Statistics
On its website, IB states that it has consolidated equity capital of over US $4.8 billion, and also states that IB and its affiliates exceed 1,000,000 trades per day and trade 14.1% of the global equity options volume. As of 2004, the firm's clients were making some 500,000 trades per day on various international markets and accounted for 21.4% of the options trading volume of North America. The parent company, Interactive Brokers Group, maintains offices in Chicago, Zug, Montreal, Hong Kong, London and Sydney. IB is regulated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the regulatory policies of all other exchanges on which it trades. The company had revenues of $986.89 million USD and income of $36.20 million USD in the twelve month period ending on December 31, 2009. According to the 1st qtr 2010 report, IB states that they have 140,000 customer accounts and over $16.7 billion in client assets.
In 2007, the company issued 40,000,000 shares or approx. 10% of the capital of Brokers Group LLC in a public offering, at a price of US$30.01 per share. The company's shares trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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