facebookSaxo brokerage charges 0.5% markup on the spot FX if you trade US stocks on a SG funded account. Is this a standard FX markup across other Brokers? - Seedly

RA

17 Jan 2020

General Investing

Saxo brokerage charges 0.5% markup on the spot FX if you trade US stocks on a SG funded account. Is this a standard FX markup across other Brokers?

For USD 2,000 position on US stocks, converted at 1.37, I paid 13.7 SGD for the FX conversion charges.

Is this unusually high or a market standard?

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I just want to add here that the markup is now 0.75% for the standard tier of accounts! For a user of Saxo I was quite miffed that this wasn't made clear to me. I only realized it when i examined my trade details closely and saw the figure "USDSGD+-0.75". Then I thought to myself, "I could've sworn it was 0.5%" before.

Then i examined reports that I exported from the platform, looking at trades in mid 2019 and now (Jan 2020), and found that the rates are indeed increased.

Kelly Trinh

31 Oct 2019

Backoffice technical at financial services firm

Depends a bit what you are comparing against,

For payment services (credit cards) - 0.5% is very competitive compared to fees that banks hit you with (ranges from 3-4%)

For pure FX brokers - 0.5% still competitive but attainable for various sources but the advantage, in this case, is that you have it integrated with your share trading facility.

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