EU sovereignFintech & NeobanksHeadquarters: NL

LYNX Broker: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LYNX Broker is an online broker for shares, ETFs, options, futures, CFDs, certificates and forex, active since 2006. Customers open accounts and place trades through the company's website and trading platform, without running any trading software themselves. The site states that LYNX gives no investment advice and warns that investing is risky, and that losses can exceed the deposit.

LYNX B.V. is a Dutch company with its head office in Amsterdam and operates in Germany through a branch in Berlin. The legal notice names the Dutch managing directors and lists BaFin and the Dutch AFM as regulators. The privacy notice names Interactive Brokers UK/Ireland as the contracting party for accounts, and it names no hosting provider or hosting location. It says data may in limited cases go to an IT provider in the United States or another third country, and that IT operations aim to keep European data-protection standards. European investors should check which provider holds their account data.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
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 10, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Fintech & Neobanks
Type	Product
Website	lynxbroker.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LYNX Broker

The European alternatives to LYNX Broker come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 LYNX Broker

LYNX Broker is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

LYNX Broker hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

LYNX Broker 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to LYNX Broker?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to LYNX Broker 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 LYNX Broker?

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

Is LYNX Broker GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

LYNX Broker is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes LYNX Broker an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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