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We’re increasing your interest rate
Earn even more interest on your cash in between investments.
February 29, 2024
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Proxy voting is live for US securities
We’ve introduced proxy voting for US securities
July 13, 2023
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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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Freetrade hires Shahid Naveed as CTO
Shahid Naveed joins to lead Freetrade's global engineering team.
November 14, 2022
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Introducing our new subscription plans
Say hello to Freetrade Basic, Standard, and Plus
July 28, 2022
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Analyst ratings now live for Plus members
The first of many new stock fundamentals is here.
June 6, 2022
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Building out the Payments Platform
How we built the Freetrade Payments team.
May 27, 2022
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Announcing our latest funding round
We’ve raised £30m from existing and new investors.
May 20, 2022
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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.
April 27, 2022
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Europe, here we come!
We’ve received our licence from Sweden’s financial regulator, Finansinspektionen.
March 1, 2022
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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.
January 20, 2022
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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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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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Monoliths & Microservices: a technical explanation for non-technical people
Product Manager Louis Sutton decouples monoliths and microservices.
December 10, 2021
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Finnish stocks have arrived on your app
The first batch of European stocks is here.
December 8, 2021
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Freetrade hits record-breaking £8m on day one of crowdfunding
Another record-breaking crowdfunding round.
November 25, 2021
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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.
November 24, 2021
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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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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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Freetrade reaches one million users
An important milestone on our mission to get everyone investing.
October 14, 2021
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Freetrade hires Paul Brooking as CFO
Introducing Paul Brooker, Freetrade’s new Chief Financial Officer.
September 21, 2021
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Live pricing has arrived on your app
One of our most highly-requested features is here.
July 26, 2021
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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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Migrating our Android app from Dagger to Hilt
How we’re continuously modernising our app.
June 16, 2021
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Becoming an Engineer at Freetrade
Our step by step guide on how you can start building Freetrade.
June 8, 2021
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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.
May 5, 2021
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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.
April 21, 2021
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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.
April 20, 2021
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Announcing our senior leaders for European expansion
Introducing Karl, our managing director for Sweden.
April 12, 2021
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So long, friend!
We pay tribute to CTO Ian Fuller who is departing Freetrade for pastures new.
March 25, 2021
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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.
March 24, 2021
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Announcing our Series B
It’s time for the next phase of growth across Europe and beyond
March 23, 2021
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Meet the team: Product at Freetrade
What's it like to work at Freetrade?
March 11, 2021
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Meet five female Freetraders
Introducing five female Freetraders who work across five different teams.
March 10, 2021
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Typescript at Freetrade
Senior software engineer Rory Bain explains how Freetrade integrates Typescript.
March 10, 2021
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Celebrating International Women’s Day at Freetrade
What we're doing this week and why.
March 8, 2021
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Introducing Freetrade for iPad
How we developed the app with a brand new UI.
March 2, 2021
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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.
February 26, 2021
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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.
February 9, 2021
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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.
January 22, 2021
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Data Infrastructure at Freetrade
Principal Data Engineer Benen Cahill shares our process for data here at Freetrade.
January 12, 2021
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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.
December 27, 2020
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120 US real-estate investment trusts are here
Including some big name S&P 500 companies
December 21, 2020
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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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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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A stock-ing filler: massive market cap ADRs, biotechs, and ETFs
Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago
December 8, 2020
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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
November 20, 2020
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Remote onboarding to a new job
Freetrade Software Engineering Manager Rokey Ge shares his virtual onboarding experience.
November 10, 2020
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Referring friends and earning free shares just got even easier
A big improvement to Free Share is here.
November 5, 2020
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Investment fees calculator
See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.
November 4, 2020
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600 brand new stocks, including David Beckham's Esports team
Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.
October 30, 2020
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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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Brand new ETFs on Plus
Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.
October 21, 2020
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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.
October 21, 2020
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Stock fundamentals are now on your app
Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.
October 19, 2020
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Introducing the time-weighted rate of return
Compare your performance against a global benchmark
October 16, 2020
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It’s raining stocks: 500 new investment opportunities on your app now
October 15, 2020
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The Freetrade Christmas List 2020
Everything we plan to add to your app before the holidays.
October 14, 2020
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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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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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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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100 new ETFs from iShares, Vanguard, VanEck, and more!
Our biggest addition of ETFs yet.
September 30, 2020
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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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400 brand new stocks, including 200 exclusively for Plus
More of what you want.
September 24, 2020
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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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New stocks coming to your free plan and Plus subscription
Introducing your expanded stock universe.
September 18, 2020
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Money-weighted rate of return
More ways to measure your portfolio performance
September 10, 2020
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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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How to land a role in Product Management
Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.
August 21, 2020
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Introducing Freetrade Plus
Find out what's inside, and request your invite.
August 6, 2020
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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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Meet our new Head of People, Amy Gilman
Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.
July 29, 2020
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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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Your new order experience is here
The first of many additions to order types.
July 21, 2020
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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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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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Brand new: ETFs, Korean telcos, Japanese app and Chinese airlines
100 brand new stocks and ETFs are here
July 2, 2020
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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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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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Meet the team: Renata Labude, Senior Growth Manager
Find out more about how Free Share works
June 2, 2020
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Perry Blacher, serial entrepreneur turned VC, is joining Freetrade’s board
The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director
June 2, 2020
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Fractional shares: the rollout has started
You can now invest in a slice of US companies
June 1, 2020
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Meet the team: Caitlin Rich, Principal Product Designer
Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool
June 1, 2020
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We’re crowdfunding in May, and we’d love you to be a part of it
Today, we’re announcing our next crowdfunding round 🚀
May 5, 2020
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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.
February 27, 2020
