There is an annual fee of 25 for Isa accounts. However, new customers only pay 5 per trade for the first 50 days. DLJdirect also offers a facility to trade in international shares. Click here for more. E-cortal is a Europe wide broker offering access to the shares of nine stock exchanges worldwide, including the FTSE 350 and Nasdaq.
All charges are in euros.
UK recently launched the first internet-based service especially geared to frequent investors. The site includes a range of research tools only available to online traders and a US sharedealing service. There is a flat rate charge for its service, but this reduces the more trades you make. The first 30 trades each quarter of 1,500 or below cost 14.95. After this charges drop to 8.95.