Who we are and how we work
An independent editorial team that reviews Exinity for South African readers, with no affiliation to the broker and no financial services of our own.
Partner's regulationWhy does this site exist, and who is it for?
If you are in South Africa and you are considering opening an account with Exinity, you will want to know what the platform actually does, what it costs, and where the rough edges are before you hand over any money or personal details. Most of what you find online is either written by the broker itself or by affiliates who earn a commission when you sign up. Neither is a good starting point for a decision that affects your savings.
This site exists to give you a plain, independent account of the broker as we find it, written for South African readers who are comparing their options and want to understand the trade-offs. We are not the broker, we are not owned by the broker, and we are not paid by the broker to say nice things. We do not open accounts, take deposits, place trades or give financial advice. What we do is read, test, check and write it down.
We are an editorial resource, not a service provider. If you need advice about whether trading is right for you, speak to someone who is authorised to give it. Our job is to make the public facts about this broker easier to find and easier to check.
Where do the facts come from, and how are they checked?
We work from the broker's own published documents, the terms and conditions on its website, the fee schedule it publishes, the legal and regulatory disclosures it is required to make, and the statements it makes about how it handles client money and client data. Where a claim matters to a reader's decision, we try to trace it back to a primary document rather than repeating a summary from a third party.
We also check what a South African reader can actually verify: what the registration process asks for, what the platform shows before you deposit, what the withdrawal process looks like on paper, and what the broker says about the jurisdictions it accepts clients from. We compare what the marketing pages say with what the legal pages say, because the two do not always match.
Facts change. Fees are revised, terms are updated, and pages are edited without announcement. We revisit the pages on this site on a rolling basis and mark the date of the last substantive review so you can see how current the information is. If we cannot confirm something, we say so rather than filling the gap with a guess. We do not publish invented figures, licence numbers, addresses or contact details. Where a contact route is needed, we point you to the contact form on this site or to the broker's own published channels.
How do we test the broker and score it?
Testing starts with the account itself: what information is required to register, how long verification takes, what the platform looks like on desktop and on a phone, what instruments are actually available to a South African client, and how the order ticket behaves. We look at spreads and commissions as they are published, and we check the fee schedule against what appears in the platform so we can see whether the two agree.
We look at the funding side carefully, because that is where most reader questions come from: what deposit methods are offered, what the withdrawal process requires, what fees apply, and what the terms say about processing times. We read the client agreement rather than skimming it, and we note the clauses that affect a retail client in South Africa.
Scoring is not a single number pulled from the air. We assess the broker across a fixed set of areas - disclosure and transparency, cost, platform and execution, funding and withdrawal, customer support, and the clarity of the legal documents - and we explain in the review what pushed the assessment up or down. A score is a summary of our reasoning, not a substitute for it. We do not sell scores, and no broker can pay to move one.
How does the site pay for itself without selling verdicts?
Running a site costs money: hosting, document access, the time it takes to read a client agreement properly and test an account. We cover those costs through the ordinary commercial routes available to an independent publisher - display advertising and, where a reader chooses to use a link from this site to the broker, a referral payment. That payment does not change what we write, and it does not buy a better score, a softer review or a place on a list.
We keep the editorial side separate from the commercial side. The people who decide what goes into a review are not the people who manage advertising or referral arrangements, and no commercial partner sees a review before it is published. If we ever publish content that is paid for, it is labelled as such. We do not run sponsored verdicts, and we do not remove or soften criticism because a broker objects to it.
The practical test is simple: if a broker stopped paying us tomorrow, the review would read the same. If that were not true, the site would not be worth reading.
What will the editorial team not do?
We will not tell you to open an account, deposit money, trade, or invest. We will not tell you that you will make a profit, and we will not present trading as a way to solve a financial problem. We will not give personal advice, and we will not act as an intermediary between you and the broker.
We will not publish information we cannot stand behind. We do not invent licence numbers, company details, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses, and we do not repeat a broker's claims as fact without checking them against a primary source. We do not accept payment for a favourable verdict, and we do not let a commercial relationship decide what a review says.
We will not hide the limits of our work. If we have not tested something, we say so. If a document is unclear, we say that too. And we will not pretend to be something we are not: this site is not regulated or licensed as a financial services provider, it is not endorsed by any regulator or by the broker, and it does not hold client money.
What can a review not tell you?
A review describes what we found on the day we looked. It cannot tell you what the platform will feel like to you, how you will react when a position moves against you, or whether trading suits your circumstances. Those are personal questions, and no editorial assessment can answer them.
It also cannot guarantee the future. Fees change, terms change, and the way a broker treats clients can change after publication. A review is a snapshot with a date on it, not a permanent certificate. Where something is outside our ability to verify - the internal handling of a complaint, for example, or the experience of a client in a dispute - we can only report what is documented and say what remains unverified.
Finally, a review is not advice. It cannot tell you whether you can afford to lose the money you are thinking of depositing, and it cannot replace a decision made with your own circumstances in mind. Read the review, check the broker's own documents, and treat anything you read here - including our assessment - as one input among several, not as a green light.
