Overall Score70 / 100The Wikilix trust rating of Renaissance Capital, out of 100, built from the five factors below.It holds a valid FCA 186891 licence and 2 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.Regulation97%Identity95%Client terms26%Trading offer50%Service55%Score last calculated 2026/10/24
Good65 to 79. A solid record with minor gaps and no stop sign.Why: It holds a valid FCA 186891 licence and 2 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.
70 out of 100 · 77% checkedThe share of the record we could verify. What we could not check counts as unknown and pulls the score toward the middle, never down.
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It holds a valid FCA 186891 licence and 2 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.
We checked Renaissance Capital on 2026-10-24 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 77% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is FCA 186891, with 2 more valid. The score of 70 is what the checked record adds up to; nothing held it down. What would move the score: withdrawal rails, pricing disclosed per account type, all-in eurusd cost. Our published investigation found it appears legitimate, with 30.8 years of track record. Its client terms carry high risk, with 8 critical clauses.
Whether a financial authority supervises this broker: the licences it holds, whether we verified them on the official register, how strong that regulator is and what protection it gives clients. Worth 35 points of 100.
Identity
Who is behind it, and for how long?
95out of 100
Excellent
Counts for 15% of the score100% checked
What we checked
Registry-verified entity100
Company registration verified on the registry · Oct 9, 2026Source
Verified age100
Verified track record 30.8 years · Oct 9, 2026
Transparency80
Scam check identity transparency 2/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Site integrity100
Website reachable and not redirecting · Oct 9, 2026Source
What this measures
Who is behind it and for how long: a company registration we verified, years of verified history, how openly it names its entity, address and owners, and whether its website is intact. Worth 15 points.
Client terms
Are the client terms fair?
26out of 100
Poor
Counts for 15% of the score87% checked
What we checked
Policy risk25
Policy risk score 7.5/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Critical clauses0
8 critical clause(s) · Oct 9, 2026
Withdrawal rails0
1 rail(s): 0 fee-free of 0 known, 0 instant of 1 known, minimum unknown · Oct 21, 2026Source
Language parity70
2 contradiction(s) between language versions · Oct 9, 2026
What this measures
How fair the client agreement is: the risk found in our policy review, the number of critical clauses, withdrawal rules, and whether the terms say the same in every language. Worth 15 points.
Trading offer
What does trading cost, and is it disclosed?
50out of 100
Fair
Counts for 20% of the score0% checked
What we checked
All-in EURUSD costNot checked yet
No EURUSD spread known
Pricing disclosed per account typeNot checked yet
No account types recorded
Instrument breadthNot checked yet
No instrument counts known
PlatformsNot checked yet
No trading platform recorded
Leverage vs regulated capNot checked yet
Maximum leverage unknown
Minimum depositNot checked yet
Minimum deposit unknown
What this measures
What trading costs and how clearly it is disclosed: pricing per account type, the all-in cost of EURUSD, instruments, platforms, leverage against regulated limits and the minimum deposit. Worth 20 points.
Service
How do they treat clients?
55out of 100
Fair
Counts for 15% of the score90% checked
What we checked
Fund-integrity complaints70
Scam check withdrawal complaints 3/10 · Oct 9, 2026
Support channels33
2 of 6 support checks (phone, email, 24/7 chat, 2+ languages, messenger, complaints email) · Oct 9, 2026
Reputation footprint70
Scam check reputation 3/10 · Oct 9, 2026
WIKILIX communityNot checked yet
0 approved review(s), fewer than 10
What this measures
How clients are treated: support channels, complaints about withdrawals and reputation from our investigation, and reviews by WIKILIX members. Worth 15 points.
What Renaissance Capital legally published, but does not want you to read
Wikilix contract reading ·
High contract risk
Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited still invites family offices and wealthy individuals to open a brokerage account. Its own 2025 capital report says turnover has fallen by over 99% and that the board would consider handing back its CySEC licence. Place one margin order and title to everything in your account passes to the firm. You get three working days to pay a close-out bill; it pays you when paying you stops being awkward for it.
8Critical clausesClauses that can cost you money you have already earned or deposited, or that remove your ability to challenge it.
20Clauses flaggedEvery clause worth knowing about, at all three severities. Ordinary terms that every broker has are not counted.
