Plus500 Regulatory News (PLUS)

20 November 2018

Plus500 Ltd.

("Plus500" or "the Group")

Trading Update

Plus500, a leading online service provider for trading Contracts for Differences ("CFDs") internationally, is pleased to announce that the strong momentum reported in its Q3 Trading Update issued on 23 October has continued into November to date. Accordingly, the Board believes that the Group's results for the financial year ended 31 December 2018 will be ahead of previous market expectations.

Asaf Elimelech, Chief Executive Officer of Plus500, commented: 

"We are delighted to report positive momentum for October and November as we move towards the end of the financial year. We believe we are in a good position for 2019 and continue to focus on acquiring high value customers as well as growing in existing and new jurisdictions."

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 

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About Plus500

Plus500 operates an online trading platform for individual customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 2,200 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, indices, commodities, options, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange. Individual customers of Plus500 can trade CFDs in more than 50 countries and in 32 languages. The trading platform is also accessible from multiple operating systems (Windows, smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), tablets (iOS, Android and Surface) and web browsers). Plus500 retains operating licences and is regulated in the United Kingdom, Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore. Customer care is integral to Plus500: customers cannot be subject to negative balances and there are no commissions on trades. Plus500 does not utilise cold calling techniques and does not offer binary options. A free demo account is available on an unlimited basis for platform users and sophisticated risk management tools are provided free of charge to manage your leveraged exposure and stop losses to help customers protect profits and limit capital losses.www.plus500.com