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UK Budget 2026: What Could It Mean for the Pound?
The UK’s Autumn Budget lands on 28 October, and currency markets will be watching closely. Chancellor John Healey faces a familiar balancing act: supporting households and businesses through a difficult cost-of-living backdrop while keeping government borrowing under control. How he strikes that balance, and how investors read it, could move the pound against both the
Interactive Brokers Launches Autonomous AI Trading That Can Buy and Sell Shares Without Approval
Interactive Brokers has launched a new autonomous trading service that allows investors to use artificial intelligence to monitor markets, identify opportunities and execute trades automatically without approving every transaction. The new IBKR Autonomous Trading service enables eligible customers to connect AI platforms to their brokerage accounts and instruct them to trade across more than 75,000
Hargreaves Lansdown Launches UK’s Cheapest Money Market Fund With 3.95% Target Yield
Hargreaves Lansdown has launched a new money market fund with an ongoing charge of just 0.06%, as demand from retail investors for cash-like investments continues to surge. Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) has announced the launch of its own money market fund, offering investors an expected yield of 3.95% and what it claims is the lowest ongoing
Plus500 Acquires Brazilian Broker-Dealer Guru
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Plus500 continues its expansion in the Americas, but unlike last week, when it bought Hegde
Is Pepperstone good for trading 24/7?
Yes, we rate Pepperstone as an excellent broker for 24 hour trading. In June 2024 Pepperstone introduced 24-hour CFD trading on US equities on it’s own platforms: MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView. There are no additional trading charges and no minimum ticket charge, with commissions from just $0.02 per share. This means Pepperstone clients can
Do Stop Losses Actually Help Traders Make More Money?
Almost three-quarters of trades placed by UK customers on Capital.com are executed without stop-loss orders, raising an interesting question about whether using them actually makes traders more successful. According to Capital.com’s latest Pulse Report, which analysed more than 80 million closed trades globally during the first half of 2026, just 24.71% of UK trades had
Choice Prediction Markets Launches in UK to Spark Debate Over FCA Regulation
Choice Prediction Markets has launched in the UK as a virtual-money prediction exchange designed to encourage debate about whether the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) should regulate prediction markets. The new platform, Choice Prediction Markets, allows users to express their opinions on future events by taking positions on yes-or-no questions, with prices reflecting the probability of
Can you trade prediction markets in the UK?
Prediction markets are one of the hottest areas of the financial markets right now. In the US, platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi are attracting record numbers of users. But can you trade prediction markets in the UK? Let’s take a look at the landscape. What are prediction markets? Prediction markets allow traders to bet on
How to Pay Overseas Suppliers and Reduce International Payment Costs
Paying overseas suppliers can become surprisingly expensive once foreign exchange margins, transfer fees and intermediary bank charges are taken into account. For businesses making regular international payments, choosing the right payment method and currency can therefore have a meaningful impact on margins. “International payment costs build up through routine payment decisions rather than obvious fees,”
Capital.com to Acquire FxPro’s European Clients
Capital.com has agreed a deal to take over the European client book of rival online trading platform FxPro, in a move that could significantly expand its presence across the European Economic Area (EEA). The agreement will see clients of FxPro Financial Services Ltd transferred to Capital Com Group Ltd, Capital.com’s European entity, subject to regulatory
Obsero Raises $1.2m To Help Brands Track Citations On LLMs
AI search platform Obsero has raised $1.2 million in seed funding, led by SFC Capital, as businesses increasingly look for ways to improve their visibility in AI-generated recommendations. The London-based company, founded in September 2025 by former IG Group executives Mike Logue and Andy Francos, helps brands understand how they appear in AI-powered search tools
Best Brokers For Scalping Compared & Reviewed
Scalping is a type of forex trading strategy where you deal in and out of positions quickly to make small high-frequency profits. In the twenty years I’ve been a forex broker, trader, analyst and pontificator, I have seen many traders fail to follow the basic trading strategy of run your wins and cut your losses.
CFD Overnight Funding Explained & How To Avoid It
Overnight funding fees are what CFD platforms and spread betting brokers charge for holding a position overnight as opposed to day trading. For long-term derivatives positions, these overnight financing rates can add up to a huge amount. So, in this guide, I will explain what overnight fund fees are, how they are charged and how
Hargreaves Lansdown Launches Biggest Ever Cashback Offer Worth Up to £40,000
Hargreaves Lansdown has launched its biggest cashback promotion to date, offering existing customers as much as £10,000 per account for transferring or contributing additional money to the investment platform. The promotion runs from 1 October until 30 November 2026 and could potentially pay an individual customer up to £40,000 if they qualify for the maximum
Lightyear Launches Commission-Free Gilt Investing in the UK for Individuals
Lightyear has added UK government bonds, or gilts, to its investment platform, giving UK customers a low-cost way to buy individual gilts alongside shares, ETFs and money market funds. The investing app has launched with 20 gilts, which can be bought, held and sold with no order fees or custody charges for individual investors. As
Best Travel Money Exchange Rates Compared & Reviewed
If you need travel money and want to order it online, our research shows that Morrisons supermarket currently offers the best rates for buying foreign currency in the UK. In this guide, we compare travel money exchange rates and explain all of the main ways you can buy travel money. It can help save you
CMC Markets Launches ChatGPT Integration for CFD Traders
CMC Markets has launched a new ChatGPT integration that lets UK CFD traders connect their trading accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask questions about their positions, orders and market data. At the moment, it is only a conversational interface to CMC Markets account information, allowing clients to retrieve and summarise data without having to navigate
Investa Launches Completely Free US Share Trading as It Prepares for Covered Calls
Investa has launched completely free US share trading, removing not only dealing commissions but also the foreign exchange fees that investors would normally expect to pay when buying American stocks from the UK. The FCA-regulated options trading app says customers can now buy and sell US shares without commission, FX charges or other trading fees,