45Documents readHow many of the broker’s own legal files this reading is based on. Each one was downloaded and hashed on the date shown.
7.5/10Contract riskHow far this contract goes overall, from 0 to 10. 3 to 5 means real costs a client should know about; 6 to 8 means several clauses put money already earned at risk.
What Wikilix has recorded about Renaissance Capital: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
Renaissance Capital Broker Overview
Renaissance Capital is the trading name of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, a Cyprus investment firm authorised by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission under licence number KEPEY 053/04. The company has been registered in Cyprus since July 1995 and its CySEC authorisation has been in force since December 2004. Its own site presents the business as investment banking, global markets and prime brokerage across emerging and frontier markets. Its Prime Brokerage page says the platform is used by institutional investors, corporates, family offices and high net-worth individuals, and cites low and ultralow latency infrastructure and its own execution algorithm, while its legal information page states that, under the terms of its operating licence, the company does not deal with retail clients. The site publishes no named account types, minimum deposit, spreads, leverage terms or trading software.
Renaissance Capital Regulation and License
The authorised entity is Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited of Nicosia, Cyprus. The footer of states that the company is authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission under licence number KEPEY 053/04, and that authorisation is confirmed on CySEC's register of Cypriot investment firms. The register records the firm as a Cyprus Investment Firm, licence 053/04, effective from 22 December 2004, with company registration number 72487, and publishes no expiry date for the entry. CySEC's separate list of approved domains links www.rencap.com to the same company, which ties the licence to that website.
Is Renaissance Capital Regulated?
Yes, in Cyprus, and for one named company. Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited holds a CySEC authorisation that is confirmed on the regulator's own register, so investment services provided by that company fall under Cypriot and EU supervision. The authorisation attaches to that company and to the domain recorded against it, not to any other website, application or sales operation using the Renaissance Capital name.
Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited
Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited is the licensed operating company behind the brand, registered in Cyprus under number HE 72487 with a registration date of 24 July 1995. The company's Pillar III disclosures for 2025 name Renaissance Financial Holdings Limited as its immediate parent and describe that holding company as a 100% subsidiary of Onexim Holdings Limited, a Cyprus company. The site also names two sister companies: Renaissance Capital Limited in London, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 186891 and described in its 2025 IFPR disclosures as a wholly owned subsidiary of the same holding company, and RenCap Securities, Inc. in New York, a FINRA and SIPC member that the site calls a subsidiary of it. Rencap Securities (Proprietary) Limited is named only as the distributor of the group's research in South Africa and a member of JSE Limited. Each licence covers only the company that holds it, so the UK and US authorisations do not extend to clients of the Cyprus company. The site carries its own identity notice stating that, effective November 2024, Renaissance Capital is not related to Renaissance Capital in Russia. Its Pillar III report for 2025, dated April 2026, states that the company has focused on unwinding proprietary and client positions, that turnover fell by over 99% year on year, and that a voluntary surrender of its CySEC licence would be actively considered if its challenges became unsurpassable.
Is Renaissance Capital Safe?
A confirmed CySEC authorisation is a real protection for clients of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, but it is not in itself proof of safety and it does not reach anything outside that company. Our published scam check found no evidence that www.rencap.com is a clone: CySEC's list of approved domains prints www.rencap.com against Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, and no regulator warning names this domain or this company. Because the company does not deal with retail clients, a retail trading account offered in the Renaissance Capital name is not offered by it; confirm the company, the licence number and the domain on CySEC's register before sending money or identity documents.
Renaissance Capital Deposits and Withdrawals
The company's Investment Services Agreement (February 2025) states that it accepts cash only from Approved Banks, that it does not deal with physical cash or accept payments by credit or debit cards, and that it may refuse funds from any e-wallet or payment processing company; cash margin is delivered by wire transfer. The site publishes no minimum deposit, no deposit or withdrawal fee and no processing time. Its List of Currencies names the US dollar, Russian ruble, euro and pound sterling as account currencies, with the Chinese yuan for DMS customers only, and cash received in any other currency is converted into US dollars at the spot rate unless the client instructs otherwise.
Renaissance Capital Support
Telephone contact is published for three offices: Nicosia on +357 22 505 800, London on +44 20 7005 7777 and New York on +1 212 824 1099. The general email address on record is info@rencap.eu. No live chat and no published support hours are recorded, so the telephone and email routes are the practical ones.
