In accordance with the regulations applicable to securities markets, the CNMV may disseminate any information necessary for the protection of investors and, in particular, issue warnings to the public.
Investment through unauthorized entities entails high risks of loss of capital, since they act outside the controls established by supervisory bodies. Furthermore, to create confusion, some use mentions of the CNMV to convey security in their investments.
To avoid this, both the CNMV and other foreign regulators issue warnings about entities that may be providing investment services without being duly authorized to do so.
Likewise, it is considered that it may be of interest from the perspective of investor protection to report on other entities that do not have any type of authorization or are registered for any purpose with the CNMV and that could be carrying out some type of fundraising activity or providing some service of a financial nature.
Warning entities search engine
Through the Warning Entity Search you can locate the entities that have been incorporated into any of the public warning groups indicated above, having to transcribe all or part of the name of the entity to be consulted.
If you want to verify if an entity is authorized to provide any investment service, consult the search engine included in the following link.
CNMV warnings
- Entities not authorized by the CNMV (“financial beach bars”): This section warns about entities and/or people that could be providing investment services or other activities subject to the supervision of the CNMV without having the necessary authorization to do so.
- Other entities: This section reports on entities that do not have any type of authorization nor are registered for any purpose with the CNMV and that could be carrying out some type of fundraising activity or providing some service of a financial nature. The list is not exhaustive and derives mainly from search and analysis exercises on the internet and social networks. The inclusion in the list does not imply any statement regarding the conformity or not with current regulations of the possible activity of the corresponding entities.
Warnings from foreign supervisors
- Unauthorized entities
- Other warnings