The GBP account offers you a more localised trading experience, and means that you can deposit, hold and fund trades in your local currency, rather than having to convert to USD by default upon depositing. This allows you more choice, plus you don’t have to pay conversion fees when you trade GBP-based assets.

There are several potential advantages to making trades using funds from your GBP account:

• Convenience: You can access your funds in GBP, and invest directly from the trade execution screen with no need to manually deposit or withdraw to or from your USD-based investment account. 
• Choice of currency: You can hold funds in GBP (in your GBP account) or USD (in your eToro investment account), which allows you to decide how to manage both your currency strategy, and exposure between USD and GBP. 
• Reduced conversion costs: There are no conversion fees when you fund trades of GBP-based assets, with your GBP account. There are also no conversion fees when you transfer (i.e., deposit or withdraw) between your own local bank account and your eToro GBP account.

GBP account services are only available to UK residents.

Note: Popular Investors are currently restricted from trading with funds from their GBP accounts. This ability is planned for future releases.

Yes. You can hold GBP currency in your GBP account and USD currency in your eToro investment account concurrently. This allows you to decide how to manage your currency strategy and exposure between USD and GBP.

Not at this time.

Currently available for trades with underlying (“real”) assets only.

It’s important to understand how the currency conversion and trade execution process works, when you open a position on eToro using funds from your GBP account (eToro Money). 

• When you open any position on the eToro investment platform with funds from your GBP account, your GBP funds are converted to USD, and moved to your USD account (eToro investment account), from where your trade is executed.  (There are no conversion fees incurred for the conversion to USD described above.)
• If the asset you are buying is USD-based, then no further currency conversion is required.
• If the asset you are buying is GBP-based, we will convert your funds to GBP, but we will not charge you any conversion fees.
• When buying assets based in GBP: while your order is pending, changes to the USD exchange rate at the time of conversion may impact the price of the position you are trading, affecting the cost to buy, or the proceeds you receive.
• For out-of-hours and limit order trades, the funds will be converted to USD when you create the order and will be held in USD while your order is pending. Note that if you cancel the order, the funds may be returned to your USD balance, and not to your GBP account. 
• Trading with your GBP account is only available for real stocks and cryptoassets. CFDs, Copy and Smart Portfolio investments can only be made with USD funds.
• If your USD account has a negative balance, the option to select your GBP account on the trade screen will be disabled. You will need to add funds to your USD account, to bring it back to at least zero in order to enable trading with your GBP funds.

By opening a position using funds from your GBP account, please note that the eToro Money UK Ltd entity is transferring funds to the eToro (UK) Ltd entity for execution by this entity. Note that if the execution of the trade fails, the funds may remain in your eToro investment account (in USD). 

• Closing a position with proceeds going to your GBP account follows a similar process to when you open a position using funds from your GBP account. 
• The proceeds from your closed trade are first converted to USD (if not already in USD), then to GBP, and then transferred to your GBP account.
• If your position is based in GBP, we charge no conversion fees to send the proceeds.
• If you wish to send funds from your copy investments to your GBP account, you can use the Stop Copy and Keep feature, which will put the underlying assets in your eToro investment portfolio, and from there, you can close the position to your GBP account.

Trading Fees

• When opening and closing positions with funds from your GBP account, our regular trading fees apply. Learn more here.
• These fees are initially calculated in USD, then converted to GBP, and included in the amount taken from your GBP account upon opening or closing a position. 

Conversion fees

• There are zero conversion fees when trading GBP-based assets using funds from your GBP account.
• Conversion fees may apply when trading non-GBP-based assets using funds from your GBP account.

To deposit funds to your GBP account:

Enter the amount you want to deposit and follow the instructions.

Log in to the eToro platform.

Click on the Wallet tab.

Under eToro Money Account, click Add Funds.

There are several ways in which you can transfer funds between your GBP account and your USD account. 

To transfer funds from your GBP account to your USD account:

Using the Wallet tab:

1.  In your eToro platform, select Wallet in the main menu.

2. Click Add Funds under Investment Account.

3. Select GBP account (eToro Money) from the dropdown menu.

4. Enter the amount you want to transfer to your USD investment account.

5. Click Deposit.

Using the Deposit Funds option:

1. In your eToro platform, click Deposit Funds in the main menu.

2. Select GBP account (eToro Money) from the dropdown menu.

3. Enter the amount you want to transfer to your USD investment account.

4. Click Deposit.

To transfer funds from your USD account to your GBP account:

Using the Withdraw Funds option:

1. In your eToro platform, click Withdraw funds from the main menu.

2. Select GBP (eToro Money) account as the location to which you wish to withdraw your funds.

3. Enter the amount you want to transfer to your GBP account.

4. Click Withdraw.

GBP account services are provided by eToro Money UK Limited.

We keep your funds in a designated safeguarding account at a fully regulated bank in the UK. This approach ensures that your money remains safe and accessible, providing an extra layer of security for your assets. These funds cannot be used by eToro Money for anything other than facilitating your payment transactions, so, for example, we can’t go and invest it in the markets or lend it to other clients. This means that, in the unlikely event of insolvency, your funds held by eToro Money are covered in their entirety, other than the cost of returning the funds to you. Find out more about how we safeguard your funds here.

If you are closing a position worth more than 50,000 USD, you will not be able to close the position and send the funds to your GBP account (even though the option is shown). If you try to close the position to your GBP account, the funds will regardless remain in USD and be closed to your eToro USD investment account.

Important: No conversion fee is charged for this.

You will be sent a push notification updating you that these funds were closed to your USD investment account.