** Retail trading platform eToro Group ETOR.O set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Wednesday under ticker symbol "ETOR"
** Israel-based ETOR and some existing stockholders sold ~11.9 million shares at $52 apiece to raise $620 million in an upsized IPO
** They had earlier offered 10 million shares priced between $46 and $50 each
** ETOR expects profit to be between $56 million and $60 million for the three months ended March 31, compared with a $64 million profit a year earlier
** Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, UBS and Citigroup led a 16-firm underwriting syndicate for the offering
** Asset management giant BlackRock BLK.N had indicated on buying up to $100 million of shares in the offering
(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru)
((ArasuKannagi.Basil@thomsonreuters.com;))
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