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An earnings reconstruction separates customer growth from monetisation: contribution per reported period-end funded account fell to about $42, while crypto revenue, related costs and derivatives explain much of the decline.
eToro’s third-quarter net income fell 74% to $15 million while accounts rose to 4.39 million; its October crypto-trade count was 62% lower year on year.
A 2022 applicability table is insufficient for today’s entity analysis. The current contract places UK copy trading and securities custody with eToro UK while drawing separate boundaries for crypto services and compensation.
CMC and eToro both provide structured incident APIs. Robinhood’s former page directs users elsewhere, while IBKR emphasises data-centre status and reset windows. The differences limit any reliability ranking.
A category-matched FCA comparison for January–June 2026 finds a 63.62-point rapid-closure gap. The data describe handling times, not a ranking of service quality.
Crypto trades fell only 4%, but average invested amount dropped 70%. Their compound effect cut the estimated aggregate from $1.79bn to $514m.
FXBrokers.ai reconstructed eToro’s 2025 revenue bridge and found that 93.7% of the reported top line was reversed by cryptoasset cost and margin-interest expense before operating costs. The filing is internally consistent, but the gross presentation can radically distort comparisons with brokers that report principally on a net basis.
Audited records reveal the group’s cross-border custody and clearing dependencies, while the public $231 million deal announcement leaves the exact transaction perimeter and required approvals unnamed
Trading 212, eToro, XTB and Interactive Brokers all require the fractional portion to be sold or closed before an account transfer. Economic rights also differ: voting exists in some programmes but not others.
Applying four brokers’ standard published automatic-conversion rates to two $10,000-equivalent exchanges produces a 25-fold range. The comparison is controlled and reproducible, but multicurrency balances and discounts can change the realised cost.
Trading 212, eToro and Interactive Brokers all use 50% in their lending economics, but one refers to received interest, another to revenue net of third-party costs and another to a market-based collateral rate. Robinhood uses up to 15% of gross revenue.
eToro’s first-half cryptoasset revenue was lower than its matching cost, while derivatives changed the sign of a simple reconstruction but not the gross-versus-net problem.
eToro’s MCP connectors offer portfolio analysis and permission-controlled actions through outside assistants; read-only and action-enabled access are different account privileges.
The proposed purchase of the Rosario-based fintech would give eToro a local base for regional expansion. Closing remains subject to customary conditions, and LB Finanzas says clients face no immediate change.
The proposed acquisition adds local investing and payments capabilities to eToro’s expansion plan. The purchase price is undisclosed and closing remains conditional.