2025-07-22

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Public Notice No. 5 of 2025 – FMFW Ltd

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas re-issues a public notice warning that FMFW Ltd is not registered or licensed to operate as a digital asset business in The Bahamas. The entity is conducting activities as a digital token exchange without having applied for or received authorization under the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act, 2024. Consequently, any registrable or licensable activities conducted by FMFW Ltd and its agents within The Bahamas constitute a violation of applicable laws. The public is advised to exercise extreme caution and verify the authorized status of entities before engaging in business with them.

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SECURITIES COMMISSION OF THE BAHAMAS PUBLIC NOTICE No. 5 of 2025 22 July 2025 RE: FMFW LTD (AN UNREGISTERED DIGITAL ASSET BUSINESS) This NOTICE is re-issued by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (the Commission) pursuant to its authority under the Securities Industry Act, 2024, the Investment Funds Act, 2019, the Financial and Corporate Service Providers Act, 2020 and the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act, 2024 (the Acts). The original notice was issued by the Commission on 28 August 2023. It has come to the attention of the Commission that FMFW LTD (FMFW) may be conducting activities, in or from within The Bahamas, that are either registrable/licensable or illegal under one or more of the Acts. The Commission hereby advises the public that this entity and its agents/representatives are not registered with/licensed by the Commission. Nor have they made an application to be registered or licensed. Therefore, any registrable/licensable activity conducted, in or from within The Bahamas, by this entity and its agents/representatives constitutes a violation of one or more of the Acts. BACKGROUND FMFW, via its website, https://fmfw.io, offers services to the public as a Digital Token Exchange (exchange) for the buying, selling and trading of digital assets. Information currently on the website1 as well as recently received information continue to give the impression that FMFW is authorized to carry on a digital asset business, as an exchange, in or from within The Bahamas. The Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act, 2024 (DARE) prohibits any person from carrying on or being “involved in a digital asset business in or from within The Bahamas, or purport to do so, unless” that person has applied to and has been registered by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas. FMFW has not made an application to the Commission and has not been registered and authorized by the Commission to carry on a digital asset business in or from within The Bahamas.

1 https://support.fmfw.io/en/articles/7030821-initial-exchange-offerings-terms-and-conditions (see para. 8)

2 WARNING Individuals currently (or desirous of) conducting business with the aforementioned entity or its agents/representatives, should be cognizant that they are doing so with an entity and/or its agents who are not authorized or regulated by the Commission. Members of the public should exercise extreme caution in considering engagement in digital asset related activities with the aforementioned entity or its agents/representatives.


Listings of the Commission’s registrants and licensees that are authorized to engage in activities regulated by any of the Acts, in or from within The Bahamas, are located on the Commission’s website at https://www.scb.gov.bs/registrant-licensee-search/ . Before engaging in business with any entity that claims or purports to be authorized and/or regulated by the Commission, you are advised to consult, in the first instance, this publicly available listing. If the entity in question is not listed there, please contact the Supervision Department to confirm that it is not registered or licensed with the Commission at sud@scb.gov.bs or by telephone: (242) 397-4100. Complaints and/or any information pertaining to the aforementioned entity should contact: Enforcement Department Securities Commission of The Bahamas E-mail: info@scb.gov.bs or enfdept@scb.gov.bs