Freetrade: Free Share Trading

[Lampran (Ham)]

Integrating Freetrade and Monzo

A few clarifying points to the above. I have no idea what’s going on at Freetrade, but its headwinds seem obvious to me. Last year VCs went nuts for investing fintechs, which IMO was in part due to the nonsense around meme stocks and crypto hype flowing over into retail investing. That party has ended → investing products are quite hard to monetise due to regulatory restrictions (PFOF is illegalish) and low trading fees. AUM is the name of the game, not trade volumes - and Freetrade doesn’t re…