Non-trading Transactions Regulation and KYC/AML Policy
Effective as of 10 May 2023
1. General provisions
1.1. This policy ("Policy") has been developed as part of the
implementation of the recommendations of the FATF (Financial Action Task
Force on Money Laundering) aimed at combating financial abuse, to identify
and prevent violations of legislation, and to comply with the legislation on
money laundering and terrorism funding, and to establish the procedure for
making deposits, withdrawals, and other non-trading transactions on a
Client's account. This policy covers the Company and all partners of the
Company, including payment agents and Company Clients.
1.2. The Client guarantees the legal origin, legal possession, and the
right to use or to manage the funds transferred to the Company's account.
1.3. The Client assumes the following obligations:
1.3.1. Comply with legal norms, including international, aimed at combating
illegal trading, financial fraud, and money laundering.
1.3.2. Avoid direct or indirect complicity in illegal financial activities
and any other illegal transactions.
1.3.3. Avoid direct or indirect complicity in financial fraud and other
actions contrary to international law and legal norms.
1.3.4. Avoid in its practical activity the use of the Company's services
in any actions that may directly or indirectly harm the effort to fight money
laundering.
1.4. The Company reserves the right to investigate the nature of the
suspicious non-trading transactions set out in section 2 of this Policy and to
suspend those transactions until the reasons for their occurrence are ascertained
and the investigation has ended at any time.
1.5. During an investigation, according to this section of the Policy,
the Company shall have the right to ask the Client to provide identification
documents (passport, identity card, driver license, etc.), documents confirming
the place of residence, payment, and other documents and bank cards confirming
the legal possession and legal origin of funds, documents confirming the Client's
financial standing, and any other documents required by the Company due to applicable,
including international, legal regulations and legislation.
1.6. If any suspicious non-trading operations are detected, the Company
shall have the right to immediately and unilaterally:
• Refuse to carry them out for the Client
• Limit the withdrawal of funds from the Client's account by any means,
at the Company's discretion
• Return funds previously credited from the Client's account to the
source from which the deposit was made
• Close the Client's account and refuse to continue servicing
• Debit from the Client's Account all commissions and other expenses
connected with the suspicious non-trading transaction
• Deduct up to 20% (Twenty percent) from any withdrawn amount, including
commissions from the Company's and (or) the Client's banks and (or) PSPs
• Close the Client's open positions (Trades) and document the financial
result
• Debit from the Client's account Bonuses granted to him
• Block any transactions on the trading terminal
• Terminate the Agreement with the Client
• Perform other actions that the Company deems necessary and
sufficient to comply with this Regulation and applicable legal regulations
and legislation.
This list is not exhaustive and may be expanded at the Company's discretion.
1.7. The refusal to carry out suspicious non-trading transactions and
the termination of the Agreement with the Client in connection with the Company's
identification of suspicious non-trading transactions shall not be considered
as grounds for the Company's civil liability for breach of the Agreement.
1.8. The Company has the right to close the Client's account if the
Client does not have any transactions on the Client's account for 12 (twelve)
consecutive months and there are no funds on the account.
1.9. This Regulation is open and is an integral part of the Agreement
between the Company and the Client. The content of this Policy is disclosed without
limitation at the request of any concerned parties. At the same time, the Company
shall not inform Clients and other individuals about the measures taken to counteract
the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism,
and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, except
as provided for by applicable law and this Regulation.
1.10. In case of non-compliance of certain provisions of this Regulation
with certain provisions of the Agreement and its integral parts in terms of non-trading
operations, the provisions of this Regulation shall apply unless otherwise follows
from the essence of the obligation. This circumstance does not result in the
invalidity of other provisions of those documents.
2. Detection criteria and attributes of suspicious non-trading
transactions
2.1. The Company may deem a non-trading operation suspicious if:
• Abuse of transfers (deposits to the Client's account, withdrawals
from the Client's account) without intention to perform trading transactions
or with low/insignificant trading transactions volume is discovered.
• The unusual nature of transactions that makes no obvious economic
sense or has no obvious legitimate purpose is discovered.
• Circumstances suggesting that transactions are carried out for the
purpose of money laundering or funding terrorism are discovered.
• The Client does not provide the identification information specified
by the Company, provides inaccurate information, and/or cannot be reached at
the addresses and telephone numbers he indicated.
• The Client did not provide identification information for the beneficiary,
i.e. the person for whose benefit the Client is acting (in particular, on the
basis of the agency agreement, contracts of assignment, commission, and fiduciary
management, for carrying out non-trading transactions).
