Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

The old way a financial brokerage made money was to charge a fee whenever someone bought or sold stock. A company like TD Ameritrade or Charles Schwab would charge $4.95 or $6.95 (or whatever) in ...

As with Gamestop, I hesitated to write a payment for order flow post given that so much has been written about this already. But since it is a topic that comes up often, I thought I would share my ...

Thank you, Rich (Repetto), for that kind introduction. It is good to be with you again. As is customary, I’d like to note my views are my own, and I’m not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners ...

Asset bubbles are easy enough to define, but not so simple to identify. WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji explains what bubbles are exactly, how they form and what happens when they burst. Illustration: Jacob ...

In January 2021, the GameStop trading halt exploded across the headlines. Consumer advocates and the financial press pointed fingers at a number of industry players, paying particular attention to the ...

Recently, the SEC chairman, Gary Gensler sent shockwaves through the world of retail investing by stating that a full ban on the popular ‘payment for order flow’ (PFOF) operating model that enables ...

Wall Street’s top cop said Tuesday that the dominance of Citadel Securities in the business of routing order flow may not be giving retail investors the best deal. Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi weighs ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering a full ban on the payment for order flow (PFOF). The reason is that this practice creates "an inherent conflict of interest," according ...

More than 70% of Robinhood's total revenue in the first quarter of 2022 came from PFOF. GameStop and AMC traders accused Citadel Securities of pressuring Robinhood to place trading halts and ...

Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, called payment for order flow “an inherent conflict of interest.” By Matt Phillips Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and ...