Until now, international equity investment has only been possible on the op.fi service. From now on, you can access trading venues in 14 countries via OP-mobile. These include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Canada and the USA.
To make investment decisions easier, we provide our investor clients with free-of-charge equity analyses of hundreds of foreign companies, in Finnish. These will be available later in the autumn on OP-mobile.
The most watched companies include Apple, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Nvidia, BMW, Adidas, Tesla, Volvo and L’Oreal. Slightly over half of these come from the USA. The rest are from Europe or elsewhere. Created to help investors diversify and invest, the analyses are produced by our partner, Kepler Cheuvreux.
Easy access to international markets
In practice, the requirements for international equity trading are the same as for the Finnish market. You won’t need any additional custody. If you trade on the Finnish market, you can also invest in foreign stock. As usual, you will need a QI document if you want to invest in the USA.
The trading fees for international equity transactions are at least 0.17 per cent or eight euros. The more you trade, the smaller the fees you pay. OP cooperative bank's owner-customers also invest in foreign markets at lower cost than non-owner-customers.
If you trade in non-euro equities, we’ll exchange currency for you automatically. The currency exchange fee is 0.30 per cent of the transaction price. This is calculated with the average rate used by OP Corporate Bank, which is updated four times a day.
You’ll need the latest version of OP-mobile to trade in international equities. If your app does not update automatically, go to the app store and update OP-mobile there.
- Read about international equity investment
- Learn more about owner-customers’ investor benefits
- Read more about OP’s equity analyses