Press release
Trade Republic launches bond trading.
R As the first European broker, Trade Republic now enables its customers to invest in government and corporate bonds as of 1 eurq
R This allows investors to secure long term high interest rates and further diversify their portfoliq
R Trade Republic will pass through 4% interest p.a., on uninvested cash, to its existing and new
customers as of October 1, 2023

Dublin, September 15th, 2023. Trade Republic expands its offering and doubles down on its position as Europe's biggest savings platform: from now on, customers can invest in 500 liquid government and corporate bonds on a daily basis. This gives investors the opportunity to secure high interest rates over the long term.


"Especially in the current environment, bonds are an important asset class to benefit from high interest rates over the long term. We are the first broker in Europe to open up this asset class to retail investors", says Christian Hecker, co-founder of Trade Republic. "Until today, investors had to rely on expensive banks or advisors to access the bond market. With this new offering, we are taking another step to make the capital market accessible for more people."

Trade Republic solves two key challenges of the bond market for its investors: bonds typically require a minimum investment of €1,000, making them often difficult to afford for many people. In addition, the bond market is confusing and it is difficult to find liquid products. As the first broker in Europe, Trade Republic now offers, on a daily basis, 500 liquid government and corporate bonds, in which investments can be made with just 1 euro. As always: There is no order commission for trading, and only a third-party fee of 1 euro applies for settlement.

This opens up bond trading - an asset class previously reserved for few investors - to a broad customer group for the first time in Europe. This is in line with Trade Republic's mission to democratize the capital market. The current market environment with high interest rates, which have just been raised once again by the ECB, offers people in Europe the opportunity to grow their wealth over the long term, including through debt products such as bonds.

"Bonds are the largest asset class globally, and they have been a staple of well-diversified portfolios for centuries. Bonds are very effective when it comes to reducing portfolio volatility, but in recent years they had fallen out of fashion because, quite simply, returns just have not been interesting enough. That's over now: with benchmark rates above 4%, bonds are again an attractive avenue of diversification for retail investors. At Trade Republic, we are extremely proud to introduce bonds to a generation of young investors, many of whom never had the chance to create a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds in their lifetimes", says Emanuele Agueci, Regional Manager for Italy, Ireland and Baltics at Trade Republic.

Trade Republic passes through the interest of 4% p.a. on uninvested cash received from partner banks to its existing and new customers as of October 1, 2023.

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About Trade Republic

Trade Republic is on a mission to set millions of Europeans up for wealth creation with secure, easy and commission-free access to capital markets. With customers across 17 European countries and billions of assets under management, Trade Republic is already the home screen app for many Europeans to manage their wealth. It offers investing in savings plans, fractional investing, ETFs, bonds, derivatives and crypto. Trade Republic is a technology company supervised by Bundesbank and BaFin. As Europe’s largest savings platform, Trade Republic has received investments by Accel, Ontario Teachers‘, Peter Thiel‘s Founders Fund, Sequoia and TCV. The company based in Berlin was founded in 2015 by Christian Hecker, Thomas Pischke, and Marco Cancellieri.

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