STOCK WATCH

FOREIGN exchange firm Fair FX is hailing 2018 as a transformational year, after revenue jumped 69pc to £26.1m.

Turnover – or how much currency the business sold, combined with the value of deposits paid into customers’ accounts – more than doubled to £2.3bn.

Fair FX, which provides customers with prepaid currency cards, saw its profit jump more than 650pc to £6.8m over the year.

Shares in the business leapt 11.6pc, or 11p, to 106p.