero spread" account with a high commission can cost more than a wider spread with none.
Quoted spreads are best-case figures on the most liquid pair, in normal conditions. What you actually pay widens around news and at the session open.
Exness lists a minimum deposit of $10. Treat it as the cost of opening an account, not the cost of trading one - position sizing on a small balance is what tends to cause damage.
Accounts
- Minimum deposit
- $10
- Account types
- Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Zero, Raw Spread, Social Standard, Social Pro, Demo
- Account currencies
- USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, NZD, CAD, CHF, JPY, SGD, HKD and numerous regional currencies
- Islamic account
- Yes
- Demo account
- Yes
- Professional account
- Yes: Pro, Zero and Raw Spread
- Minimum trade size
- 0.01 lots
- Time to open
- Approximately 3 minutes
Markets and execution
- Markets
- Forex, Metals, Cryptocurrencies, Energies, Stocks, Indices
- Currency pairs
- 100+
- Total instruments
- 250+
- Crypto CFDs
- Yes
- Maximum leverage
- 1:~
- Execution model
- Market maker / principal
- Execution speed
- Millisecond execution
- Order types
- Market, limit, stop, stop-limit, stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop
- Servers
- Global financial data-centre infrastructure
Exness covers forex, metals, cryptocurrencies, energies, stocks, indices. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.
Funding options: bank cards, bank transfer, e-wallets, cryptocurrency and extensive regional/local payment systems. Check withdrawal routes as well as deposit ones - they are often not the same, and the difference only becomes apparent when you try to take money out.
Platforms and tools
- Platforms
- MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, Exness Terminal, Exness Trade
- Own platform
- Yes, Exness Terminal
- Mobile app
- Both proprietary and third-party
- Browser trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes, MT4/MT5 Expert Advisors and algorithmic trading
- Copy trading
- Yes, Exness Social Trading
- Indicators
- 100+ through Exness Terminal/TradingView; MT4/MT5 indicators and custom indicators
- Third-party tools
- MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingView charting, Trading Central, FXStreet
- API access
- Yes
MetaTrader 4 remains the most widely supported platform for expert advisors. If you rely on an existing EA, this is usually the deciding factor.
MetaTrader 5 handles more asset classes and order types than MT4, but expert advisors are not compatible between the two - an MT4 EA will not run on it.
Support and education
- Support hours
- 24/7
- Contact channels
- Live chat, Support Hub/ticket, Help Centre
- Languages
- 14+ languages
- Telephone
- N/A
- support@exness.com
- Live chat response
- Typically under 2 minutes
- Education
- Extensive: educational articles, trading guides, platform tutorials, webinars and trading education
- Research
- Trading Central, FXStreet market news, market analysis, trading calculators and analytical tools
Questions people ask about Exness
Is Exness a real registered company?
Yes. At Exness, the company you would be contracting with is Exness (SC) Ltd, registered as 8423606-1 and based in Limassol, Cyprus. A registration number is checkable in the register of the country that issued it, and a broker that will not give you one is telling you something.
Is Exness regulated, and by whom?
Exness holds Seychelles FSA (SD025); FSCA South Africa; CySEC; FCA; CBCS Curacao (0003LSI); BVI FSC (SIBA/L/20/1133); Mauritius FSC; Kenya CMA; Jordan JSC; UAE CMA; Belize FSC, which we grade as tier 1. A licence number is the part worth checking, because it is the thing a cloned site copies and the thing the regulator's register will not confirm.
Does Exness trade under any other names?
Exness also appears as Exness. This matters when you are checking a licence or a warning list, because a search for one name will not always find what was published about another.