After three years of publishing reviews, comparisons, and guides, we’ve opened the doors. Finboard, our community platform for UK retail investors, is live at theinvestorscentre.co.uk/community — and it’s free for any UK resident to join.
This is a meaningful step for us. Until now, The Investors Centre has been a one-way publication: we research, we review, we publish, you read. Finboard flips that. It’s a structured space where the people who actually do the investing — readers like you — can share what you’ve learned, ask questions, rate the brokers you’ve used, and help shape the conversation.
Why we built Finboard
The honest answer: because the existing options weren’t good enough.
If you want to discuss investing online today, you’ve got two roads. The first is social media — Reddit, Twitter, TikTok — where every conversation gets pulled toward whatever’s pumping that week, and where it’s almost impossible to tell who actually knows what they’re talking about. The second is paywalled communities, where the price of admission keeps out exactly the people who’d benefit most from the conversation.
Neither serves UK retail investors well, and neither addresses the specific reality of investing in the UK — ISAs, the Lifetime ISA, Capital Gains Tax, FCA-regulated platforms, FSCS protection, HMRC self-assessment quirks. Most online investing communities are dominated by US investors talking about Robinhood, 401(k)s, and Roth IRAs, none of which apply here.
Finboard is built around UK realities, with a structure that rewards thoughtful contribution over loudest voice. That’s the part we care about most.
What’s on Finboard at launch
Forum and Q&A
The core of Finboard is a discussion forum covering markets, strategy, products, brokers, tax, regulation — the full spread of what UK investors actually need to talk about. Threads are moderated at thread level, with AI classification flagging content for human review against community guidelines. The aim is to keep promotional posts and outright scams out without throttling genuine discussion.
Reader broker reviews
Members can 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, giving you both the analyst view and the member view in one place.
You can find the full set on our broker reviews hub.
Topic quizzes
Five difficulty tiers per topic, from Beginner up to “Finance God.” The quiz library at launch covers:
- Forex — currency markets, major and minor pairs, leverage and margin, market sessions
- ISAs — Stocks & Shares ISAs, Cash ISAs, Innovative Finance ISAs, contribution limits, transfer rules
- Cryptocurrency — exchanges, wallets, FCA registration, tax treatment, DeFi basics
- CFD Trading — how CFDs work, margin and leverage, ESMA rules, risk management
- FCA & FSCS Regulation — the regulator’s remit, FSCS protection limits, broker authorisation, complaint procedures
- Tax-Efficient Investing — Capital Gains Tax, dividend allowances, ISA wrappers, pension contributions, HMRC reporting
Three further specialist tracks unlock as members build standing on the platform.
Daily quiz
A short daily quiz with streak rewards. Five questions, takes about two minutes, designed to keep learning ticking over without becoming a chore.
TIC Portfolio
Members reaching 100 Equity points unlock the TIC Portfolio feature, which lets you publish your portfolio allocation to the community. Equity is earned through quality contribution — useful answers, helpful broker reviews, completed quizzes — so by the time you’re publishing a portfolio, you’ve earned standing in the community.
Real-time financial news feed
Aggregated from Google News, the FT, and BBC Business, with community discussion attached to every story. Read the news, see what other members are making of it, join in.
How Equity points work on Finboard
Equity is Finboard’s reputation system. Every meaningful contribution earns points: an answer that gets upvoted, a broker review that other members find helpful, a quiz completed, a thread that generates good discussion. Points accumulate on your profile and unlock features as you go.
The deliberate design choice here is that posting volume on its own earns nothing. You can post a hundred low-effort comments and get nowhere; one genuinely useful answer that helps another member outranks all of it. We think this is the right way to build the kind of community we want — one where the platform structurally rewards the contributions that help people get better at investing.
How Finboard moderates content
A short note on this because it matters. Every post goes through a moderation pipeline that combines AI classification with human review. AI models flag content against our community guidelines — promotional content, scam patterns, unregulated financial promotions, abusive language — and human moderators make the final call on whether anything gets actioned.
We’ve designed it this way because financial communities online have a real problem with promotional creep and outright fraud. Pure AI moderation over-blocks genuine discussion; pure human moderation can’t scale. The combination of the two, with humans making final decisions, is the right balance for what Finboard is trying to be.
Who’s behind Finboard
Finboard is built and operated by The Investors Centre — that’s me, Adam Woodhead, alongside my co-founders Thomas Drury ACII and Dom Farnell. We started The Investors Centre in 2023 because we wanted a UK-focused publication that took retail investors seriously. Three years on, with hundreds of broker reviews, comparisons, and guides published, Finboard is the natural next step: opening the publication up so the conversation runs both ways.
How to join Finboard
Finboard is free, and free to use. There’s no paid tier, no premium features, no paywall on community content. 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 — we 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