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What services do you offer and where?

Who can join Lightyear?

Whether you're looking for an account for yourself or your business, we’ve got you covered.

Personal accounts

Personal accounts are available to individuals aged 18+ who reside in countries where we’re authorised to offer our services.
Where personal accounts are availableWhen can we not offer our services
United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus (Republic), Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
  • If you reside outside of our service area.
  • If you are a tax resident or citizen of the United States, or if certain legal or regulatory restrictions apply in other cases.
For UK residents opening personal accounts, we offer a General Investment Account as well as as the tax-advantaged accounts Cash ISA and Stocks and Shares ISA.

Business account

Business accounts are available in all countries where personal accounts are offered, except Croatia, Germany, and Portugal. To open a business account, you need to live in our service area and start by setting up a personal account first.

What does Lightyear offer?

Products you’ll get based on your account type

AccountMulti-currency accountInvestmentsInterest on uninvested cashMMFs (Vaults)
Local account details for GBP & EUR, international for USD. Deposit, convert, and withdraw in all three.Buy & sell thousands of Stocks and Funds.Earn interest on your uninvested money.Invest in money market funds, earning you yield.
General investment account
Cash ISAOnly GBP--
Stocks and Shares ISAOnly GBP✓*
Business account
*FCA rules determine which instruments are allowed in an ISA. You can see a full list of ISA eligible stocks and funds on our website.

Other tax-advantaged accounts

Local accounts that give special tax benefits:

What is currently not available

At the moment, there are services we don’t offer on any type of account. This includes options, CFDs, futures trading, short-selling, pre-market and after-hours trading.

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