General charges and fees

In supporting your financial aspirations and trading objectives, we provide both funding and liquidity for your trading activities in margin products. Our financing rates apply when you hold an open position in a margin product overnight e.g., a Contract for Difference (CFD) on a single stock.

Your financing rates consist of two components: 1) Saxo Bid/Offer financing rates and 2) commercial product markup/down.

The financing rates are set as:

• Bid = Saxo Bid financing rate - commercial product markdown
• Offer = Saxo Offer financing rate + commercial product markup

Saxo Bid/Offer financing rates

Saxo Bid/Offer financing rates refers to our pricing on financing i.e., we are charging floating interest rates. We use Alternative Reference Rates (ARRs) as an input when setting Saxo Bid/Offer financing rates. For currencies without a designated ARR, a money market rate, monetary policy rate or other relevant financial benchmark will apply as an input. 
Saxo Bid/Offer Financing Rates have a floor of zero percent, i.e. the interest rates can not be negative rates.

When you buy CFDs on single stocks e.g., in Hong Kong Dollars, we will convert our funding base into Hong Kong Dollars to finance the underlying purchase of the stocks. Conversely, if you are selling CFDs on a single stock e.g., in South African Rand, we will convert the proceeds from sale of the underlying stocks into our funding base currencies. These operations require active trading in various financial products in the interbank market to manage the liquidity cash flows generated by your trading activities.

ARRs have been developed by working groups consisting of national and international industry associations, market participants, as well as central and reserve banks. They are publicly available and are recognised by National Competent Authorities (NCAs), market participants, and national and international financial industry associations. For more information on the relevant financial benchmarks listed below, please consult the financial benchmark administrator, central or reserve bank.

The Saxo Bid/Offer financing rates are proprietary to Saxo Bank and subject to the provisions in our General Business Terms. One provision could be pass-through of cost related to external factors, such as changes in domestic and/or foreign monetary or credit policies that affect the general interest level or changes in cost structures with liquidity providers and brokers.

As a reference, see applicable Benchmark Rates in the section below.

Commercial product markups/downs

For more information on our general pricing, please consult the page Pricing Overview 

Interest calculation and settlement

Interest will be calculated daily and settled monthly – within seven business days of the end of each calendar month.

The Saxo Bid/Ask rates are proprietary to Saxo Bank and subject to the provisions in the General Business Terms. One such provisions could be pass-through of cost related to external factors, such as changes in domestic and/or foreign monetary or credit policies that affect the general interest level or changes in cost structures with liquidity providers and brokers.

We generally use Alternative Reference Rates (ARRs) as an input when setting Saxo Bid/Ask rates. For certain currencies, a money market rate, monetary policy rate or other relevant financial benchmark may apply as an input instead.

The benchmarks used when setting interest rates on deposits and financing rates on margin products are listed in the table below. Saxo Bank reserves the right to apply a business lag to the publication of financial benchmarks when calculating and booking unrealised and realised interest.

Custody fees for stocks, ETFs/ETCs, and bonds

For accounts with stock, ETF/ETC, or bond positions, an annual custody fee applies, as shown below. The custody fee will be calculated daily using the end of day values and charged on a monthly basis.

*Note that custody fees vary based on country of residence.
To check the custody fee for your account, please log in to the platform, select a stock, ETF, or bond, and click on the info button (i) to open the Trading Conditions window. You can find the custody fee under the Trading rates tab.

Value-added tax (VAT)

Custody fees are a VAT-liable service, so VAT will be applied on top of the custody fee.

For physical persons

• Residing within the EU: Danish VAT of 25% will be applied.
• Residing outside of the EU: no VAT will be applied by Saxo Bank A/S.

For a corporate/institutional client

• Having its place of business in Denmark: Danish VAT of 25% will be applied.
• Having its place of business within the EU (except for Denmark): no VAT will be applied by Saxo Bank A/S if a valid EU VAT ID is provided.* A reverse charge invoice will be provided.
• Having its place of business within the EU (except for Denmark) and a valid EU VAT ID is not provided: Danish VAT of 25% will be applied.
• Having its place of business outside the EU: no VAT will be applied by Saxo Bank A/S, but local VAT rules may apply.

*Only an EU VAT ID that is verifiable through the EU commission’s website (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatRequest.html?local=en) will be registered as a valid EU VAT ID. If the EU VAT ID is not verifiable, please contact your local VAT authority.

Please note that Classic and Platinum clients will be charged a fee of USD 200 for each new instrument added. VIP clients may request new instrument free of charge. The fee will be charged only when the requested instruments are successfully implemented. To check your current account tier, please go to the "Account" section of the platform and select the "Saxo Rewards" tab.

Where a client fails to withdraw all assets and/or cash on an account before their termination date (specified by Saxo), a fixed administration fee of 100 EUR (or account currency equivalent) may be charged on the termination date.

The fee will only be applied if you have a positive balance and will not cause your account to go into a negative balance.