Key Takeaways
- The website is offline: Investmentsglobal.com no longer loads, and the domain sits on a registrar hold. The last archived copy of the site dates from January 2024.
- We found no licence: The broker never published a licence number, the FCA register doesn't list it, and Ontario's securities regulator warned investors about it in January 2023.
- Its terms pointed offshore: Client agreements fell under the laws and courts of St Vincent and the Grenadines, where a company registration doesn't amount to a forex licence.
- Getting money out came with conditions: Withdrawals were paid in crypto only, bonus funds needed trading volume of 20,000 times the bonus, and the terms listed a $499 dormant fee for every 30 days without a transaction.
- Your bank is still worth asking: Card chargeback windows may have closed on older deposits, though UK credit card payments can also be claimed under Section 75, which allows more time.
This InvestmentsGlobal review is for anyone who has had a call from the broker or still has money in an account there. Our research says that InvestmentsGlobal didn't hold any licence from any recognised regulator, and its website also no longer loads.
With the live site gone, most of the detail here comes from archived copies of the broker's own pages. They show what InvestmentsGlobal offered, what its terms said about withdrawals and fees, and why getting money out was harder than the sales pitch suggested. The last sections cover the steps you can take if your funds are stuck.
Is InvestmentsGlobal Still Operating?
The broker's website has gone offline. The domain, investmentsglobal.com, doesn't resolve, and the registry lists it on "client hold", a status that takes a website off the internet. We ran both checks in September 2026, and the registry record was last changed in February 2024. The Internet Archive's last saved copy of the site is from January 2024, and the broker's Trustpilot page now carries a notice saying the company's website has closed.
You can't open an account, and existing clients have no website through which to ask for a withdrawal. If anyone contacts you now offering to reopen an InvestmentsGlobal account, or to recover money from one, you should treat the call as a warning sign. Fake recovery firms buy or steal the client lists of failed brokers and ring the same people again, usually asking for a fee up front. Our guide to UK-regulated brokers explains how to handle an unexpected call from a trading company.
Figure 01. InvestmentsGlobal from its archived account page to a domain on hold.
What Was InvestmentsGlobal?
InvestmentsGlobal presented itself as a broker for forex, shares and cryptocurrencies, trading through its own platform, which it said worked on every device. The About page said clients could trade names like Apple, Tesla and Twitter, and it described the business only as "a worldwide brand".
The site also left out basic details. It didn't name a registered company, give an office address or say when the business started. The contact page listed UK and Australian phone numbers and a support email, and by early 2024 the homepage was also promoting a crypto debit card and a referral scheme.
Small inconsistencies ran through the pages. The footer called the accounts Basic, Silver, Gold, Platinum and VIP, while the account page itself used Starter, Classic, Standard, Professional and VIP. The About page promised every client a dedicated account manager, yet the account page reserved one for deposits of $10,000 and above.
Is InvestmentsGlobal Regulated?
InvestmentsGlobal held no licence from a recognised financial authority that we could find. A search of the FCA register for the name doesn't return any firm, and the broker never published a licence number from any regulator. On 24 January 2023, the Ontario Securities Commission issued an investor warning stating that Investments Global, at www.investmentsglobal.com, was not registered to trade securities in Ontario.
The broker's own terms show where it placed itself. They made the laws of St Vincent and the Grenadines govern every client agreement and gave the courts there exclusive jurisdiction over disputes. For UK, Australian or Canadian clients, the terms required any legal claim to go through a Caribbean court.
St Vincent and the Grenadines is a common base for an offshore broker, and a company registration there doesn't amount to a licence to deal in forex. In January 2023 the islands' Financial Services Authority sent registered agents a notice on forex companies that pointed to a sharp rise in complaints and fraud allegations against SVG-registered firms. It required any company doing forex business to show a licence from each country where it operated, and gave existing firms until 10 March 2023 to file one.
InvestmentsGlobal's terms still sent disputes to St Vincent in January 2024, ten months after that deadline, although the broker never named a company registered there. Without a licence, the usual protections didn't apply. UK clients didn't have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, and the broker didn't have to keep client money in segregated accounts or offer negative balance protection. Our safety guides explain what each of those protections covers.
Figure 02. How to check a broker's licence, and where InvestmentsGlobal falls.
The check in Figure 02 takes a few minutes. You should search the regulator's register by company name and licence number, confirm that the web address listed there matches the site you are using, and watch for clone firms that copy a licensed company's name and details. InvestmentsGlobal fails at the first step, since it never named a regulator you could check.
