Press Releases 2005

November 3	Interactive Brokers Sees Surge in Customers on Deep-Discount Fees Interactive Brokers LLC (IB), the technology leader in global brokerage services, is witnessing a surge in customers due to new deep-discount commissions to trade U.S. equities and options, UK securities as well as futures worldwide. more
October 26	Interactive Brokers Group to Enter Confidentiality Agreement for Refco Bid Interactive Brokers LLC (IB), the technology leader in global brokerage services, is lowering commissions to trade futures worldwide in response to a surge in new customers. more
October 26	Interactive Brokers Details Plan in the Event of a Refco Acquisition Interactive Brokers Group (IBG), the technology leader in global brokerage services, unveiled on Wednesday its plan to integrate Refco Inc.’s exchange-listed futures business in the event of a successful bid for its competitor. more
October 24	Interactive Brokers Lowers U.S. Equities and Options Fees Interactive Brokers LLC (IB), the technology leader in global brokerage services, is lowering commissions to trade U.S. equities by 50 percent and U.S. options by 25 percent, effective November 1, 2005. more
October 20	IB Lowers Commissions for Trading Futures Worldwide Interactive Brokers LLC (IB), the technology leader in global brokerage services, is lowering commissions to trade futures worldwide in response to a surge in new customers. more
October 20	Interactive Brokers Group Bids for Refco's Exchange-Listed Futures Business Interactive Brokers Group (IBG), the technology leader in global brokerage services, has made a bid to purchase Refco’s entities engaged in regulated futures and commodities trading activities. more
September 26	IB Launches $400,000 Electronic Trading Olympiad for Colleges Interactive Brokers Group (IBG), a global leader in market-making and brokerage services, is launching the first IB College Trading Olympiad that will allow future leaders in technology to compete for industry recognition as well as $400,000 in prize money. more
June 29	Interactive Brokers Launches New Interactive Analytics Global direct-access broker- dealer Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) is launching Interactive Analytics (IA), a set of mathematical risk assessment tools that can help savvy investors and fund managers better manage diversified portfolios. more
June 13	Interactive Brokers to Launch Trading in Energy Futures on IPE, Nymex Global direct-access broker Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) is adding major energy futures contracts to its Universal account that allows investors and professionals to trade multiple asset classes electronically in 14 countries. more
April 13	Interactive Brokers Group Among Fastest-Growing U.S. Broker-Dealers in Institutional Investor Ranking Interactive Brokers Group (IBG) vaulted four spots to become the 16th largest U.S. broker-dealer with $1.9 billion in consolidated capital in the annual ranking by Institutional Investor magazine. more
March 7	Interactive Brokers Ranked No. 1 Software-Based Online Broker by Barron's Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) came in as the Number One software-based broker in Barron's 2005 annual review of online brokerage firms. IB also was the only broker to score a perfect 5.0 rating in the trading “costs” category due to its low execution and clearing costs worldwide. more
February 7	Interactive Brokers Issues Security Tokens to Prevent Fraud To prevent any risk of fraudulent withdrawal of funds, global direct-access broker-dealer Interactive Brokers (IB) is issuing free IB identity tokens to its customers with more than $100,000 in equity. more