Stock Market – Stock market funding made straightforward – Rising Europe

A brand new fintech app created by Japanese Europeans makes investing on the London Stock Alternate straightforward 

Orca, a brand new funding app launched by Denis Gulagin and Fedor Panteleev, permits UK residents to put money into over 250 stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETF) and arrange particular person saving accounts.  

“The app makes it possible to invest from anywhere in the world – in a desert, on a tropical island, near a volcano, in the middle of an ocean – but with your phone and the Orca app on it. We’ve started with the UK, and that’s just the beginning,” says Denis Gulagin, who serves as Orca’s CEO.  

He ran a spread of fintech tasks for cost service suppliers (PSP) Cell Funds and Neo Banking, for nearly a decade, after which targeted on Orca.  

A distinct imaginative and prescient 

“Initially, Orca was a facet undertaking of a finance group and I used to be main that undertaking. I invited Fedor to affix me as a result of he was the perfect co-founder I might skinnyok of. Then we began assembling a crew. That is how the undertaking began. Quickly, we realised now we have a special imaginative and prescient from the finance group administration. It turned apparent that if we wished to make it how we see it, we would want to do all of it ourselves. So, we left and we made the idea and accomplished the seed spherical. That occurred in October 2019, and since then, Orca has been an unbiased undertaking,” Gulagin says.  

Conventional options for investing are sometimes barebones, failing to offer customers with the instruments to construct and defend long-term wealth. The app’s objective is to handle the wants of medium- to long-term traders with little or no expertise available in the market and appears to be the perfect resolution for individuals who are solely studying to speculate, because it gives users the instruments they want to know and handle their investments. 

“Just giving access is not enough,” says Gulagin. “You might want to assist folks alongside the best way as a result of the funding journey is exclusive. It’s a medium- to long-term relationship with the app you may belief. You need to be a professional to grow to be a ‘large fish’ on the earth of finance. However even Warren Buffet began with easy issues. That’s precisely what Orca needs you to think about funding as – a easy factor,” Gulagin explains. 

One-step onboarding 

Orca’s proposition is one-step onboarding, in-chat assist, instructional content material, user-friendly and intuitive. The app features a information aggregator with content material that’s related to particular person firms and the market on the whole. Each stock has an in depth description, analytics, options, occasions, so customers could make knowledgeable choices. It gives a subscription to look at a explicit stock, observeing its price real-time, in addition to a variety of different capabilities and options. 

Gulagin explains that regardless that the app is straightforward to arrange, it nonetheless has a compulsory KYC process which ensures a protected investing course of. Additionally it is clear, so its customers see all commissions earlier than making a transaction – together with taxes and charges.  

Orca’s CEO says the app just isn’t but official, however a pre-release has been launched the place customers can win as much as 2,750 UK kilos in stocks, with all the reward fund amounting to 15,000 UK kilos.  

“After the official launch, we plan to make many extra stocks accessible to customers and to connect with different exchanges comparable to NYSE and NASDAQ. As we develop, we plan to ultimately conquer all Europe and the US,” he provides. 

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