Is InterStellar a scam?

• Brand: InterStellar, also trading as FISG and Interstellarfx
• Legal entity (licensed): The First Interstellar Capital Limited, Cyprus, registration HE 161002, holder of CySEC licence 166/12
• Legal entity (website operator named in the footer): Interstellar Financial Group Limited, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, registration 22770 BC 2015
• Other group entities: First Interstellar Global Ltd (Seychelles, licence SD127), INTERSTELLAR CAPITAL (PTY) LTD (South Africa, FSP 52343), INTERSTELLAR GROUP CAPITAL PTY LTD (Australia, authorised representative 001312025)
• Registered: Georgiou Karaiskaki 38-38Z, 3032 Limassol, Cyprus for the licensed firm; Euro House, Richmond Hill Road, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for the entity named as operating the site
• Website: fisg.com, with interstellarfx.eu serving EU visitors, interstellarfx.sc for the Seychelles company and fisg.co.za for South Africa
• Licences: CySEC 166/12 (Cyprus, tier 2, in force since 2012); FSA Seychelles SD127 (offshore); FSCA FSP 52343 (South Africa, advice and intermediary only); ASIC authorised representative 001312025 (not a licence of its own)
• Offers: forex, metals, energies, indices, shares and cryptocurrency CFDs on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, with leverage capped at 1:30 on the EU site
• Not accepted: residents of the United States, Iran, Canada, Belgium and France
• Age claim: the site says founded in Europe in 2011 and counts 15 years. The Cyprus company was incorporated on 19 May 2005 and licensed in March 2012, so the claim is conservative rather than inflated, though the InterStellar brand itself dates from about 2020

Three findings put this broker in the high-risk band, and two findings keep it well clear of a scam verdict. We score what we could verify.

• The licence is real, and we read it in full. The CySEC register entry for The First Interstellar Capital Limited gives licence 166/12, a licence date of 21 March 2012, company number 161002, the Limassol address, the telephone number and the email address that appear on the site, and lists www.interstellarfx.eu as the only approved domain. Every leg of the identity test matches. The Seychelles register independently lists First Interstellar Global Ltd with https://www.interstellarfx.sc as its website. This is not a firm wearing someone else's credentials.
• But the licensed entity is not the one most clients face. EU visitors are routed to interstellarfx.eu, the CySEC-approved domain. Everyone else lands on fisg.com, and the footer there names a Saint Vincent company as the operator. Saint Vincent does not license or supervise forex brokers, so a client in Jakarta or Hanoi is dealing with an unsupervised counterparty while the marketing leads with CySEC and ASIC. That gap, not any single misstatement, is the main risk here.
• The Australian credential is presented above its weight. The compliance page lists ASIC beside the real licences, but what it describes is an authorised representative number, 001312025, under a licence held by Wise Harbour Group Pty Ltd, an Australian advice firm. The group discloses the arrangement accurately, which matters, yet a reader scanning four regulator logos will not grasp that one of them is not this group's licence. One Trustpilot reviewer did exactly that and announced plans to complain to the Australian ombudsman.
• The South African licence is an advice and intermediary authorisation. FSP 52343 is held by INTERSTELLAR CAPITAL (PTY) LTD, authorised on 11 August 2022 as a Category I provider. The register shows advice and intermediary permissions covering derivative instruments. That is permission to advise and arrange, not to hold client money as a derivatives counterparty.
• The withdrawal complaints are a real pattern, and they are recent. Of the 71 Trustpilot reviews on fisg.com, 35% are one star, and the one-star texts describe the same mechanism again and again: a withdrawal submitted, then rejected or left in limbo, with support not replying. At least six landed on 2 and 3 September 2026, with further entries on 8 September, 19 September and 13 October 2026. One names the handling manager and a delay of more than a week. Two of the set turn out to concern promotional bonus funds rather than deposited money, which is a different and much weaker complaint.
• What holds the score down. The pattern sits on a single platform. A second review platform carries 48 reviews at 8.5 out of 10 with no fund-access complaints recorded, and the group replies to about 80% of its negative reviews, including a specific explanation on the bonus cases. Nobody reported being asked to pay a fee, tax or deposit to release their funds, which is the signature of the worst cases and is absent here. Most of the complaints also carry no amounts, dates or ticket numbers, so the pattern is credible but not independently confirmed.
• The corporate paper trail is clean and old. The Cyprus registry shows HE 161002 incorporated on 19 May 2005 and still registered, under the earlier names Consulco Financial Services Limited, Consulco Capital Limited and Olikriet Capital Limited before the current one. The licence and the company were acquired and rebranded rather than created from nothing, and we found no warning, penalty or scam history attached to any of the former names. Estonia's supervisor separately records the same firm, with those former names, as a cross-border provider.
• The age claim stands up. Taking the younger of the two legs, the company from 2005 and the domain record for fisg.com from 1997, the verified track record is about 21 years, which exceeds the 15 years the site advertises. Worth knowing all the same: fisg.com carried only a placeholder page as recently as December 2021 and was taken over around March 2023, and the InterStellar brand site first appears in late 2020. The long history belongs to the Cyprus company, not to the brand.