Interactive Brokers - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

Hong Kong watchdog fines Interactive Brokers $4.5m over trading systems

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited (IBHK) $4.5 million after resolving concerns over IBHK’s breaches of the Code of Conduct in its execution of market orders using electronic and algorithmic trading systems (Notes 1 & 2).

14 February 2018

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FCA slaps Interactive brokers with £1m+ fine for post-trade failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today imposed a financial penalty on Interactive Brokers (UK) (IBUK) in the amount of £1,049,412 for failings in its post-trade systems and controls for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions in the period February 2014 to February 2015 (‘the Relevant Period’).

25 January 2018

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TradeStation International and Interactive Brokers UK prep global trading account

TradeStation International Ltd, the London-based, United Kingdom subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., announced today it has teamed with Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited, an affiliate of the Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR), to offer a TradeStation Global platform and brokerage account with the ability to trade markets across the globe.

16 January 2018

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Interactive Brokers employs Mediant for investor communications

Mediant, a leading provider of investor communications solutions, announced that Interactive Brokers LLC, a global electronic brokerage firm, has signed a multi-year contract to continue with Mediant’s Broker Services and MIC technology platform.

17 November 2017

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Free TOM derivatives data made available

As of today all retail clients of Interactive Brokers, Lynx and Today’s Groep will have free access to real-time derivatives market data of TOM MTF.

20 May 2015

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Interactive Brokers acquires Covestor

Covestor, an online investing marketplace, and Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR), the largest US electronic broker by daily average revenue trades, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Interactive Brokers will acquire Covestor.

24 April 2015

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Interactive Brokers offers TOM access to its brokerage clients

Interactive Brokers has decided to offer trading on TOM to its brokerage clients as of 24 March 2014. Clients will be able to trade directly on TOM in derivatives.

24 March 2014

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Interactive Brokers goes live with ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., a leading automated global electronic broker, has gone live with ISO 20022 corporate actions announcement messages.

25 June 2013

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CFTC hits Interactive Brokers with $225,000 penalty

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order requiring Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) of Greenwich, Conn., to pay a $225,000 civil monetary penalty for failing to calculate the amount of customer funds on deposit, the amount of funds required to be on deposit in customer segregated accounts, failing to maintain sufficient U.S. dollars (USD) in customer segregated accounts in the United States to meet all USD-denominated obligations, and supervision failures.

10 April 2013

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CFTC fines Interactive Brokers $700k for reporting violations

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and settling charges against Interactive Brokers LLC (Interactive), a futures commission merchant based in Greenwich, Conn., for filing inaccurate large trader reports and failing to diligently supervise the handling and reporting of accounts.

26 July 2012

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Actant appoints Rob Prior as CEO

Actant, a market-leader in software solutions for high performance automated derivatives trading, today announced the appointment of Rob Prior as CEO.

13 June 2011

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Interactive Brokers launches pair trading algorithm

Interactive Brokers announces the enhancement of its ScaleTrader algorithm to encompass Pairs Trading enabling clients to trade the spread between any two securities. Investors typically buy the shares of one company and sell those in another when the distance between the two prices moves towards an extreme value and away from an observed relationship.

30 June 2010

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