Safety of funds

Safety of funds

Close consideration should be taken before choosing a forex broker. Traders should look closely at how their forex brokers are ensuring their deposits are being looked after. Quite often, the best way to judge a firm’s financial integrity is by its reputation and the commitment it shows to its clients through its service and business decisions.

Our devotion to our clients has made our firm a respected industry leader. Investors must be prudent in regard to where they hold their funds, and it is vital to consider the integrity of the firm and its management when making one’s decision.

Maintaining the security of your funds is paramount at IMMFX, and many steps have been taken to make sure that our clients’ funds are secure. We are grateful for the trust our clients have in us, and we do all that is in our power to maintain the highest level of protection of their funds at all times.

We are strongly committed to our clients. This is evident through the business decisions we make and the impeccable service we provide to all of our clients. Our financial integrity and formidable reputation mean everything to us, and therefore, the protection of clients’ funds comes first before anything else.

Safety of clients’ funds is a great concern for FX traders and Money Managers. At IMMFX, we address these concerns by offering the highest quality FX liquidity featuring optimum pricing in a safe and secure environment. IMMFX clients can rest assured knowing their funds are safe and protected because of the following risk mitigation measures:

Clients' funds segregation in a highly-regulated bank accounts

All client funds deposited with IMMFX are fully segregated from the company’s operational cash expenses and are kept in separate bank accounts.  Customer funds are never mixed with company funds.  This safety measure ensures that those funds belonging to clients cannot be used for any other purpose.

A global financial auditor provides third-party supervision

Our annual financial reports are audited by well-reputed global auditors to ensure that our operations meet the highest standards of global practices possible.

Proper investment with noble high grade banks holding deposits

Client funds are deposited into the safest top-tier banks globally.  Moreover, we only preserve trading lines with top-rated banks across the world according to international industry standards.

Auto robotic risk management inline with real-time monitoring

IMMFX’s Automated Robotic Risk Management System (ARMS) is designed to minimize the risk of a client’s account being exhausted to zero or going negative.  We have a series of early warning alerts which warn our clients of heightened market movements or an excessive level of portfolio risk. Leveraging these Automated Robotic Internal Alert Systems (ARIAS) with proactive warnings reduces the probability of clients seeing any abrupt or surprising losses.

Matching system principal along with prime broker business model

IMMFX multibank liquidity aggregation and order matching system is designed to facilitate wholesale access to competitive price feeds for our clients as a matched-principal. All trades placed in our platforms are matched to a liquidity provider, allowing us to operate our IMMFX brokerage business model with managed market risk. This matched-principal model allows IMMFX to offer the best liquidity available with competitive spreads, without taking on significant financial risk.
We ensure that IMMFX has the ability to cover its financial needs and capital requirements at all times. To review any concerns in further detail, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at support@immfx.com.

Compliance with applicable laws & regulations

All IMMFX employees are responsible for adhering to all relevant laws and regulations, as well as the rules and principles outlined in our Code of Conduct. Employees must ensure that they are familiar with the laws, regulations, best business practices, and the required ethical conduct befitting an IMMFX employee.

Confidentiality

During daily business activities, some IMMFX employees may have privileged access to client information relating to account details, trade practices and patterns, fees and revenues, marketing practices, etc. Employees are required to keep this information confidential, which means they are not permitted to disclose this information to any third party unless they are legally permitted or required to do so.

Liquidity providers with major banks and Vertex FX

IMMFX has proudly created its own network of liquidity providers, which consists of 12 Major Banks connected directly to our trading platform Vertex FX via FIX Bridge, granting its institutional and retail client's direct access to the inter-bank market right from your Trading Platform, with the lowest deposit, trade size, and margin requirements.

IMMFX provides tailor made, multi-bank liquidity for Institutional and Retail traders. For high frequency trading and algorithmic this offers powerful benefits including access to deep liquidity, anonymous trading on live, streaming prices and robust trading technology. Our solutions dramatically reduce time-to-market and trading cost for active traders.

Most common industry liquidity providers

Anti-money laundering policies and protection

IMMFX does not tolerate money laundering and supports the fight against money launderers.
IMMFX has policies in place to deter people from laundering money.

