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Revolut gets UK trading license, set to offer UK & EU stock trading

The company, which recently secured a $45 billion valuation making it one of Europe's most valuable fintechs, will now compete with companies such as Trading 212, Freetrade, Hargreaves Lansdown and AJ Bell in the UK trading market. Revolut, which currently has more than 650,000 UK trading customers, earlier operated as a partnership where it offered an investment service through its app and retail customers could buy and sell shares listed in the United States. The company received a UK banking licence in July with some restrictions, ending a three-year wait for the authorisation and removing regulatory uncertainty that had held back its ambitions in Britain.

South Africa Sees Breakthrough as Ramaphosa Reforms Win S&P Nod

(Bloomberg) -- A turnaround that investors have bet on in South Africa since President Cyril Ramaphosa returned to power on a mandate for reforms is coming true — at least in the nation’s credit outlook.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftParis to Replace Parking Spaces With TreesAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureNew York’s Transit Agency Approves $9 Conges