InvestmentsGlobal Account Types and Minimum Deposit
The InvestmentsGlobal minimum deposit was $250 for the entry-level Starter account, and the next tier up asked for $10,000. The broker's account page set out five InvestmentsGlobal account types in August 2022.
| Account | Minimum deposit | Spreads from | Max leverage | What it added |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $250 | 1.6 pips | 1:100 | Over 200 assets, eBooks, video lessons |
| Classic | $10,000 | 1.5 pips | 1:200 | Account manager, monthly webinars, withdrawal priority level three |
| Standard | $50,000 | 0.5 pips | 1:300 | Market analysis, weekly webinars, withdrawal priority level two |
| Professional | $100,000 | 0.0 pips | 1:400 | Education on demand, daily webinars, withdrawal priority level one |
| VIP | $250,000+ | Not stated | Not stated | "First Class Service", "Our Best Pricing" and "Premium Conditions" |
InvestmentsGlobal account tiers as listed on the broker's account page, archived August 2022. The figures are as advertised and can no longer be tested against live trading.
A spread from 1.6 pips on the Starter account was wide for major currency pairs, and the tighter pricing sat behind deposits of $50,000 or more. Leverage of 1:400 on the Professional tier was far above the limits UK and EU regulators set for retail clients, and higher leverage makes losses grow as quickly as gains.
Each step up the ladder asked for a much larger deposit with a firm that had no licence behind it. Withdrawal speed was also sold as a perk, with "prioritized withdrawal" levels attached to bigger accounts, which implies smaller clients waited longer for their own money. The account manager arrived at the $10,000 level, the point where calls encouraging clients to deposit more tend to start at brokers of this kind.
InvestmentsGlobal Trading Platform and Assets
InvestmentsGlobal ran its own trading platform, which it said you could download and use on any device. The archived pages don't mention MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5 anywhere, so there's no sign the broker offered either.
Without MetaTrader, clients couldn't run Expert Advisors or bring the indicators they already used, and the terms narrowed things further. They banned scalping, which they defined as trades open for less than five minutes, prohibited expert advisors and other software the company linked to manipulation, and let the broker cancel any trade or close any account it suspected of breaking those rules.
The product list sounded broad. The Starter account advertised more than 200 tradable assets, and the About page named individual shares alongside the crypto markets on the homepage. The site never published a full instrument list or spreads per market, though, so the range can't be checked now.
InvestmentsGlobal Withdrawal Rules and Fees
InvestmentsGlobal paid withdrawals in cryptocurrency only. Its withdrawal policy set a minimum of $50 in crypto and quoted 7 to 10 working days for processing. The broker charged no withdrawal fee of its own, but clients paid every exchange fee and charge along the way. The exchange rate was set when the broker processed the transfer, so crypto price moves during a slow payout changed how much a client received.
The bonus policy added another condition. Any bonus, and any profit made while it sat in the account, stayed locked until the client had traded a total volume of 20,000 times the bonus amount. On a $1,000 bonus, this meant $20 million of trading. Bonuses are easy to accept on a sales call, and the volume requirement tends to surface only when you ask for your money.
The terms and conditions also listed a dormant account fee of $499 for every 30 days without a transaction, deducted automatically. The same clause spells the number out as "four hundred forty nine", so the exact amount is uncertain. A client who stopped trading while waiting for a withdrawal could have seen the balance fall every month, at a broker whose About page promised "no hidden fees, no additional charges".
The handful of reviews on the broker's Trustpilot page include a few positive ones, and the complaints describe the pattern from the client's side. People reported sales calls several times a day, one said the broker closed the account and kept the balance, and another said a payout took five months to arrive.
Our team has seen this sequence in complaints about many unregulated brokers. Service is quick and friendly while deposits come in, and then a withdrawal request meets a new fee or trading condition, or the broker stops replying. The conditions are usually in the terms from the start, which is why you should read a broker's bonus and withdrawal policies before your first deposit and check whether a bonus has been added to your account without your asking. If one appears, you can refuse it in writing and keep a copy of the message.
Customer Support at InvestmentsGlobal
Support used to run on weekdays only. The contact page listed live chat from 07:00 to 14:00 GMT and phone lines from 09:00 to 13:00 GMT, Monday to Friday, plus the UK and Australian numbers and a support email. The chat ran on the website, which has gone, and the old numbers are unlikely to reach anyone who can act on your account.
The education menu offered eBooks, a glossary and an asset index, with webinars that grew more frequent at each deposit tier.
