Revolut quietly launched contracts for difference (CFD) trading in 29 countries, including several European countries, last year for “active traders”. The expansion came more than a year after the challenger bank, which also recently gained a full UK banking licence, piloted CFD offerings in three EU countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Greece.
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Revolut Is Now Fully in the CFD Game
FinanceMagnates.com confirmed the launch of CFDs in Europe on the Revolut app, which is available under its Investment tab. Earlier, the British company launched a standalone CFD platform, Revolut Invest.
It offers CFDs in Europe through its Lithuanian entity, which holds a MiFID II licence.
CFDs appear to be Revolut’s push towards adding active investment products such as stocks, bonds, and ETFs. It also offers robo-advisory services and cryptocurrency trading.
“With Instant Access Savings and investment options such as stocks, ETFs, bonds, commodities, CFDs, and cryptocurrencies, users can actively grow their wealth,” Revolut noted in its latest financials.
Although in reality, CFDs are considered high-risk investment products, and the majority of CFD traders end up losing money.
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Another Institutional Win for CMC
Revolut entered the CFD market by leveraging CMC Connect’s infrastructure, the institutional arm of London-based CFD provider CMC Markets.
As Finance Magnates revealed earlier, the two companies had to undergo technological due diligence, which was a “process of walking with one another, hand in hand. Sit down, get down to the details, and understand.” The entire deal depended on that due diligence.
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Despite offering CFDs for over a year, Revolut did not reveal any figures related to CFDs in its latest financial report for 2025. Publicly listed CMC only mentioned the impact of the Revolut deal on its B2B revenue as “not significant” due to limited geographical coverage in its half-year financials, only a few months after the deal with the neobank was completed. Now, it would be interesting to see those numbers as Revolut has expanded its CFD offerings in many countries.
Despite Revolut having 68.3 million customers globally, it is unclear how many can access CFDs or what percentage are suited to trading high-risk products. Meanwhile, the company generated a pre-tax profit of £1.7 billion on revenue of £4.5 billion last year.
While firms like Revolut are entering the CFD market, established CFD brokers are also diversifying, mainly into stock trading and cryptocurrencies. IG Group, meanwhile, is considering prediction markets despite their resemblance to the controversial binary options.