• Counterfeit or invalid documents and documents of substandard quality
(black and white, unreadable) are provided.
• The Client did not provide identification information for the beneficial
owner of the Client at the request of the Company.
• The Client did not provide the information requested by the Company,
including regarding the Client's financial standing.
• The Client is on international and (or) other wanted list or data
about the Client and (or) Client’s payment sources received by the Company through
verification process indicates that the Client does not possess money sources
legally or money sources are used for illegal purposes.
• The Client makes non-trading transactions not in good faith or in
an abusive manner.
• The Client is on international and (or) other wanted list or data
about the Client and (or) Client’s payment sources received by the Company through
verification process indicates that the Client does not possess money sources
legally or money sources are used for illegal purposes.
2.2. The criteria for identification and attributes of suspicious transactions
specified in this section of the Policy are not exhaustive. The Company may deem
a non-trading transaction suspicious on the basis of an analysis of the nature
of the transaction, its components, attendant circumstances, and interaction
with the Client or his representative, even without the formal criteria and attributes
described in this section of the Regulation.
2.3. If suspicious non-trading transactions are discovered, the Company
decides on its own on further actions in relation to the Client, his Account,
and his trading and non-trading transactions.
3. Payments and general provisions on non-trading transactions
3.1. The Client may transfer funds to the Client's Account at any time
in any currency that the Company accepts in the country of the Client's non-trading
transaction. Client's funds are held on Company's accounts, including segregated
accounts opened in the name of the Company to hold the Client’s funds separately
from the Company's funds. All payments and transfer of payment information are
carried out by the Company on encrypted communication channels in compliance
with industry standards for the security of payments and in accordance with the
requirements of international payment systems. In accordance with the recommendations
of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, encryption at the transport
level is used to protect the Client's data - TLS 1.3 and at the application level
- the AES algorithm.
3.2. Transactions to credit and withdraw funds to/from the Client's
Account are governed by this Regulation.
3.3. The Client is responsible for the correctness of the payments made
by him. If the Company's bank details change, the Client is responsible for payments
made on outdated details as soon as the new information is posted on the trading
terminal.
3.4. Each of a Client's non-trading transactions is confirmed by a record
on the trading terminal in the corresponding section. The Client must independently
monitor the accuracy and correctness of the information about non-trading transactions
and the amount of the account balance and monitor the accuracy and correctness
of other information in the relevant section of the trading terminal. If the
Client finds an error in the record in respect to his non-trading transactions,
either in relation to the account balance or other information, he is obliged
to notify the Company as soon as possible, using the contact information on the
Company's website. The Client also shall have the right to formulate a claim
in accordance with the requirements of the Agreement.
3.5. If a Company Client has had no transactions on the Trading terminal
for 6 months that lead to a change in the Client`s Account Balance, the Company
reserves the right to introduce a subscription fee (commission) for providing
access to the Trading terminal. The amount and the procedure for debiting the
subscription fee are determined by the Company at its discretion.
4. Crediting of Funds to a Client's account
4.1. A Client may receive the Company's services only at the expense
of the funds on the Client's account, except as specified in this Agreement.
The Client's account can be replenished by transferring funds to the Company's
accounts or to the accounts of the Company's authorized payment agents. The Company
may post the list of authorized payment agents and their bank details on the
trading terminal.
4.2. The Client's funds transfer to Company's accounts must comply with
the requirements and take into account the restrictions established by applicable
laws and other legal acts of the countries under whose jurisdiction the transfer
is made.
4.3. The Company shall credit to the Client's Account the amount received
by the Company subject to the Client's compliance with the provisions of this
Regulation.
4.4. Funds are credited to the Client's account in the currency of the
Client's account, regardless of the currency in which the transfer was made.
If the transfer currency is different from the Client's account currency, the
transfer amount is converted into the currency of the Client's account at the
exchange rate at the time when the payment was received in the Company's account.
The Company sets the conversion rate. In cases established by the payment services
providers, funds may be withdrawn from a Client's external account in a currency
other than the currency of the Client's external account.
4.5. The currency in which the Company accepts transfers to the Client's
account, depending on the Client account currency and the credit method, is indicated
on the Trading terminal.
4.6. The Company reserves the right to impose restrictions on the minimum
and maximum amounts of funds, differentiated depending on the method of transfer
and transfer currency.
4.7. The crediting of funds to the Client's account that is not directly
related to compensation payments takes place in the following cases:
a) If amounts transferred by the Client are received on the Company's
account.
b) If money previously transferred to the Client is returned to the
Company's accounts if the client could not be contacted to promptly resolve the
problem and resend the funds.
