Robinhood poised to restart trading after GameStop backlash LeapRate

January 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Robinhood poised to restart trading after GameStop backlash

Robinhood stated on Thrusday: We made a tough decision today to temporarily limit buying for certain securities. As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearing house deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment. Robinhood…

Interactive Brokers expands with new office in Dublin

December 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Interactive Brokers expands with new entity in Ireland

The IDA Ireland, a government agency that promotes Ireland for the opportunities it presents to international companies, has provided valuable assistance to the company in establishing its Irish office. Founded more than 43 years ago, the company has into a securities firms with over $8.9 billion in equity capital, $25 billion market capital, and $284…

August 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Swissquote, Plus500 and IG release trading volumes, FXCM Pro provides liquidity for DXtrade platform

International multi-asset broker HotForex has expanded its offering with the launch of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and direct market access (DMA) stocks, exclusive to the company’s MT5 platform. Traders on HotForex can now benefit from CFDs on DMA Stocks and the direct market live pricing. Unlike CFDs on Stocks, which are not directly hedged in the underlying…

Interactive Brokers to pay over $38 million penalty to settle charges with SEC, CFTC and FINRA

August 11, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Interactive Brokers to pay over $38 million penalty to settle charges with regulators

The CFTC filed charges against Interactive Brokers for failing to supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ handling of several commodity trading accounts and not implementing adequate procedures to detect and report suspicious transactions as required under federal anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations. Interactive Brokers agreed to be censured, to cease and desist, and to…

October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers clients can now trade on Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has today announced that it has teamed up with global electronic broker Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR). The broker has begun providing access to the Russian market for all its clients in the US and worldwide. Interactive Brokers' clients can now fund their account in 24 currencies and trade assets from a…

July 31, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers partners with Tradesocio for multi-asset liquidity

Securities firm and liquidity provider Interactive Brokers has just announced that it will join financial tech provider Tradesocio’s ecosystem of financial institutions and financial technology providers known as Tradesocio Marketplace. Interactive Brokers joins the line of Tradesocio’s liquidity partners, thus allowing financial services providers adopting Tradesocio’s technology to also integrate Interactive Brokers’ liquidity engine, using…

March 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CEO Rustam Lam talks about TradeStation Global platform, bitcoin futures and more

TradeStation International, the international arm of TradeStation (a Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) company), is offering access to all the world's major stockmarkets across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Created in collaboration with Interactive Brokers, the TradeStation Global platform was launched in 2018 and enables direct market access and execution in FX, Equity, Futures…

September 11, 2017 BY admin

Interactive Brokers to join Tel Aviv Stock Exchange as remote member

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker that serves more than 449,000 clients worldwide and operates on more than 120 exchanges, announced today that it plans to join the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) through its Interactive Brokers UK subsidiary as a remote member. Jon Chait, Chief Operating Officer at Interactive…

July 09, 2017 BY admin

US Retail Forex client assets for May sees increase to $534 million

U.S. Retail Forex Broker client assets held showed a MoM uptick from reporting data filed with the CFTC as of May 31st. The report revealed a 1.74% increase in assets held by FCMs from April's $524,757,888 to $533,886,026 for May 2017. This is also $10 million more in assets from March’s $523,750,637. If the trend…

April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada available through Interactive Brokers’ TWS platform

Wall Street Horizon, the corporate events surveillance expert, just announced that its complete Enchilada corporate event dataset is now available through Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR)’ IB Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. With this collaboration, traders and investors can now access Enchilada’s comprehensive forward-looking and historical corporate event data for 5,000 North American companies. The platform…

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