InvestmentsGlobal Pros and Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Low $250 entry deposit | Unregulated, with an investor warning from Ontario's securities regulator |
| More than 200 assets advertised | Website offline and domain on hold |
| A platform the broker said worked on every device | Withdrawals in crypto only, with exchange costs paid by the client |
| Bonus funds locked until trading volume reached 20,000 times the bonus | |
| A dormant fee listed at $499 for every 30 days without a transaction | |
| Scalping banned, and trades could be cancelled at the broker's discretion |
What to Do If You Have Money With InvestmentsGlobal
Your options are limited once a broker's website has gone, and the older your deposits, the fewer routes remain open. These are the steps worth taking, in this order.
- Your card issuer or bank: You should contact them first and ask what can still be done. Card chargeback windows are limited and may have closed on deposits made in 2022 or 2023, though UK credit card payments can also be claimed under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, which has a longer time limit.
- Your records: You should save deposit receipts, account statements, screenshots of your balance, emails, and the numbers that called you, before any more of it disappears.
- Your crypto trail: If you sent or received crypto, the wallet addresses and transaction IDs are the only record of where the money moved, so you should keep them.
- A report to the authorities: In the UK, you can report the broker to the FCA and to Action Fraud, in Canada to your provincial securities regulator, and in Australia to ASIC. Reports rarely bring money back directly, though regulators use them to warn other investors.
- Recovery offers: Firms promising to retrieve lost funds for an upfront fee are a known second scam aimed at the same victims, and you should turn them down.
If you paid by card and the broker later moved your balance into crypto, you should tell your card issuer about that step too, because the switch makes the payment harder to trace.
InvestmentsGlobal Review: The Bottom Line
InvestmentsGlobal was an unregulated CFD broker that sent disputes to courts in St Vincent and the Grenadines, paid withdrawals only in crypto, locked bonus money behind a trading requirement of 20,000 times the bonus, and listed a $499 fee for every 30 days of inactivity. Ontario's securities regulator warned investors about it in January 2023, and its website has since gone offline.
Our rating is 1.5 out of 5. The half point reflects a low entry deposit and a broad advertised product list, and neither outweighs a broker without a licence whose terms favoured the firm at every step. If you're choosing a broker now, you should start with the licence and confirm it on the regulator's own register. Our regulation guides list brokers checked against each regulator's register, and our 500pips review covers another offshore broker whose website went offline.
Frequently Asked Questions About InvestmentsGlobal
Is InvestmentsGlobal legit?
We found no licence for InvestmentsGlobal from a recognised financial regulator, and the Ontario Securities Commission warned investors in January 2023 that it wasn't registered to trade securities in the province. Its terms placed disputes in St Vincent and the Grenadines, withdrawals were paid only in crypto, and the website is now offline. On that record, it wasn't a safe place to keep your money.
Who should I report InvestmentsGlobal to?
You should report it to the regulator where you live. In the UK that means the FCA, with a separate fraud report to Action Fraud. In Canada, you can contact your provincial securities regulator, and in Australia ASIC. A report is unlikely to recover money by itself, though it adds to the record regulators use for public warnings, and you should keep a copy of whatever you submit.
What was the InvestmentsGlobal minimum deposit?
The Starter account required $250. The other tiers asked for $10,000 (Classic), $50,000 (Standard), $100,000 (Professional), and $250,000 or more (VIP), according to the broker's account page in August 2022. Larger accounts came with tighter spreads, leverage of up to 1:400, an account manager, and higher withdrawal priority. New accounts can't be opened because the website is offline.
Can I still withdraw money from InvestmentsGlobal?
A withdrawal through the broker is unlikely now. The website that hosted the client area and live chat is gone, and even while the site was live, withdrawals were paid only in crypto, and bonus funds needed trading volume of 20,000 times the bonus. Your card issuer or bank is the more practical route, so you should contact them as soon as possible and keep every record of your deposits.
Did InvestmentsGlobal offer MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5?
There's no sign it did. The archived pages describe only the broker's own platform, which meant clients couldn't run Expert Advisors or third-party indicators built for MetaTrader. Its terms also banned scalping, defined as trades held for under five minutes, and let the company cancel trades it considered prohibited. If automated trading matters to you, you should confirm MetaTrader support before opening any account.
Which countries did InvestmentsGlobal refuse?
The broker didn't accept residents of the United States, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, and it said it might refuse traders from other jurisdictions. It marketed with UK and Australian phone numbers, and the reviews on its Trustpilot page came from Australia and Canada. Canada wasn't on the excluded list, and Ontario's securities regulator issued its warning in January 2023.
