Forum AMA with Freetrade CEO & Founder, Adam Dodds, Thu 26 May

[adam]

@winnie

• Why the pause in European stocks rollout? Where’s France, Sweden etc?
• What’s your vision for Plus and other premium tiers and when will we get there? It’s basically a tax wrapper and interest on cash - so far from a no-brainer for most customers.
• After European stocks are rolled out, what market will you provide access to next?
• Aus/Canada regulatory updates? Do these markets still make sense to launch in post a settling of stock trading euphoria?
• Crypto was a q1 2022 deliverable. What happened?

1. There is some additional complexity for stocks from certain countries, eg France has a financial transaction tax. So we shipped the first batches first as we build the additional requirements, more countries coming soon though. Swedish stocks are live in the Swedish app right now

2. You’ll see a revamp of our subscription tiers very soon.

3. Similar to the UK and US stock universes in the early days, we are prioritising getting more European stocks and ETFs on the platform so we have a full local offering in our expansion markets, rather than add new international markets at this stage.

4. We’re still moving forward with our regulatory cover in those markets, but we are very much focussed on the UK and European opportunity over the next twelve months.

5. The FCA is not approving crypto registrations as quickly as they have in the past.