Trustnet Magazine 55 October 2019 | Page 18

Your portfolio 18 / 19 [ FINTECH ] Daniel Lanyon takes a closer look at three fintech apps that can help make investing easier There’s an app for that I f you walk around the City of London today, you’d be just as likely to bump into a scruffy, bearded fintech entrepreneur taking a conference call on their iPhone as you would a fund manager in a pin-striped Savile Row suit with a rolled-up copy of the Financial Times. The reason? The rapid crystallisation of the Square Mile as the world’s leading centre for financial technology startups. These businesses look poised to conquer the retail investing market, through a better user experience, novel concepts or lower fees than traditional financial services providers – so they say. But are they just a fad, or do they offer services that are genuinely superior to the ones they are disrupting? Here, we take a look at three of the best fintech apps for investors. FE TRUSTNET trustnet.com