Do's and don'ts when speaking about the DARWIN we offer to investors based on your trading activity

If you don’t hold a license that allows you to give investment advice, you can’t do financial promotions of the DARWIN we offer to investors based on your trading activity.

If you're regulated
If you're not regulated
Using the the words "darwinex" or "darwin" in domain names or social media handles

If you’re regulated

If you’re an individual or company with a regulatory license that allows you to give investment advice or manage investment portfolios, you should follow the stipulations of the regulations applicable as per your license to complex investment products.

As an additional layer to protect retail investors the DARWIN Provider Agreement you signed when we created the DARWIN based on your trading signals, requires you to:

promote the DARWIN in accordance with the FCA’s guidelines on financial promotions and adverts, and
follow the FCA’s approach for financial promotions in social media.

If you’re not regulated

The term's of the DARWIN Provider Agreement stipulate, among others, that

The DARWIN Provider will not assist or direct any investor in making investment decisions.

and

(...) the DARWIN Provider agrees to carry out any marketing activities related to the Company and / or the Company’s services in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations (...)

Under UK law, financial promotions may only be published by persons who are authorised to do so. Darwinex does not authorize DARWIN Provider to do financial promotions.

What is a financial promotion?

Any form of communication (including through social media) is capable of being a financial promotion, depending on whether it includes an invitation or inducement to engage in financial activity.

In summary, if you don’t hold a license that allows you to give investment advice, you can’t invite others to engage in the financial activity of investing in the DARWIN based on your trading signal, that is, investing in a portfolio managed by Darwinex that is informed by your trading signal.

Our Compliance team monitors the activity of Signal Providers and we will reach out to you if we detect that you are engaging in unauthorized promotions of the DARWIN based on your trading signal.

Using the words "darwinex" or "darwin" in domain names or social media handles

We discourage using the the words "darwinex" or "darwin" in domain names or social media handles. "Darwinex" is a registered trademark, while "darwin" if how we call the managed portfolios we offer to our investor clients. When talking about your trading activity, you should refer to the name of the strategy you trade on your own account rather then the darwin we create based on it.