We’re increasing your interest rate

Earn even more interest on your cash in between investments.

February 29, 2024

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Emilie Gauthier

Fractional Shares and the Autumn Statement

The Chancellor intends to allow fractional shares in ISAs. We’ll keep working to see this implemented.

December 5, 2023

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Alex Campbell

Fractional shares and ISAs

Our mission is to get everyone investing. Fractional shares help us on that mission.

October 27, 2023

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Alex Campbell

Proxy voting is live for US securities

We’ve introduced proxy voting for US securities

July 13, 2023

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Elliot McKechie

How to protect yourself from scams

Tell-tale signs to look out for.

February 7, 2023

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Rob O'Sullivan

Insider Trading - What should I know?

Who the laws apply to and what they mean.

February 7, 2023

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Sarah Shortt

Freetrade is on the App Store in Sweden

The Freetrade app is now available on iOS in Sweden.

November 23, 2022

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Jordan Sinclair

Freetrade hires Shahid Naveed as CTO

Shahid Naveed joins to lead Freetrade's global engineering team.

November 14, 2022

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Alex Campbell

Introducing trading breaks

Take a 24-hour break when you need it.

August 9, 2022

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Greig Cranfield

Introducing our new subscription plans

Say hello to Freetrade Basic, Standard, and Plus

July 28, 2022

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Adam Dodds

Analyst ratings now live for Plus members

The first of many new stock fundamentals is here.

June 6, 2022

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Adam Waite

Building out the Payments Platform

How we built the Freetrade Payments team.

May 27, 2022

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Patrick Buhagiar

Announcing our latest funding round

We’ve raised £30m from existing and new investors.

May 20, 2022

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Adam Dodds

Beta testing for Freetrade Web is here

We’re rolling out the beta version of Freetrade’s web interface, Freetrade Web, for Plus members to test.

April 27, 2022

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Chris Lloyd

Europe, here we come!

We’ve received our licence from Sweden’s financial regulator, Finansinspektionen.

March 1, 2022

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Adam Dodds

Amsterdam calling! Dutch stocks now available

Following hot on the heels of German and Finnish stocks, Dutch stocks have now arrived on your app.

January 20, 2022

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Alex Balcombe

Wunderbar! German stocks are here

German stocks have now arrived on your app as part of the European stocks rollout.

January 13, 2022

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Sam Poullain

2021 - what a year for Freetrade

Freetrade's Head of People, Amy Gilman, reflects on a big 2021 and an even bigger 2022.

December 14, 2021

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Amy Gilman

Monoliths & Microservices: a technical explanation for non-technical people

Product Manager Louis Sutton decouples monoliths and microservices.

December 10, 2021

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Louis Sutton

Finnish stocks have arrived on your app

The first batch of European stocks is here.

December 8, 2021

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Sam Poullain

Freetrade hits record-breaking £8m on day one of crowdfunding

Another record-breaking crowdfunding round.

November 25, 2021

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Sam Poullain

Five tips for your first two weeks in a new job

Product Manager Louis Sutton gives his tips for your first two weeks in a new job.

November 24, 2021

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Louis Sutton

Better than Black Friday: 300 new AIM stocks added

An early Black Friday surprise has arrived on your Freetrade app.

November 19, 2021

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Shiv Talwar

Freetrade hits £1bn in Assets under Administration

We’ve reached a new milestone of £1bn assets under administration (AUA).

November 3, 2021

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Sam Poullain

Freetrade reaches one million users

An important milestone on our mission to get everyone investing.

October 14, 2021

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Adam Dodds

Freetrade hires Paul Brooking as CFO

Introducing Paul Brooker, Freetrade’s new Chief Financial Officer.

September 21, 2021

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Alex Campbell

Keeping client money and safe custody assets protected

How we protect your money and investments.

September 6, 2021

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David Lumer

Live Pricing - how we built it

How we built live pricing.

August 11, 2021

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Tom Waszkowycz

Live pricing has arrived on your app

One of our most highly-requested features is here.

July 26, 2021

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Sam Poullain

How we do on-call at Freetrade 

What goes on when you get involved in the on-call rota?

June 25, 2021

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Patrick Buhagiar

Migrating our Android app from Dagger to Hilt

How we’re continuously modernising our app.

June 16, 2021

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Alex Curran

Becoming an Engineer at Freetrade

Our step by step guide on how you can start building Freetrade.

June 8, 2021

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Freetrade Team

A day in the life of a Freetrade QA engineer

Achchu Ganeshanathan gives an inside glimpse on what makes the Freetrade app run smoothly.

May 5, 2021

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Achchu Ganeshanathan

Q&A: How do we work on mobile?

What's it like working behind the scenes on the Freetrade app? Here are the most common questions our mobile-first developers get, and the answers to boot.

April 21, 2021

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Alex Curran

Why Freetrade’s Product team spends one day a month working in customer support

Product Manager Louis Sutton on his first months at Freetrade.

April 20, 2021

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Louis Sutton

Announcing our senior leaders for European expansion

Introducing Karl, our managing director for Sweden.

April 12, 2021

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Alex Campbell

The Freetrade SIPP is here

A new home for your pensions.

April 7, 2021

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Sam Poullain

So long, friend!

We pay tribute to CTO Ian Fuller who is departing Freetrade for pastures new.

March 25, 2021

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Adam Dodds

Why you should join a high-growth startup early in your career

Software engineer Seán Durban reflects on the high-impact development opportunities on offer in emerging companies.

March 24, 2021

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Seán Durban

Announcing our Series B

It’s time for the next phase of growth across Europe and beyond

March 23, 2021

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Adam Dodds

Meet the team: Product at Freetrade

What's it like to work at Freetrade?

