Interactive Brokers hit by ASIC for $1.6 million for margin lending to Australian traders LeapRate

December 16, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff

Interactive Brokers hit by ASIC for $1.6 million for margin lending to Australian traders

The long arm of Australian law... Australia's financial regulator ASIC has settled with US-based online trading firm Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ:IBKR) on an agreement which will see IBKR refund $1.5 million in fees and commissions to its Australian clients which were granted margin lending facilities between 2010 and 2013. IBKR made margin loans to Australian clients…

December 10, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers moves towards extra transparency via Transaction Cost Analysis

Interactive Brokers new TCA report is a tool that enables traders to check how each of their trades performed when compared to a certain market benchmark.

December 01, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers daily average revenue trades reduce by 15% in November

Trading activity dwindled from October's high of 680,000 Daily Average Revenue Trades to 576,000 in November, cutting short the two month wave of high volumes experienced by Interactive Brokers

December 01, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers TWS platform undergoes comprehensive overhaul

Trading platform development has become an area of fierce competition recently, with many companies concentrating their efforts on ensuring that their proprietary platforms not only keep pace with technological change, but in some cases usurp the ubiquitous third party solutions from all-encompassing giants such as MetaQuotes. During the latter part of the year, some of…

November 24, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers now offers stock trading via Shanghai-HK Connect

Diversification into other asset classes has been on the agenda for many FX companies this year, and with China's government showing interest in participating in overseas markets, Interactive Brokers introduces the trading of exchange-based stock on Shanghai-HK Connect

November 03, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

October volumes up at Interactive Brokers as DARTS trump buoyant September by 18%

As the retail FX firms begin to announce their trading volumes for October, Interactive Brokers reveals a further increment over September, demonstrating that volatility is recovering and the doldrums have been consigned to the history books

October 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers sees slump in revenues in Q3 of 2014, market making weighs on financials

Whilst many a firm has reported extremely healthy September volumes, Interactive Brokers net revenues in the three months to September 30, 2014 amounted to $171 million, down by 45% from the preceding quarter and down by 47.6% from the $326 million recorded in the same quarter a year ago

October 17, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers boosts tech analysis section in latest TWS build

The latest version of the platform, which gives access to thousands of trading instruments on 100 markets across the globe, was launched on October 13, 2014

October 13, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Interactive Brokers on the go: test of mobile API begins

An emphasis on mobile trading has driven a series of critical software developments at US retail FX giant Interactive Brokers

October 01, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Interactive Brokers Group September DARTs 21% higher YoY and 17% higher than August

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for September. Highlights for the month included: 577 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 21% higher than prior year and 17% higher than prior month. Ending customer equity of $54.9 billion, 33%…

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