Interactive Brokers

by · June 6, 2012

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. was founded by its Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy. Over the last 35 years, it has grown internally to become one of the premier securities firms with over $4.8 billion in equity capital.

Interactive Brokers conducts its broker/dealer and proprietary trading businesses in over 100 market destinations worldwide. In its broker dealer agency business, IB provides direct access (“on line”) trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products including stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds, CFDs and funds worldwide. In its proprietary trading business, IB engages in market making for its own account in about 6,500 different electronically traded products. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates execute nearly 1,000,000 trades per day.

Interactive Brokers’ headquarters are in Greenwich Connecticut, and it has approximately 850 employees in its offices in the USA, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Australia, Hungary, Russia, India, China and Estonia. IB is regulated by the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, SFA and other regulatory agencies around the world.

Awards

Barron’s Awards 2012

  • Interactive Brokers earned an overall rating of 4.5 in 2012, the highest star rating awarded by Barron’s.
  • In the software-based competition, Interactive Brokers is once again ranked low cost broker with a 4.5 in 2012.
  • Interactive Brokers earned a rating of 5.0 in 2012 for “Best Portfolio Analysis and Reports”,
    the highest star rating awarded by Barron’s.
  • Interactive Brokers earned a rating of 4.6 in 2012 for “Best Trading Experience and Technology”, the highest star rating awarded by Barron’s.
  • Interactive Brokers earned a rating of 4.5 in 2012 for “Best for International Traders”,
    the highest star rating awarded by Barron’s.
  • Interactive Brokers earned a rating of 4.5 in 2012 for “Best for Frequent Traders”.
  • Interactive Brokers earned a 4.3 in 2012 for “Range of Offerings”.

WSL Institutional Awards 2012

  • Winner 2012 “Best Broker-Dealer Options”
  • Winner 2012 “Best Use of Technology Broker-Dealer”

Interactive Brokers won top honors as the Best Broker-Dealer for Options and Best Use of Technology for a Broker-Dealer in the Wall Street Letter’s inaugural Institutional Trading Awards. These awards recognize excellence among providers to the institutional trading industry over the past year, specifically brokerage firms, exchanges and financial technology companies.

Stocks and Commodities Awards 2012

  • Winner 2012 Stock Brokerage
  • Winner 2012 Futures Brokerage
  • Winner 2012 Forex Brokerage
  • 1st Runner Up 2012 Institutional Platform
  • 1st Runner Up 2012 Options Analysis Software