IMMFX has proudly created its own network of liquidity providers, which consists of 12 Major Banks connected directly to our trading platform Vertex FX via FIX Bridge, granting its institutional and retail client's direct access to the inter-bank market right from your Trading Platform, with the lowest deposit, trade size, and margin requirements.

IMMFX provides tailor made, multi-bank liquidity for Institutional and Retail traders. For high frequency trading and algorithmic this offers powerful benefits including access to deep liquidity, anonymous trading on live, streaming prices and robust trading technology. Our solutions dramatically reduce time-to-market and trading cost for active traders.

What is money laundering?

Money Laundering is not just the attempt to disguise money derived from the sale of drugs. Rather money laundering includes any transaction or series of transactions that seek to conceal or disguise the nature or source of proceeds derived from illegal activities, including drug trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, fraud and many other crimes.  Money laundering occurs when any of those funds from an illegal/criminal activity are moved through the financial system. It is moved in such a way as to make it appear that the funds have come from legitimate sources.
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There is no specific method of Money laundering; however, usually three stages are commonly followed during which there may be numerous transactions made by the launderers that could alert a financial institution to a criminal activity:
Firstly, Placement – the physical disposal of cash proceeds derived from illegal activity; in other words, cash or cash equivalents are placed into the financial system.
Secondly, Layering – separating illegal proceeds from their source by creating complex layers of financial transactions designed to disguise the audit trail and provide anonymity; in other words, money is transferred or moved to other accounts (e.g. futures accounts) through a series of financial transactions designed to obscure the origin of the money (e.g. executing trades with little or no financial risk or transferring account balances to other accounts).
Thirdly and lastly, Integration – the provision of apparent legitimacy to criminally derived wealth; in other words, the funds are re-introduced into the economy so that the funds appear to have come from legitimate sources (e.g. closing a futures account and transferring the funds to a bank account).
Trading accounts are one vehicle that can be used to launder illicit funds or to hide the true owner of the funds. In particular, a trading account can be used to execute financial transactions that help obscure the origins of the funds. IMMFX directs fund withdrawals back to the original source of remittance as a preventative measure.

International Anti-money Laundering requires financial services institutions to be aware of potential money laundering abuses that could occur in a customer account, and implement a stringent compliance program to deter, detect and report potential suspicious activity.

Defining suspicious activity

There is, as of yet, no clear regulatory guidance as to what constitutes “suspicious activity.” A determination of whether any transaction or series of transactions is suspicious will necessarily depend on the customer and the particular transaction(s), compared with the customer’s normal business activity. Unusual or questionable transactions, sometimes referred to as “red flags,” may include those that appear to lack a reasonable economic basis or recognizable strategy based upon what the firm knows about the customer. Suspicious activity can occur either at the outset of the client relationship or long after the relationship has been established.

Knowing your clients (“KYC”)

The Company has separate account opening procedures that are followed when opening new accounts. These procedures must be reviewed in conjunction with the Screening of Prospective Clients and Anti-Money Laundering Measures section of these Procedures. However, in addition to those new account opening procedures, each Associated person must be familiar with his or her client’s identity. Below are factors to be considered in carrying out the “Know Your Client” duty. The Compliance Officer will also be responsible for reviewing all new accounts and conducting an annual review of all accounts to consider the following factors:
Whether the client is an individual, an intermediary, public, private or domestic corporation, a financial or non-financial institution, or regulated person or entity;
Whether the client has been an existing client for a significant period of time;
How the client became a client of the Company (e.g., client is personally known by the Associated person, referred by a long-time well-known existing client, etc.);
Whether the client’s home country is a member of the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”).

“Red flags” – Indicators at the account opening stage:

Although by no means exhaustive, the following is a list of potential indicators of suspicious activity, which, if unexplained, may evidence money laundering activity:
A customer exhibits an unusual concern regarding the firm’s compliance with government reporting requirements, particularly with respect to his or her identity, type of business and assets, or is reluctant or refuses to reveal any information concerning business activities, or furnishes unusual or suspect information or business documents;
A customer wishes to engage in transactions that lack business sense, apparent investment strategy, or are inconsistent with the customer’s stated business/strategy;
A customer (or a person publicly associated with the customer) has a questionable background or is the subject of news reports indicating possible criminal, civil or regulatory violations;
A customer appears to be acting as the agent for another entity, but declines, evades or is reluctant, without legitimate commercial reasons, to provide any information in response to questions about that entity;
A customer has difficulty describing the nature of his or her business or lacks general knowledge of his or her industry;
The information provided by the customer that identifies a legitimate source for funds is false, misleading, or substantially incorrect; and Upon request, the customer refuses to identify or fails to indicate any legitimate source for his or her funds and other assets.