4.8. Funds are credited to the Client's account within 1 (one) business
day following the day on which the funds were received on the Company's account.
4.9. If funds sent by the Client are not transferred to the Client's
account within 5 (five) business days, the Client has the right to request that
the Company investigate the transfer. To investigate a transfer, the Client must
issue a request in accordance with the Agreement and provide the Company with
the documents confirming the funds' transfers.
5. Ways to make deposits on a Client's account
5.1. Bank transfer.
5.1.1. The Client may make a deposit by bank transfer at any time if,
at the time of transfer, the Company works with that deposit method.
5.1.2. The Client can use this method of money transfer only after providing
a list of documents determined by the Company unilaterally at its discretion.
5.1.3. The Client may make a bank transfer to the Company bank account
specified in the dashboard only from his personal bank account or make payment
only on his own behalf without opening a bank account. The Company reserves the
right to refuse to transfer funds received to the Company's account if the transfer
was made in violation of the terms of clause 1.4.6. of the Agreement or this
Regulation. At the same time, the Company in case of detection of such violation
has the right to terminate the Agreement unilaterally and refuse further service
to the Client.
5.1.4. Before making a bank transfer, the Client must verify the Company's
bank details and purpose of payment in the dashboard. If the Client cannot make
a transfer for the specified purpose of payment, he must contact the Company
to resolve the issue individually.
5.1.5. The Company reserves the right to refuse to transfer funds received
on the Company's bank account with a purpose of payment that differs from the
purpose specified on the dashboard and if the transfer was made on behalf of
a third party. In this case, the Company sends the funds back to the bank account
from which they were transferred. All expenses related to this transfer will
be paid by the Client.
5.1.6. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not responsible
for the time the bank transfer may take.
5.2. Electronic transfer.
5.2.1. The Client may make a deposit by electronic transfer at any time
if, at the time of transfer, the Company works with that deposit method.
5.2.2. The Client may make an electronic transfer to the Company's accounts
only from his personal e-wallet. The Company reserves the right to refuse to
transfer funds received to the Company's account if the transfer was made in
violation of the terms of the Agreement or this Regulation. The Company also
has the right to unilaterally terminate the Agreement and refuse further service
to the Client in the event such violation is detected.
5.2.3. Before making an electronic transfer, the Client must verify
the Company's account details.
5.2.4. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not responsible
for the time an electronic transfer may take and for circumstances resulting
in a technical failure in the transfer if they were not the fault of the Company,
but of the electronic payment system.
5.3. Transfer from a bank card through the processing center.
5.3.1. The Client may make a deposit by bank transfer through the processing
center at any time if, at the time of transfer, the Company works with that deposit
method.
5.3.2. The Client may make a transfer from the bank card of an international
payment system, the type of which is specified in the dashboard.
5.3.3. The Client may make a transfer from a bank card registered only
in his name. The company reserves the right to refuse to transfer funds received
to the Company's account if the transfer was made in violation of the terms of
the Agreement or this Regulation. The Company also has the right to unilaterally
terminate the Agreement and refuse further service to the Client in the event
such violation is detected.
5.3.4. The Company reserves the right to refuse to transfer funds received
on the Company's accounts at the processing center if the transfer was made on
behalf of a third party. In this case, the Company will send the funds back to
the bank account from which they were transferred. All expenses related to this
transfer will be paid by the Client.
5.3.5. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not responsible
for the time a transfer may take and for the circumstances resulting in a technical
failure in the transfer if they are not the fault of the Company, but of the
processing center or the international payment system.
6. Withdrawal of funds from a Client's account
6.1. The Client may at any time manage all or part of his/her funds
on his account by sending the Company a withdrawal request containing the Client's
instruction to withdraw funds from the Client's account subject to the following
conditions:
a) The Company will execute the order on the Client's trading account
only within the Client's account balance at the time when the order is executed.
If the amount taken out by the Client (including commissions and other costs
stipulated by this Policy for payment) exceeds the amount of the Client's account
balance, the Company has the right to reject the order.
b) The Client's instructions to withdraw funds from the Client's accounts
must comply with the requirements and consider the restrictions established by
applicable laws and other legal acts of the countries under whose jurisdiction
the transfer is made.
c) The Client's instructions to withdraw funds from the Client's account
must comply with the requirements and consider the restrictions established by
this Regulation and other Company documents.
d) Funds are withdrawn from the Client's account to the same payment
instrument from which the Client previously made a deposit, and the Company may
limit the amount of the withdrawal to the payment instrument to the amount of
the deposit to the Client's account from that payment instrument. The Company
may at its discretion set exceptions to this rule and withdraw the Client's funds
to other payment instruments; the Company is entitled at any time to ask the
Client for the payment details of other payment instruments, and the Client must
inform the Company of the requested payment details.
