D.T. Direct Investment Hub Ltd, the Cyprus-regulated company identified by AvaTrade as a member of the Ava Trade Group, continues to hold Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission licence 347/17, with no newly published suspension, withdrawal or enforcement action against the firm as of September 19.
CySEC’s current register of Cyprus Investment Firms lists D.T. Direct Investment Hub under licence 347/17, which was granted on December 11, 2017. The company is registered in Cyprus under number HE354263 and remains listed among regulated investment firms rather than former firms whose authorisations have been surrendered or withdrawn.
The distinction is notable after a series of recent Cyprus regulatory developments, including CySEC’s decision to withdraw Eurotrader’s EU licence and the removal of R.I.A.L Raising Investment Advisory from Cyprus’s Investor Compensation Fund following that firm’s voluntary licence renunciation.
Neither development involved D.T. Direct Investment Hub, and CySEC’s latest published decisions, announcements and warnings do not identify the company as the subject of a new September regulatory measure.
AvaTrade’s own current regulatory disclosures also continue to identify D.T. Direct Investment Hub as regulated by CySEC under licence 347/17. Its comparison page places the company among the legal entities available within AvaTrade’s broader international regulatory structure.
The Licence Is Closely Connected to DupliTrade
There is an important distinction, however, between the AvaTrade brand and the precise scope of D.T. Direct Investment Hub’s Cyprus authorisation.
CySEC currently lists dtdirectinvestment.com and duplitrade.com as the approved domains associated with D.T. Direct Investment Hub. The regulator’s register does not list the main avatrade.com domain among the approved websites attached to licence 347/17.
AvaTrade’s own DupliTrade documentation provides additional context. It states that DupliTrade is operated by D.T. Direct Investment Hub and describes the company as a member of the Ava Trade Group. AvaTrade also provides documentation under which customers with Ava trading accounts can authorise DupliTrade to stream trading activity from selected strategies into those accounts.
That relationship makes the licence particularly relevant to AvaTrade’s automated and copy-trading infrastructure rather than establishing that every AvaTrade customer or service is directly provided under the Cyprus licence.
The distinction matters because copy trading can introduce an additional layer between the broker, strategy provider and client account. Recent disputes elsewhere in the market have demonstrated how differences in execution between master and follower accounts can affect outcomes, including a copy-trading execution dispute involving Tickmill.
AvaTrade Operates Through Multiple Regulated Entities
D.T. Direct Investment Hub is only one company within AvaTrade’s broader regulatory footprint. AvaTrade also identifies entities regulated in Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Abu Dhabi, Kenya, the British Virgin Islands and other markets.
That multi-entity structure is common among large FX and CFD brokers because licences generally attach to specific legal companies and jurisdictions rather than automatically extending across an entire international brand.
The same principle has become increasingly visible as brokers expand geographically. Pepperstone’s Kenya and Mauritius licensing structure, for example, shows how separate regulated entities can support expansion while still leaving firms subject to country-by-country restrictions.
For investors, the practical question is therefore not simply whether the AvaTrade name appears alongside a regulatory licence. It is which legal entity holds the customer’s account, which regulator supervises that company and which investor protections apply to the relationship.
Analysis: Why the Absence of Regulatory Action Matters
There is no dramatic enforcement headline here, and that is precisely why the regulatory cross-check is useful.
Broker regulation is an area where stale information spreads unusually easily. A company can surrender a licence, change its operating entity or move clients to another jurisdiction while old reviews, comparison pages and search results continue describing the previous structure for months or years.
Recent Cyprus cases show how quickly the position can actually change. Eurotrader lost the Cyprus licence supporting its EU operation, while FXDD separately surrendered its Malta licence and ended its regulated EU presence. Those are genuine changes to the regulatory perimeter of a broker.
D.T. Direct Investment Hub currently presents the opposite situation. The regulator still places it on the active Cyprus Investment Firm register, and the AvaTrade Group continues to reference the licence in its own disclosures.
That does not mean the licence should be interpreted more broadly than it actually is. The approved-domain issue is especially important. An investor seeing “CySEC 347/17” on an AvaTrade page could reasonably assume the entire AvaTrade website is operating under that licence, when CySEC’s own records tie the authorisation’s approved domains specifically to D.T. Direct Investment Hub and DupliTrade.
This is where legal-entity analysis becomes more useful than brand analysis.
Regulatory protections are attached to the company with which a customer contracts. They do not automatically move across every subsidiary carrying the same commercial brand. Similar differences can affect investor-compensation arrangements, leverage restrictions, complaints procedures and client-money safeguards.
Those protections are also not identical even among CySEC-regulated brokers. Mitrade, for instance, recently added additional insolvency insurance for its CySEC clients on top of the statutory framework, illustrating how firms can build additional protections beyond the regulatory minimum.
At the same time, holding a licence does not insulate a firm from future scrutiny. CySEC has demonstrated that it is prepared to investigate authorisation boundaries and supervisory cooperation, including a €120,000 settlement involving authorization and inspection issues earlier in 2026.
The more useful conclusion for AvaTrade customers is therefore narrower than either “nothing happened” or “AvaTrade is CySEC regulated.”
D.T. Direct Investment Hub remains an authorised Cyprus Investment Firm under licence 347/17 and remains connected to the Ava Trade Group, particularly through DupliTrade. There is currently no fresh CySEC action indicating that authorisation has been suspended or withdrawn.
But investors should still identify the exact company named in their account agreement before assuming that the protections attached to licence 347/17 apply to them. In a multi-jurisdiction brokerage group, the regulator, licence number and contracting entity matter more than the brand displayed at the top of the trading platform.
Johan Shamshad is a financial markets writer at Dave Finances covering cryptocurrencies, trading platforms, brokers, fintech, financial regulation, and developments across global markets. He previously worked at Gulf News, adding newsroom experience to his coverage of fast-moving financial and digital-asset markets.
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