Non-EU vendorFintech & NeobanksHeadquarters: US

Fidelity Investments: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fidelity Investments is a US financial services group, founded in 1946, serving individuals, employers, wealth management firms and institutions. Its offering includes self-directed brokerage accounts, mutual funds, ETFs, bonds, retirement accounts such as IRAs and workplace 401(k) plans, annuities and insurance, education and health savings accounts, and crypto. Services are delivered through websites, apps and branch locations in the United States.

The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It describes itself as privately held; the holding company is FMR LLC. The consumer website states that it is intended for persons in the United States only, and no data storage location is published, so US processing and US law should be assumed. A link to Fidelity International leads to a separate website. For European organisations, Fidelity is mainly relevant as a reference point for US financial infrastructure: anyone holding accounts or staff in the United States falls under US jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Fintech & Neobanks
Type	Product
Website	fidelity.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Fidelity Investments

The European alternatives to Fidelity Investments come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Fidelity Investments hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Fidelity Investments is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Fidelity Investments together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Fidelity Investments?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fidelity Investments include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and Air Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fidelity Investments?

Our list of EU alternatives to Fidelity Investments is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Fidelity Investments GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Fidelity Investments is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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