IG Europe Partners with Bitpanda for Crypto Trading Expansion
L'essentiel
- IG Europe is partnering with Austrian exchange Bitpanda to offer crypto trading to European investors, leveraging Bitpanda's infrastructure.
- This move follows IG's UK launch and aims to expand its product offering across the EU under MiCA regulations.
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IG Europe is expanding its crypto trading services to European investors by partnering with Austrian exchange Bitpanda. This follows a similar launch in the UK and is facilitated by Bitpanda's infrastructure. The move comes amid increased regulatory requirements in the EU due to MiCA.
IG Europe has partnered with Bitpanda to offer crypto for European investors, using the Austrian exchange’s infrastructure for liquidity, trading connectivity and market data.
IG’s push to bring spot crypto trading to its European client base comes after launching the service in the United Kingdom in 2025. The new expansion has no confirmed timeline.
“This partnership broadens our product offering across Europe, giving experienced investors access to a wider range of asset classes with the quality and security they demand,” said Esteve Jane, managing director of IG Europe, which is regulated by BaFin in Germany.
IG Group is a London-listed FTSE 100 trading platform with 1.3 million clients globally.
The Bitpanda deal allows IG to offer crypto services to clients across the bloc without building the infrastructure itself. It also comes as MiCA has raised the compliance bar for offering crypto services, with stringent requirements around capital, governance, risk management and custody, making partnerships like this a faster route to market.
Related: Bitpanda targets banks with Vision Chain tokenization platform
IG Group sees minimal crypto revenue
IG Group reported 331.2 million British pounds ($444.5 million) in revenue for the first quarter of the year, with spot crypto contributing just $3.2 million, less than 1% of the figure.
Despite the small revenue, IG Group has been expanding its crypto push. The company acquired Australian crypto exchange Independent Reserve, enabling the launch of spot crypto to IG’s clients in Australia in March. In 2025, it also obtained its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license in Germany.
IG Group shares are up 2.7% today. Source: Yahoo! Finance
Meanwhile, in October, IG sold the futures exchange Small Exchange to Kraken as part of a separate collaboration with the global crypto exchange.
Related: Bitget taps ex-Bitpanda legal chief Oliver Stauber to build Vienna MiCA hub
Bitpanda expands offerings
As Cointelegraph reported, Bitpanda is building Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 designed to let European banks and fintechs issue and trade tokenized stocks, bonds and funds under MiCA and MiFID II compliance.
The company has also been expanding beyond crypto. It recently added support for thousands of equities and exchange-traded funds as part of a move toward becoming a full-stack financial platform, and launched in the UK earlier this year. The Vienna-based exchange is eyeing a potential public listing this year.
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IG Europe will launch spot crypto trading for its European clients.
Très probable · En quelques mois
Bitpanda will expand its B2B offerings to more European financial institutions.
Probable · En quelques mois
IG Group's crypto revenue will increase significantly in the medium term.
Possible · Moyen terme
Questions ouvertes
- What is the confirmed timeline for the crypto trading launch in Europe?
- What specific crypto assets will be available to European investors?
- What are the detailed terms of the partnership between IG Europe and Bitpanda?
- How will MiCA compliance specifically impact the offering and user experience?
