Restricted Jurisdiction

A restricted jurisdiction is a country or territory whose residents a platform will not serve, or will serve only in a reduced form. The reasons differ and matter: sanctions, an absence of the licence needed to offer a service there, a regulator's specific prohibition on a product such as derivatives, or a commercial decision not to take on a market's compliance burden. Restrictions are usually enforced through the terms of service plus identity verification and network-level checks, and they change — a territory can be added after an account was opened. The consequence to understand is what happens to an existing customer when that occurs: a platform may close positions, halt deposits, disable trading and allow withdrawals only, and it may act on residence rather than nationality, or on where the account is accessed from. Attempting to conceal location in order to keep access typically breaches the agreement and gives the platform grounds to freeze the account and its balance.