Finboard is live at theinvestorscentre.co.uk/community, and it’s free for any UK resident to join.
It’s a community platform built for UK retail investors. You get a discussion forum, structured five-star broker reviews from other members, a topic-based quiz library that runs from beginner to advanced, a daily quiz, and a reputation system called Equity points that unlocks features as you build standing in the community. No paywall. No ads pushing you toward a broker. Free to join, free to use.
We started The Investors Centre in 2023 to lower the barrier of entry to investing and personal finance. Like a lot of things in life, investing is as hard as you want to make it — and the financial services industry has historically benefited from making it harder than it needs to be. One of our founding principles was to help raise the financial literacy of our readers. Finboard is the next step in that.
What’s on Finboard
Forum and Q&A
Open discussion across markets, strategy, products, brokers, tax and regulation. Threads are moderated by a layered pipeline that combines AI classification with human review.
Reader broker reviews
Members leave structured five-star reviews on every major UK-regulated broker we cover, including IG, eToro, Capital.com, CMC, Spreadex, and Interactive Brokers. These sit alongside our editorial reviews on the broker reviews hub — the analyst view and the member view, in one place.
Topic quizzes
Five difficulty tiers per topic, from Beginner to “Finance God.” The launch library covers Forex, ISAs, Cryptocurrency, CFD Trading, FCA & FSCS Regulation, and Tax-Efficient Investing, with three further specialist tracks unlocking through engagement.
Daily quiz
A short daily quiz with streak rewards. Five questions, takes about two minutes.
TIC Portfolio
Members reaching 100 Equity points unlock the TIC Portfolio feature, where you can publish your portfolio allocation to the community.
Real-time financial news feed
Aggregated from Google News, the FT, and BBC Business, with community discussion attached to every story.
Why user-generated content matters
The most useful information about a broker doesn’t come from a review site — it comes from someone who actually uses that broker every day. Whether withdrawals are quick. Whether the app crashes during volatility. Whether customer service answers in two hours or two weeks.
Editorial reviews can’t replicate that. We test brokers ourselves with real money, and we publish what we find — but we’re six people. The community of UK retail investors using these platforms is in the hundreds of thousands. Their collective experience is worth more than any single review team’s, and until now, most of it has lived nowhere structured. Finboard is our attempt to give it a home.
This matters more than it used to. AI search is changing how people find financial information, and AI gives disproportionate weight to community signal. Reddit threads, real reviews, real questions answered by real people — that’s what increasingly informs the answers when someone asks ChatGPT or Google about a broker, an ISA strategy, or a tax wrapper. UK retail investing deserves a serious UK-focused community feeding into that signal, not just whatever happens to be loudest on Twitter.
Why use Finboard
Five direct reasons:
- Real broker reviews from real users, not paid placements or affiliate-skewed roundups
- Structured learning that actually moves the needle — the quiz library is built around UK realities (ISAs, CGT, FCA, FSCS), not generic US investing content
- A community that rewards quality contribution through Equity points, not loudest voice or follower count
- Free, no paywall, no upsell — the whole platform is open to any UK resident with a valid email
- Built around UK tax and regulation from the ground up — every quiz, every discussion, every review takes UK rules seriously
Personally, I’ll add this: I’ve learned things from the Finboard quizzes that I didn’t know before, and I helped build the thing. The quiz library has been one of my favourite parts of using my own product, which is probably the highest compliment I can pay it.
How Equity points work
Every meaningful contribution earns Equity: an answer that gets upvoted, a broker review other members find helpful, a quiz completed, a thread that generates good discussion. Points unlock features as you go.
The deliberate design choice is that posting volume earns nothing on its own. A hundred low-effort comments outranks zero useful answers. We think this is the right way to build a community where the platform structurally rewards the contributions that help people get better at investing.
How moderation works
Every post moves through a moderation pipeline combining AI classification with human review. AI flags content against our community guidelines — promotional creep, scam patterns, unregulated financial promotions, abuse — and human moderators make the final call.
We’ve built it this way because financial communities online have a real problem with promotional content and outright fraud. Pure AI moderation over-blocks genuine discussion; pure human moderation can’t scale. The combination of the two is the right balance for what Finboard is trying to be.
Joining Finboard
Finboard is free, and free to use. To join, you need to be a UK resident with a valid email address. Sign up at theinvestorscentre.co.uk/community.
If you’ve got feedback once you’re in — what’s working, what’s missing, what we should build next — I genuinely want to hear it. Drop a thread in the Feedback section or email me directly: adam@theinvestorscentre.com.
See you on Finboard.
Adam Woodhead
Co-founder, The Investors Centre