Renaissance Capital Pros and Cons
Strengths. A CySEC authorisation confirmed on the regulator's own register, in force since 2004 and tied to the www.rencap.com domain; a Cyprus company registered since 1995; and direct telephone contact in three financial centres.
Limitations. The company does not deal with retail clients; no account tiers, spreads, leverage or commission terms are published, so trading costs cannot be compared in advance; funding is by bank transfer from approved banks with no published minimum, fee or processing time; and its 2025 Pillar III report says turnover fell by over 99% while it unwinds positions, with a voluntary surrender of its licence under consideration if conditions worsen.
Renaissance Capital Review and Assessment
Renaissance Capital is an institutionally oriented Cyprus investment firm with a long corporate history and an authorisation that stands up to checking, rather than a retail trading brand. That shapes what a prospective client can establish in advance: the regulatory position is clear, while the commercial terms are not published and would have to be agreed with the company. The most important step before any payment is to confirm that the company name, the licence number and the website in front of you are the ones CySEC records, because the brand name on its own does not establish that.
Website archive
Captured
Website snapshots
8 full-page captures of Renaissance Capital's own site, archived so what they said can still be read after the pages change.
Renaissance Capital holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each licence below opens its record of what that register says.
3 of 3 checked
Licences on recordEvery licence or registration recorded for this broker, whether the broker claims it or our check found it.
3
Confirmed on registerLicences we located on the issuing regulator's own public register, with a screenshot taken at the time.
3
Tier 1 or 2Licences from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (FCA, ASIC, CySEC and peers), the strongest client protection. A registration we could not confirm as a licence is not counted.
3
OffshoreLicences from offshore registers, which typically carry no compensation scheme and lighter oversight.
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WIKILIX
Licence intelligence
The strongest of 3 licences on file
Licence Verification Record
Financial Conduct Authority186891
Wikilix read the FCA register on Oct 9, 2026. This is what it said.
Full UK authorisation of Renaissance Capital Limited, the group's London company, recorded as Authorised since 1 December 2001 with www.rencap.com as its website and Companies House number 03059237. Client protection: The FCA record states that the Financial Ombudsman Service may consider complaints about this firm and that the Financial Services Compensation Scheme may pay compensation in connection with some regulated activities if the firm fails. rencap.com states that Renaissance Capital Limited deals only with eligible counterparties and professional clients and that "neither the FCA's protection rules nor compensation scheme may be applied" to retail clients. This authorisation does not cover clients of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited. Effective: 01 Dec 2001.
Client protection under this licence
Compensation schemeUp to £85000 (FSCS)
Client money kept separate
Negative balance protection
Complaints routeFinancial Ombudsman Service
Maximum leverage1:30
These are the rules FCA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how Renaissance Capital applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.
A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
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How we know — 11 sources
1The accepted list comes from the operating entity's permitted services statement at https://www.rencap.com/we-are/legal-information: "Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited may provide investment and ancillary services to EU Member States and to the following countries outside the EU: Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Georgia, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation, Seychelles Islands, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America." The 27 non-EU countries are listed exactly as named.
2"EU Member States" is a region, not a list of countries. The 27 EU member states on the accepted list come from that phrase and are not named one by one on the page. The phrase is "EU Member States" and not "EEA", so Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are written to no list; https://www.rencap.com/disclaimers separately says research is distributed to "EEA States", which is a distribution statement and not a service provision scope.
3No country is listed as refused, because no page on the site names one. The client agreement at https://www.rencap.com/storage/uploads/2025/03/05/67c81cd12893cINVESTMENT-SERVICES-AGREEMENT-FEB-2025.pdf restricts by sanctions status rather than by country, defining Sanctions as "any country- or territory-wide trade, economic or financial sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by a Sanctions Authority" and making a client becoming subject to them an event of default. That wording names no country, so no codes were inferred from it.
4The permitted services list is closed, so a jurisdiction outside it falls outside the scope the entity publishes for itself. That does not make every other country refused: it is a statement of permitted scope, not a list of refusals.
