The International Organisation of Securities Commissions occasionally publishes lists of dodgy investment firms that trade without the necessary supervision. Only alerts posted during the previous and current month are visible in the list shown here.

IOSCO receives alerts and warnings from its members about firms that are not authorized to provide investment services in the jurisdictions that issue alerts or warnings about them. Some of them use names similar to those of authorized firms or purport to be associated with authorized firms.

The alerts and warnings included in the list below are provided by IOSCO members on voluntarily. The contents of the alerts and warnings are the responsibility of the IOSCO members that issue them. This is not a complete list of all alerts and warnings from all IOSCO members.

* Southeast Asia Traders. The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, according to IOSCO, has been informed that Southeast Asia Traders unsolicited has offered to carry out financial services. The company's address is allegedly 88 Hing Fat Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong and the company's homepage is http://southeastasiatraders.com/ .

* Kucher Partners LLC. The British Financial Conduct Authority believes that this firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without its authorisation.

* Fife Hamilton Associates. The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority is warning the public against the activities of this company, which offers investment services. It is not an authorized investment firm or credit institution in Belgium; it is therefore not allowed to provide investment services in or from Belgium. It claims to have its registered office at the following address: Rogier Tower 29th floor, Place Charles Rogier, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium. According to the information available to the FSMA, this is a form of 'boiler room' fraud.

* The European Commodities Commission. The same Belgian regulator is warning the public against the activities of this outfit. According to its information, the European Commodities Commission presents itself as a supervisory authority in Belgium whose objective is to supervise undertakings that offer investors 'offshore investments' in order to protect such investors. The ECC claims to have its registered office at the following address: Antwerp Business Center, De Keyserlei 5b, box 58, 2018 Antwerp. It uses the website www.europeancommoditiescommission.com . It appears to be used as a front to give an impression of trustworthiness to certain investments offered to the public by unauthorized ne'er-do-wells.

* ATI International Financial Group / ATI Associates Ltd. This outfit has been flagged up by FINMA, the Swiss financial regulator. The website is at www.atifx.com . The blurb on the front page, couched in the grammar of Borat, says it all: "ATI Financial Group is by two well-known Swiss bank investment and holding, the headquarters is located in a sound and stable banking system and strict banking secrecy laws, known in Europe's financial capital – Cyprus." FINMA's only further comment is “Steht in Verbindung zu MAG Financial Group”.

* Chartis Mutual Group. The British FCA says that the address of this unauthorised trader, which advises about and deals in investments and is targeting the UK, is Rue Des Battoirs 9, Floor 7, Geneva, 1205, Switzerland, Tel 08708200022 Fax 02080825730 Website www.chartismutualgroup.com , email info@chartismualgroup.com

* AAC Ventures Ltd. This firm, targeted by the Ontario Securities Commission, allegedly does business as www.aacventureslimited.ca and www.aacventureslimited.org, but is not registered in Ontario to engage in the business of (i) trading in securities or (ii) advising anyone with respect to investing in, buying or selling securities.

* Peritus Capital Inc. Holland's regulator spotted this one as a boiler room, presumably targeting Europe. Address: Suite 202 - 1200 Bay Street Toronto ON Canada M5R 2A5 Tel: (416) 907-2151. it gives the website address as www.perituscapital.com . Email: info@perituscapital.com, accounts@perituscapital.com

* The Autorité des Marchés Financiers in Quebec has spotted some unregistered binary option platforms. A binary option is essentially a bet on how a particular underlying asset will perform in a limited amount of time. These are 10trade.com; 24option.com; 247binary.com; 4winner.com; amberoptions.com; anyoption.com; bancdebinary.com; binareo.com; binarytilt.com; bosscapital.com; cedarfinance.com; cherrytrade.com; dragonoptions.com; fmtrader.com; goptions.com; grandoption.com; gtoptions.com; leaderoption.com; lionlive.com; no1options.com; onetwotrade.com; opteck.com; optionfair.com;optionrally.com; optiontime.com; optionweb.com; option.fm; poweroption.com; rboptions.com; redwoodoptions.com; stockpair.net; sycamoreoptions.com; opoption.com;traderush.com; tradersking.com; triumphoption.com; ubinary.com. The CSA (some kind of club for Canadian securities administrators) encourages all investors to visit www.aretheyregistered.ca to check the registration of any person or company offering binary options to Canadians. Despite listing Canadian contact information, many binary options trading platforms seem to reside in countries such as Cyprus, Belize and the Seychelles.

* General Business Capital AG. The Austrian Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde or FMA says that this company, based at Voi du Chariot 3, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland, is selling services to Austrians without authorisation.

* Max Easy Credit. The Austrian FMA says that this Russian outfit, which offers “financial assistance,” has its offices at 107045 Moscow, Lukov Pereulok 2, Building 1. Tel: +7 499 703-21-95 / +7 960 066-38-51. Internet: www.maxeasycredit.com .

* International Trade Management. Another Austrian entry. This hails from 35 Evelyn Street, London SE8 5RT, tel +44-203-598-4320. Email: info@i-trade-management.com

* NetCFD / Centaure Capital Partners. This was earmarked by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets on 9 Mar.

* UK Options. This is from the British Columbia Securities Commission.

* Titan Trade Capital Limited. Listed by the Ontario Securities Commission. Website: www.titantrade.com . The regulator says that it is not authorised to (i) trade in securities or (ii) advise anyone with respect to investing in, buying or selling securities.

* Green Oak. The British FCA says that this is a clone of a real firm and gives the real firm's address - 32 A East Street, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire - as its own. Website: www.green-oak-financial.com . The regulated activities of the real firm include, amongst other things, the giving of advice about investments and dealing and arranging deals in investments (which include stocks and shares).

* Hawk Trade, Saito Mergers & Acquisitions, White-Miller Associates and Global Strategy Capital Markets Ltd. The Financial Services and Markets Authority of Belgium spotted these.

* Zulu Trade Inc. Spotted by the British Columbia Securities Commission.