FRANKFURT, April 7 (Reuters) - The German online broker

Trade Republic suffered an outage on Monday as stocks fell in a

global rout, German media reported.

The scale of the outage, reported by Bild and other news

organizations, was not immediately clear.

Trade Republic wasn't immediately able to comment.

The online broker is among Germany's most popular. The

company has 8 million customers in 17 countries with assets of

100 billion euros ($109.76 billion), according to its website.

Trade Republic's trading was disrupted on its platform in

2021 when there was a surge in trading due to dealings in

Gamestop ( GME ), Blackberry and other stocks at the centre of a tussle

between retail investors and big hedge funds.

($1 = 0.9111 euros)