Plus500's Fastest-Growing Product Is One EU Retail Can't Buy From It

Plus500 has started offering single stock futures listed by CME Group to its US customers, including micro-sized contracts. The CME market opened on 27 July 2026 with 77 contracts — 55 standard-sized on 100 shares and 22 micro contracts on 10 shares — spanning more than 50 companies including Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and SpaceX.

The launch matters to Plus500's shareholders because of where its growth is now coming from. Its non-OTC business — the arm that houses US futures and share dealing — produced roughly 15% of group revenue in the first half of 2026, contributing about $70m and growing around 30% year on year. Group revenue for the half was $462.9m, up 12%. “This builds on the momentum we are seeing across our non-OTC business,” chief executive David Zruia said.

That non-OTC push is deliberate. Plus500 first moved into US futures in 2021 by acquiring Cunningham Commodities, which brought clearing membership and the Plus500 Futures brand. The same arm now spans prediction markets and infrastructure sold to third parties such as Wealthsimple, FanDuel, Kalshi and Topstep. The core contracts-for-difference book still generates most of the group's income — but the marginal growth, and the narrative, increasingly come from products that are not CFDs.

Here is the catch for anyone trading from inside the EU or EEA: a single stock future and a single stock CFD are not the same instrument, and the futures driving Plus500's numbers are a US product you cannot access through its European entity.

A single stock future is exchange-traded and centrally cleared — in this case listed on CME, with the clearing house standing between buyer and seller. A CFD is an over-the-counter contract written directly with the broker; your counterparty is Plus500 itself, not an exchange. That structural difference is the whole point of Plus500's diversification: exchange-cleared, non-OTC revenue diversifies a business whose core product is bilateral and CFD-based.

For European retail, Plus500 operates through Plus500CY Ltd, authorised by Cyprus's CySEC (licence 250/14) as a CFD provider. The CME single stock futures are sold to US customers; a European Plus500 account does not reach them. What a European client can trade on the same underlying names is a single stock CFD — and under ESMA's product-intervention rules that comes on tight terms: retail leverage on individual-equity CFDs is capped at 5:1 (a 20% margin requirement), with mandatory negative-balance protection and margin close-out at 50%. The economics of a leverage-capped equity CFD are simply different from those of an exchange-listed futures contract.

So the arm growing 30% a year, the product Plus500's chief executive is pointing analysts toward, belongs to a jurisdiction most of our readers do not trade in. The European version of the broker is the plainer one, by regulatory design.

First, judge Plus500 in Europe on what it actually is here. From an EU/EEA account it is a CySEC-regulated, CFD-only broker: your funds sit under the Investor Compensation Fund up to €20,000, your leverage is capped under ESMA, and your instruments are CFDs — not the futures-and-prediction-markets business its group results describe. A broker's revenue mix tells you where the company is growing globally; it tells you very little about what you are allowed to buy from your own jurisdiction.

Second, if you specifically want exchange-traded, centrally cleared futures, that is a different broker category. European traders who need genuine exchange-listed single stock or index futures — with a clearing house rather than the broker as counterparty — generally use a futures-capable operator. Interactive Brokers, through Interactive Brokers Ireland Ltd under the Central Bank of Ireland, offers exchange-traded futures to EU clients; that is a structurally different proposition from any CFD account, with its own margin and settlement mechanics. For leveraged exposure to shares within the CFD model, the EU-regulated field we cover is broad — XTB under Poland's KNF, IG through IG Europe GmbH under BaFin, and eToro through eToro (Europe) Ltd under CySEC all sit inside fully authorised EU entities.

The wider read is the same one that keeps recurring in broker results this year: the products a company is betting its growth on are frequently the ones your regulator has placed out of reach. Plus500's single stock futures are a real business, growing quickly — in the United States. In Europe, the offer on the shelf is a leverage-capped CFD inside a CySEC-authorised entity, and that is what a European trader should actually be weighing.