IMPORTANT: Why we had to limit the US market on 29th January (not our choice and we engineered a solution)

[albanr (Alban Roger)]

We now know that Multi-currency accounts or just in $ would have prevented this Barclays/CurrencyCloud issue and this is a business decision,

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[Feature Request ] Multi-currency accounts

Interactive Investors (ex-TD direct) offer multi-currency account for their normal trading accounts and SIPP, except ISA of course as GBP is the only currency allowed. So, if you want your service offering to be if not always disruptive, at least competitive, you must offer at the very least the same. As a result, in a world of Interactive Investors and Revolut, not offering multi-currency accounts makes you an uncompetitive disrupted, not a disruptor…and the same goes for your 0.5% FX spread co…

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[Feature Request ] Multi Currency Accounts

I was just investigating a strange issue i’d had with the last few US stocks i’d traded, where my actual profit was almost £10 less than the profit that my portfolio told me I was going to make. I eventually found out that this is because every time I convert my GBP to USD, and then back again, i’m paying an additional 0.45% exchange fee. So that’s 0.9% per trade after you’ve bought and then sold the stock! Given that a lot of people on here, myself included, intend to only trade US stocks, al…