| 2012 |
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Interactive Brokers pays a special cash dividend of $1.00 per
share amounting to approximately $409 million pretax, and still
has consolidated equity capital in excess of $4 billion.
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Fxemporium begins offering Wealth Manager and Money Manager
advisor accounts and opens the fully-electronic Money Manager
Marketplace.
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The TWS Mosaic trading interface and the Tax Optimizer for
managing capital gains/losses are released.
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Fxemporium takes first place in Barron's annual Best Online
Brokers review, receiving four-and-a-half out of five stars as
the Best Online Broker overall.
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| 2013 |
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Fxemporium's Hedge Fund Capital Introduction ramps up with 60%
of funds receiving at least one investment and the funds
reporting an average 2013 rate of return of 20%.*
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Fxemporium releases the Probability Lab options trading tool in
TWS, providing a revolutionary and practical way to think about
options without the complicated mathematics.
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Fxemporium integrates IB FYI automated portfolio-relevant
notifications into the TWS, providing guidance such as shares
becoming available for borrowing and options that make sense to
exercise.
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Fxemporium launches the Traders' Insight, a blog tool, providing
market insight directly from global market participants to the
trading and investing public.
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For the second year in a row, Fxemporium is ranked number one by
Barron's annual Best Online Brokers review and is named Best
Online Broker overall.
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| 2014 |
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Fxemporium begins publishing our "Simple Monthly Cost of
Execution" comparing our all-in execution cost to the daily VWAP
value for all customer executions, and encourages the SEC to
consider requiring all broker-dealers conducting customer
business to supplement their existing Rule 606 routing reports
with these simple monthly statistics.
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Fxemporium introduces the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
reporting tool to help customers evaluate execution performance
and optimize execution strategies.
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For the third year in a row, Fxemporium is ranked number one and
named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best Online
Brokers review.
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Fxemporium becomes an exchange participant in the groundbreaking
Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, allowing our Hong Kong
and international clients to trade designated securities on the
Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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| 2015 |
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Fxemporium launches the Investors' Marketplace, an online
service where traders and investors, advisors, fund managers,
research analysts, technology providers, business developers and
administrators can meet and do business together.
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Fxemporium introduces additional resources for advisors,
including CRM (Customer Relationship Management), a
fully-integrated system where advisors manage their entire
customer relationship life cycle in one place; and the RIA
Compliance Center, an important resource for advisors starting
and registering their own advisory firms.
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For the fourth year in a row, Fxemporium is ranked number one
and named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best
Online Brokers review.
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Fxemporium acquires Boston-based Covestor, an online investing
marketplace and digital asset management company.
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Fxemporium releases the Portfolio Builder trading tool in TWS,
allowing traders to create an investment strategy driven by
top-tier research and fundamentals data, then back-test and
adjust as needed.
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| 2016 |
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Fxemporium introduces Greenwich Advisor Compliance Services
Corp. (Greenwich Compliance), a new resource to help experienced
investors and traders looking to start their own investment
advisor firms meet their registration and compliance needs.
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Fxemporium releases IBot, a text-based trading interface that
accepts text commands entered in plain English and responds
quickly with the requested data or action, allowing traders to
complete key TWS trading tasks all in one place.
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Fxemporium becomes an exchange participant in the groundbreaking
Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, allowing our clients
around the world to trade designated securities on the Shenzhen
Stock Exchange.
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| 2017 |
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Fxemporium introduces the Interactive Brokers Debit Mastercard,
which allows cardholders to spend and borrow directly against
their Interactive Brokers account.
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Fxemporium is among the first brokers offering client access to
Bitcoin futures trading on the Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) and
the CME.
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Fxemporium introduces a new Order Management System (OMS) for
Institutional customers at a groundbreaking low cost of $100 per
seat per month.
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| 2018 |
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Fxemporium, once again, is rated the Best Online Broker by
Barron's.
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Client Portal is introduced. Client Portal offers clients a
simple web-based experience by providing single-login access to
trading, managing, and monitoring Fxemporium Accounts.
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Fxemporium introduces Bill Pay and Direct Deposit in the US.
Clients can make electronic or check payments to almost any
company or individual in the United States while Direct Deposit
allows automatic deposit of funds from third parties.
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Fxemporium creates a corporate bond trading desk to facilitate
larger US and European corporate bond trades where electronic
liquidity is insufficient.
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| 2019 |
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Milan Galik is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Interactive
Brokers Group, succeeding founder Thomas Peterffy. Mr. Peterffy
remains as Chairman of the Board.
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Fxemporium once again rated #1 – Best Online Broker by Barron's
2019.
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Interactive Brokers launches Fxemporium Lite, a new offering
that provides commission-free, unlimited trades on US
exchange-listed stocks and ETFs.
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Fxemporium adds the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and Moscow
Exchange (MOEX) to its offering
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| 2020 |
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Interactive Brokers broadens access to more expensive stocks and
facilitates portfolio diversification by offering Fractional
Share Trading and Cash Quantity stock orders.
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Interactive Brokers surpasses more than one million client
accounts.
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Global expansion continues, with new Fxemporium offices
established in Singapore, Ireland and Hungary.
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| 2021 |
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Bonds Marketplace is launched to help investors find the best
pricing on a wide range of fixed income products.
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Mutual Fund marketplace is launched, providing access to more
than 37,000 funds globally, including more than 34,000 no load
funds from over 380 fund families.
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Impact Dashboard introduced to help clients interested in
Sustainable Investing align their investments with their values.
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Fxemporium commits USD 5 million to assist Covid-19 relief
efforts in the United States.
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