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InterStellar: CySEC licence 166/12

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Confirmed on the register
Issuing authority
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Licence type
Straight Through Processing(STP)
Last checked
Oct 13, 2026

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Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission 166/12

Wikilix read the CySEC register on Oct 13, 2026. This is what it said.

Issuing authority
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Name on the register
The First Interstellar Capital Limited
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Licence type
Straight Through Processing(STP)
Effective
Mar 21, 2012
Register status
Active

Checked Oct 13, 2026

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wikilix.com/brokers/interstellar/licenses/cyprus-securities-and-exchange-commission/166-12Fields on file 11 / 11

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Checked

What we checked

We found this licence on the issuing authority's own register.

Wikilix check
Confirmed on the register
Authority strength
Tier 2
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Last checked
Oct 13, 2026
Register says
Active

Finding

A full Cyprus Investment Firm licence held by The First Interstellar Capital Limited, covering reception and transmission of client orders and execution of orders on behalf of clients, with safekeeping as an ancillary service and cross-border notifications across the EEA. The register names www.interstellarfx.eu as the only approved domain, and the firm is an Investor Compensation Fund member with a ceiling of 20,000 euros per client. Client protection: Meaningful. Segregated client money, capital and conduct supervision, a complaints route through CySEC and the Cyprus Financial Ombudsman, and compensation up to 20,000 euros. It applies only to accounts with this Cyprus entity on the approved domain.. Effective: 21 Mar 2012.

Exhibit

Register screenshot, captured Oct 13, 2026

Verification note

Confirmed on the CySEC register as The First Interstellar Capital Limited (Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF)). corporates[] entry, registration-number form: the register prints "Company Registration Number: 161002" and our DB holds "HE 161002" for "The First Interstellar Capital Limited" (Cyprus); the name form closes independently, the register printing "The First Interstellar Capital Limited" character-for-character as our corporates[] name, in that entry's own country of incorporation (Cyprus). The domain key did NOT close: the broker's mainWebsite domain fisg.com is not among CySEC's approved domains for this entity (the only approved domain is www.interstellarfx.eu). The register records the licence as effective from 21 March 2012.

In detail
Updated

About this CySEC licence

What this authorisation is, what it establishes, and what it leaves open.

Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation 166/12 is recorded by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) in the name of The First Interstellar Capital Limited, a Cyprus company that is one of the registered corporate entities behind the InterStellar brand rather than the brand itself. It appeared unqualified on the current CIF list at this check, with a licence date of 21 March 2012.

CySEC is the statutory financial regulator of Cyprus and its national competent authority for MiFID II. A CIF authorisation is a firm-level investment-services licence under Cypriot law, not a company registration, a trade-association membership or a dispute scheme. CySEC publishes authorised firms as periodically refreshed lists rather than a live searchable register; the edition read here was headed as the position as of 04 May 2026.

The entry establishes that this company held the authorisation when that list was compiled. It says nothing about solvency or conduct, and it does not reach every site the brand runs: the licence sits with The First Interstellar Capital Limited, and CySEC's approved-domains list pairs that company with www.interstellarfx.eu alone.

The register printed the entity name, licence number 166/12, the licence date, company registration number 161002, a telephone number and the e-mail info@interstellarfx.eu. It printed no expiry date, no registered address and no per-entry category or permission wording, publishing none of these for CIF entries. No suspension or renunciation qualifier stood beside the number, and the company was absent from the Former Investment Firms list.

To confirm it, load CySEC's Investment Firms (Cypriot) list and look up 166/12, then check the Former Investment Firms list for a later withdrawal. The answer would change if the authorisation were renounced or withdrawn, if a qualifier were added beside the number, or if the holder were renamed.

Written from what the issuing authority's own register published when we last read it. It describes a record, not the firm's conduct, and it is not advice.
The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Licence number
166/12
Issued to
The First Interstellar Capital Limited
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Straight Through Processing(STP)
Register status
Active
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Telephone
+357 25 211 495
The authority

About CySEC

Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Cyprus.

Full name
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Jurisdiction
Cyprus
Strength
Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established
2001
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
216 firms
Regulates
Forex, Stocks, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Securities, Futures, CFD
Licences it issues
CIF – Own Account / Matched Principal (CFDs)
Typical cost of a licence
€50000-100000
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
High
Protection

What this licence protects

CySEC's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeUp to €20000 (ICF)
  • Client money kept separate
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeCyprus Financial Ombudsman
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how InterStellar applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against InterStellar. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
Interstellar Financial Group Limited
Named on the register
The First Interstellar Capital Limited
Based in
Cyprus
Wikilix score
48.4the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches The First Interstellar Capital Limited below.