5The clearest restriction on the site is by client category, not by country, and it applies in every accepted country. https://www.rencap.com/we-are/legal-information states "Under the terms of its operating licence, Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited does not deal with Retail Clients", and the account opening form carries the warning "RENAISSANCE SECURITIES (CYPRUS) LIMITED DOES NOT OFFER SERVICES OR CARRY OUT ANY BUSINESS WITH CUSTOMERS CATEGORISED AS RETAIL CLIENTS. YOU CAN ONLY COMPLETE, SIGN AND DELIVER THIS ACCOUNT OPENING FORM, IF YOU ARE CLASSIFIED AS A PROFESSIONAL CLIENT OR AN ELIGIBLE COUNTERPARTY."
6The United States counts as accepted because the permitted services statement names it, with two qualifications: the standing site footer reads "Not all products or services offered by Renaissance Capital are available in the United States", and https://www.rencap.com/disclaimers routes US business to a separate group entity, stating that research is distributed in the United States by RenCap Securities, Inc. "to major US institutional investors only" and that "Any US person receiving this report who wishes to effect transactions in any securities referred to herein should contact RenCap Securities, Inc., not its non-US affiliate."
7The United Kingdom is in no list. It is not named in the permitted services statement and is not an EU member state, and both https://www.rencap.com/we-are/legal-information and https://www.rencap.com/disclaimers attribute UK business to Renaissance Capital Limited (Financial Conduct Authority firm reference number 186891), a different legal entity from the one this record covers.
8No signup country list exists to outrank the published text. The site publishes no electronic registration flow, and onboarding runs on the account opening form at https://www.rencap.com/storage/uploads/2020/05/07/5eb42c6ac32f3Account-Opening-Form.pdf, which has free text nationality and jurisdiction fields and no country selector or enumerated country list.
9The site publishes no dedicated restricted or accepted countries page: /restricted-countries, /prohibited-countries, /accepted-countries, /where-we-operate, /faq and /help all resolve to the site's own error page, and the site's own search returns only the legal pages already read when queried for "restricted" and for "countries".
10The Russian language variant at https://www.rencap.com/ru/we-are/legal-information carries the identical permitted services list, so the two language variants do not diverge. The Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus are both named in that list, while a standing line at the top of every page reads "*Effective November 2024, Renaissance Capital is not related to Renaissance Capital in Russia", a statement about corporate affiliation rather than about onboarding, so it was not read as a block.
11Iran is in no list. The site publishes English and Russian variants only, /fa and /fa-ir serve the English pages rather than a Persian variant, and the site publishes no partner, funding or registration pages. The only occurrence of Iran in the site's own search is a 2020 press briefing news item about emerging markets, which makes no statement about serving Iranian clients.
Deposits & withdrawals
Funding Methods
One way to fund an account.
1 method
Method
Deposit fee
Withdrawal fee
Min deposit
Withdrawal min / max
Processing
Bank TransferBank TransferProfessional clients and eligible counterparties only; the firm does not deal with retail clients. It does not accept credit or debit cards or physical cash, may refuse funds from e-wallets or payment processors, and may refuse cash sent by a third party.
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Websites
Global Domains
One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.
1 domain
www.rencap.comMain siteActiveHTTPS
Legal entities
Corporate Network
5 legal entities behind the Renaissance Capital brand.
5 entities
RENAISSANCE SECURITIES (CYPRUS) LIMITEDActiveCyprus·Registration HE 72487·Established Jul 24, 1995
Renaissance Capital LimitedActiveLicence holderUnited Kingdom·Registration 03059237·Established May 22, 1995Holds FCALondon company authorised by the FCA under firm reference number 186891 (rencap.com legal information page). Its IFPR Disclosures 2025 describe it as a wholly owned subsidiary of Renaissance Financial Holdings Limited. Its licence does not cover clients of the Cyprus company.
RenCap Securities, Inc.ActiveLicence holderUnited StatesHolds FINRANew York broker-dealer, member of FINRA and SIPC (CRD 37821). rencap.com/disclosures states it is a subsidiary of Renaissance Financial Holdings Limited.
Rencap Securities (Proprietary) LimitedActiveSouth AfricaNamed on rencap.com/disclosures as the distributor of Renaissance Capital research in South Africa and a member of JSE Limited. The site does not state its ownership.
