Asian shares in the head. XTB will put east in 2026

XTB wants Asian shares in the company's product portfolio to be a goal for 2026 – said Filip Kaczmarzyk member of the trading board during the video conference. Sharing options and cryptocurrencies is a broker priority for 2025.

“We do not plan to introduce Asian actions at the moment, but it seems to me that this is a real goal for 2026,” said Kaczmarzyk.

He added that the company is currently focusing on the expansion of the portfolio with further local markets that are important for other XTB branches.

“For example, these will be Romanian actions and in Dubai actions from the Middle East, it will allow us to build a local presence and we want to focus on this year” – he added.

In addition, the company maintained that it wanted to add cryptocurrencies and options in 2025.

“We have already informed about it at the beginning of the year that in both of these products (trading cryptocurrencies and options – PAP), we are addicted to the licenses received – this is an aspect that we have less influence on. However, technical work on our side is ongoing and we deeply believe that we will be able to launch these products this year” – he said.

“When it comes to options, we focus on vanilla options and barrier options. When it comes to cryptocurrency products, of course, we focus on the most popular instruments depending on the marketing and interest of customers. What we are focused on is the safety of trading and stored funds, which we work at this moment” – he added.

In turn, the president of Omar Arnaout pointed out that the company is doing everything to make both products available in III.

“As for (license – PAP) in Chile, we think it will be a huge difference because we used the strategy that we used in Europe so far 5 years ago, i.e. we were a typical CFD broker, which limits the possibilities very much,” said Arnaout.

He added that these were the times when XTB generated annual results of PLN 100 million, and in its assessment the result barrier was dismaterialized by adding a wide product offer.

“The plans are exactly the same on Chile and that's why we see a very large prospect of growth,” he added.

He added that the company is aware of the market expansion of the competitive Robinhood platform.

“We are 100 % aware of Robinhood's activities, this is really one of the reasons that we put so much emphasis on technological and product changes, because in fact Robinhood is not the only company that has very similar dreams to XTB. This is crucial to address the potential for growth from various points of view,” said the president.

He added that the second important factor is marketing outlays, which in the case of reference companies to XTB are significantly higher.

“We must look at it through the prism not only short -term, but also long -term (…). From a short term perspective, there would be no reason for us to increase the costs of marketing. The problem is that exactly the same as after the introduction of regulatory changes in 2018, where consolidation took place (…)

“We know perfectly well that we must continue to increase marketing expenditure to be able to compete with such companies as Robinhood. The advantage we have at the moment is exactly the same advantage as Robinhood would have, if we decided to enter the American market. We would like to be an important part of this market consolidation, “he added. (PAP Biznes)

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