As the lockdown eases, investments are changing — The last month has seen the UK start to move slowly out of lockdown and make a cautious return to normality. We’re even allowed to exercise with other people now! The stock market has reflected this trend to a certain extent. …

Almost everything in modern life is made or provided by companies. As they innovate and grow, these firms are the primary way wealth is created in the world. Freetrade’s goal is to give everyone access to benefit from that wealth creation. …

A steady increase in online shopping has seen the tech firm’s share price soar — At the end of last year, Nike made headlines in the retailing world when it announced that it would be pulling its shoes from Amazon. That decision was part of a wider strategy that the sports brand has undertaken to boost its direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales. …

We speak to the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool — You joined Freetrade in March of this year. What made you want to work here? I had been following Freetrade’s progress since the first round of crowdfunding (as an old colleague of mine had invested) and eventually signed up for an account about a year ago. It became an app that I checked constantly and I loved the simplicity. …

And smashed our £1m target along the way — Another day, another round of crowdfunding smashed! Only five days after going live on Crowdcube and we’ve closed our latest funding round, having raised £7.1 million. More than 8,500 of you invested in this round and we raised our first million in just four minutes, from our previous investors only. …

And why do companies do them? — If you read the financial press then every once in a while you’ll see that a company has bought back some of its own shares. Take Barclays. Until COVID-19 struck, the UK bank had planned on buying back a billion pound’s worth of its own shares. On the face of…

In our mission to get everyone investing, commission-free investing was only the start. A number of US stocks cost upward of a thousand dollars for a single share, and many cost hundreds. …

The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director — We’re very happy to announce that serial fintech entrepreneur Perry Blacher is joining Freetrade as a non-executive director, with a view to becoming chairman pending regulatory approval. Freetrade’s mission has always been to get everyone investing. To do that, we’ve designed and built an award-winning app, created our own brokerage…

The battle for supermarket customers is on — As most of us mope around at home, talking to people on Zoom and cooking way more than usual, supermarkets’ revenues are booming. People across the UK made an extra 79 million shopping trips in March compared to last year. Those shops generated an extra £1.9 …