OasisBF Review 2026: It Is Using a Real FCA Firm’s Reference Number
OasisBF prints FCA firm reference number 1042906 and a Chiswick Park address in its footer. Both belong to Oasis Business Finance Ltd, an appointed representative with no permission to run a retail trading platform. CONSOB ordered the site blocked in Italy in May 2026. We score OasisBF 0.6 out of 10.
Quick facts
| Legal entity | None named. The footer shows another company's FCA reference number instead |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Unlicensed |
| Licence number | Displays FRN 1042906, which is registered to Oasis Business Finance Ltd |
| Headquarters | Footer gives Building 7, 5th Floor, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YG, which is the registered address of that other company |
| Minimum deposit | Not published |
| Maximum leverage | Not published |
| Instruments | Forex | Stocks | Crypto | Commodities | Indices |
| Withdrawal time | Not published |
| Segregated funds | Not claimed |
| Website | oasisbf.eunot linked: see our verdict |
Most unlicensed brokers say nothing about regulation, because saying nothing is harder to disprove. OasisBF took the opposite approach. It put a real number in its footer.
The number belongs to somebody else.
What the footer says
Read at source on 18 September 2026, the foot of every page carries this block:
OasisBF is a technology driven trading platform. [email protected]. +44 7440 060076. Building 7, 5th Floor, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YG. Firm reference number: 1042906.
Elsewhere the site describes itself as “Fully Regulated and Compliant” and “Regulated & Secure”. It does not name the regulator in either phrase, but a firm reference number in a London address block points at one authority only: the Financial Conduct Authority.
What the FCA register actually returns for 1042906
Searching the FCA’s public register for 1042906 returns exactly one firm, and it is not OasisBF.
| Field | FCA register entry for FRN 1042906 |
|---|---|
| Firm name | Oasis Business Finance Ltd |
| Status | Appointed representative since 10 October 2025 |
| Address | Building 7, 5th Floor, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, Hounslow, W4 5YG |
| Companies House number | 13464032 |
| Telephone | +44 7540 182489 |
The address matches the OasisBF footer word for word. The phone number does not. And “OasisBF” is a reasonable abbreviation of “Oasis Business Finance”, which is presumably the point: someone picked a real entry off the register and built a brand that would look like its trading arm.
Why an appointed representative cannot be this
This distinction is worth understanding, because it is the part most people skip.
An appointed representative is not an authorised firm. It is a business that operates under the licence of a separate authorised firm, its principal, and it may only do the specific activities the principal has agreed to cover and is itself permitted to do. The principal carries the regulatory responsibility. The AR carries none of its own.
Two things follow. The first is that an AR arrangement is not a vehicle for running a leveraged retail trading platform taking deposits from the public. The permissions required for that are prudential and specific, and they are held by the principal or by nobody. The second is that even if the principal did hold them, the protections a UK client expects would attach to the principal’s regulated business, not to a website that has borrowed the number.
So the claim fails twice over. The FRN is not OasisBF’s, and the firm it does belong to is not licensed to do what OasisBF’s website offers.
The domain in the blocking order is not the domain you land on
CONSOB, Italy’s securities regulator, ordered Italian internet providers to block OasisBF in May 2026. The order names oasisbf.com and trader.oasisbf.com.
Type oasisbf.com into a browser today and you are redirected to oasisbf.eu, which is live, substantive and not named in the order.
That is a two-character move, and it is worth understanding what it buys. A blocking order attaches to a string. Italian providers block the string CONSOB gave them. Search engines index the warning coverage against the string in the order. Move the site to a different top-level domain and the brand keeps trading while every search result the regulator generated points at a domain nobody is using. We have seen the same trick with a hyphen in Primarkets. Here it is a country code.
What the site does not publish
No company name. No registration number of its own. No jurisdiction of incorporation. No terms and conditions, no client agreement, no risk warning, no complaints procedure, no statement about segregated accounts, no minimum deposit, no leverage figure, no spread table and no named investor compensation scheme. The only identifying details on the site are the ones copied from Oasis Business Finance Ltd.
What the score is made of
| Pillar | Weight | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulation and licence tier | 30% | 0.2 | Displays another firm’s FCA reference number; holds nothing of its own |
| Fund safety and withdrawals | 25% | 0.3 | No entity, no segregation claim, no compensation scheme |
| Cost and execution | 15% | 1.5 | Nothing published to assess |
| Transparency | 15% | 0.2 | The only concrete details on the site belong to a different company |
| Complaint record | 10% | 1.5 | A CONSOB blocking order, then a move to a domain the order does not cover |
| Platform and support | 5% | 1.5 | An email address and a mobile number |
0.6 out of 10, which is the lowest score on this site to date. Borrowing an authorised firm’s identity is a different act from simply operating without a licence, and the rating reflects that. The method is at our scoring method.
A note for Oasis Business Finance Ltd
Nothing here suggests that Oasis Business Finance Ltd has any connection to OasisBF, and we have found no evidence of one. On the material available, the firm appears to have had its reference number and registered address copied without its knowledge. That happens often enough that the FCA runs a standing warning about it under the name “clone firms”.
If you have already deposited
- Do not pay anything further. A fee, a tax or a “release charge” demanded before a withdrawal is the fraud, not a step towards ending it.
- Check your bank or card statement for the name that actually took the payment. It is unlikely to read OasisBF, and whatever it does read is the name your bank needs.
- Screenshot the footer now, including the FRN, the address and the URL bar. That block is what makes the case, and it can be edited in seconds.
- Card payments: ask your bank about a chargeback for services not provided, normally within 120 days of the transaction.
- Bank transfers: request a recall immediately and give your bank the FCA register entry for 1042906 alongside CONSOB’s May 2026 blocking order.
- Report it to the FCA, which maintains a dedicated route for clone firm reports, and to your own national regulator.
- Refuse every recovery offer. People who contact you after a loss, offering to retrieve it for a fee, are working the same list.
The check worth learning
A firm reference number is free to verify and takes about thirty seconds. Put the number into the FCA register, then read the name that comes back, not just whether something came back. A clone works precisely because the number is real. What fails is the match between the number and the brand printed above it.
Then read the status line. “Appointed representative” is not “authorised”, and it is not a licence to run a trading platform. The wider pattern is in our investigation into the blocked-brand pipeline.
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