Our business model

Iris

Our clients continue to be a core focus, helping to ensure that we provide the best possible trading experience. This helps us both attract new clients and retain existing ones, and provides long-term value to the Group.

Our business enablers

1.

Technology

Our proprietary platforms are best-in-class, delivering industry leading reliability, performance, and customer satisfaction. Continuous innovation ensures we remain at the forefront of trading and investment technology.

2.

Financial strength

We are financially strong, well-capitalised and highly cash generative, with no debt. This solid financial foundation enables us to invest in growth while maintaining resilience across market cycles.

3.

Risk management

We adopt a robust, disciplined approach to risk management, ensuring we operate within well-defined parameters to protect our business and customers.

4.

Reputation

Trust is at the core of our industry. We are committed to delivering for our customers, maintaining our reputation for excellence, integrity, and service quality.

Our client offering

Optimising and Expanding Two Core Verticals

Third Vertical to Refine Future State

Direct to Consumer

Best-in-class multi asset trading and investing experience

Platform Tech as a Service

Institutional grade platform technology and execution services across B2B and B2B2C

DeFi & Web 3.0 Capabilities

DeFi and Web 3.0 capabilities transforming market access and efficiency

Pioneering the inevitable convergence of Web 3.0 and TradFi

Our technology platforms

Our superior platforms1 and technology, combined with our risk management, deliver a best-in-class experience for our clients and partners.

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How we make money

Trading

Trading net revenue

£248.9m

Spreads

Revenue earned through maintaining a transactional spread (the difference between the buy and sell price) on CFD and spread bet products.

Commissions

These are charged on both CFD equity trades and institutional DMA trades. Clients are either charged a minimum commission or a percentage based on the value of the trade.

Financing

Positions held by clients overnight may be subject to financing costs, which can be positive or negative depending on the direction of their holding and the applicable financing rate.

Rebates and levies

Volume-based rebates paid to professional, high value retail and institutional clients and introducing brokers on selected asset classes.

Risk management gains/(losses)

Revenue or losses from management of client positions that the Group inherits. This consists of gains or losses which accrue to the Group through client positions and, secondly, the gains or losses which accrue to the Group through the hedge positions entered into by the Group, including hedge transaction costs.

Investing



£44.4m

Net revenue in Australia predominantly earned through brokerage charged for the execution of exchange traded products, options, warrants, ETFs, managed funds, interest rate securities and bonds. Further, we earn fees including FX revenue on international shares, and equity capital markets (“ECM”) income.

Interest income – trading and investing

£42.5m

Interest income from the Group’s own funds and income on client funds

Other income

£4.3m

How we add value

Shareholders

Dividend per share

11.4pence

up from 8.3 pence from 2024

Earnings per share

22.6pence

up from 16.7 pence from 2024

Clients

61%

turnover2 generated from trading clients of tenure greater than two years

7

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