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  • FTSE 100 Live: Stock rally cools; Oil tumbles amid Trump tensions

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    Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. The London stock market has opened on a dimmer mood with morning with both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 trading into the red. The blue-chip index was hit by the falling price of oil with major stock losses across energy giants Shell and BP. [...]

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  • First Equity sets sights on Northwest expansion

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    Historic London-based stockbroker First Equity is set to expand into the Northwest of the UK with a fresh presence in Liverpool. The firm, an independent broking boutique dating back to the 1980s, offers investment services to companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, AIM, Aquis Exchange, and JP Jenkins Private Markets. Senior Investment Manager Neil Blankstone, [...]

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  • Shawbrook gearing up for £2bn IPO in boost to London market

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    Specialist lender Shawbrook is preparing to announce intention of its London Stock Exchange debut – a move which could take place as soon as Thursday next week. Shawbrook’s private equity owner – Pollen Street Capital – is eying a £2bn valuation for the firm from the transaction. It comes amid a dire outlook for the [...]

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  • Plus500 customer deposits more than double to record $3.1bn

    August 11, 2025

    Plus500 has seen its customer deposits more than double to a record $3.1bn (£2.3bn) as wealthy investors piled in to its share trading app. The London fintech said the average deposit held by an active customer stood at $17,250 by the end of the first half of the year, a jump of 105 per cent [...]

  • Peel Hunt: City broker makes a loss amid economic headwinds

    June 16, 2025

    Investment bank Peel Hunt faced the pinch of economic and market struggles in its latest financial year as cost-cutting measures took a chunk out of the firm’s bottom line. The City broker made a loss before tax of £3.5m, which the firm said was due to restructuring costs. But the company recorded a profit of [...]

  • WH Ireland: Small-cap broker’s revenue plunges amid AIM swoon

    August 12, 2024

    WH Ireland, the broker for small and medium-sized public companies, has reported a near 20 per cent slump in revenue due to “extremely challenging” market conditions. The group also reported a statutory loss before tax of £5.9m, up from £1.8m in 2023, thanks in part to a £2.9m restructuring charge. “These were principally redundancies and [...]

  • Interactive Brokers is ready to shake up the UK trading market

    July 23, 2024

    “Why is it,” Gerald Perez, the UK boss of global brokerage giant Interactive Brokers, told City A.M., “that UK investors can trade anywhere around the world on our platform for less than £3, but other platforms charge £10 for investors to trade in their home market?”  Although it’s currently a fairly small player in the [...]

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