Overall Score50 / 100The Wikilix trust rating of VENMAR, out of 100, built from the five factors below.Our investigation rated it high risk and could not verify it, and it holds a valid FSA SD188 licence.Regulation38%Identity64%Client terms50%Trading offer64%Service47%Score last calculated 2026/10/19
Trading Conditions
Min Deposit:
USD30
Max Leverage:
500
Account Types
StandardProfessional
Official website
venmarltd.com
Online · checked Sep 10, 2026
Also on our record
member.venmarltd.comClient portal
Funding Methods
No funding methods available
Trust rating
Fair50 to 64. A mixed record: some strengths, some open questions. Read the details before you deposit.Why: Our investigation rated it high risk and could not verify it, and it holds a valid FSA SD188 licence.
50 out of 100 · 69% 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.
Do not trust
High risk
Fair
Good
Excellent
Our investigation rated it high risk and could not verify it, and it holds a valid FSA SD188 licence.
Capped at 50 · High risk, unverified
RegulationWhether 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.
38Poor
IdentityWho 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.
64Fair
Client termsHow 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.
50Fair
Trading offerWhat 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.
64Fair
ServiceHow clients are treated: support channels, complaints about withdrawals and reputation from our investigation, and reviews by WIKILIX members. Worth 15 points.
47Poor
We checked VENMAR on 2026-10-19 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 69% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is FSA SD188. The score was held at 50 because our investigation rated it high risk and could not verify it. What would move the score: licence held by the onboarding entity, policy risk, critical clauses. Our published investigation found it is high risk and could not be verified, with 2.7 years of track record. Its client terms have not been reviewed yet.
0%Scam riskScam risk is our overall estimate that this broker is unsafe, from 0% (safe) to 100% (almost certainly a scam). It blends the six risk areas below, weighted by how strong the evidence is. Higher means riskier.
High risk (unverified)Our overall call, based on the evidence we could verify. From safest to worst: Appears legitimate, Insufficient evidence, High risk (unverified), Likely scam, Confirmed scam. A separate "Not a broker" verdict is used when it does not really offer trading.Confidence: MEDIUMHow sure we are of this verdict, based on how much solid, checkable evidence we found. Shown as Low, Medium or High.
2.5/5Safety rating 2.5 out of 5
The Wikilix safety rating, from 1 to 5 stars. It mirrors the scam risk (5 = safest, 1 = riskiest), so a higher risk percentage means fewer stars.
We found no evidence that VENMAR (Ven Mar Limited) is a scam, and its Seychelles licence is genuine, but we are publishing a risk figure of 65 percent because this is a young operation with almost no…
Risk scorecard · each area scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst)
Regulation6/10 · HighIs it overseen by a strict, well-known financial regulator? Offshore-only or missing licences score higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 6/10 (High).Identity & transparency3/10 · LowHow openly it shows who and where it is (legal entity, address, owners). Hidden details score higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 3/10 (Low).Withdrawals & conduct4/10 · ModerateCredible reports of clients being unable to withdraw their money. More such reports score higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 4/10 (Moderate).Reputation6/10 · HighWhat independent reviews, regulators and watchdogs say about it. A poor track record scores higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 6/10 (High).Website claims3/10 · LowWhether the site claims (awards, years active, licences) actually check out. False claims score higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 3/10 (Low).Operational history5/10 · ModerateHow long and how consistently it has genuinely operated. Brand-new or murky history scores higher.Scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). This area is 5/10 (Moderate).
Editorial review
Updated
Broker Summary
What Wikilix has recorded about VENMAR: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
VENMAR, also presented under the name Ventures Market, is a retail forex and CFD brand registered in the Seychelles and operating under the company name Ven Mar Limited. It holds a Derivatives Trading License (EP) from the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, licence number SD188, issued to the entity VEN MAR LLC. The brand dates from 2023, which makes it a young operation by industry standards.
The most important thing to know about VENMAR today is that its website does not work. At the time of this review, returns an invalid SSL certificate error at the origin server and serves no content at all, on the root domain, without the www prefix, over plain HTTP, and behind a language prefix. That is not a temporary block on automated visitors; it is a broken server certificate, and it means a prospective client cannot open an account, read the terms, or reach a client portal. It also means none of the things a broker is normally judged on can be checked: there is no published spread schedule, no deposit or withdrawal policy, no list of restricted countries, no legal documents and no client agreement available to read.
