30, September, 2024, LONDON –

The winners and highly commended companies in the Finder Investing & Saving Innovation Awards 2024 have been revealed today.

The personal finance comparison site finder.com assessed innovation across 6 categories, including savings, stocks and shares ISAs, pensions, share dealing and ESG investing, as well as investing innovation newcomer.

The awards recognise financial providers that are innovating in their field by bringing new and impactful features to the market and delivering unique and beneficial services to their customers. The winners and highly commended companies were decided by a panel of 4 expert judges:

• Cherry Reynard, investment journalist
• George Sweeney, investing deputy editor, Finder
• Pedro Goncalves, Personal finance journalist, Yahoo Finance
• David McMillan, Professor in finance, University of Stirling

And the winners are…

The top spot in the Saving Innovation category goes to Hargreaves Lansdown, with Virgin Money recognised as highly commended.

Trading212 scooped the first place award in the Stocks & Shares ISA Innovation category.

Tillit is the winner of the Pensions Innovation award, with InvestEngine getting highly commended in this category.

Freetrade took first place in the Share Dealing Innovation award, with Trading212 taking the highly commended spot.

eToro is the winner of the ESG Investing Innovation award.

Tradu is awarded first place in the Investing Innovation Newcomer category.

Commenting on the awards, George Sweeney, investing deputy editor at finder.com, said:

“We’ve seen plenty of innovations this year with all of the established providers jostling to differentiate themselves, looking for ways to entice and impress new and existing customers. However, it’s also excellent to see some new platforms come out swinging, offering benefits and features you can’t find elsewhere.

In such a competitive personal finance landscape, you can’t rest on your laurels. All of these recent innovations will only benefit UK savers and investors – making them feel more empowered by the financial products they’re using increasingly more and more in day-to-day life.”

For more information on the awards and finalists, please visit: https://www.finder.com/uk/share-trading/finder-investing-saving-innovation-awards-2024

Methodology:

The shortlist of finalists in each category was selected by Finder’s subject area specialists, who identified the providers they felt were displaying key innovations in their field. This shortlist was then passed to an expert judging panel, who decided the winning and highly commended companies by assessing the finalists across three different criteria: uniqueness of innovation, impact in the market and value to customers.