Compliance Forensics
How to Verify Listed Options, Futures & Volatility Derivatives Venues Licences & Detect Clone Firms: 2026 Supervisory Lookup Playbook
Practical 2026 due-diligence playbook from VolSurface Desk explaining how to authenticate licence numbers across 48 official registers and detect clone-firm domain spoofing before funding an account.
Ponto-chave: Clone firms hijack genuine licence numbers from authorised institutions in U.S. CFTC, National Futures Association (NFA BASIC), Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), and Eurex while operating on lookalike or unapproved web domains.
Dr. Alistair Finch, CQF, FRM