A regulator issued a notice about a website whose name was a licensed firm’s name with one extra word in front of it. Its finding was blunt: the site was not linked to any licensed entity in any capacity.
What the regulator published
On 14 August 2023 the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles issued a notice headed Unauthorized use of websites (the “unlawful website”). We read it on 12 September 2026.
It names one address — globalexclusivemarkets.com — and states that the site “is not linked to any entity licensed or regulated by the FSA in any capacity.”
That phrasing is worth reading slowly. It is not a finding that the site was doing something wrong. It is narrower and, in a way, more useful: the regulator is saying it has no relationship with this website at all. Whatever the site said about itself, the FSA had never licensed it, never supervised it, and had no file on it.
The notice adds that the Authority “is not responsible should persons continue or maintain client relationship, or uses services provided with or by the aforementioned website.” In plain terms: if you deal with it, nobody is behind you.
The extra word
Set the two names side by side.
- exclusivemarkets.com
- globalexclusivemarkets.com
One word, bolted to the front. Not a misspelling, not a different extension — an addition that reads as a natural expansion of a brand. Firms genuinely do launch “global” arms, so the word does not trip the alarm a typo would.
We should be careful here, and the care is the point. The FSA notice does not say globalexclusivemarkets.com was impersonating anyone. It names one website and says it has no licensed connection. Separately — and this is our own check, not the regulator’s claim — Exclusive Markets Ltd does appear on the FSA’s current Securities Dealer list, at Vairam Building, Providence, Mahé. We verified that on the regulator’s own register on 12 September 2026.
Two facts, stated separately, because that is how the record reads.
Where it stands now
We checked both domains on 12 September 2026.
- globalexclusivemarkets.com — no DNS record. Dead.
- exclusivemarkets.com — resolves normally.
So the flagged site is gone and the licensed firm is still trading. That is the usual ending, and it is why these notices are worth keeping: three years on, the warning is the only public record that the other site ever existed.
Why “licensed” needs a name attached
The useful habit this case teaches is to stop checking brands and start checking entities.
A regulator licenses a company, not a word. When you look a firm up, you are matching a legal entity name and a specific website against a register entry. “Exclusive Markets” is a phrase; Exclusive Markets Ltd at a stated address on the FSA’s dealer list is an entity. Anything that shares the phrase but not the entry is simply not the same thing, however similar it looks.
This is the same test that settles cases where every credential on a site is genuine except the address bar, and the one that explains why a single warning sometimes has to list three domains at once.
Verified evidence — checked 12 September 2026
- FSA Seychelles notice “Unauthorized use of websites (the ‘unlawful website’)”, dated 14 August 2023, naming globalexclusivemarkets.com.
- The notice states the site “is not linked to any entity licensed or regulated by the FSA in any capacity.”
- It also states the FSA “is not responsible” for anyone who continues to use that website.
- The notice names no other company and alleges no impersonation.
- globalexclusivemarkets.com has no DNS record on 12 September 2026.
- Exclusive Markets Ltd appears on the FSA’s current Securities Dealer list, Office 15(A), Third Floor, Vairam Building, Providence, Mahé — read on the regulator’s own register.
- exclusivemarkets.com resolves normally and is not named on the notice.
Our verdict
Check the entity, not the brand. Open the regulator’s register, find the exact legal name, and compare the website printed there with the one in your address bar. If the site you are on is not the site on the register, the licence on the register is not yours to rely on — no matter how closely the names match.
And treat added words with the same suspicion as missing letters. “Global”, “Pro”, “Capital”, “Group” and “International” are the cheapest way to make a borrowed name look like a bigger version of itself.
If you sent money to globalexclusivemarkets.com, tell your bank today. An offshore-flagged site that has since vanished leaves no one to write to, so the payment trail is the only thing left to work with — and it closes fast.
Sources: Financial Services Authority Seychelles, “Unauthorized use of websites (the ‘unlawful website’)”, fsaseychelles.sc/media-corner/regulatory-updates, dated 14 August 2023, read 12 September 2026; FSA Seychelles Capital Markets regulated-entities list, Securities Dealer category, read 12 September 2026; DNS resolution checks of globalexclusivemarkets.com and exclusivemarkets.com, 12 September 2026.