Regulation. The Seychelles FSA licence is genuine and appears to be in force, and that counts for something. But it is an offshore, light-touch authorisation. The Seychelles regime carries no client-money compensation scheme, no negative-balance protection requirement and no deposit guarantee, and it permits leverage far above what onshore regulators allow. A Seychelles licence is not comparable to authorisation from a tier-one regulator, and it should not be read as one.
What is on offer. Two account tiers are on record: Standard, from a 30 USD minimum deposit with a 0.01 lot minimum trade size, and Professional, from 100 USD with a 0.1 lot minimum. Both are quoted at leverage up to 1:500 with no per-trade commission, so trading costs sit in the spread. Around 150 instruments are described across foreign exchange, US equities, commodities and energy. No trading platform is confirmed on record for this broker, which is unusual and worth noting: a retail broker that cannot be shown to offer a working platform has not demonstrated the basic thing it sells.
Corporate structure. Two entities appear behind one brand and they do not sit together comfortably. The company name given for the business is Ven Mar Limited in the Seychelles, while the entity named as the holder of the Seychelles licence is VEN MAR LLC, which is recorded as a limited liability company incorporated in Oregon, United States, number 61658598, on 3 December 2023. Neither entity could be confirmed against an official corporate register during this review.
Who this suits. At present, nobody. This is not a judgement about the licence, which is real; it is that a broker whose website does not load cannot be assessed, cannot be joined, and cannot be relied on to return money already deposited. Traders comparing offshore brokers should wait until the site is restored and the legal documents, funding terms and platform can actually be read, and traders who want statutory protection over their deposits should be looking at onshore-regulated firms instead.
Caveats. The commercial figures above are the values on record for this broker rather than terms confirmed against the broker's own published documents, because those documents are not currently reachable. The licence has no published effective or expiry date. Existing clients who cannot access their accounts should put any withdrawal request in writing to the broker and, if it is not met, raise the matter with the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, naming licence SD188.
Every licence VENMAR has in force is from an offshore regulator. Most carry no compensation scheme — each licence's record says what the issuing regulator actually requires.
1 of 1 checked
Licences on recordEvery licence or registration recorded for this broker, whether the broker claims it or our check found it.
1
Confirmed on registerLicences we located on the issuing regulator's own public register, with a screenshot taken at the time.
1
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.
0
OffshoreLicences from offshore registers, which typically carry no compensation scheme and lighter oversight.
1
WIKILIX
Licence intelligence
The only licence on file
Licence Verification Record
The Seychelles Financial Services AuthoritySD188
Wikilix read the FSA register on Aug 21, 2026. This is what it said.
Jurisdiction
SeychellesOffshore
Authority strength
Tier 3
Licence type
Retail Forex License
Register status
Active on the FSA Seychelles Securities Dealer register
Checked Aug 21, 2026
What our check found
A Securities Dealer licence from the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, the offshore regulator for the non-bank financial sector. It permits dealing in securities and derivatives, and we confirmed Ven Mar Limited on the FSA's own Securities Dealer register with the website www.venmarltd.com recorded against it. It is genuine supervision, but it is low-tier: capital, conduct and client-money requirements are far lighter than in the UK or Australia, and there is no investor compensation scheme. Client protection: Low. No investor compensation scheme and limited practical recourse if client money is not returned.
Client protection under this licence
No compensation scheme
Complaints routeFSA Enquiries
Maximum leverage1:1000
These are the rules FSA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how VENMAR 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.
2 account types on record. Minimum deposit from USD 30. Leverage up to 1:500.
2 account types
Account
Min Deposit
Max Leverage
Commission
StandardStandard
USD 30
1:500
No commission
ProfessionalProfessional · VIP
USD 100
1:500
No commission
Websites
Global Domains
One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.
1 domain
member.venmarltd.comClient portalActiveHTTPS
Legal entities
Corporate Network
2 legal entities behind the VENMAR brand.
2 entities
Ven Mar LimitedActiveSeychellesThe Seychelles company presented as the operator behind the VENMAR brand. No registration number is published and the entity could not be confirmed on an official register this run.
VEN MAR LLCActiveUnited States·Registration 61658598·Established Dec 3, 2023The entity named as licensee on the Seychelles licence record, recorded as an Oregon, United States limited liability company incorporated on 3 December 2023.
