Short answer: for US and global stocks, use an international broker. Bermuda has no exchange controls and the Bermudian dollar is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, so a Bermuda resident can open an international broker like Interactive Brokers and buy US and world markets with no currency friction — that’s the answer to “how do I buy US stocks from Bermuda.” For the island’s own blue chip, Butterfield Bank dual-lists on the NYSE as NTB, so it’s one click in any normal account. The local Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) domestic board is a separate, smaller thing — reachable through a BSX member firm, with a quirk worth knowing.
US & global stocks (the common case)
Because Bermuda is built around serving international clients and the BMD tracks the USD, the practical route to US/global equities is a mainstream international broker — IBKR being the broad-market default. No local-exchange onboarding, no FX conversion. This is what most “Bermuda brokerage account” searches are really after.
The island’s blue chip — no local account needed
Butterfield Bank trades on the NYSE as NTB (and on the BSX as NTB.BH). So Bermuda’s flagship company is reachable through any Western brokerage account, with no BSX setup. Note that the famous “Bermuda companies” — Arch, RenaissanceRe, Everest and the reinsurance complex — are NYSE-listed global businesses domiciled there; owning them is a reinsurance bet, not a Bermuda-economy one.
The local BSX board (for completists)
The domestic Bermuda names — insurer Argus, BF&M, LOM Financial and a few more — trade on the BSX in BMD through member firms. The established independent is LOM Financial (itself BSX-listed); the island banks also offer brokerage. The quirk: Bermuda’s local-ownership rules have historically capped foreign stakes in some domestic companies (the old 60/40 framework), with exemptions company by company — ask the broker which side of the line a given stock sits on. Nothing bars a non-resident from opening with a member firm, but the thin float and the per-stock caps are the real constraints.
What can go wrong
The domestic board is small and slow-moving, with thin liquidity and the foreign-ownership caps above. And don’t mistake the Bermuda-domiciled reinsurers for exposure to Bermuda itself.
Next step
The Bermuda country page has the BSX member firms, the Butterfield dual-listing detail, and the ownership-cap fine print.
Last updated 27 June 2026. Based on BSX, Butterfield and LOM materials; I have not opened a Bermudian account.