BGL BNP Paribas fees explained

BGL BNP Paribas's fees are considered to be high. This is usually a result of high fees across multiple fee types. It's important to be aware of this and to decide whether other advantages of BGL BNP Paribas can still make it a good choice for you. These deciding features can be its research options, its education section or the general user experience you get on its trading platforms.

Here's a high level overview of BGL BNP Paribas's fees

Online brokerages in general charge much lower brokerage fees than traditional brokerages do - this is largely due to the fact that online brokerages' businesses can be much better scaled: From a purely technical standpoint it doesn't make that much of a difference for them if they have 100 or 5000 clients.

This is not to say however that they don't have any fees at all. They make money by charging you at various events for various rates. Usually you need to keep an eye on these 3 types of fees:

• Trading fees - these are brokerage fees that you pay when you actually do a trade. What you pay is either a commission, a spread or financing rate. Some brokers apply all of these.
  • A commission is either based on the traded volume or it is fixed.
  • A spread is the difference between the buy price and the sell price
  • Financing rate or overnight rate is charged when you hold your leveraged positions for more than one day.
• Non-trading fees. These occur related to some operations you make in your account, i.e. depositing money to your account, withdrawing money from it or not trading for an extended amount of time.

We compare BGL BNP Paribas fees with its closest competitors, flatex and LYNX.

We see BGL BNP Paribas's trading fees to be high because they charge more than most of its competitors.

Let's break down the trading fees into the different asset classes available at BGL BNP Paribas.

Trading fees

BGL BNP Paribas's trading fees are high.

Stock fees and ETF fees

BGL BNP Paribas has high stock trading fees.

Bond fees

BGL BNP Paribas has high bond fees.

CFD fees

BGL BNP Paribas has CFD trading fees.

Financing rates

BGL BNP Paribas financing rates are .

If you want to trade on margin and prefer to hold your positions long, financing costs can be significant.

Leverage is a double-edged sword and can dramatically amplify your profits. It can also just as dramatically amplify your losses. Trading foreign exchange/CFDs with any level of leverage may not be suitable for all investors.

Currency conversion fee

BGL BNP Paribas will charge a Currency Conversion Fee for all trades on instruments denominated in a currency different to the currency of your account. The fee is charged as the following: 0.1% of the trade value, min €5 and max €150.

When it comes to looking at all the non-trading fees BGL BNP Paribas is an average broker. This means that some of the non-trading fees are high, but the others are low or not charged at all.

Non-trading fees include various brokerage fees and charges at BGL BNP Paribas that you pay not related to buying and selling assets. Among some others, typical non trading fees are withdrawal fee, deposit fee, inactivity fee and account fee.

Deposit fees are applied when you send money to your trading account from your bank account. Usually brokers don't charge money for that and BGL BNP Paribas is not different: you will see the exact same amount on your brokerage account that you sent by any of the deposit methods BGL BNP Paribas offers.

Unlike some online brokers we have reviewed BGL BNP Paribas does not charge a withdrawal fee. This means that you'll see the same amount of money on your bank account that you transferred from your brokerage account.

BGL BNP Paribas does apply an inactivity fee and it is €117 per half year after 18 months of inactivity. This means that you need to be strategic about your trading activity to avoid getting charged after a longer time of no trade. The fact that BGL BNP Paribas charges an inactivity fee makes it less ideal for you if you are a buy and hold investor.

BGL BNP Paribas has low inactivity fee.

Read more about BGL BNP Paribas inactivity fee on their own site.