80 results about this entity
Period: 03 Jun 2004 - 02 Oct 2020
News
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency asset freeze against an Estonian-based corporation accused of hi-jacking online brokerage accounts to conduct a hi-tech pump and dump scam.
20 December 2006
Hackers in Eastern Europe and Asia have been infiltrating customer accounts at US online brokers and making unauthorised trades to artificially inflate the price of some stocks. The 'pump and dump' fraud has reportedly cost E*Trade at least $18 million in the third quarter alone.
24 October 2006
Australia's St George Bank is introducing an e-mail and SMS text alert service that will warn customers that their accounts are about to become overdrawn.
25 July 2006
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) says Nomura Securities, E*Trade Financial and Van der Moolen have acquired stakes in its new electronic equities trading operation.
24 July 2006
UK banking group HSBC has sold off its Australian online stockbroking business to E*Trade for approximately US$38.5m.
05 June 2006
Online brokerage E*Trade Financial is implementing RSA Security's Adaptive Authentication technology and has also signed up to the vendor's anti-phishing service, FraudAction.
01 March 2006
US discount brokerage Charles Schwab is introducing a fraud protection programme for all its customers and says it will reimburse all losses that arise from unauthorised account activity.
23 February 2006
E*Trade is launching a fraud protection programme for its online brokerage customers and says it will fully reimburse investors if fraudsters gain unauthorised access to accounts.
18 January 2006
New York-based E*Trade Financial is to buy rival online brokerage BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase for $1.6 billion in cash.
29 September 2005
New York-based E*Trade Financial is to buy US online brokerage HarrisDirect from Canada's BMO Financial Group for $700 million in cash.
08 August 2005
Electronic broker Instinet has appointed Michael Bundy as chief technology officer, replacing Andrew Banhidi.
19 July 2005
Ameritrade is to buy rival TD Waterhouse in a $2.9 billion deal that signals further consolidation in the online brokerage industry.
23 June 2005
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