Desk audit TBR-A-2026-057

PU Prime

Independent desk audit of a retail broker, from public sources.

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Current. Valid to 10 October 2027.

TBR DESK AUDIT · PUBLIC SOURCES · BB 49/100

Weak in places

Desk audit. TBR carried out this audit on its own initiative, using public sources only. No firm paid for it. No accounts were opened or tested, so Execution & Pricing and Operational Resilience were not assessed and do not count towards the grade. PU Prime may respond, and any response is published in full. How desk audits are scored. See Verified audits, which our trading experts test hands-on.

Summary

PU Prime’s international site is published under PU Prime LLC of St Vincent and the Grenadines, whose own client agreement says it is not regulated, alongside an investment dealer licensed in Mauritius. Group companies are listed by regulators in Seychelles, South Africa, the UAE and Australia. No enforcement action was found, but the owners are not disclosed and clients of the St Vincent company have no regulatory protection for their money.

Grade
BB
Score
49/100
Fieldwork
10 Oct 2026 to 10 Oct 2026
Findings
2 high2 medium3 strength

Scorecard

PillarWeightScoreGrade
Regulation & Licensing19%40BB
Corporate Structure & Ownership14%45BB
Client Money & Payouts19%38B
Execution & Pricingn/aNot assessed: requires live testing
Conduct & Disclosure14%88AAA
Operational Resiliencen/aNot assessed: requires live testing
People & Community5%30B
Overall71%49BB

The overall score is the weighted average of the assessed pillars, with their weights scaled back up to 100.

This grade summarises the evidence we reviewed up to 10 October 2026. It is not a guarantee of the firm's safety or future conduct, and changes after that date are not reflected. Nothing here is financial or legal advice.

Findings

Licences verified

Each licence was checked directly against the regulator's public register on the date shown.

EntityRegulatorLicenceCheckedResult
PU Prime LtdFSC MauritiusSEC-2.1B Investment Dealer10 Oct 2026Confirmed with notesLicensed 19 January 2024; the register does not show the licence number GB23202672 that the firm states.
PU Prime LimitedFSA SeychellesSecurities dealer10 Oct 2026Confirmed with notesListed as a securities dealer, trade name PU Prime, website puprime.com; the register gives Office 1A, CT House, while the firm and the LEI record give Office 9A, and does not show the licence number SD050.
PU Prime (Pty) LtdFSCAFSP 5221810 Oct 2026ConfirmedAuthorised.
PU Prime Financial Services LLCUAE Capital Market AuthorityRegister entry CP-000163310 Oct 2026Confirmed with notesActive since 13 June 2025, with introduction and promotion activities only; the register does not show the licence number 20200000388 that the firm states.
PU Prime Trading Pty LtdASICAFSL 41068110 Oct 2026ConfirmedCurrent licensee in ASIC’s AFS licensee dataset; licence start 19 January 2012.

Notes and sources

Evidence and scope

Scope

Desk audit of the brand’s client-facing entities, using public sources only: regulator registers and announcements, sanction records, the global LEI system, and the firm’s own published documents, as available on 10 October 2026. No accounts were opened, nothing was tested live, and the firm was not asked for evidence.

Limitations

Absence of a public enforcement record is not evidence of good conduct. How international clients are allocated between PU Prime LLC and PU Prime Ltd (Mauritius), and whether the Seychelles company still takes clients, could not be established from public sources. PU Prime LLC’s registration in St Vincent and the Grenadines was not checked on the local registry. The licence numbers of the Mauritius, Seychelles and UAE companies are taken from the firm. No accounts were found for any group company, and the insurance policy PU Prime cites was not reviewed. Only the most recent page of the FSC Mauritius enforcement archive could be reviewed.

Evidence reviewed

  • FSC Mauritius, FSA Seychelles, FSCA, UAE Capital Market Authority and ASIC register entries
  • CVM open data on sanctions cases; Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal proceedings search
  • FSCA enforcement action search and ASIC media release 23-298MR
  • GLEIF records for PU Prime group companies
  • Client service agreements of PU Prime LLC and PU Prime Ltd (Mauritius)
  • PU Prime regulation, compensation fund, insurance and Dream Fund pages, and help centre articles
  • IOSCO I-SCAN, Reserve Bank of India Alert List and Securities Commission Malaysia Investor Alert List

Version history

  1. Report published.

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