Octopus completes £10m wealth tech firm acquisition
Buys Seccl to grow business
"We want to transform the customer and client experience across retail financial services - and Seccl's technology genuinely has the potential to do that" - Octopus's Sam Handfield-Jones.
Octopus Group has completed the £10m acquisition of wealth tech start-up Seccl Technology after it received approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Octopus announced the deal to buy the Bath-based business last month (15 August). Seccl aims to support the finance sector to deliver faster and cheaper platform solutions to help manage and administer...
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