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Later this year I’m moving to Greece. I guess you could say I'm retiring (I’m 55). I’ll be a Greek resident and will no longer be able to hold a UK trading account.

I’m currently with IG. They told me I just need to sell everything, cash out, close the account before I emigrate.

I’d prefer not to have to sell everything, move the cash to Greece, open a trading account in Greece etc etc. I can only imagine the paperwork!

Is it possible to open a trading account with a provider who has presence in the UK and the EU, then transfer the entire portfolio within that company to a newly opened EU account with that same company? Does that even exist? Is it thing? If it is, who?

Or am I simply in a position of having to do what IG suggest?

All my holdings are FTSE100 currently split between trading account and an ISA. I know the ISA will go as soon as I move so it will effectively be in one account.

Open to advice from those that have moved tax residency.