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Your Freetrade ISA is now flexible

12/7/2024

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Marta Fedoniuk

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We’re increasing your interest rate

Earn even more interest on your cash in between investments.

12/7/2024

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Emilie Gauthier

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Park your cash in low-risk investments

29/2/2024

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Emilie Gauthier

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Proxy voting is live for US securities

We’ve introduced proxy voting for US securities

10/8/2023

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Elliot McKechie

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Journey to Jetpack Compose

13/7/2023

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Mark Murtagh

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Swedish stocks now available in Sweden!

11/7/2024

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Adam Dodds

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We’re changing our pricing

10/7/2023

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James Bell

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Freetrade is on the App Store in Sweden

The Freetrade app is now available on iOS in Sweden.

8/3/2023

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Jordan Sinclair

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Freetrade hires Shahid Naveed as CTO

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

14/11/2022

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Alex Campbell

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Introducing trading breaks

Take a 24-hour break when you need it.

9/8/2022

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Greig Cranfield

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Introducing our new subscription plans

Say hello to Freetrade Basic, Standard, and Plus

28/11/2023

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Adam Dodds

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Building out the Payments Platform

How we built the Freetrade Payments team.

26/7/2022

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Patrick Buhagiar

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Analyst ratings now live for Plus members

The first of many new stock fundamentals is here.

28/7/2022

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Adam Waite

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Announcing our latest funding round

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

27/7/2022

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Adam Dodds

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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.

26/7/2022

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Chris Lloyd

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Europe, here we come!

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

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Amsterdam calling! Dutch stocks now available

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

16/6/2022

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Alex Balcombe

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Wunderbar! German stocks are here

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

16/6/2022

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Sam Poullain

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2021 - what a year for Freetrade

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

28/4/2022

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Amy Gilman

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

Product Manager Louis Sutton decouples monoliths and microservices.

28/4/2022

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Louis Sutton

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Finnish stocks have arrived on your app

The first batch of European stocks is here.

16/6/2022

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Sam Poullain

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

Another record-breaking crowdfunding round.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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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.

28/4/2022

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Louis Sutton

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Better than Black Friday: 300 new AIM stocks added

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

28/4/2022

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Shiv Talwar

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Freetrade hits £1bn in Assets under Administration

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

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Mobile architecture at Freetrade

28/4/2022

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Joana Ferreira

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Freetrade reaches one million users

An important milestone on our mission to get everyone investing.

31/5/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Creative Fridays - how we play to solve quick problems

28/4/2022

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Kat Smith

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The changes you don’t always see

28/4/2022

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Mateusz Mazur

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Freetrade hires Paul Brooking as CFO

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

28/4/2022

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Alex Campbell

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Live Pricing - how we built it

How we built live pricing.

28/4/2022

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Tom Waszkowycz

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Live pricing has arrived on your app

One of our most highly-requested features is here.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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How we do on-call at Freetrade 

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

28/4/2022

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Patrick Buhagiar

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Migrating our Android app from Dagger to Hilt

How we’re continuously modernising our app.

28/4/2022

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Alex Curran

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Becoming an Engineer at Freetrade

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

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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A day in the life of a Freetrade QA engineer

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

28/4/2022

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Achchu Ganeshanathan

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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.

28/4/2022

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Alex Curran

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

Product Manager Louis Sutton on his first months at Freetrade.

28/4/2022

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Louis Sutton

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Announcing our senior leaders for European expansion

Introducing Karl, our managing director for Sweden.

28/4/2022

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Alex Campbell

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The Freetrade SIPP is here

A new home for your pensions.

21/6/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Margin accounts  -  what are they, and why we won’t be offering them

Recently, there’s been a fair bit of talk on our forum regarding margin accounts, so we've put together a post to explain a little more about margin accounts and why we’re not planning to implement them at Freetrade.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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So long, friend!

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

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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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.

28/4/2022

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Seán Durban

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Announcing our Series B

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

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Meet the team: Product at Freetrade

What's it like to work at Freetrade?

28/4/2022

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Damon Roberts

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Typescript at Freetrade

Senior software engineer Rory Bain explains how Freetrade integrates Typescript.

28/4/2022

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Rory Bain

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Meet five female Freetraders

Introducing five female Freetraders who work across five different teams.

28/4/2022

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Amy Gilman

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We smashed our crowdfunding round!

We’re on a mission to bring fee-free investing to Europe and beyond. 🔥

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Meet Mathias, our new Backend Developer

Have you invested before? No, there wasn’t an app good enough yet, so I’m helping to build one 🔥

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Pre-launch testing with CREST

We will be using CREST to settle all trades in UK equities, as well as the “source of truth” against which we reconcile stocks held by our customers.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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We smashed our Crowdcube round (once more)

We’ve closed the round with £4m pledged, overfunding to 400%, with over 5000 investors participating in the round.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Why we use serverless architecture at Freetrade

If you’re technical and new to serverless, you might be thinking, “my life would be so much better if my stack worked this way.” You’re right.

28/4/2022

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Mathias Dewert

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Meet Jani, our new Product Manager

Meet Jani, our new Product Manager

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Meet the Freetrader in charge of protecting our users’ money and shares

Meet the Freetrader in charge of protecting our users’ money and shares

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Meet Gemma, our Head of Customer Ops!

