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Chase chases challengers away at the British Bank Awards 2023

12th May 2023 | Oliver Smith

Exclusive: Freetrade launching cheaper annual subscriptions, as it increases monthly prices

24th April 2023 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade to more than double FX fees for free accounts amid profitability push

9th March 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

Plum expands trading platform to 3,000 stocks, ETFs to follow

8th February 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

Freetrade appoints Deutsche Bank director to board

10th January 2023 | Daniel Lanyon

German trading app Trade Republic adds 2% interest to deposits

5th January 2023 | Oliver Smith

AltFi’s 10 most-read stories of 2022: Part 1

28th December 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Stock trading app Freetrade ‘talking to advisors' about raise or potential sale

21st November 2022 | Will McCurdy

Exclusive: Freetrade appoints ex-Amazon dev Shahid Naveed as CTO

14th November 2022 | Oliver Smith

Plum to expand commission-free investing to France and other European markets

13th September 2022 | John Reynolds

eToro to acquire rival trading app Gatsby

18th August 2022 | Will McCurdy

Robinhood lays off 23% of staff as retail investing slows

3rd August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Exclusive: Chip launches alternative asset investments as it acquires Koia’s customer base

1st August 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Freetrade ‘postpones’ securities lending plan

29th July 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Bitpanda latest crypto firm to slash jobs

28th June 2022 | John Reynolds

Layoffs, down rounds & uncertainty: The big fintech divide

27th June 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Meet InvestEngine: A “long term” ETF trading platform that just hit £70m in AUM

22nd June 2022 | Oliver Smith

Founded by Robinhood alumni, this FX challenger aims to undercut Wise

16th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Financial aggregation platform Airbank raises $20m

14th June 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

NatWest eyes digital wealth acquisitions amid sector slowdown

13th June 2022 | John Reynolds

VC remains “resilient” against the backdrop of volatility, says Molten Ventures CEO

13th June 2022 | Oliver Smith

Exclusive: Freetrade announces job cuts of up to 15% of staff

10th June 2022 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade opts for debt raise with £30m loan

23rd May 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Bitpanda doubles fractionalised stocks and ETFs to over 2,000 on share trading platform

18th May 2022 | John Reynolds

Ready for a move? There’s a perfect amount of time to stay in a job

13th May 2022 | Kirstie McDermott

Plum joins the ranks of the UK’s commission-free trading platforms

4th May 2022 | Liza Tetley

European fintechs turn to crowdfunding

5th April 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Climate change: N26 founder among angels backing Lune’s $4m round

22nd March 2022 | Amelia Isaacs

Social fintech: I’m feeling bullish…and a bit concerned

14th March 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Social investing app Shares closes $40m Series A with 60,000 waitlist

3rd March 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Freetrade lands in Europe

3rd March 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Freetrade asks users for securities lending consent 'to keep fees low'

2nd March 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Hargreaves Lansdown is waking up to fintech’s digital disruption

23rd February 2022 | Daniel Lanyon

Monzo launches hunt for new investments and wealth business boss

31st January 2022 | John Reynolds

Wine and watches investment app Koia bags $1.4m funding

17th January 2022 | John Reynolds

"Wunderbar" as Freetrade offers German stocks

13th January 2022 | John Reynolds

BUX becomes the first Dutch stockbroker to offer fractional investing

4th January 2022 | Oliver Smith

2021 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 2

30th December 2021 | John Reynolds

AJ Bell takes on Freetrade et al with zero-commission stock trading app Dodl

29th November 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Freetrade sets crowdfunding record as seeks valuation of £650m

25th November 2021 | John Reynolds

We’re looking for a Reporter to join our team!

19th November 2021 | AltFi

Lightyear partners with Truelayer for open banking payments

11th November 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Bita raises €6m Series A from ETFS Capital for next generation index customisation

9th November 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

The perils and promise of ‘meme’ stock trading

9th November 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade sees assets under administration hit £1bn

3rd November 2021 | Aisling Finn

Revolut’s US boss leaves after less than two years

20th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade sails past one million customers

14th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

Monzo partners with Freetrade to offer free shares for subscribers

11th October 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade poaches new CFO from Revolut

20th September 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Fintech veterans launch new trading app Lightyear with $8.5m from Monzo backer & Wise founder

15th September 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Tom Blomfield-backed activist investment platform Tulipshare launches ‘right to repair’ campaign against Apple

13th September 2021 | Oliver Smith

Fintech investor Draper Esprit joins London’s FTSE 250

2nd September 2021 | Oliver Smith

Lloyds hopes to shore up its digital wealth tech with £390m Embark acquisition

29th July 2021 | Oliver Smith

Plum takes on PensionBee and Moneybox with new pension offering

8th June 2021 | Aisling Finn

Crowdcube unveils Cubex: Secondary marketplace for all high-growth European startups

6th May 2021 | Oliver Smith

Draper Esprit portfolio reaches £1bn, boosted by Freetrade, TrustPilot and UiPath

26th April 2021 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade finds Brighton has the most financially literate Brits

