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Plus500 Partners with Wealthsimple to Power US Futures Access in Canada

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Plus500 has announced a strategic partnership with Wealthsimple, a Canadian financial platform serving over four million clients with C$150 billion in assets under administration. The deal will allow Wealthsimple to offer Canadian retail investors direct access to US futures contracts for the first time, using Plus500’s proprietary trading platform.

Under the agreement, Plus500 will supply its institutional-grade clearing, order routing, and risk-management infrastructure. This collaboration further expands Plus500’s business-to-business (B2B) ecosystem, building on its existing infrastructure partnerships with CME Group, FanDuel, and Topstep as the group accelerates its institutional footprint in the futures market.

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