The consolidation of the proprietary trading sector has taken another massive leap forward. In a major strategic move, London-based Instant Funding has officially acquired rival firm Funded Trading Plus (FTP), uniting two of the United Kingdom’s most prominent retail funding platforms under a single corporate structure.
The transaction represents a massive scaling play, immediately increasing the unified parent group’s overall revenue by 70%.
A Two-Brand Strategic Synergy
Rather than dissolving the brand, the corporate group announced that both Instant Funding and Funded Trading Plus will continue to operate as independent, standalone entities.
The primary objective of the deal is to create a better-capitalized, highly resilient entity capable of leveraging shared backend infrastructure, technology budgets, and risk-management data.
- Funded Trading Plus brings a massive global footprint to the marriage, bringing an active user base of over 60,000 international clients.
- Instant Funding contributes a reputation for explosive growth, deep technological solutions, and recent expansions into multi-asset crypto frameworks.
Immediate Impact for Active Traders: Complete Continuity
For funded traders holding active balances with either firm, the acquisition has been structured with a strict “no disruption” operational protocol. The combined management team explicitly confirmed that there will be no immediate changes to raw trading conditions, evaluation targets, or profit-split models.
The Official Continuity Directive: Active accounts, trader dashboards, current evaluation challenges, processing windows for payouts, and standard platform support channels will remain exactly the same across both independent ecosystems.
Over the coming quarters, traders can expect gradual improvements to account performance as the firms integrate a unified, highly optimized technology stack designed to decrease execution slippage and lower transaction latency.
Building a Scalable, Corporate Prop Empire
The proprietary trading space has undergone significant growing pains over the last two years, with almost a third of smaller firms closing their doors due to rising operational complexity and shifting broker alignments.
Lewis Mansbridge, CEO of Instant Funding, noted that the acquisition marks an evolution away from running a single-brand prop platform toward constructing a scalable, technology-forward institutional group.
Moving forward, the integrated corporate entity plans to aggressively fund:
- Accelerated backend infrastructure and platform innovation.
- Deep expansions into its upcoming CFD brokerage offerings.
- Enhanced scalability to handle massive concurrent trading volume without server degradation.
