Tag: Stock trading app

April 19, 2022

Robinhood is making a second play to expand into the U.K. Nearly two years after the stock-trading app indefinitely postponed its launch in the country, the company announced Tuesday it would acquire Ziglu, a U.K.-based crypto and payments company. Terms […]

March 10, 2021

Retail investors are continuing to jump into the market in droves even after the dust has settled from the GameStop trading saga. The major online brokers continue to see elevated app downloads, well above levels from last year, according to […]

February 16, 2021

Business Insider reported the round, which is still not officially confirmed and still in the swings of finalising. It will likely hurtle Public.com to a $1.2 billion post-money valuation. That’s quadruple what its valuation has sat at these past two […]

July 21, 2020

Robinhood has postponed the launch of its popular stock-trading app in the U.K. indefinitely. The Menlo Park, California-based fintech firm told people signed up to its U.K. waitlist Tuesday that it had put the brakes on its global expansion ambitions […]

June 9, 2020

One 26-year-old Robinhood trader made $1,500 in less than 24 hours betting on a beaten-down airline stock, while many so-called experts on Wall Street warned about buying into an overvalued stock market that was bound to tumble again amid the […]

March 3, 2020

For nearly the entire day yesterday, its 10 million users were unable to access their accounts and make trades. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced a 1,294 point gain – its biggest point gain ever according to Business Insider. […]

December 12, 2019

Robinhood is getting in on the recent trend of companies letting traders buy a fraction of a share. The start-up announced the launch of fractional stock-trading on its app Thursday as a way to lower the bar for investors. The […]

December 13, 2018

Popular stock trading app Robinhood, which disrupted Wall Street with zero-fee transactions, is taking aim at an even bigger market: banks. The five-year old company unveiled “Robinhood Checking & Savings” on Thursday, which offers checking and savings accounts with no […]

July 12, 2018

Despite a sluggish cryptocurrency market, stock trading app Robinhood is adding two new digital currencies to its platform. The company will add Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash to its no-fee app, which already lets users trade bitcoin and ethereum. “Since we […]