March 11, 2021

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Damon Roberts

Meet five female Freetraders

Introducing five female Freetraders who work across five different teams.

March 10, 2021

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Amy Gilman

Typescript at Freetrade

Senior software engineer Rory Bain explains how Freetrade integrates Typescript.

March 10, 2021

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Rory Bain

Introducing Freetrade for iPad

How we developed the app with a brand new UI.

March 2, 2021

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Alex Curran

Stream partitioned data from Firestore using Async Iterators in Node.js

Software Engineer Mathias Dewert talks about dealing with the issues that come with rapid growth.

February 26, 2021

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Mathias Dewert

How we use feature flagging in client apps

Software Engineer Alexander Broadbent shares what we do in the shadows, and why it helps us to carefully develop features.

February 9, 2021

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Alexander Broadbent

Using lint rules to prevent bugs

Principal Software Engineer, Alex Curran, shares more about our process to prevent bugs as we build our mobile apps.

January 22, 2021

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Alex Curran

Data Infrastructure at Freetrade

Principal Data Engineer Benen Cahill shares our process for data here at Freetrade.

January 12, 2021

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Benen Cahill

Nine books every product designer should read

Principal Product Designer Caitlin Rich shares her top reads to help inspire good design and keep user experience front of mind.

December 27, 2020

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Caitlin Rich

120 US real-estate investment trusts are here

Including some big name S&P 500 companies

December 21, 2020

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Sam Poullain

The road to 500 serverless functions

Software Engineer Theo Gregory shares how we use serverless to speed up deployment.

December 17, 2020

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Theodore Gregory

Changing an industry with the help of a 250,000 person product team

Senior Product Manager, Jani Kiilunen, shares how we work with the Freetrade community to build the product

December 11, 2020

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Jani Kiilunen

A stock-ing filler: massive market cap ADRs, biotechs, and ETFs

Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago

December 8, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Lessons learnt with Cloud Firestore

Freetrade Head of Engineering, Invest, Tim Drew, shares how we scale our platform using Cloud Firestore

November 20, 2020

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Timothy Drew

Remote onboarding to a new job

Freetrade Software Engineering Manager Rokey Ge shares his virtual onboarding experience.

November 10, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Investment fees calculator

See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.

November 4, 2020

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Sam Poullain

600 brand new stocks, including David Beckham's Esports team

Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.

October 30, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Building Reactive Applications at Freetrade

Senior Software Engineer Jimmy Thompson takes you through the three layers of the Freetrade app

October 29, 2020

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Increasing the US order value limit

A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.

October 23, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Brand new ETFs on Plus

Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.

October 21, 2020

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Sam Poullain

How your product vision could put a human on Mars

Freetrade VP Product Duncan Leslie on vision, strategy and measuring success.

October 21, 2020

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Duncan Leslie

Stock fundamentals are now on your app

Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.

October 19, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Introducing the time-weighted rate of return

Compare your performance against a global benchmark

October 16, 2020

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Freetrade Team

The Freetrade Christmas List 2020

Everything we plan to add to your app before the holidays.

October 14, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Optimising cold-starts with Google Cloud Functions

Freetrade engineer Simon Poole talks about overcoming some serverless infrastructure challenges.

October 14, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Over 450 brand new stocks

From Papa John's to Zambian cattle farmers, we've added a wide array of new stocks to the Freetrade universe

October 7, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Celebrating Black History Month at Freetrade

Freetrade Talent Sourcer, Isabelle Atunrase, shares why we should all celebrate Black History Month, and some of the ways we’re getting involved here at Freetrade.

October 5, 2020

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Sam Poullain

User Story Mapping - How we keep a focus on value

Freetrade Senior Product Managers Anant Sangar and Glenn Drawbridge have been busy working on limit orders and SIPPs. Here, they chat through how use User Story Mapping.

September 30, 2020

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Freetrade Team

New stocks coming to your free plan and Plus subscription

Introducing your expanded stock universe.

September 18, 2020

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Alex Campbell

Event sourcing on Freetrade

Freetrade Senior Software Engineer Luke Smith talks about the nuts and bolts of our brokerage platform

September 18, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Money-weighted rate of return

More ways to measure your portfolio performance

September 10, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Our first Open Banking integration is rolling out

It’s now even easier to add money to your Freetrade account

August 25, 2020

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Sam Poullain

How to land a role in Product Management

Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.

August 21, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Introducing Freetrade Plus

Find out what's inside, and request your invite.

August 6, 2020

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Duncan Leslie

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, fast food, biotech innovators, and another SPAC

Over 100 new stocks, including Kodak, La-Z-Boy, Tiffany & Co, and Crocs.

July 30, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Meet our new Head of People, Amy Gilman

Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.

July 29, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, gold miners, and SPACs

100 stocks inc. Avis, Tripadvisor, Goodyear, AMC Entertainment, Denny’s

July 23, 2020

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Freetrade Team

Your new order experience is here

The first of many additions to order types.

July 21, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Brand new stocks: fresh IPOs, Latin American stocks, and investment trusts

75 new stocks including Ericsson, Yelp, Gfinity, Youdao

July 17, 2020

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Sam Poullain

28 brand new ETFs and 70 new stocks

Country-specific ETFs, and stocks from Wendy’s to Columbia

July 9, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Cloud computing, ETFs, UK stocks and brands from AB Inbev to Dominos

This week's 100 new stocks and ETFs might be the best batch yet.

June 25, 2020

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Sam Poullain

Brand new stocks: Banks, planes, trains and automobiles

Ferrari, Honda, Canadian Railway, United Airlines, Canadian banks, ETFs, and more

June 18, 2020

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Sam Poullain

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