Plus500 has launched its personal prediction markets for its United States retail buyer base and can provide occasion contracts, together with merchandise from regionally regulated Kalshi. The brand new platform can be part of Plus500’s US B2C model, ‘Plus500 Futures’.
Plus500’s Wager on Occasion Contracts
The announcement right this moment (Tuesday) happened a few months after the London-listed dealer grew to become the clearing associate for CME and FanDuel’s new event-based contracts platform.
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“Prediction markets are attracting rising curiosity from each retail and institutional members alike, reflecting their rising relevance as a clear and absolutely regulated strategy to specific views on real-world outcomes,” the dealer famous.
“The introduction of prediction markets aligns with Plus500’s continued concentrate on technological innovation, customer-centric method and product improvement.”
The dealer burdened that it’s going to provide its B2C clients “a broad vary of regulated prediction markets”, which would come with financial indicators, monetary occasions, geopolitical developments and different measurable real-world outcomes.
Kalshi will ship the providing, however the occasion contracts can be cleared instantly by Plus500, a member of Kalshi’s clearing unit.
The dealer additional burdened that, sooner or later, its scalable institutional infrastructure will help broader participation throughout the prediction markets ecosystem.
Mainstream Gamers Getting into Prediction Markets
The recognition of prediction markets has exploded in recent times, particularly throughout the wagers on the final US Presidential election. Though the trade is huge offshore, the place crypto-based Polymarket dominates, Kalshi performed a major function in popularising the regulated model inside US borders.
The buying and selling quantity of occasion contracts even climbed previous $13 billion a month.
Whereas disrupters like Robinhood have already been providing occasion contracts for a while, the CME Group’s entry into the trade final 12 months showcased its future within the mainstream monetary markets.
In the meantime, Plus500 can be getting into into different trending sectors. A couple of months in the past, it additionally signed an unique settlement with Topstep, beneath which the London-listed dealer will deal with all clearing and know-how infrastructure for the Chicago prop agency’s brokerage arm and its wider operations.
Plus500 generated $182.7 million in income within the third quarter of 2025, down 2.5 per cent 12 months over 12 months and 12.7 per cent quarter over quarter. The corporate is understood for providing contracts for variations (CFDs), however now it focuses on increasing past over-the-counter (OTC) devices.
About 15 per cent of whole group income was generated by its non-OTC enterprise, together with 18 per cent of latest clients.
