Most leveraged stock products in Europe are CFDs — synthetic contracts where you never actually own the underlying asset, capped by regulators at 5x for retail traders. As of today, July 8, 2026, Bitpanda is doing something the European market hasn't seen before: leverage on real stocks and ETFs.
The Vienna-based fintech is expanding its offering with margin trading for stocks and ETFs, letting users trade more than 875 securities with leverage of up to 20x. The key difference from every CFD provider out there — you're buying into the actual underlying assets, not betting on a price feed.
What is Bitpanda Margin Trading on Real Securities?
At its core, margin trading means borrowing capital to open a position larger than your own funds allow. 20x means that someone putting in €500 controls a €10,000 position — and gains and losses multiply accordingly.
What sets this launch apart is what you're actually trading. You aren't trading CFDs or synthetic contracts. You get direct exposure to the real security — with everything that comes with genuine ownership. Bitpanda is building this on top of its Real Securities brokerage, which has bee...
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