| 2012 |
- 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.
- Themaxtraders begins offering Wealth Manager and Money Manager advisor accounts and opens the fully-electronic Money Manager Marketplace.
- The TWS Mosaic trading interface and the Tax Optimizer for managing capital gains/losses are released.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Themaxtraders'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%.*
- Themaxtraders releases the Probability Lab options trading tool in TWS, providing a revolutionary and practical way to think about options without the complicated mathematics.
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders launches the Traders' Insight, a blog tool, providing market insight directly from global market participants to the trading and investing public.
- For the second year in a row, Themaxtraders is ranked number one by Barron's annual Best Online Brokers review and is named Best Online Broker overall.
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| 2014 |
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders introduces the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) reporting tool to help customers evaluate execution performance and optimize execution strategies.
- For the third year in a row, Themaxtraders is ranked number one and named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best Online Brokers review.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders 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.
- For the fourth year in a row, Themaxtraders is ranked number one and named Best Online Broker overall by Barron's annual Best Online Brokers review.
- Themaxtraders acquires Boston-based Covestor, an online investing marketplace and digital asset management company.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Themaxtraders introduces the Interactive Brokers Debit Mastercard, which allows cardholders to spend and borrow directly against their Interactive Brokers account.
- Themaxtraders is among the first brokers offering client access to Bitcoin futures trading on the Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) and the CME.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Themaxtraders, once again, is rated the Best Online Broker by Barron's.
- Client Portal is introduced. Client Portal offers clients a simple web-based experience by providing single-login access to trading, managing, and monitoring Themaxtraders Accounts.
- Themaxtraders 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.
- Themaxtraders 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 |
- Milan Galik is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Brokers Group, succeeding founder Thomas Peterffy. Mr. Peterffy remains as Chairman of the Board.
- Themaxtraders once again rated #1 – Best Online Broker by Barron's 2019.
- Interactive Brokers launches Themaxtraders Lite, a new offering that provides commission-free, unlimited trades on US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs.
- Themaxtraders adds the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and Moscow Exchange (MOEX) to its offering
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| 2020 |
- Interactive Brokers broadens access to more expensive stocks and facilitates portfolio diversification by offering Fractional Share Trading and Cash Quantity stock orders.
- Interactive Brokers surpasses more than one million client accounts.
- Global expansion continues, with new Themaxtraders offices established in Singapore, Ireland and Hungary.
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| 2021 |
- Bonds Marketplace is launched to help investors find the best pricing on a wide range of fixed income products.
- 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.
- Impact Dashboard introduced to help clients interested in Sustainable Investing align their investments with their values.
- Themaxtraders commits USD 5 million to assist Covid-19 relief efforts in the United States.
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