| 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade'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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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, Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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, Essentialtrade is ranked number one
and named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best
Online Brokers review.
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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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, Essentialtrade is ranked number
one and named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best
Online Brokers review.
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Essentialtrade acquires Boston-based Covestor, an online
investing marketplace and digital asset management company.
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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade introduces the Interactive Brokers Debit
Mastercard, which allows cardholders to spend and borrow
directly against their Interactive Brokers account.
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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade, 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 Essentialtrade Accounts.
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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade once again rated #1 – Best Online Broker by
Barron's 2019.
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Interactive Brokers launches Essentialtrade Lite, a new offering
that provides commission-free, unlimited trades on US
exchange-listed stocks and ETFs.
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Essentialtrade 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 Essentialtrade 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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Essentialtrade commits USD 5 million to assist Covid-19 relief
efforts in the United States.
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