Retail Investing & Trading

Fintual, an automated investing platform, has reportedly collected $15m in its latest funding round.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is apparently planning to speed up proposals to require financial organisations to disclose their climate change-related financial risks.

JP Morgan Chase has bought British digital wealth manager Nutmeg as part of the US bank's expansion into the UK retail banking and investment market.

With 2021 moving into the halfway mark, TietoEVRY’s Sameer Datye has listed the biggest wealth trends of 2021.

UK commission-free stock trading app Lightyear has raised $1.5m from a pre-seed funding round.

Digitalisation is no longer a niche innovation project. When it comes to client’s financial relationship management, it should be an essential part of a firm’s business strategy to survive this decade, says Uday Nimmakayala, CEO and Founder at WealthObjects.

SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund led a $10m Series A round of funding into Zoe Financial, a digital marketplace for people to find and hire vetted independent financial advisers.

German stock-trading app Trade Republic raised $900m in Series C funding which valued the company at over $5bn - a figure that soared from $600m from last April.

Financial planning and having an investment strategy in place is far from straightforward, but Kidbrooke explains how technology can make it easier.

Balancing a comfortable daily lifestyle and financial investments is tough and makes planning for a mortgage a minefield. However, with proper tech tools, one can ensure doing so without massively altering current spending.