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Trade Republic

German online broker and bank

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Trade Republic Bank GmbH is a German online broker and bank headquartered in Berlin. Founded in 2015, it offers brokerage services through a mobile app and initially relied in part on payment for order flow (PFOF), a practice later phased out in the European Union. After receiving a full banking licence from the European Central Bank in 2023, the company expanded into savings and current-account products. As of April 2025, it had 8 million users in 17 countries and €100 billion in assets.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Trade Republic” is german online broker and bank. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Trade, Republic and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2023, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Trade, Republic and German is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “german online broker and bank” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2023 and 2025.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Trade Republic primary sources, Trade Republic archive and Trade research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Trade Republic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.