Deeper coverage across new exchanges
Over the summer, we’re adding nearly 1,000 more instruments from four brand-new markets: Austria, Finland, Portugal, and Italy, alongside doubling our German and French instrument offering. And that’s just the start – Swiss and Danish stocks are coming next, with several thousand additional instruments planned by year-end.
Infrastructure upgrade: faster, safer, smarter
Behind the scenes, we’ve upgraded our infrastructure with:
- A direct Tradegate membership: opening new market exchanges, adding hundreds of new European instruments to the platform, now accessible to investors during extended trading hours and providing higher-quality market data transmission.
- A partnership with Nasdaq CSD, which leverages Clearstream – Europe’s largest central securities depository – owned by Deutsche Börse Group: significantly improving the quality of securities processing and the safety of asset custody.
And all this at the same low fees you’re used to (just a flat €1 per trade on European shares, and commission-free ETFs).
Fractional investing
Earlier this month, we also launched fractional investing on select EU stocks and ETFs, letting you buy portions of high-value names without needing a full share. With hundreds of new German, French, Austrian, and Finnish names added, you can mix and match full and fractional shares to build a truly diversified portfolio from as little as €2 per trade.
In just a few taps, Lightyear customers can now invest across all the major European markets – and do so with the low fees, robust infrastructure, and intuitive experience that sets us apart.
Check out the Lightyear app today to explore our ever-growing universe of instruments, and let us know what you’d like to see next.
Disclaimer
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Paula is a Communications Specialist at Lightyear, sharing news about the platform across the media and investor communities with a focus on Hungary, Spain, Portugal and Germany. She’s worked in marketing and communications across a variety of sectors over four years, and ran her own marketing agency for the better part of two years.