6.2. A withdrawal request by funds transfer to the Client's external
account may be executed by an agent authorized by the Company.
6.3. The Client shall prepare the withdrawal request in the Account
currency. If the Account currency differs from the transfer currency, the Company
shall convert the transfer amount to the transfer currency at the conversion
exchange rate established by the Company when the Client's account is debited.
6.4. The currency in which the Company makes a transfer to the Client's
external account may be specified in the Client's dashboard, depending on the
currency of the Client's account and the debit method.
6.5. The Company sets the conversion rate, the amount of the commission,
and other costs for each method of debiting the funds and may change them at
any time at its discretion. The conversion rate may differ from the exchange
rate of currencies established by the official authorities of any government
and from the current market level of the exchange rate of the respective currencies.
In cases established by the payment services providers, funds may be credited
to a Client's external account in a currency other than the currency of the Client's
external account.
6.6. The Company reserves the right to impose restrictions on the minimum
and maximum amounts of funds that may be withdrawn, differentiated depending
on the debiting method. These restrictions are displayed on the Client's Dashboard
when the Client submits a withdrawal request.
6.7. An order is considered accepted by the Company if it is drawn up
through the Client's dashboard. An order submitted or sent in any other way except
the method specified in this paragraph shall not be accepted by the Company for
execution.
6.8. The decision to withdraw funds from the Client's Account is made
by the Company within 5 (five) working days, except for the following cases:
• Operation is subject to the suspicious transactions described in this
Regulation.
• The presence of technical failures or other circumstances that prevent
the prompt decision of the Company.
6.9. If funds sent by the Company according to the withdrawal request
are not transferred to the Client's external account within 5 (five) business
days after the decision date under clause 6.8. of this Regulation, the Client
has the right to apply to the Company with a request to investigate the transfer.
6.10. If a Withdrawal request was drawn up with errors in the
account details, as a result of which the funds were not credited to the
Client's external account, the commission costs to resolve the situation
will be paid by the Client.
6.11. The Client's profit exceeding the amount of funds deposited by
the Client may be transferred to the Client's External account only in the order
agreed between the Company and the Client.
6.12. If the Client replenished the Client's Account in a certain way
and the procedure for withdrawal of funds differs from the procedure established
by clause 6.8 of this Regulation, the Company has the right to withdraw the amount
previously credited by the Client in the same way within the terms determined
unilaterally by the Company.
7. Ways to withdraw funds from a Client's Account
7.1. Bank transfer.
7.1.1. The Client may send a withdrawal request through the dashboard
and receive funds by a bank transfer at any time if the Company works with that
funds' transfer method.
7.1.2. The Client may send a withdrawal request to a bank account opened
only in his name. The Company reserves the right to refuse to withdraw the Client's
funds if the request was submitted in violation of the terms of the Agreement
and this Regulation. The Company also has the right to unilaterally terminate
the Agreement and refuse further service to the Client in the event such violation
is detected.
7.1.3. The Company must send funds to the Client's bank account in accordance
with the bank information specified in the Withdrawal request if the conditions
of clause 7.1.2 of this Regulation are met. The Company thus presumes that the
account belongs to the Client.
7.1.4. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not responsible
for the time the bank transfer may take.
7.2. Electronic transfer.
7.2.1. The Client can send a withdrawal request through the Dashboard
and receive funds by electronic transfer at any time if, at the time of submission
of the request, the Company works with that funds' transfer method.
7.2.2. The Client may submit a withdrawal request only to his personal
electronic account. The Company reserves the right to refuse to withdraw the
Client's funds if the request was submitted in violation of the terms of the
Agreement and this Regulation. The Company also has the right to unilaterally
terminate the Agreement and refuse further service to the Client in the event
such violation is detected. At the same time, the Company presumes that the electronic
account belongs to the Client.
7.2.3. The Company must send funds to the Client's bank account in accordance
with the electronic information specified in the withdrawal request if the conditions
of clause 7.2.2 of this Regulation are met.
7.2.4. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not
responsible for the time an electronic transfer may take and for
circumstances resulting in a technical failure in the transfer through no
fault of the Company.
7.3. Transfer to a bank card through the processing center.
7.3.1. The Client may send a withdrawal request through the
dashboard and receive funds by a transfer to his Bank card through the
Processing center at any time if, at the time of the transfer, the Company
works with that funds' transfer method.