23rd April 2021 | Oliver Smith

BUX closes $80m round, appoints new CEO, sets sights on UK expansion

22nd April 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Bitpanda launches fractional share trading

22nd April 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Draper Esprit adds low-code infrastructure provider FintechOS to its portfolio with €51m round

20th April 2021 | Oliver Smith

Ex-Freetrade CTO and co-founder takes on WeGift role

14th April 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade adds Sweden MD and new directors to its ranks

12th April 2021 | Oliver Smith

PrimaryBid is surging as companies are “waking up” to the community opportunity

6th April 2021 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade’s long-serving chief technology officer to depart

30th March 2021 | Oliver Smith

The AltFi view on failed mergers: Seedrs and Crowdcube join a worrying trend

29th March 2021 | AltFi

A year in lockdown: What the world of fintech looks like a year on

23rd March 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade confirms £50m Series B Raise

23rd March 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Is SPAC mania coming to the UK?

22nd March 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade hops across the Channel as it gears up to launch in France

24th February 2021 | Aisling Finn

Match made in Heaven? A brief history of Seedrs and Crowdcube

22nd February 2021 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade preparing to take the plunge Down Under

12th February 2021 | Aisling Finn

Drivewealth Gamestop outages hits Revolut and Freetrade users, as firms brace for more volatility

3rd February 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Freetrade fights to restore US market access

2nd February 2021 | Aisling Finn

Younger investors piling into Hargreaves Lansdown point to promising signs for fintech

1st February 2021 | Aisling Finn

The AltFi view on Gamestonk: Populism is coming to fintech

1st February 2021 | AltFi

Reddit vs Wall Street: Investment apps halt trading of certain stocks following extraordinary surge

29th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

Fintech’s biggest hires and departures of 2020

5th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

AltFi’s most-read stories of 2020: Part 1

4th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

2020 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 2

30th December 2020 | Oliver Smith

2020 in Fintech and Alternative Finance: Part 1

29th December 2020 | Oliver Smith

The AltFi team’s Digital Wealth predictions for 2021

22nd December 2020 | Oliver Smith

The fintechs that quit the UK in 2020

21st December 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Our favourite fintech apps of 2020

16th December 2020 | Oliver Smith

One in four people who live in London have bought bitcoin

7th December 2020 | Aisling Finn

Which digital wealth managers have the best consumer awareness?

4th December 2020 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade adds 3% interest on cash for Plus subscribers

2nd December 2020 | Oliver Smith

“People will be trading Netflix instead of watching it”: Stake’s CEO on how it has rapidly expanded in the UK

30th November 2020 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade opens ‘free share’ waitlist ahead of December SIPP launch

20th November 2020 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade sets sights on European domination as it gears up to launch in Sweden

9th November 2020 | Aisling Finn

Revolut co-founder Nikolay Storonsky named UK fintech’s first billionaire

2nd November 2020 | Aisling Finn

TrueLayer heads down under as it begins global expansion

23rd October 2020 | Aisling Finn

Freetrade launches its long-awaited Plus subscription with stop losses, limit orders and more

7th October 2020 | Oliver Smith

Open banking: Truelayer and Freetrade launch partnership

3rd September 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Financial infrastructure: How Covid-19 is accelerating the pace of change

26th August 2020 | Oliver Smith

BUX hits 100,000 German users just two months after launching

5th August 2020 | Aisling Finn

CEO of PrimaryBid: “Coronavirus exacerbated the problem we’re trying to fix.”

3rd August 2020 | Aisling Finn

AltFi’s most read stories of 2020 (so far)

2nd July 2020 | Aisling Finn

London Stock Exchange Group reportedly in talks to buy stake in PrimaryBid

30th June 2020 | Aisling Finn

Scalable Capital takes on low-cost stock trading with new platform for German customers

17th June 2020 | Aisling Finn

Dutch fintech Bux brings its Zero commission-free trading to Germany and Austria

8th June 2020 | Oliver Smith

Wombat Invest beats Freetrade to launch UK fractional share trading

26th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Bunq “not that impacted by coronavirus” as CEO Ali Niknam mulls acquisitions

22nd May 2020 | Aisling Finn

Fintechs like Plaid have a “responsibility” to delay returning to the office, says CEO Zach Perret

22nd May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Coronavirus will “accelerate and exacerbate” consolidation says Revolut’s Banking CEO Richard Davies

20th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade just closed its 6th crowdfund with £7.1m raised in 5 days

19th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Rewatch AltFi Digital Summit Day 2: PensionBee, Starling Bank, Just Cashflow, Bunq and Plaid

19th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Rewatch AltFi Digital Summit Day 1: Revolut, Freetrade, ComplyAdvantage, Innovate Finance and Nutmeg

18th May 2020 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade smashes crowdfunding target, raises over £5m on Crowdcube

15th May 2020 | Aisling Finn

Eight executives exit Revolut during lockdown

29th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

Draper Esprit appoints London Stock Exchange’s head of tech and life sciences as marketing director

27th April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Savings app Chip completes a £2.6m private Crowdcube funding round

24th April 2020 | Aisling Finn

Exclusive: Freetrade launching 6th crowdfunding campaign in May

23rd April 2020 | Oliver Smith

PrimaryBid, Freetrade and Hargreaves Lansdown urge listed companies to let retail investors buy shares in coronavirus cash raises

21st April 2020 | Aisling Finn

Trading apps Stake and Freetrade surge 4x amid recent market volatility

10th April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Revolut’s head of wealth and trading André Mohamed to depart

3rd April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Exclusive: Robinhood pushes back UK launch

1st April 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Budget 2020 preview: What’s in store for fintech?

