Trading 212 Vs. DEGIRO - Compare Trustworthiness, Capabilities, Fees and Legitimacy

Trading 212 is a global broker headquartered in the U.K specialising in real stocks and ETFs investing along with CFD trading.

DEGIRO is a European leading stock broker providing access to more than 50 stock exchanges around the world with low commissions per trade and a simple to use platform.

• Passive investors looking to buy stocks or ETFs with their investing account
• Traders of all levels of experience looking to trade CFDs on shares

• Investors from all experience levels looking to buy real shares, funds or ETFs for the long term
• Active traders that look to access the large variety of exchanges offered

• FCA (UK)
• CySec (Cyprus)
• FSC (Bulgaria)

• BaFin (Germany)
• AFM (Netherlands)

• Broad asset offering in their investing account (more than 10,000 assets)
• Friendly, smooth and simple proprietary platforms (both web and mobile)
• Great spreads on stocks and no commissions on investing accounts

• No conflicts of interest between DEGIRO and its customers
• Virtually unlimited asset offering from 50 exchanges across the globe
• Low fees when compared to traditional banking alternatives

• Despite both platforms being beautiful, they are gamified for engagement. Clicking on the buy button on mobile platform will trigger a random order without asking for confirmation
• Asides from stocks, their asset offering lacks variety
• Very high forex spreads (1.4 Pips on EUR/USD)

• Credit card deposits are not available
• Simplistic platforms with not many features
• Fees are expensive when compared to commission free brokers

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• Valid identity document (Passport, ID Card, etc)
• Valid proof of residence document (Bank statement, utility bills)

All documents must be under the account holder's name.

• Valid identity document (Passport, ID Card, etc)
• Valid proof of residence document (Bank statement, utility bills)

All documents must be under the account holder's name.

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Bank Transfer
• Paypal
• Neteller
• Skrill
• iDeal
• Apple Pay

• Bank Transfer
• Paypal

US, CA.

DEGIRO only provides services to citizens of Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom. The rest of the countries worldwide are not able to use DEGIRO's services.

Yes and varies per asset and exchange, eg: If you were to purchase £2,000 worth of Apple shares at a price of $300 your total commission would have been £0.44.