The Seychelles is an island nation with a large number of forex & CFD brokers. Although some of those brokers are regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (SFSA), it appears that many brokers also operate out of the country as unregulated forex brokers. As in other countries, this may turn out to be a problem for users in the event of a dispute with a forex broker.
Many of the brokers that are operating out of the Seychelles uses the MetaTrader 4 platform. While some offer it as one of many platforms, others offer it as the only trading platform that can be used. And given the popularity of the platform, this is perhaps not surprising. In addition to its traditional desktop-based version, MT4 is also available in a web-based version, which means that Mac users can opt for this instead of figuring out troublesome work-arounds to use the original desktop version for Windows on their Mac computers.