9th March 2020 | Aisling Finn

Dear Chancellor: Here’s what fintechs want from Rishi Sunak’s 2020 Budget

2nd March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade poaches former Monzo director of product

2nd March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade takes tentative first steps into Europe

24th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

Stake opens UK beta ahead of full launch in February

16th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

Newly launched fintechs hoping to disrupt the market in 2020

15th January 2020 | John Reynolds

Genuine Impact launches to empower the next generation of savvy stock traders

15th January 2020 | Oliver Smith

The AltFi team's favourite fintech apps in 2019

3rd January 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

The international fintechs that launched in the UK in 2019

2nd January 2020 | Oliver Smith

AltFi's 10 most read stories of 2019: Part 1

30th December 2019 | John Reynolds

2019 In Fintech And Alternative Finance: Part 1

23rd December 2019 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade aims to cut costs with launch of in-house brokerage platform

11th December 2019 | Oliver Smith

US fintech giant Robinhood to take on Hargreaves and Freetrade with UK launch

20th November 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Starling, PrimaryBid, Mintos and Moneybox among winners of The AltFi Awards 2019

18th November 2019 | AltFi

Freetrade completes Series A with $7.5m from Draper Esprit after hitting crowdfunding limit

31st October 2019 | Oliver Smith

When fintech met crowdfunding

21st October 2019 | Luke Lang

DriveWealth enables Nigerian trading platform Chaka

17th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: WealthSimple’s Toby Triebel

16th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

Fintech accounted for 38% of Crowdcube’s funds raised in Q3 2019

11th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

We’re looking for a Junior Reporter to join our team!

2nd October 2019 | Oliver Smith

Revolut is preparing to launch a “Revolut Youth” card for teens

19th September 2019 | Oliver Smith

AltFi Insights: £71m raised by fintech crowdfunding in 2019 so far

12th September 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Exclusive: Australian free share trading app Stake given green light to launch by UK regulator

2nd September 2019 | Oliver Smith

MoneyBox Review - September 2019

2nd September 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Robinhood given green light by UK regulator

8th August 2019 | Oliver Smith

The share trading goldmine is a mirage, as Revolut will soon discover

2nd August 2019 | Oliver Smith

Revolut challenges Freetrade with US-only commission-free stock trading

1st August 2019 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade’s latest crowdfunding, massively overfunded, hits £4m

11th July 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Investor fintech demand drives record six months for Crowdcube

9th July 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

Exclusive: Freetrade secures fractional share trading FCA greenlight

4th July 2019 | Oliver Smith

Take Two: Freetrade launches second crowdfunding at higher £43m valuation

25th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Impact investment app Tickr hits 200% of its crowdfunding target

24th June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Nutmeg smashes crowdfund target, soaring past £2.5m in opening hours

21st June 2019 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade Review - May 2019

30th May 2019 | David Stevenson

Fintech Tips: How to invest using apps?

21st May 2019 | Roger Baird

Freetrade’s Crowdcube-busting crowdfund “was like Glastonbury”

7th May 2019 | Oliver Smith

After Crowdcube glitches Freetrade shutters £1.9m crowdfunding round, announces new round in June

30th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

Freetrade sails past £2m, but technical difficulties put crowdfunding on ice

25th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Coconut’s Sam O’Connor

18th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Dozens’ Aritra Chakravarty

10th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

The Challenger: Tide’s Oliver Prill

21st March 2019 | Oliver Smith

eToro plans free share trading

20th March 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

The Challenger: Freetrade’s Adam Dodds

14th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

British Bank Awards see Starling, Monzo, Zopa, Freetrade, Chip and Bud take home gold

8th March 2019 | Oliver Smith

Fintech share-trading app Freetrade’s next move

22nd January 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

What to expect from fintech and alternative finance in 2019

9th January 2019 | David Stevenson

New ‘zero commission’ trading app plots pan-European launch

21st November 2018 | Daniel Lanyon

Commission-free trading fintech Freetrade launches

2nd October 2018 | Ryan Weeks

‘Get Shit Done’: the Revolut way

9th July 2018 | Ryan Weeks

IFA giant deVere adds Stellar and Monero to crypto exchange app

16th May 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Investment app Freetrade launches third crowdfunding campaign

16th May 2018 | Emily Nicolle

Monzo breaks another equity crowdfunding record

29th March 2017 | Lisa Walls-Hester

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