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Charles Schwab brings its Managed Account Select service to the UK

Charles Schwab one of America’s largest retail stockbrokers is expanding the range of services it offers to UK investors, through the launch of its Managed Account Select product. Managed Account Select is a separate portfolio that’s managed on the client’s behalf. Charles Schwab will assist in stock selection and also offer access to fixed-income investing […]

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Hargreaves Lansdown Financially Fearless

Hargreaves Lansdown launches Financially Fearless

News / By Darren Sinden

Hargreaves Lansdown has launched “Financially Fearless” a new initiative to coincide with International Women’s Day, that aims to help close the gender investment gap between men and women. What is the gender investment gap? Men and women invest differently, men have historically been more inclined to invest, and have had more money to invest when

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CMC Invest makes ISA and account transfers easier – plus a £250 bonus

News / By Darren Sinden

CMC Invest, the recently launched share dealing and investing app, from CMC Markets, has announced a new, innovative and hassle-free ISA and trading account transfer service. The new initiative is 100% digital and does away with the paper chain associated with ISA and trading account transfers. CMC Invest wants to speed up, and increase transparency,

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Yet another re-brand and logo for Wise (formally Transferwise)

News / By Darren Sinden

The online money transfer platform, Wise, has revealed a fresh green brand identity with new logos, website, app layouts, fonts and colour schemes. Wise has completely updated the look, feel and messaging of its branding The new look is described by Wise as being bold and clean in shades of green, and one where international

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Interactive Brokers re-launches its revamped IBKR Campus

News / By Darren Sinden

Interactive Brokers, the Nasdaq-listed online trading platform that has operations in the US, Europe and Asia, has launched its revamped IBKR Campus a dedicated website that provides a comprehensive suite of free educational and technical resources for traders and investors, whether they are clients of the broker or not. The IBKR Campus contains a wide

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Saxo Markets ups cash interest to 2.64% but stops paying on balances below £10k

News / By Darren Sinden

Saxo Markets will stop paying interest on free cash balances below £10,000 but is not capping higher interest rates for larger customers. Free cash is classified as the excess cash on an account that’s not invested or being used as margin. How does Saxo Markest compare to other brokers? Read our expert Saxo Markets review

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Fineco Bank launches FinecoX its next generation trading platform

News / By Darren Sinden

Fineco Bank, which operates one of Europe’s largest online trading brokerages, has launched a new high-end dealing platform called FinecoX. The next-generation trading software features customisable screen layouts, dynamic charting and multi-asset trading. Interested in Fineco Bank? Read our Fineco Bank expert review FinecoX has has professional-level customisation, tools and data The trading and price display

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flatexDEGIRO fined by Barfin as they mature from a “small and non-complex” broker

News / By Darren Sinden

Pan-European online trading platform flatexDEGIRO has been fined for operational and managerial shortcomings by the German financial services regulator BaFin, following an audit of the company. BaFin said last year that it saw deficiencies in the organisation and management of the brokerage and instigated a special audit of the firm. The regulator provided flatex with

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Should you buy into Rio Tinto’s weakness?

News / By Jackson Wong PhD

Rio Tinto (RIO) slashed payout to shareholders Rio Tinto (RIO), the world’s second largest miner with a market value of £100 billion, has recently slashed its dividend as revenue and cash from its mining operations dropped. Before we proceed, a short summary of Rio Tinto’s activities is in order. The company is a major seller

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Saxo markets partners with Guotai Junan Securities in China

News / By Darren Sinden

Saxo Bank has entered China via a strategic partnership with Guotai Junan Securities, one of the country’s largest investment banks and securities traders. The deal was structured by Saxo’s Singaporean division, Saxo Markets Singapore, which is run by CEO Adam Reynolds. Under the deal, Guotai Junan’s Chinese clients will gain access to Saxo’s global markets

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