CMD Markets told visitors it had been looking after clients since 2012, and displayed three industry awards dated 2019, 2020 and 2021. Its website did not exist until March 2023.
The dates do not survive one check
The About page was unambiguous: “Putting our clients first since 2012”, “For more than 9 years”, “The company cmdmarkets.com was founded in 3rd September 2012.” The footer read ©2021 CMD Markets.
Along the bottom of the homepage sat three awards: Best Mobile Investment App — European CEO Magazine 2019, Best Forex ECN Broker — UK Forex Awards 2020, and Best Investment Conditions — Forex Report Magazine 2021.
The Internet Archive’s first capture of cmdmarkets.com is dated 12 March 2023.
All of it predates the website. A domain cannot accumulate nine years of clients before it is registered, and it cannot win an award in 2019 for an app nobody could download. This was not an old page left up by mistake — it was the entire history the firm offered about itself, written after the fact.
A City of London address and a Texas phone number
The footer gave the address as 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX — a real serviced-office block in the City, the kind that hosts dozens of tenants. Putting your name on it costs very little and proves nothing.
Beside it sat the contact number: +1 832 224 6124. The 832 area code is Houston, Texas. A firm presenting itself as a London operation, with testimonials attributed to customers in Britain and Germany, asked them to ring the Gulf Coast of the United States.
We searched Companies House on 11 September 2026. There is no UK company called CMD Markets — not at that address, not anywhere. The London presence was a line of text, the same construction as an address that turned out to be a map coordinate rather than a building.
No regulator named anywhere on the site
We read the archived pages looking for the words a regulated firm puts in its own footer: authorised, regulated, licence number, registration number, FCA, ASIC, FSCA, CySEC. There were none — not a claim we could disprove, but no claim at all. The same silence surrounds services that name no operator and no licence.
The FCA’s Financial Services Register returns zero results for CMD Markets. It is not authorised, and never was.
It is also not on the FCA’s warning list, and that is not a clean bill of health. The warning list grows from reports the FCA receives; an operation that shuts down before enough reports accumulate can disappear without ever being named. The register answers the question that matters: nobody supervised this. So there is no access to the Financial Ombudsman Service and no cover from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme — no fund, no adjudicator.
The sentence that should have ended it
One line on the About page did more damage than anything else on the site: “our specialists are guaranteed to bring profit to all our partners, so you can not worry about the safety of their funds, despite the potential level of risk of this type of investment.”
No authorised UK firm may promise a guaranteed profit, because none can deliver one. The sentence contradicts itself inside its own clause — guaranteed profit, despite the risk. Lower down, the statistics counters meant to impress had never been wired up, and sat reading 0 trading instruments and 0 countries.
The domain is now gone
We checked cmdmarkets.com on 11 September 2026. It does not resolve. There is no DNS record of any kind — the browser returns DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN, the answer given for a domain registered to nobody. The last archived capture is 12 November 2025.
For anyone holding an account, that is the practical end of it. Emails to info@ and support@ bounce, the login page is gone, there is no company at Companies House to write to and no regulator holding a file.
Verified evidence — checked 11 September 2026
- Internet Archive’s first capture of cmdmarkets.com: 12 March 2023; last capture 12 November 2025.
- Archived About page: “founded in 3rd September 2012”, “more than 9 years”; footer “©2021 CMD Markets”.
- Awards displayed for 2019, 2020 and 2021 — all before the domain existed.
- Archived footer: 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX · +1 832 224 6124 (Houston, Texas).
- Companies House: no UK company named CMD Markets.
- FCA Financial Services Register: zero results for CMD Markets — not authorised. No FCA warning notice published under that name either.
- No regulator, licence number or registration number appeared anywhere on the archived site.
- Archived claim: clients “guaranteed to bring profit”.
- Domain returns no DNS record (NXDOMAIN) on 11 September 2026.
- Not authorised: no Financial Ombudsman Service access, no FSCS protection.
Our verdict
A firm’s claimed age is the easiest lie to test and the one people check least. Two free tools settle it in a minute: look the domain up in the Internet Archive to see when it was first captured, then search the name at Companies House. If a broker says 2012 and the internet says 2023, nothing else on the site needs reading.
CMD Markets failed on every count — an invented history, awards dated before it existed, a London address with no company behind it, a US phone number, no regulator, and a promise of guaranteed profit. Then it vanished.
If you sent money to CMD Markets, tell your bank today and report it to Action Fraud. Chargeback and transfer tracing both depend on how quickly they are reported. The website disappearing does not close the matter.
Sources: cmdmarkets.com loaded 11 September 2026 (no DNS record); archived captures of cmdmarkets.com and cmdmarkets.com/about.php via the Internet Archive, first capture 12 March 2023, last 12 November 2025; FCA Financial Services Register search for “CMD Markets”, register.fca.org.uk, 11 September 2026; Companies House company search, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk, 11 September 2026.