Renaissance Financial Holdings LimitedActiveImmediate parent of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, per that company Pillar III Disclosures 2025 (April 2026), which describe it as a 100% subsidiary of Onexim Holdings Limited, a Cyprus company.
Company registry check
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Company Registration
The operating company is Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited. Registered in Cyprus. Registration number HE 72487.
2 other brokers on the record share what Renaissance Capital offers — its country, regulator, account types or platforms — set beside it on the same measures.
Renaissance Capital's licensed company, Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, is based in Nicosia, Cyprus, with an office address on record at Labs Tower, 3rd Floor, Foti Pitta 4, 1065 Nicosia. Further office addresses on record are in London, at Park House, 116 Park Street, W1K 6AF, and in New York, at 750 Lexington Avenue, 6th Floor, Suite 123, NY 10022.
Renaissance Capital publishes telephone contact for three offices: Nicosia on +357 22 505 800, London on +44 20 7005 7777 and New York on +1 212 824 1099. The general email address on record is info@rencap.eu. No live chat and no published support hours are recorded, so the telephone and email routes are the practical ones.
Not recorded. Renaissance Capital publishes no deposit or withdrawal fee. Its client agreement names bank transfer from approved banks as the way cash is received, and the banks that handle a transfer may charge their own fees, which sit outside the firm's schedule. Confirm the full cost of both a deposit and a withdrawal with the company before funding an account.
Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited was registered in Cyprus on 24 July 1995. Its CySEC authorisation, licence number KEPEY 053/04, has been in force since 22 December 2004 according to the regulator's own register.
Renaissance Capital names no trading software, mobile app or MetaTrader platform. Its Prime Brokerage page cites "low and ultralow latency infrastructure and own execution algorithm", and its Electronic Trading Addendum (November 2020) describes order execution and order routing services that can use the FIX Protocol. These services are for institutional and professional clients, not a retail trading platform.
No. Our published scam check found no evidence of fraud and reached the verdict "appears legitimate". The site www.rencap.com belongs to Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, whose CySEC licence 053/04 is confirmed on the regulator's own register, and CySEC's list of approved domains prints www.rencap.com against that company. No regulator warning names this domain or this company. The firm does not deal with retail clients, so a retail trading account offered in the Renaissance Capital name is not offered by this company; check the company, the licence number and the domain on CySEC's register before engaging.
Yes. CySEC maintains a list of approved domains and records www.rencap.com against Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, and that site's own footer names the same company and the same licence number, KEPEY 053/04. Any other domain presenting itself as Renaissance Capital is not covered by that record, so treat it with caution until you have checked it on the register.
Renaissance Capital is the trading name of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, a company registered in Cyprus under number HE 72487 since 24 July 1995. CySEC's register records company registration number 72487 against the same licensed entity. The company's 2025 Pillar III disclosures name Renaissance Financial Holdings Limited as its immediate parent and describe it as a 100% subsidiary of Onexim Holdings Limited, a Cyprus company. Renaissance Capital Limited in London (FCA authorisation 186891) and RenCap Securities, Inc. in New York (FINRA and SIPC member) are subsidiaries of the same holding company; each licence covers only the company that holds it.
Not recorded. Renaissance Capital's site and client documents publish no minimum deposit or account minimum. The licensed company, Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, states that it does not deal with retail clients and accepts only clients it classifies as professional clients or eligible counterparties, so terms are agreed with each client.
Bank transfer is the only route the firm's own documents name. The Investment Services Agreement of Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited (February 2025) says it accepts cash only from Approved Banks, does not deal with physical cash, does not accept payments by credit or debit cards and may refuse funds from any e-wallet or payment processing company. No minimum, fee or processing time is published. The listed account currencies are US dollar, Russian ruble, euro and pound sterling, with Chinese yuan for DMS customers only.
Yes, in Cyprus. Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited, which trades as Renaissance Capital, holds Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission licence KEPEY 053/04, recorded on CySEC's own register as a Cyprus Investment Firm in force since 22 December 2004. Regulation is not the same as safety. The company states that it does not deal with retail clients, and its client agreement warns that professional clients and eligible counterparties may not be eligible for compensation from the Investor Compensation Fund. Its 2025 Pillar III report also says turnover fell by over 99% year on year while it unwinds positions. Confirm the company name, the licence number and the domain on CySEC's register before sending money or identity documents.
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