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Interactive Brokers is real or fake ?Is Interactive Brokers a Scam?

About the Interactive Brokers Group

January 2024In January 2024, Interactive Brokers began its 47th year as a broker/dealer. We provide direct-access trade execution and clearing services to sophisticated investors, active traders and institutions and have a consolidated equity capital of $14.7 billion.

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. was founded by its Chairman Thomas Peterffy.

Now in its 47th year, Interactive Brokers is one of the premier securities firms, with $14.7 billion in equity capital.

IBKR conducts its broker/dealer business on over 150 market destinations worldwide. In its broker dealer agency business, IBKR provides direct access (“online”) trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products including stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, gold, crypto* and funds worldwide. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates execute approximately 2,350,000 trades per day.

In May 2023, Thomas Peterffy was the keynote speaker at the SIFMA meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of listed options trading. The speech chronicles his experiences in listed options trading and the founding of Timber Hill and Interactive Brokers.

Is Interactive Brokers a Scam?

1.Financial Strength

When placing your money with a broker, you need to make sure your broker is secure and can endure through good and bad times. The financial statements of Interactive Brokers LLC are available on our website for your review.

Note that Interactive Brokers LLC and its affiliates are owned by IBG LLC.

In a recent interview, Thomas Peterffy, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, shared his views on the current state of financial markets, including rising interest rates and their impact on Interactive Brokers. He also discussed IBKR's interest rates on instantly available cash balances and how clients are positioned to navigate the current environment.

2.Important Strength and Security Facts about Interactive Brokers Group1

IBKR IS NOT A BANK, and as a regulated securities broker dealer, we cannot carry securities classified as HTM (Held To Maturity), which are not required to be marked to market on a bank's books. We also cannot make unsecured, long-term loans.

The only kind of loans we can make are margin loans fully secured by marketable securities.

Our real-time margining system marks all client positions to market continuously. All orders are credit vetted before being executed and positions in accounts with inadequate margin deposits are liquidated automatically.

ALL of our positions are marked to market daily and the resulting payables/receivables are reconciled to outside sources automatically.

IBKR invests cash in very short-term investments maturing within a few months. We hold no material positions in over-the-counter securities or derivatives. We hold no CDOs, MBS or CDS.

On a consolidated basis, IBG LLC has $14.7 billion in equity capital, over $10.4 billion in excess of regulatory requirements.

IBG LLC's owners are our public company, Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (25.4%) and the firm's employees and their affiliates (74.6%). Unlike at most other firms, where management owns a relatively small share, we participate substantially in the downside just as much as in the upside. Because of this vested interest, we run our business conservatively.

IBG LLC reported $3.069 billion of pretax profit for 2023.

IBG LLC has no long-term debt.

Interactive Brokers LLC is rated "A- Outlook Stable" by Standard & Poor's. View S&P Rating Report.

Interactive Brokers LLC's financial statements, which reflect the mark to market profit/loss on all securities positions, are submitted monthly to its regulators in its FOCUS report. View latest report.

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