Depositing from Brazil
The answer is never a brand name. It is your country × the broker: the entity your address gets, the protection behind it, and what the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) says. All 40 verdicts for Brazil are computed below, checked on October 22, 2026.
Facts checked on October 22, 2026
Platforms may only publicly offer trading services in Brazil with CVM authorisation. CVM publishes declaratory acts (atos declaratórios) naming companies soliciting Brazilians without authorisation — including, in December 2025, companies behind a broker that affiliate sites rank #1 for Brazil. Offshore platforms serve Brazilians from foreign entities with no CVM protection.
The locally authorised route is a CVM-authorised broker on B3. Offshore forex platforms are a grey zone CVM actively polices at the marketing layer.
about R$1,000 (about $200). The advertised minimums ($5–$50) ignore PIX conversion costs and IOF. About R$1,000 is where the account survives normal costs and one normal losing streak.
Minimums and rails checked on October 22, 2026. Advertised minimums are the platforms' own published figures — accepted minimums, not viable ones.
| Broker | Verdict for a resident | The entity that would hold the account | Protection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exness | Your regulator warns against this route | Exness (SC) Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| XM | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | XM Global Limited (FSC Belize) | No compensation scheme |
| Deriv | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Deriv (SVG) LLC and sister entities (SVG / Labuan / BVI registrations) | No compensation scheme |
| FBS | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | FBS Markets Inc (FSC Belize) | No compensation scheme |
| HFM (HotForex) | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | HF Markets (Seychelles) Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| Octa (OctaFX) | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Octa Markets Ltd (Mwali International Services Authority (Comoros)) | No compensation scheme |
| AvaTrade | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Ava Trade Markets Ltd (BVI FSC (British Virgin Islands)) | No compensation scheme |
| Pepperstone | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Pepperstone Markets Limited (SCB (Bahamas)) | No compensation scheme |
| IC Markets | Your regulator warns against this route | Raw Trading Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| FP Markets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | First Prudential Markets Limited (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| Tickmill | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Tickmill Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| Plus500 | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Plus500SEY Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| eToro | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | eToro (Seychelles) Limited (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| Capital.com | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Capital Com Online Investments Ltd (SCB (Bahamas)) | No compensation scheme |
| XTB | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | XTB International Limited (FSC Belize) | No compensation scheme |
| IG | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | IG International Limited (BMA (Bermuda)) | No compensation scheme |
| Quotex | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | ON SPOT LLC GROUP (registered in St. Kitts and Nevis — no government licence) | No compensation scheme |
| Pocket Option | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| Olymp Trade | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Aollikus Limited (VFSC (Vanuatu) — and FinaCom membership, an industry body, not a government regulator) | No compensation scheme |
| Binomo | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| IQ Option | Your regulator warns against this route | SKY LADDER LLC (registered in Antigua and Barbuda) | No compensation scheme |
| Axi | Your regulator warns against this route | AxiTrader LLC (registered in St Vincent & the Grenadines) | No compensation scheme |
| LiteFinance | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | LiteFinance Global LLC (registered in St Vincent & the Grenadines) | No compensation scheme |
| FXTM | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Exinity Limited (FSC Mauritius) | No compensation scheme |
| Vantage | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Vantage Global Limited (VFSC (Vanuatu)) | No compensation scheme |
| RoboForex | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | RoboForex Ltd (FSC Belize) | No compensation scheme |
| JustMarkets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Just Global Markets Ltd (FSA (Seychelles)) | No compensation scheme |
| Headway | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Jarocel Pty Ltd (FSCA (South Africa)) | No compensation scheme |
| PU Prime | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | PU Prime Limited (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| Moneta Markets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Moneta Markets Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| ThinkMarkets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | TF Global Markets (International) Ltd (registered in Seychelles — not authorised by FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| CMC Markets | Not accepted — don't try workarounds | — | — |
| OANDA | Your regulator warns against this route | OANDA Global Markets (BVI) (BVI FSC) | No compensation scheme |
| FOREX.com | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | GAIN Global Markets (Cayman) (CIMA (Cayman)) | No compensation scheme |
| Interactive Brokers | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Interactive Brokers (the entity for your country of residence) (a regulated IB entity — this group onboards to regulated entities in most countries) | A regulated entity with local dispute access; there is no single global compensation fund |
| Admirals | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Admirals SC Ltd (FSA Seychelles) | No compensation scheme |
| BlackBull Markets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | BBG Limited (FSA Seychelles (the NZ entity serves New Zealand)) | No compensation scheme |
| Fusion Markets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | Gleneagle Securities Pty Limited (VFSC (Vanuatu)) | No compensation scheme |
| MultiBank Group | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | MEX Atlantic Corporation (CIMA (Cayman)) | No compensation scheme |
| easyMarkets | Deposit with eyes open — offshore entity | EF Worldwide Ltd (BVI FSC (British Virgin Islands)) | No compensation scheme |
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Sources: the brokers' own legal and entity pages as published on the check date; the Reserve Bank of India Alert List; the UK Financial Conduct Authority Register and Warning List; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers; Bappebti (Indonesia) licensed and blocked lists; CVM (Brazil) declaratory acts; the FSCA (South Africa) FSP register; the Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) licensee list; the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) advisory list; SECP/PMEX (Pakistan) membership; SEC Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria publications. Affiliate bounty figures from the programs' own published terms (Exness, XM, Plus500, eToro affiliate pages). If a fact has moved since our check date, the regulator's or broker's own publication wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.