  • The First Interstellar Capital LimitedMatches the registerCyprus · Reg. HE 161002
  • Interstellar Financial Group LimitedSaint Vincent and the Grenadines · Reg. 22770 BC 2015
  • First Interstellar Global LtdSeychelles
  • INTERSTELLAR GROUP CAPITAL PTY LTDAustralia
  • INTERSTELLAR CAPITAL (Pty) LtdSouth Africa
Provenance

Where this record came from

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Official source
The issuing authority’s registerPublished by the authority, not by Wikilix.
Last checked by Wikilix
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
Evidence held
A screenshot of the register entry is on file.
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Also on record

Other licences InterStellar holds

2 other licences are on record for InterStellar.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

The Cyprus site publishes a telephone number on +357 25 211 495 and an email address at info@interstellarfx.eu, with complaints@interstellarfx.eu for complaints and support@fisg.com as a group support address. Live chat is offered during business hours.

The Cyprus site advertises seven asset classes, with forex, indices, energies, stocks, metals and cryptocurrencies shown on its product pages. The published instrument range runs to 56 currency pairs, 22 other CFDs and four cryptocurrencies.

The group runs a separate site for each of its main entities: interstellarfx.eu for the Cyprus investment firm, interstellarfx.sc for the Seychelles securities dealer and fisg.co.za for the South African provider.

The terms are not identical across them, so the site a client is routed to decides the entity, the licence and the trading conditions that apply.

Its deposit and withdrawal page states no transaction fee in either direction, and adds that the broker does not charge withdrawal fees although a client's own bank may.

Its own Deposits and Withdrawals Charges schedule of June 2026 does set bank transfer charges: inward transfers are free up to EUR 2,000 and then charged in bands, and outward payments within the European Union carry 0.15 percent with a minimum of EUR 10. Anyone funding by bank transfer should read that schedule rather than the funding page alone.

UnionPay and digital currency withdrawals are published as credited on the same business day. Telegraphic transfer withdrawals follow the receiving bank's own processing time, which the broker does not put a figure on.

Three, published on the Cyprus site as STANDARD, ECN and UNION. Each is listed with the same minimum first deposit of USD 50 and the same maximum leverage of 1:30.

The account pages state no commission for any of the three, so the published differences between the tiers are limited.

Five companies carry the brand: Interstellar Financial Group Limited in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (number 22770 BC 2015), The First Interstellar Capital Limited in Cyprus (HE 161002), First Interstellar Global Ltd in Seychelles (8430637-1), INTERSTELLAR CAPITAL (Pty) Ltd in South Africa and INTERSTELLAR GROUP CAPITAL PTY LTD in Australia.

The footer of the Cyprus site names two of them as the operator of that one website, the Saint Vincent company in its disclaimer and the Cyprus company in its licensing statement, so the company a client would actually be contracting with is worth checking in the account agreement.

USD 50. Each of the three account types on the Cyprus site is published with the same minimum first deposit, and the broker's own FAQ gives USD 50 as the account opening minimum.

No per channel minimum or maximum is published for any of the funding methods.

The group's own disclaimers exclude different countries on different sites. The Cyprus site states that it does not offer CFDs to residents of certain jurisdictions including the United States, Iran, Canada, Belgium and France. The South African site states the same for the United States, Iran, Canada, the European Union and China.

Which list applies therefore depends on which of the group's entities a client is onboarded to.

The three account types on the Cyprus site are each published with a maximum of 1:30, which is also what that site's homepage advertises. The same site's leverage policy page sets out a maximum of 1:500.

The group publishes both figures and does not reconcile them, so the cap that applies to a particular account should be confirmed with the firm before funding it.

Yes, Interstellar requires KYC (Know Your Customer) verification to open an account.

Three channels are published: UnionPay, digital currency and telegraphic transfer. UnionPay deposits are credited instantly and digital currency deposits in about thirty minutes, with withdrawals on both credited the same business day; telegraphic transfer deposits take three to five days and withdrawals follow the receiving bank's own processing time.

Cards, PayPal and Wise are not among the published channels, and the broker does not name which coins or networks it accepts for digital currency.

MetaTrader 4. The Cyprus site lists it as its trading platform, on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, and the group hosts its own Windows installer rather than only linking the standard one.

It adds MultiTerminal for managing several accounts at once, along with in-house spread monitor and trading statistics plugins.

Each licence the brand advertises belongs to a different company in the group, and the group's own sites are where those claims are made. The Cyprus site states that The First Interstellar Capital Limited holds CySEC licence 166/12, the Seychelles site that First Interstellar Global Ltd holds Seychelles FSA licence SD127, and the South African site that INTERSTELLAR CAPITAL (Pty) Ltd is an authorised financial services provider under FSP number 52343.

Which of those applies depends on the company named in the account agreement, so that is the thing to establish before funding one. The site disclaimers also name Interstellar Financial Group Limited, a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines company, as the operator of the group's websites, and a company registration there is not financial regulation.

Licence 166/12 was issued by Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the financial authority for Cyprus.
InterStellar holds this CySEC licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the CySEC register. Note that confirming a register ENTRY is not the same as confirming a live licence — the register’s own wording on this page is what states its current standing.
The CySEC register prints it under The First Interstellar Capital Limited, not InterStellar. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates CySEC tier 2: a well-established regime with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than a tier-1 authority.
This page links straight to the CySEC register. Search it for 166/12, and for the name The First Interstellar Capital Limited rather than the trading brand.
InterStellar has 2 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 2 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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