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Commission-free share trading app Robinhood is launching in the UK for the second time, having failed to gain traction in 2020. Robinhood in the UK UK investors can only buy US shares through a general investment account at the moment. Robinhood, a US-based commission-free share trading platform is launching a UK operation and the firm

Saxo is introducing dealing in mutual funds to its UK retail investors, who will now have the opportunity to invest in any of the thousands of funds that Saxo has selected, from leading money managers, such as Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock and JP Morgan. Saxo fund investing This new fund universe includes more than 500 equity

See Offers What is Hargreaves Lansdown Active Savings? You get started by depositing a minimum of £1,000 which you can allocate to as many savings accounts as you want, with rates of up to 6%. You’ll receive monthly statements and a warning when rates are about to expire. Hargreaves Lansdown Active Savings is a similar

Commission-free share trading and investing app Freetrade, has launched a new cash investment facility which offers easy access and attractive interest rates. Freetrade cash investments Freetrade clients will now be able to invest in a range of ETFs that track the overnight interest rate markets in both GBP and USD. According to the fractional shares

CMC Invest, the direct-to-consumer investing and share trading platform, owned by CMC Markets has announced the addition of mutual funds to its product range. CMC Invest clients will now be able to choose from more than 1000 funds from a list of providers, that includes well-known managers such as Vanguard, Schroders and Baille Gifford. CMC

Interactive Brokers, the US-based, online, multi-asset broker, with operations in the UK, Europe and Asia, has launched a new stocks and shares ISA promotion worth more than £50. Interactive Brokers ISA Offer Interactive Brokers is offering new customers who open a stocks and shares ISA with the firm, a commission credit of £55.00. The promotion

Tickmills new platform, Agenatrader facilitates DMA or direct market access to exchanges such as the CME or Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest derivatives marketplaces. The new platform provides advanced trading tools and functionality including more than 150 trading indicators, on-chart trading, contingent and connected order types, such as OCO or order cancels

The UK’s largest direct-to-consumer investing platform and stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown has announced that it plans to introduce a new all-in-one investment plan for the firm’s Self-Invested Personal Pension or SIPP. Hargreaves Lansdown Ready Made Pension Hargreaves Lansdown hopes will remove “ a lot of the difficult decision-making” that clients face, when they try to pick

Margin trading giant IG Group is set to make significant job cuts to trim its cost base. IG Group has set out plans to cut as many as 300 jobs which it believes will allow it to make substantial cost savings. The proposed job losses would represent approximately 10% of the company’s workforce, as of

Nutmeg the discretionary investment manager now owned by JP Morgan has added a new thematic portfolio style to its range of products. New Nutmeg Thematic Portfolios The new Thematic Portfolios, from the investment manager, will allow Nutmeg clients to put their money directly into the trends and themes that will shape our future. Nutmeg will

Digital wealth manager Bestinvest has announced a new partnership which will allow customers of the firm to participate in IPOs and secondary offerings. Bestinvest IPO Investing Bestinvest has announced a new partnership with PrimaryBid which opens up the world of new issues to Bestinvest clients. Bestinvest was founded way back in 1986 so it’s perhaps

Polish multi-asset broker XTB is to introduce a new long-term passive investing product to its UK client base Investment Plans, as the new product is known will allow users to build a personalised portfolio of ETFs that are specifically aligned with their attitudes towards risk and their asset allocation choices. Investing with XTB Investors can

Out-of-hours trading means you can invest when the stock market is closed CFD traders get an extra three hours to trade Applies to ten of the most popular US stocks eToro now lets you buy and sell more stocks when the markets are closed Extended hours trading has extended the amount of stocks you can

St James’s Place will remove the exit charges from several of its key products going forward, following pressure from the regulators and the new consumer duty initiative. St James’s Place removes exit fees Wealth manager St James’s Place or SJP as it is often referred to, has announced an overhaul of its fee structure, including

Margin trading brokerage Capital.com has announced some changes to its senior management lineup. What changes has Capital.com announced? Capital.com has announced some changes to its senior management lineup with news that industry veteran Peter Hetherington is to step down as Group CEO effective immediately. Capital.com’s Chief Commercial Officer, Kypros Zoumidou moves into the vacant CEO

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eToro has stopped absorbing stamp duty on UK share deals, so now customers have to pay it themselves. eToro clients must now pay stamp duty As part of eToro’s ongoing commitment to transparency, they emailed customers to inform them that starting from November 6, 2023, they will be passing a Stamp Duty Reserve Tax onto