Our CEO interviews are designed to give you some insight into the leadership of the companies you may potentially become clients of.
First, off why did you set up Crowdcube and what’s been your proudest moment since founding the company to date? I’d been running my own businesses and as an entrepreneur I realised first hand how difficult it is to secure investment. I’d had a great experience from angel investors but they’re in high demand, and […]
Darren Westlake CEO Crowdcube Interview Read More »
Way way back in 2013 I exchanged a few emails with Jeff Lynn the original CEO and founder of Seedrs about the prospect of a secondary exchange for crowdfunding investments. It was to be called “Seedaq” and be a market place for all the UK crowdfunding sites where investors could see an aggregated feed of
Jeff Kelisky, Seedrs CEO on how & why they add value to equity crowdfunding Read More »
I remember being in touch with Bill Morrow the original founder of Angels Den many years ago when I was considering raising funds for one of my many failed ventures. What I liked about Angels Den back then was that in the Wild West days of equity crowdfunding, they had comparatively higher criteria for listing
Adrian Enache, Angels Den CEO on putting their money where their mouth is… Read More »
Philip Adler, newly appointed CEO of ETX Capital tells us what his plans are for the CFD broker and why he views trader education as such a critical part of his strategy. There have been many changes in the spread betting and CFD industry over the past year or so. With the restriction of marketing
Life is pretty unfair really. All the (seemingly) best stuff is reserved for people with the most money. And finance is no different. If you’re taking out a massive mortgage for an eight-bed, detached mansion on a private estate you can borrow at interest rates that are lower than for an ex-local studio flat. When
One thing it seems some investors simply can’t get enough of is risk. And when it comes to investing in companies there is nothing quite as risky as investing in ones that are unlisted, illiquid, start-ups, that in some case have no revenue and no product. But, with great risk comes the potential for great
The US Forex brokerage market has been through a fair amount of consolidation over the last few years. However, new forex brokerage licenses are being granted to overseas brokers wanting to offer Forex trading services to non-US residents. So, we talk Vatsa Narasimha, CEO of OANDA, a US Forex broker with a global client base, established
Vatsa Narasimha, OANDA CEO on what makes the US Forex broker a global contender Read More »
There seems to be a bit of a free-for-all in stockbroking at the moment. It looks like the fintech rebels have decided that investing is the next stomping ground for disruption. As fewer and fewer of the younger generation put aside money in savings and investments, a new breed of mobile first stockbroking platforms are
Adam Dodds, CEO of Freetrade tells us all about his commission free stockbroking service Read More »
Nowadays trading seems to all be about not being part of the 20%. Enter Pelican, a new multi-asset, cross brokerage trading app that aims to fill the gap between execution-only and copy trading. As with all the other fintech companies disrupting the way people invest (cough cough Dabbl, FreeTrade, City Falcon) Pelican is currently raising
Over the summer I met Ivan Gowan, the new CEO of Capital.com at their UK offices. From our chat, what’s particularly noticeable is that Capital.com is an app first, tech first, trader first type of broker. What Ivan, and the team ( the big team) of developers are doing is building a trading app that incorporates