No forex, binary options or speculative-derivative content

The requirementstatement

Campaign content must not promote forex, binary options, contracts for difference and other speculative derivatives.

Severityseverity: BlockingBLOCKINGBreaking this rule gets the submission rejected. There is no partial credit.
When it bitesphase: Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
What is checkedobject: campaign.description + campaign.sample[] + campaign.message_flow
Where it liveslayer: Message contentMESSAGE_CONTENT
How Ekas settles itdetectability: AI · formAI_FORM; A semantic question about what you wrote: whether a description matches a use case, whether a name looks like a filed entity. Judged by a model against written criteria.
What the fix involvesfailureClass: Hard stopHARD_STOP; Not remediable. Resubmitting will not help, and anyone offering to fix it is selling you a rejection.
Who requires itauthorities: Twilio
When it appliesapplicabilityText: Applies to every 10DLC registration.

Why this rule existsrationale

These instruments are the ones retail regulators warn about most loudly, and SMS is where the promotion happens because it reaches people outside any suitability check. Twilio names them separately from the general stock and crypto ban because the promotion pattern is different — signal groups, copy-trading and leverage offers rather than tips on a named security — and because binary options are outright banned to retail investors in several jurisdictions the traffic reaches.

How to fix itremediation

Remove the solicitation. Account servicing for people who already hold an account with a regulated entity is a separate, registrable category — frame the campaign that way, name the regulator and the registration in the description, and keep the samples to account events with no market commentary in them.

Provider rejection codescodes

The code you get back when this rule is what failed, and whether that provider lets you resubmit.

Provider	Code	Resubmit
Twiliogen2	30948	No

Notesnotes

Twilio 30948 also covers unregistered-securities offerings, which the catalog holds as a separate obligation requiring external data and human review (MSG-228). No rule in this registry decides that one.

Rules you will hit next

6 other rules read campaign.description + campaign.sample[] + campaign.message_flow. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.

MSG-137No unsolicited bulk messagingBlockingBLOCKING MSG-161SHAFT screening covers every campaign field, not a sample of themBlockingBLOCKING MSG-164No underage, non-consensual or illegal sexual themesBlockingBLOCKING MSG-170No content promoting, glorifying or inciting violenceBlockingBLOCKING MSG-182No explosives, fireworks or pyrotechnics contentBlockingBLOCKING MSG-183No weapons that are not legal in all fifty statesBlockingBLOCKING

All message content rules

MSG-226 is one of 122 message content rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.