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