Simon Dalmat is the HelloBrokers byline for the UK market.
This desk covers brokers active in the UK, from established players (Hargreaves Lansdown, IG, AJ Bell, Interactive Brokers UK) to neo-brokers (Trading 212, Freetrade, Lightyear). For every broker, the review checks FCA status, FSCS coverage and the quality of the ISA and SIPP tax wrappers before a score is assigned.
The test is what a broker spares you rather than what it sells you: the real cost of holding an account, whether your money is protected if the firm fails, and whether the tax wrapper is genuinely usable.