Instant Funding announced the acquisition of Funded Trading Plus (FTP) on 2026-05-26, bringing two established UK prop firms under a single group structure. The deal closed at a seven-figure purchase price, with Instant Funding CEO Lewis Mansbridge confirming that the acquisition increases the group’s top-line revenue by approximately 70%.
Both brands will continue operating independently on the trader-facing side. What changes is the back-office layer: shared technology, operational infrastructure, and strategic investment across the wider group. This is the operator-side mirror of the consolidation pattern Brokerage Atlas has been tracking on the vendor-side - prop firms are now treating tech stack ownership and back-office leverage as the explicit margin-defending move.
Finance Magnates frames the deal as part of “the great prop firm shakeout” - the same context Brokerage Atlas’s 2024-2025 prop firm market commentary covered. Up to 100 prop firms failed to survive 2024 according to the same publication’s earlier reporting; the shake-out extended into 2025; the survivors are now buying each other.
What it means for the Brokerage Atlas operator universe: prop firm operators evaluating tech stacks should weight vendor relationships with a consolidation lens. A vendor whose top customers are mid-tier prop firms facing acquisition pressure carries different durability risk than a vendor whose top customers are the consolidators. The Instant Funding / FTP transaction does not directly affect any of the 10 tech vendors in the Brokerage Atlas prop-firm-tech chapter, but it raises the bar for vendor due-diligence going forward.
Source: https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/prop-trading-instant-funding-acquires-funded-trading-plus/