RoboForex

RoboForex Ltd’s Belize licence was confirmed as active on the regulator’s register, and the group’s CySEC and BaFin authorisations were confirmed. RoboForex’s retail clients outside the EU are served only by the Belize company.

• StrengthRoboMarkets Ltd, formerly RoboForex (CY) Ltd, holds CySEC licence 191/13, issued 30 January 2013; the register lists robomarkets.com.cy as the approved domain. It stopped taking new retail clients on 9 September 2024 and has served business clients only since 1 January 2025.
• StrengthRoboMarkets Deutschland GmbH is listed by BaFin as a securities institution (BaFin-ID 10154068). The group says it serves EU retail clients through this company in stocks, bonds and ETFs, and removed forex and CFDs from its EU companies from early 2025.
• MediumRoboForex Ltd holds licence 9759600 from the Financial Services Commission of Belize, listed as active, and operates roboforex.com for clients outside the EU, the UK and other excluded countries, outside the main retail protection regimes.
• ObservationRoboForex states its Belize registration number as 000001272, while the global LEI system records the company under number 128572. The reason for the difference is not stated.
• ObservationCompanies trading as RoboMarkets are also listed as a securities dealer by the FSA Seychelles and as an authorised financial services provider by South Africa’s FSCA (FSP 53105). RoboForex’s own site does not refer to them.

The contracting companies are identifiable on registers, but the owners are not disclosed. The Cyprus company publishes audited prudential disclosures; no accounts were found for RoboForex Ltd.

• StrengthRoboMarkets Ltd publishes annual Pillar III disclosures verified by its external auditor; the 2025 report shows own funds of €19.2 million and a capital adequacy ratio of 573.91% at 31 December 2025.
• MediumNo owner is disclosed. RoboForex Ltd and RoboMarkets Ltd report to the global LEI system that they are controlled by natural persons, who are not named.

RoboForex Ltd’s clients have no statutory compensation scheme. The firm points to the Financial Commission’s compensation fund, a private arrangement, and an insurance policy; its negative balance protection is a promotional programme it says it may withdraw without giving a reason.

• HighClients of RoboForex Ltd fall outside any statutory investor compensation scheme. The firm states that it is a member of the compensation fund of the Financial Commission, a private dispute-resolution body, which covers up to €20,000 per case if a member refuses to follow its rulings.
• MediumRoboForex describes its negative balance protection as “a permanent promotional program” and says it “reserves the right to deny clients access to this program without giving any reason”. We found no statement on the segregation of client money by RoboForex Ltd.
• StrengthRoboMarkets Deutschland GmbH names the German investor compensation scheme for securities firms (EdW) on its regulation page.

Not assessed in a desk audit. Spreads, slippage and fill quality can only be measured with live accounts.

CySEC found the Cyprus company in breach of the EU’s restrictions on CFD marketing in 2023 for giving retail clients non-monetary rewards, and in 2026 reached a €100,000 settlement with it over organisational requirements, client information, appropriateness checks and the same restrictions.

• HighOn 25 May 2026 CySEC’s board reached a €100,000 settlement with RoboMarkets Ltd (announced 24 August 2026) for possible violations between June 2023 and 28 June 2024 of organisational requirements, the general principles for informing clients, appropriateness assessments, and the restrictions on marketing, distributing and selling CFDs to retail clients. The company paid the amount.
• MediumOn 1 March 2023 CySEC’s board decided (announced 23 August 2023) that RoboMarkets Ltd did not comply with the EU’s product intervention rules on CFDs, because it gave retail clients non-monetary rewards through robomarkets.com and linked social platforms, and ordered it to stop giving retail CFD clients rewards such as race tickets and branded merchandise. No fine was imposed.
• ObservationBrazil’s CVM ordered RoboForex Ltd on 19 January 2023 to stop offering securities intermediation services to Brazilian residents, a precautionary stop order rather than a penalty. RoboForex or RoboMarkets companies have also been named as unauthorised by regulators in Russia (Bank of Russia, 2021), Ukraine (NSSMC, 2024) and Malaysia (Securities Commission, 2024). Under our methodology these warnings are recorded but not scored.
• ObservationRoboForex offers leverage of up to 1:2000, cashback of up to 10% and a $30 welcome bonus for new verified clients. Under our methodology offshore incentives are recorded but not scored where lawful.

Not assessed in a desk audit. Uptime, incident history and security controls require evidence from the firm or live monitoring.

No Great Place to Work certification and no community programme were found in public sources. The group’s sponsorships of Eintracht Frankfurt, BMW M Motorsport and a Muay Thai fighter are commercial.

• ObservationNo Great Place to Work certification or community programme was found in public sources.