Company registry check
Checked
Company Registration
VENMAR names Ven Mar Limited as the operating company. We could not confirm that registration on the registry.
Put a withdrawal request in writing to support@venmarltd.com immediately, stating the amount and your account details, and keep a dated copy of everything you send along with records of your original deposits. If the request is not met, complain to the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, naming licence number SD188 and the licensee VEN MAR LLC. If you funded by card or bank transfer, ask your bank about a chargeback or recall promptly, because those routes are time-limited. Do not pay anyone who contacts you offering to recover the funds for an upfront fee.
The contact details on record are the phone number +248 250 4628 and the email address support@venmarltd.com. Note that the email domain is the same one whose web server is failing, so message delivery may be affected. No live chat, support portal or social media channel is confirmed.
Not by any compensation scheme. The Seychelles regime provides no investor compensation fund, no deposit guarantee and no client-money insurance, so if the firm became insolvent you would be an ordinary creditor pursuing a claim in an offshore jurisdiction. Only deposit what you can afford to lose entirely.
We cannot say. VENMAR publishes no reachable list of restricted or accepted jurisdictions, and its signup form cannot be opened, so there is no way to establish which countries it onboards. Absence of a published restriction is not the same as acceptance. Treat your eligibility as unknown.
Around 150 instruments are described, spanning foreign exchange, US equities, commodities and energy. We could not verify the instrument list, the individual symbols or the counts against the broker's own published specifications.
Since 2023. The entity named on the licence was incorporated on 3 December 2023, giving the operation roughly two and a half years of history as of this review. That is short: a broker has not yet been tested through a full market cycle or a period of stress at that age, and there is no long record of paying clients out.
We cannot tell you, and that is the problem. No deposit or withdrawal method, fee, processing time or limit is confirmed for this broker, because the funding pages are not reachable. Never send money to a broker whose withdrawal terms you have not been able to read.
Two. Standard is the entry tier, from 30 USD with a 0.01 lot minimum trade size. Professional is aimed at more experienced traders, from 100 USD with a 0.1 lot minimum. Both are quoted at up to 1:500 leverage with no per-trade commission, so the cost sits in the spread. No demo account and no swap-free or Islamic account is on record.
None is confirmed. There is no trading platform on record for this broker, and because the website does not load we could not verify any platform, server name or download link. For a retail broker this is a material gap: the platform is the product, and we cannot show that a working one exists.
Up to 1:500 on both the Standard and Professional accounts. Leverage at that level is permitted by the Seychelles regime but is several times what onshore regulators in the UK, the EU or Australia allow retail clients. It magnifies losses as much as gains, and at 1:500 a market move of a fraction of a percent against a fully sized position can erase the margin behind it.
30 USD on the Standard account and 100 USD on the Professional account. Both figures are the values on record for this broker rather than terms we could confirm against the broker's own published pricing, because those pages are not currently reachable.
Two entities appear behind the brand. The company name given for the business is Ven Mar Limited in the Seychelles, at Suite 3, Global Village, Jivan's Complex, Mont Fleuri, Mahe. The entity named as holder of the Seychelles licence is VEN MAR LLC, recorded as an Oregon, United States limited liability company, number 61658598, incorporated on 3 December 2023. We could not confirm either entity on an official corporate register during this review.
Requests to venmarltd.com are answered with an invalid SSL certificate error generated at the origin server. We tried the root domain, the version without the www prefix, plain HTTP and the language-prefixed path, and every one failed the same way. This is a broken server certificate rather than a block on automated visitors, so a human visitor sees the same error. Until it is fixed, no part of the site is readable.
There is no evidence of fraud, and the licence is real rather than fabricated. But VENMAR cannot presently be recommended: its website returns an invalid SSL certificate error from its own origin server and serves no content at all, so the terms, funding policy, legal documents and client portal cannot be reached. A broker you cannot open, read or log into is unusable regardless of whether it intended harm. Our view is high risk and unverified rather than confirmed fraud.
Yes, but offshore only. VENMAR operates under a Derivatives Trading License (EP) from the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, licence number SD188, held by the entity VEN MAR LLC. The licence appears to be in force. It is an offshore, light-touch authorisation and carries no client-money compensation scheme, no deposit guarantee and no negative-balance protection requirement, so it is not comparable to authorisation from a tier-one regulator.
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