Where you live decides which brokers will have you. We put every one of the registry's
63 verified broker profiles against 256 countries of
residence — each data point drawn from the broker's own published eligibility terms — and counted who
gets in. Check your own country on the access checker; this page is the aggregate picture,
as of 5 July 2026.
Three findings
The world's best brokerage passport is small-EU residence, not financial-centre residence.
The top of the table is Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Slovakia and peers — 36 brokers open to each —
because EU/EEA residence stacks the European neo-brokers on top of the worldwide onboarders. London and New
York don't make the podium.
The American paradox: residents of the world's biggest capital market rank 35th of 256. 31 brokers are open to US residents — and 4 explicitly refuse US persons
(EXANTE, Phillip Securities, XTB and DBS Vickers among them). FATCA's cost, quantified per broker rather
than anecdotally.
Frontier residents are ignored, not banned. A resident of Mongolia (29 open) or
Nigeria (29 open) faces almost no explicit exclusions — the gap to Germany's 35 comes from
EU-only fintechs that simply don't list them, not from refusals. Meanwhile the explicit-exclusion lists hit
rich-world residents hardest: EEA residents are barred from DBS Vickers and Standard Chartered's online
trading.
Brokers open per residence — darker is more; sanctioned jurisdictions hatched grey.
≥34 open (EU/EEA passport) 31–33 30 ≤29 (worldwide baseline) sanctioned
Most-welcome residences
#
Residence
Open
of which multi-market
Refused
1
Austria
36
16
2
2
Finland
36
16
2
3
Netherlands
36
16
2
4
Slovakia
36
16
2
5
Sweden
36
16
2
6
Belgium
35
15
2
7
Croatia
35
15
2
8
Czech Republic
35
15
2
9
Denmark
35
15
2
10
Estonia
35
15
2
11
France
35
15
2
12
Germany
35
15
2
13
Greece
35
15
2
14
Hungary
35
15
2
15
Ireland
35
15
2
Most explicitly refused
Residence
Brokers refusing
Still open
United States
4
31
Austria
2
36
Finland
2
36
Netherlands
2
36
Slovakia
2
36
Sweden
2
36
"Refused" counts brokers whose published terms explicitly exclude that residence. Sanctioned jurisdictions
(KP, IR, SY, CU, RU, BY) are additionally treated as excluded by every "most countries" broker, since those
terms carve out sanctioned jurisdictions.
How we counted
Every count is a tabulation of the open_to field on the registry's broker profiles — a
machine-readable rendering of each broker's published eligibility terms, which are themselves verified
to the standard shown on every profile (verified / researched / reader-reported). "Open" means the broker's
terms say residents of that country can open; "likely" means the broker onboards many countries but publishes no
firm list. The counts span both multi-market platforms (IBKR, EXANTE, the Asian bank-brokers)
and single-market local specialists (the Mongolian, Kazakh or Iraqi broker that is the door
into one exchange) — the "of which multi-market" column separates them, and the
access checker shows the same split per country. This is
who will take you, not what it costs or whether you should — rules and
entities change, so confirm with the broker. Corrections and first-hand reports:
send them in; they update the map.
Common questions
Which country’s residents can open the most brokerage accounts?
Residents of small EU/EEA states — Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Slovakia and peers, with 36 of the registry's 63 profiled brokers open to each (16 of them multi-market platforms). EU/EEA residence adds Europe's neo-brokers on top of the worldwide onboarders.
Why do US residents have fewer brokers to choose from?
FATCA. The US ranks 35th of 256 residences: 31 brokers open, and 4 that explicitly refuse US persons — EXANTE, Phillip Securities, XTB and DBS Vickers among them. Non-US brokers face US tax reporting obligations for American clients, and many decline them rather than comply.
What does “open to you” mean on this map?
That the broker’s published eligibility terms say residents of that country can open an account. It is a statement about the broker’s own terms — not a promise, not a review of costs, and not advice. Rules and entities change; confirm with the broker.
