IN this week's SME Focus we hear from an entrepreneurial City escapee who is enjoying running a business that relies on sophisticated modern communications links from a Scottish island where the weather can pose unusual challenges.
ISLAND LIFE: TraderRebate owner Alasdair Woodman has taken the knowledge gained in London and is now using it to good effect from his base in Islay. Picture: Mark Mainz
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SME Focus By Mark Williamson Email: mark.williamson@theherald.co.uk Telephone: 0131 240 0282
Name: Alasdair Woodman.
Age: 29.
What is your business called?
TraderRebate.com.
Where is it based?
Islay.
What does it produce, what services does it offer?
We earn revenue from a number of regulated financial brokers for introducing business to them and we refund our customers up to 70% of the trading charges that they pay to these brokers, regardless of the profit or loss on their trades. We launched providing cashback for financial spread betting and we now offer rebates for trading CFDs (contracts for difference), forex, futures and options.
