Is RETINARXIV a scam?

Yes, on the evidence available. The DFSA says RETINARXIV was never authorised and linked to a cloned copy of the DFSA's own public register. The site claims four regulators and publishes no licence number for any of them.

The regulator's finding

On 22 July 2026 the DFSA published "False claims by RETINARXIV Brokers that it is regulated by the DFSA", confirming that the firm "is not, and has never been, authorised by the DFSA to provide Financial Services".

The alert describes the method: the site included a link to a cloned version of the DFSA's Public Register, and that clone listed "Retinarxiv Limited" as a Non-DIFC Company authorised for "Investments" and "CFDs". The site also claimed DFSA approval obtained in 2019. When we read the site on 12 September 2026 the cloned link was gone.

Four regulators and no numbers

The licences page names the CSSF (Luxembourg), the FCA (United Kingdom), the DFSA (UAE) and the VFSC (Vanuatu). Each gets a logo and a description of what that regulator does. None gets a licence number, a register link, or the name of an entity holding it.

There is no company

The user agreement runs to about 46,000 characters and defines the counterparty as "the company Retinarxiv" and nothing more. No Limited, no incorporation jurisdiction, no company number, no registered office. There is nobody named to complain to or sue.

The contract is built so it cannot be searched

The Russian text of that agreement substitutes Latin characters for the Cyrillic letters they look identical to. The word for "company" is written Кoмпaния, where the o is U+006F and the a is U+0061, both Latin. Roughly 3,300 words in the document carry at least one such substitution.

The effect is that Ctrl+F fails, search engines cannot index the text, and nobody can find the same boilerplate on other domains by searching a phrase from it. There is no legitimate reason to do this to your own contract.

Nothing is where it says it is

The site is in Russian. The only address published is Av. Pueyrredon 1595, Buenos Aires, with an Argentine landline. Nothing in Dubai, London, Luxembourg or Vanuatu.

The contact form asks for your phone, Skype, Telegram, a date, a convenient time for a call and your time zone. That is an appointment scheduler for a sales desk, not a support form.

What this does not mean

Losing money on a trade is not evidence of fraud, and this review makes no claim about what happens inside the platform. The findings are documentary: a dated regulator alert describing a counterfeit register, four unevidenced licence claims, no counterparty, and legal documents obfuscated against search.

If you have money there

Stop depositing, particularly if a fee has been demanded before a withdrawal. Screenshot the licences and contact pages and save the user agreement now. Ask your bank about a chargeback or a transfer recall. Report it to the DFSA and to your own regulator. Refuse any offer to recover the money for an up-front fee.

The full rating is in our RETINARXIV review, the wider pattern is in our investigation into the cloned DFSA register, and the method is at our scoring method.