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Tech unicorns UK – complete guide to the billion-dollar club

Growth Business

Financial services Bio: If you haven’t heard of BGL , you’ll have certainly heard of its brands, like comparethemarket.com. A “digital distributor of insurance and household financial services”, BGL currently serves 11 million customers. 11 – CMR Surgical Value: $3bn Founded: 2014 What do they do?

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

The TRADE

“If you look at what those firms need in terms of prime-related services, well, cash PB and synthetics are just the basics. So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” Those are the relatively commoditised parts of the business. They need a financing platform to support all of that.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

One of the greatest revelations across the financial services sector (and beyond) was that mantra of ‘we don’t have to do things the way we used to’ as office hours turned to hybrid work-from-home setups and video conferencing and instant messaging became the norm. But that’s not to say it’s going to be for everyone.

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