Verified · 13 June 2026 — my main broker for some twenty years (IBKR has since taken over the role). Market list from the in-app filter.
What it is
Nordnet is the other half of the Nordic retail duopoly with Avanza: Stockholm-based, Nasdaq-listed, serving residents of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland with local tax wrappers (ISK/kapitalförsäkring and their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish equivalents). The interface is great — that, and the wrappers, are why it held the main-broker role in my own setup for some twenty years.
Eligibility: resident, not just citizen
The same wall as Avanza: Nordnet is Nordic-resident infrastructure. Onboarding runs on the national e-ID and a local bank account — in Sweden that means a personnummer, BankID and a Swedish bank; Norway, Denmark and Finland have their own equivalents. A Nordic citizen living abroad can’t simply open and use it, and for everyone else it isn’t a route at all.
What it reaches
17 developed markets, all online, and that’s the whole list: the four Nordics, the US and Canada, the UK and Ireland, and nine continental European markets (Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Austria). The in-app filter — screenshot below — even counts the tradeable lines per market: 5,970 US, 2,777 Canada, 982 Sweden, down to 14 for Ireland.
The registry-relevant fact is the negative one: there is no phone desk. Avanza’s catch-all broker desk is the thing that makes it interesting to this registry despite a similar online list; Nordnet has no equivalent — no Asia, no EM, no frontier, no “call us and we’ll see.” The list is the list.
Use it / skip it
Use it as the core account if you’re a Nordic resident: wrappers, interface, cheap developed-market dealing, and arguably the best fund/savings platform in the region. Skip it for everything this registry exists for — for any market beyond the developed 17, you need IBKR or a specialist alongside.
Verdict
Twenty years as my main broker is its own verdict: for ordinary Nordic investing, Nordnet is excellent, and the interface remains among the best anywhere. But it is a developed-markets-only broker by construction, with no desk to stretch the list. The setup that follows is the one this registry keeps arriving at: Nordnet (or Avanza) as the local core, IBKR for the world, specialists for the frontier.
Sources
Verified personally: ~20-year account history; market list and per-market line counts from the in-app market filter (June 2026, screenshot).