7.3.2. The Client may send a withdrawal request of funds only to the
Bank card of the international payment system, which is specified in the Dashboard.
7.3.3. The Client may send a withdrawal request to a Bank card registered
only in his name. The Company reserves the right to refuse to withdraw the Client's
funds if the request was submitted in violation of the terms of the Agreement
and this Regulation. The Company also has the right to unilaterally terminate
the Agreement and refuse further service to the Client in the event such violation
is detected.
7.3.4. The Client understands and agrees that the Company is not
responsible for the time a transfer may take and for the circumstances
resulting in a technical failure in the transfer if they are not the fault
of the Company, but of the processing center or the international payment
system.
7.4. At its discretion, the Company may offer the Client other ways
to withdraw funds from the Client's account. This information is placed on
the dashboard.
8. Terms of the 1-Click service
8.1. By filling out the form of payment with the bank (payment) card
information, checking (ticking) the check-box "Save the card" and clicking on
the payment confirmation button, the Client expresses his full consent to the
rules for the 1-Click service (recurring payments) and authorizes the payment
services provider to automatically, without additional authorization, debit from
the Client's bank (payment) at the Client's request the funds determined by the
Client to replenish the Client's account balance at the Company without re-entering
the Bank (payment) card data by the date provided by the 1-Click service in order
to replenish the Client's account balance at the Company.
8.2. The Client acknowledges and agrees that confirmation of the use
of the 1-Click service will be provided to the Client within 2 (two) business
days to the Client's e-mail address.
8.3. By using the 1-Click service, the Client confirms that he is the
owner (authorized user) of the bank card, the information for which is used to
provide the 1-Click service and also confirms that the Client will not take actions
to challenge payments made from a bank card in favor of the Company to replenish
the Client's account balance at the Company.
8.4. By using the 1-Click service, the Client agrees to bear all expenses
connected with the use of this service and all additional expenses (if necessary),
including, but not limited to, all kinds of taxes, duties, etc.
8.5. The Client assumes full responsibility for all payments made by
the Client to replenish the Client's account balance at the Company. The Company
and/or the payment services provider provides only payment in the amount indicated
by the Client and is not responsible for the Client's payment of the additional
amounts referenced above.
8.6. After the payment confirmation button is clicked, the payment is
deemed to have been processed and is irrevocably executed. By clicking the payment
confirmation button, the Client agrees that he will not be able to rescind the
payment or demand that it be rescinded. By filling out the payment form, the
Client confirms that he is not violating the current legislation of any country.
By filling out the payment form and accepting the terms of this section, the
Client, as the owner of the bank (payment) card, confirms that he has the right
to use the services offered by the Company.
8.7. By starting to use the website and/or trading terminal, the Client
assumes legal responsibility for compliance with the legislation of any country
where the website and/or the trading terminal are used, and the Client confirms
that he has reached or exceeded the age of majority that is legally permitted
in the jurisdiction where the website is used. The Client confirms that the payment
service provider is not responsible for any illegal or unauthorized violation
of the prohibitions on the use of the website and/or the trading terminal. By
agreeing to use the services of the website and/or the trading terminal, the
Client confirms that any payment is processed by the payment services provider
and there is no legal right to the return of the debited amounts and/or goods
or other payment cancellation options. If the Client intends to debit funds from
the Client's account, he can use the trading terminal.
8.8. The Client confirms that the 1-Click service will remain in effect
until the Client cancels it. If the Client wants to cancel the 1-Click service,
the Client has the right to cancel this service through the Dashboard by deleting
the bank (payment) card data from the list of the Client's saved cards.
8.9. The payment services provider is not responsible for the
refusal/inability to process the information for the Client's payment card,
or for a refusal associated with the failure to receive permission to make
payment using the Client's bank (payment) card from the bank that issued the
bank (payment) card. The payment services provider is not responsible for
the quality or scope of the Company's services offered on the website. The
Client is obliged to comply with the rules and requirements established by
the Company when making a deposit on the Client's account. The payment
services provider only makes the payment and is not responsible for any
pricing, general prices, and/or total amounts.
8.10. The Client must independently monitor the revision and update
of the terms and conditions of the 1-Click service posted on the Company's website.
8.11. The Client agrees that the exchange of information between the
Parties takes place through the Dashboard. In exceptional cases, the method of
email communication can be used:
[email protected] 8.12. If he does not agree to these conditions, the Client is obliged
to cancel the payment promptly and, if necessary, to contact the Company.