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Moneyfarm takes over Wealthsimple’s UK clients

Canadian Robo-adviser Wealthsimple is leaving the UK market and is closing its operations here. Why is Moneyfarm taking over Wealthsimple’s clients? Wealthsimple is withdrawing from the UK Robo-advice market and will be transferring its 16,000 clients to rivals Moneyfarm, the Anglo Italian money manager. However, the deal with Moneyfarm does not include any of Wealthsimple’s

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Interactive Investor to be acquired by abrdn for Β£1.49bn

Interactive Investor the subscription-based investment and share trading platform is being acquired by abrdn, as VC backer JC Flowers decides to make a trade sale rather than IPO, the London based company. Who is buying Interactive Investor? Interactive Investor is being acquired by ABDN the recently rebranded Aberdeen Standard Life one of the UK’s largest

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Seedrs is to become a Republic in a $100 million deal

UK-based equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs is to be acquired by US private investment rival Republic, subject to regulatory approval. What’s the background to the sale of Seedrs? The deal with Republic comes almost nine months after Seedrs was forced to abandon plans to sell out to its principal competitor Crowdcube following objections from the UK’s

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IG Group

IG Group considers disposal of NADEX & Small Exchange for $216.0 million

IG Group has announced the potential disposal of its interests in NADEX and Small Exchange as the company seeks to rationalise its US operations. What businesses is IG selling? IG Group is proposing to sell the North American Derivatives Exchange or NADEX alongside its stake in Small Exchange Inc in a deal, that if, approved

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Professional Trading Accounts

FXCM launches its CFD Prime service which will reduce B2B credit risks in OTC trading

Anglo American forex broker FXCM has launched a new service designed to make CFD trading more efficient and cost-effective for brokers. The new B2B service known as CFD Prime is part of the company’s FXCM Pro Initiative. What does the new service offer? CFD Prime will use FXCM’s balance sheet and infrastructure, some of which

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Moneyfarm hits Β£2.0 billion in assets under management

Robo-advisor, Moneyfarm the Anglo Italian online wealth manager and investment firm, that matches clients with preselected portfolios, has passed an important milestone with Β£2bn in assets under management. How much Assets Under Management does Moneyfarm have? Moneyfarm has reached Β£2.0 billion of assets under management or AUM, the firm which was founded in Milan back

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Freetrade valued at Β£650m in latest Crowdcube crowdfunding raise

Freetrade one of the UK’s largest retail stockbrokers is raising money to fund future expansion plans. What is this Freetrade equity Crowdfund? Freetrade has launched a new round of crowdfunding and is offering new shares to investors at a price of 924.99p. An increase of 138% over the share price at its last fundraising. This

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CMC Markets Investing

CMC Markets considers a breakup to separate trading and investing

CMC Markets is considering dividing itself into two separate companies. In an RNS announcement the company confirmed that it is evaluating whether or not to divide the business into two separately managed entities. One which would contain the margin trading operations of CFDs and Spread Betting. And another entity that would host the technology assets

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