Meet Gemma, our Head of Customer Ops!

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Designing Freetrade for Android

Freetrade Android is coming to our first early testers today, and to everyone by mid-April. 💥

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Meet the ex-Googler who leads our growth

Viktor Nebehaj is our Head of Growth, and he is the first hire at Freetrade.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Freetrade completes $15m funding

We’re excited to share that we’ve concluded $15m in fundraising in 2019.

28/4/2022

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Viktor Nebehaj

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You can now see your Gain/Loss on Portfolio 📈

Check your performance at a glance

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Watchlist has arrived on your Freetrade app

Keeping an eye on stocks just got easier

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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How we profile Android bugs at Freetrade

Performance profiling is a tricky subject at the best of times, so I figured an example workflow and process might be useful to those who want to improve the performance of their own apps.

28/4/2022

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Alex Curran

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Dividends have arrived on your Activity feed 💸

We know that you love receiving dividends, but that it can be hard keeping track of them after you receive the notification.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Introducing your Customer Ops team 👋

Meet our Customer Operations (COps) team

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Invest by Freetrade: the upgrade has begun

An update on the good things coming to your account

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Invest by Freetrade, our brokerage platform, has arrived

The new system will bring instant deposits, fractional shares, thousands of new stocks, and more

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Building a new infrastructure for investing

Only owning our platform end-to-end would enable us to not charge commissions AND become a sustainable business.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Celebrating International Women’s Day at Freetrade

What we're doing this week and why.

1/6/2022

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Lena Vasileiadou

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Introducing Freetrade for iPad

How we developed the app with a brand new UI.

28/4/2022

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Alex Curran

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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.

28/4/2022

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Mathias Dewert

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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.

28/4/2022

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Alexander Broadbent

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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.

28/4/2022

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Alex Curran

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Data Infrastructure at Freetrade

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

28/4/2022

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Benen Cahill

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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.

28/4/2022

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Caitlin Rich

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You are an investor already, and we are building Freetrade for you

I made my first investment when I was 14 years old.

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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A quick end-of-year update

2017 recap

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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How we’re accelerating the public rollout

In the past few weeks, you’ll have seen quite a few exciting stories on the blog about the team using and testing the app.

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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We are approved to provide ISAs

Freetrade has just been approved to be an ISA Manager

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Platforming with the FCA

A bit about how we at Freetrade stack up against the regulator’s own best practices and how we differ from everyone else on the market. 🙏

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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The 2018 Christmas List

When we started Freetrade, we set out to build the best investing app on the planet. Something that makes our users grin with glee at every swipe and tap.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Freetrade’s Launch Date and How to Get Early Access

Launching the private beta

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Freetrade just dropped in the App Store

Things are about to get real.

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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The timeline for public rollout

The timeline is here. We’ll begin the public rollout on the 18th September! 🎈

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Insights are rolling out on your app

Insights, is our brand new app feature.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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We’re launching our new brand design

Today’s pretty personal for me, as I designed our first logo and branding.

28/4/2022

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Adam Dodds

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Our company stack

Here are some of the tools we rely on at Freetrade

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Killing Kubernetes

Ian Fuller explains how we shipped faster by rethinking our whole stack

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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120 US real-estate investment trusts are here

Including some big name S&P 500 companies

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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The road to 500 serverless functions

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

28/4/2022

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Theodore Gregory

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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

28/4/2022

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Jani Kiilunen

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

Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Fractional shares for all

A major step on fractional shares.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Lessons learnt with Cloud Firestore

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

28/4/2022

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Timothy Drew

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Remote onboarding to a new job

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

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Referring friends and earning free shares just got even easier

A big improvement to Free Share is here.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Investment fees calculator

See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Building Reactive Applications at Freetrade

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

28/4/2022

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Building Freetrade

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

Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.

28/4/2022

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Freetrade Team

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Increasing the US order value limit

A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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Brand new ETFs on Plus

Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.

28/4/2022

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Sam Poullain

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How your product vision could put a human on Mars

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

28/4/2022

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Duncan Leslie

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  • Commission-free trades (other charges may apply. See full pricing table.)
  • Trade USD & EUR stocks at the exchange rate + a 0.99% FX fee
  • Fractional US Shares
  • Access to more than 4,700 stocks, including the most popular shares and ETFs
  • 1% AER on up to £1,000 uninvested cash
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Stocks and shares ISA

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Everything in Basic, plus:

  • Full range of over 6,200 US, UK and EU stocks and ETFs
  • Trade USD & EUR stocks at the exchange rate + a 0.59% FX fee
  • Automated order types, including recurring orders
  • Advanced stock fundamentals
  • 3% AER on up to £2,000 uninvested cash
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Accounts

GIA white
General investment account
ISA
Stocks and shares ISA
SIPP white
Self-invested personal pension (SIPP)

Benefits
Everything in Standard, plus:

  • Trade USD & EUR stocks at the exchange rate + a 0.39% FX fee
  • Priority customer service
  • Freetrade Web beta
  • 5% AER on up to £3,000 uninvested cash

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