Compliance Forensics
How to Verify Asia-Pacific Capital Markets & Cross-Border Brokerage Licences & Detect Clone Firms: 2026 Supervisory Lookup Playbook
Practical 2026 due-diligence playbook from APAC Capital Brief explaining how to authenticate licence numbers across 98 official registers and detect clone-firm domain spoofing before funding an account.
Point clé : Clone firms hijack genuine licence numbers from authorised institutions in Japan JFSA, Hong Kong SFC, Singapore MAS, and Australia ASIC while operating on lookalike or unapproved web domains.
Kenji Takahashi, CFA