Tagged: stock trading

Apple Was Planning Stock Trading Until Markets Sank: Report

Any longtime Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) watcher understands that it is one of the largest Fintechs in the world with plans to become any bigger. Adding investments and trading makes sense. It is just a matter of time.  Today, there is a report by CNBC quoting those… Read More

Stock, Options Trading: Blackboxstocks Introduces Program Featuring Real-Time Data from Nasdaq

Blackboxstocks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLBX), a financial technology and social media hybrid platform offering real-time proprietary analytics for stock and options traders, announced the launch of the beta program “for the company’s new portfolio alert product StockNanny, featuring real-time data from Nasdaq.” StockNanny leverages the real-time… Read More

Robinhood Lays Off 150 Workers, Citing Challenging Macroeconomic Conditions, Other Issues

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Stock trading app provider Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) has reportedly laid off another 7% of its workforce, around 150 workers. This, according to a recent update from the WSJ. With trading volumes declining considerably over the past year, the Fintech company made the cuts in order to… Read More

Digital Asset Firm CoinSwitch to Introduce Stock Trading App to Compete with Other Indian Fintech Platforms

Digital asset firm CoinSwitch is getting ready to introduce a stock trading platform, so that it can meaningfully compete in a market which includes Groww and Upstox, among other service providers in India. According to an update shared by the ET, CoinSwitch intends to submit… Read More

Traderpal’s Fintech App Makes Stock Trading Accessible to Spanish-Speaking Individuals with Alpaca

Traderpal is described as a simple and easy-to-use app designed to democratize access to financial markets for Spanish-speaking individuals. With Traderpal, users can “invest in thousands of US stocks, and ETFs and start building a diversified investment portfolio to help them achieve their financial goals.”… Read More

Digital Bank Revolut, Fintech Upvest to Offer Fractional ETF, Stock Trading across Europe

Revolut and Upvest have partnered to offer fractional ETF and European stock trading across Europe. Upvest are pleased to welcome Revolut and its end users to their community. Offering ETFs and European stocks for the first time Revolut and Upvest will “offer fractional ETF and… Read More

eToro to Acquire US Options Trading Platform Gatsby

Social investment platform eToro is expanding its presence in the United States after entering a definitive agreement to acquire options trading platform Gatsby for approximately $50 million. EToro had filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for regulatory clearance back in December 2021…. Read More

Financial Super App Emma Introduces Commission-Free Stock Trading

Emma, the financial super app, recently announced the launch of its commission-free stock trading to over 1 million customers in the United Kingdom, after successfully “testing with more than 30,000 users who registered on the waiting list.” Emma customers currently “use the app to see… Read More

Berlin’s Stock Trading Platform, lemon.markets, Acquires €15M via Seed Round

Lemon.markets, a Berlin-headquartered Fintech firm that helps companies embed trading services through APIs, has secured €15 million via a seed funding round that was co-led by Lakestar and Lightspeed. Creandum and System.one took part in the investment round, along with contributions from angels (like N26… Read More

Financial Inclusion: Robinhood Teams Up with Amplify Latinx via Strategic Investment

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) recently teamed up with Amplify Latinx via an investment that celebrates their fifth anniversary and supports their ongoing work to uplift the Latinx community. The Massachusetts-headquartered nonprofit Amplify Latinx aims to support Latinx communities by enhancing their economic power. This is done by… Read More

Former TD Ameritrade Exec Steve Quirk Joins Robinhood Markets as Chief Brokerage Officer

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The team at Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) says they are pleased to announce Steve Quirk is joining Robinhood Markets as its Chief Brokerage Officer. Robinhood writes in a blog post that Steve Quirk will be responsible for overseeing their broker-dealers, Robinhood Financial and Robinhood Securities, “effective January… Read More

eToro Investment Analyst Says that We Might Be Overdue for “Quick Reset” in Stocks, But Many More Planning to Invest in 2022 than Last Year

Callie Cox, the US-based Investment Analyst at eToro, notes that she’s always thinking about how market moves and headlines affect your finances. Starting January 7, 2022, Cox confirmed that she’ll be publishing a weekly blog, titled The Bottom Line, which will look into what’s happening… Read More

UK Fintech Freetrade Wants to Create Culture of Investing Internationally that’s Approachable and Customer-First

Freetrade‘s Head of People, Amy Gilman, has reflected on a “big” 2021 and an “even bigger” 2022. Gilman writes in a blog post that 2021 has been “an incredible year of growth for Freetrade.” She added that whether that’s growth to “over 1 million registered… Read More

Overfunding: UK Fintech Freetrade Secures £8.7M+ from 6926 Investors via Crowdcube

Freetrade, a company that’s on a mission to get everyone investing, has secured  879% (£8,799,726) of its £1,000,000 fundraising target from 6926 investors (at the time of writing) via Crowdcube – with 1 day left in the Fintech firm’s crowdfunding campaign. A UK Financial Conduct… Read More

Security Token Market Releases Tokenized Stock Arbitrage Report for October 2021

The team at Security Token Market (STM), which is focused on supporting blockchain-based security tokens, has released their Tokenized Stock Arbitrage Report for October 2021. As noted in the report from STM, FTX has seen “record-high” trading volumes. It’s been an “electric month” for tokenized… Read More

Nasdaq Announces Launch of Retail Trading Activity Tracker Tool

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced the launch of the Retail Trading Activity Tracker, which is a new dataset that aims to offer reliable information into the trading activity of self-directed retail investors in the U.S. equity market. The Retail Trading Activity Tracker has been designed… Read More

AleFi, a Social Investment App, Introduced in US Markets

A newly developed investment app has been introduced in the US. Like most other services, it also promises to better serve retail clients and offer engaging social investment opportunities. AleFi‘s management explains that they allow subscribers to view portfolios shared by professional or highly experienced… Read More

UK’s Wombat, a Fractional Investment Platform, Aims to Secure £10M via Series A to Expand into Europe

UK-headquartered micro-investing platform Wombat Invest has appointed David Davies, the ex-Chief Information Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown, and former eToro Managing Director Iqbal Gandham to its advisory board. These appointments have been made as the company prepares a  £10m Series A round in order to support… Read More

Commission-Free Stock Brokerage Platform Alpaca Acquires $50M via Series B

Alpaca, a commission-free stock brokerage platform that provides APIs for Fintech-related apps to connect and trade in US stocks, reveals that it has finalized a $50 million Series B “on the heels” of driving 1500% YTD growth in brokerage accounts and “expanding partnerships” across Europe,… Read More

PayPal Shares Rise Following Report of Forthcoming Stock Trading Feature

Shares in PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are rising following the report that the Fintech is preparing to launch stock trading. PayPal already features crypto trading so a move towards traditional assets, alongside digital assets, may make a lot of sense to the global payments firm. According to… Read More

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