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