Screening of clients, anti-money laundering measures

The Company has in place procedures to prevent and detect money laundering. As part of those procedures, the Company also has in place detailed procedures on screening new clients. Such procedures are expanded upon in the Anti-Money Laundering context. The Compliance Officer is responsible for approving all new accounts to ensure that no account is subject to restricting or blocking before opening.

All new accounts must be reviewed and approved by the Compliance Officer before they are opened. It is imperative that all required information be obtained and that all account holders and principal owners of accounts are identified and compared to lists of terrorists and suspected terrorists published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and other lists published by the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) against Money Laundering. The Compliance Officer is responsible for ensuring the Company’s compliance with its anti-money laundering procedures which are set forth in a separate section entitled Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program.

Documentary verification

IMMFX will obtain the following information from all prospective customers:

For natural persons:

A copy of an unexpired government-issued identification evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph (e.g., driver’s license, passport, alien registration card, or similar identification).
Valid recent official utility bill with the name and address of the user (water, gas, electricity, phone, Bank Statement etc.) issued within the last three months.

For non-natural persons / corporate or institutional:

Memorandum and Articles of Association (certified original)
Certificate of Registered address (certified original)
Directors and shareholders Certificate (certified original)
Certificate of Incorporation (certified original)
Account opening Form completed, signed and initialed on every page Minutes completed, signed and initialed on every page
Financial Position of the Company – Audited Financial Statements for last 2 years
Full documents: Passport/ID, Copy of Credit Card and Proof of Address (i.e. utility bill) of empowered person
Passport/ID, Proof of Address (i.e. utility bill) of all shareholders of the Company

IMMFX will close an account in cases where:

A potential client’s identity cannot be verified.
There are any doubts about the legitimacy of the client’s source or use of the funds.
The client refuses to provide the mandatory information.
The information provided appears false or suspicious.
The information is inconsistent and cannot be explained after additional inquiries.

Deposits and withdrawals

Withdrawal orders: The provision of documentation or any other type of Client authentication as may be required from time to time by Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, Credit Card companies and IMMFX, is a prerequisite, prior to the execution of a withdrawal order.
Credit card deposits may be, according to credit card companies’ regulations, returned to same credit card when a withdrawal is performed. A withdrawal to a bank account where initial deposits have been performed by credit cards will be executed back to credit card or to bank account at company’s discretion. Withdrawals to bank account may take a longer time period, due to additional security procedures and documentation from the Client.
Credit Card Deposits Variance: When choosing an account base currency other than USD, your credit card may be debited sums which due to exchange rates and credit card companies’ fees, may slightly vary from the initial sum that has been deposited by you in the account base currency. You hereby accept that such variations may occur, and you hereby affirm that you shall not seek to object or charge this back. Note that when Using USD as account base currency this phenomenon will be avoided.
Wire Transfers: When depositing by a Bank Transfer, as required by Anti-Money Laundering regulations, you are required to use only one bank account, which is in your country of residence and in your name. An authentic SWIFT confirmation or Transfer Confirmation, showing the origin of the funds, must be sent to IMM GROUP LTD legal name of IMMFX brand. Failure to submit such SWIFT/Confirmation may result in the return of the deposited amount, hence preventing the deposit of such pending amounts to your IMMFX account. Any withdrawal of funds, from your IMMFX account to a bank account, can only be refunded to the same bank account that the funds were originally received from.
Alternative payment methods (e-wallets; money transfer services; internet payment vendors; etc.): when depositing funds using a facility other than Credit Cards and/or Banks, you agree to, and acknowledge being bound by, the regulations and rules of such service, including, but not limited to, fees and other restrictions. IMMFX, at its sole discretion, may execute withdrawals to a facility other than the facility used for the original deposit, in accordance with Company and Anti-Money Laundering regulations.
The Company does not accept cash deposits.
These guidelines have been implemented to protect IMMFX and its clients.
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For questions/comments regarding these guidelines, contact IMMFX Compliance Department at compliance@immfx.com.

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