Have you bought a share?
At the bottom it says ‘Venue - CBOE Europe NL’, so it would appear they are routing shares through them and are not connecting directly.
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Good spot - I haven’t brought anything as other than Rovio I’m not sure I know any of them.
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I wonder if the app is going to be updated to add a “Euro” pill to the existing UK and US category pills in the search?
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Wonder if swiss shares will be available, seeing as they’re out of the EU.
Great idea. I’ve changed mine to Jean Sibelius.
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Was Finland Independence Day on Monday too
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Hi Jean, I’m Eero. I’m a architect and I have two sets of double vowels in my name 
#FavouriteFinn
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In the interest of fairness can a Finnish tax resident join freetrade?
As a consolation, you can search for Finnish stocks by searching for XHEL
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Did the Finnish stocks arrive today or yesterday?
SamPta brought them as an early Christmas present today.
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Glorious. I was a participant on day one of Freetrades Finnish (and European) expansion milestones.
Bought a share of Atkia Bank and interested in Kone also.
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How fabulous. Had the pleasure of working for KONE for 10+ years with 4 of those living & starting our family in Helsinki. Some amazing times with an amazing company with amazing people in an amazing country 
Kippis 
It was craaaaazy to be there and witness the downward spiral of Nokia (HQ next to KONE HQ). They had it in their hand and dropped it badly…
PS hands and feet just about back to having some feeling after the cold. Just about 
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Awesome! We have a 1934 KONE lift in our block - looks particularly scary with an old school grinder but so far so good 
Where did you live in Helsinki?
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Edit: I did it wrong! Blame jet lag. At least it is a delicious mistake.
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Do you know something?
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Great question @hookedinvesting, I’m glad you ask! We are indeed connecting to the European markets directly, and connecting to a major CCP to clear trades. I’ll explain more here.
At face value, this new feature might seem simple - a bunch more stocks added to the platform. However, beneath the surface, it’s anything but simple, and what sets this new feature apart is ingrained in the DNA of Freetrade: investing time, energy and money into developing the right technology to build a sustainable business, supporting our clients throughout their lives. In short, this is the most complex piece of engineering and operations work since we built the Invest platform in 2019/20.
Our strategy with European trading is to effectively put you on the trading floor, trading alongside the brokers, market makers and institutions - rather than trading through those groups and lining their pockets with profit. This gives us several key differentiators: we can offer the best prices because we’re removing the counterparties that would take a cut from the spread you receive; and we can extend our stock universe with more trading venues in future using the same technology.
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Do you plan on doing the same for US markets - removing the dependency on drivewealth?
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Is Freetrade acting as the counterpart, market maker or other similar role when we deal with European stocks?
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Is the UK based freetrade nominees ltd or a European equivalent being used as the custodian?
Freetrade nominees Europe LTD if you will?