AMF and ACPR Warn Against Unauthorised Forex and Crypto Firms

We are deliberately not reproducing the full list here. It runs to 26 names across two categories, it changes as the regulators add and remove entries, and the only reliable version is the live AMF page linked above. Reproducing a static copy risks going stale and adds no value over the primary source.

What matters for a reader is not the specific names but the pattern the AMF and ACPR describe: firms presenting themselves as Forex or crypto-derivatives brokers, soliciting French residents, and operating outside French authorisation. The regulators' consistent guidance is to verify authorisation on the official registers before engaging with any such firm — which is exactly what the next section covers.

A blacklist tells you which firms to avoid. A register tells you which firms are legitimate — a stronger, more durable check. Before depositing with any Forex or crypto-derivatives provider soliciting you in France or the wider EU, run these steps.

If you recognise a firm you have deposited with on the AMF and ACPR blacklist, stop sending funds immediately — including any “fee” or “tax” demanded before a withdrawal, which is a common further-extraction tactic. Document everything: the website, correspondence, transaction references, and the names used by anyone who contacted you.

Report the solicitation to the AMF through its consumer channels, contact your bank or card provider about a possible chargeback, and be alert to “fund recovery” operators who cold-call victims — they are frequently a second scam. The steps are set out in full in our scam-verification guide.

The surest way to stay off a blacklist's wrong side is to begin with a broker whose EU authorisation is verifiable. For French residents, our comparison of the best Forex brokers in France lists providers with confirmed EU regulation, alongside the entity and licence details you can check against the registers above.