Verification record
FBS review
The entity behind FBS, its licence, and how to confirm both yourself.
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FBS is not a broker we would put money with. We are not calling it a fraud, and that distinction matters, but too much about it is unverified or offshore to treat it as safe. Regulated by Financial Services Commission, Belize, offering MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, FBS App.
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
- Financial Services Commission, Belize
- Regulator tier
- Tier 3 / Offshore
- Register entry
- Belize FSC register
- Client money segregated
- Yes
- Held at
- Multiple Tier-1 banks; individual banks not disclosed
- Negative balance protection
- Yes
- Compensation scheme
- None
- Audited by
- Not prominently disclosed
- Not available to
- USA, EU, UK, Israel, India, Iran, Myanmar and additional restricted jurisdictions
A licence is the first thing a fake broker cannot produce, so it is the first thing to check.
FBS lists its regulation as Financial Services Commission, Belize.
The company behind the brand
- Legal entity
- FBS Markets Inc.
- Company number
- 000001317
- Headquarters
- Belize City, Belize
- Founded
- 2009
- Publicly listed
- No
- Parent company
- Independent / FBS group
- Employees
- 500+
- Also trades as
- FBS
Deposits and withdrawals
- Deposit methods
- Bank transfer, Visa/Mastercard, Skrill, Neteller and extensive regional payment methods
- Withdrawal methods
- Bank transfer, cards, e-wallets and local methods
- Deposit time
- Many electronic methods instant
- Withdrawal time
- Instant automated withdrawals available on supported methods
- Local payment methods
- Extensive, with 200+ global/local methods
What it costs to trade
- Spread from
- 0.7 pips
- EUR/USD spread
- 1.1 pips typical
- GBP/USD spread
- Dynamic
- Commission
- $0 on standard current offering
- All-in cost, EUR/USD
- Approx. 1.1 pips typical
- Spread type
- Floating
- Overnight swap
- Both: swaps may be charged or credited
- Inactivity fee
- No standard inactivity fee prominently advertised
- Deposit fee
- From $0
- Withdrawal fee
- From $0; payment-provider charges may apply
- Currency conversion
- Method/account dependent
Costs matter less than whether you can withdraw, but an offer that looks impossible usually is.
Spreads from 0.7 pips suggest an all-in account, where the broker's fee is built into the price rather than charged separately. There is usually no commission on top, which makes the cost easier to predict.
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.
FBS lists a minimum deposit of $5. 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
- $5
- Account types
- Standard/live trading, Swap-Free, Demo
- Account currencies
- Entity/account dependent
- Islamic account
- Yes, Swap-Free
- Demo account
- Yes
- Professional account
- No conventional regulatory professional classification on global entity
- Minimum trade size
- 0.01 lots
- Time to open
- Typically a few minutes, subject to verification
Markets and execution
- Markets
- Forex, Stocks, Indices, Metals, Energies, Cryptocurrencies
- Currency pairs
- 70+
- Total instruments
- 550+
- Crypto CFDs
- Yes
- Maximum leverage
- 1:3000
- Execution model
- Market execution
- Execution speed
- From 0.01 seconds
- Order types
- Market, limit, stop, stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop and MetaTrader pending orders
- Servers
- Global trading infrastructure
Leverage up to 1:3000 is available on this entity. High leverage does not increase your expected return - it increases position size for the same deposit, and shortens the move needed to close you out.
FBS covers forex, stocks, indices, metals, energies, cryptocurrencies. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.
Funding options: bank transfer, visa/mastercard, skrill, neteller and extensive regional payment methods. 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, FBS App
- Own platform
- Yes, FBS mobile trading functionality
- Mobile app
- Proprietary plus MT4/MT5
- Browser trading
- Yes
- Automated trading
- Yes
- Copy trading
- Not a core feature of the current global offering
- Indicators
- MT4/MT5 indicator libraries and custom indicators
- Third-party tools
- MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5
- API access
- No standard retail API prominently offered
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, email, callback, Help Centre
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Telephone
- +501 611 0594; +357 22 010970
- support@fbs.com
- Live chat response
- Under 1 minute advertised
- Education
- Extensive: courses, tutorials, webinars, trading guides and educational articles
- Research
- Market analysis, trading ideas, news and technical/fundamental commentary
Information is regularly updated. Last compiled from FBS's own website on 26 August 2026.
Questions people ask about FBS
Is FBS a real registered company?
Yes. At FBS, the company you would be contracting with is FBS Markets Inc., registered as 000001317 and based in Belize City, Belize. 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 FBS regulated, and by whom?
FBS holds Financial Services Commission, Belize, which we grade as tier 3 / offshore. 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 FBS trade under any other names?
FBS also appears as FBS. 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.