Robinhood

87 results about this entity

Period: 26 Jan 2018 - 27 Mar 2025

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Robinhood lays off 150 employees

Stock trading app Robinhood has laid off another seven per cent of its workforce, about 150 employees, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Robinhood buys credit card startup X1

Stock trading app Robinhood has agreed to buy credit card startup X1 for about $95 million in cash.

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Robinhood aims to buy back Bankman-Fried's 7% stake

Robinhood says its board has given the green light to a plan to buy FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's seven per cent stake in the stock trading app.

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Robinhood launches media arm

Trading app Robinhood is setting up an independent media unit, called Sherwood, that will cover things like money, technology and geopolitics through newsletters, a website and events.

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Robinhood rolls out retirement products

Today, at the beginning of tax-season, Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) announced that Robinhood Retirement is now available to all eligible customers.

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Plaid releases ML risk engine, 'Signal'

Plaid today announced that after two years in beta, its machine learning (ML) risk engine, Signal, will be available to customers seeking to upgrade their automated clearing house (ACH) transaction services with fraud detection.

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Celsius CEO steps down as FTX moves in

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky has stepped down amid bankruptcy proceedings and former JPMorgan Chase exec Chris Ferraro has been appointed interim CEO.

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Robinhood chief product officer quits

In the same week it announced plans to axe nearly a quarter of its staff, trading app Robinhood has lost chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada.

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Robinhood axes 23% of staff

Trading app Robinhood is laying off nearly a quarter of its staff, citing macroeconomic conditions and the cryptocurrency market's crash.

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Robinhood Crypto hammered by New York watchdog over litany of compliance failures

Robinhood's crypto unit (RHC) has been slapped with a $30 million fine by New York State Department of Financial Services for "significant" anti-money laundering, cybersecurity and consumer protection violations.

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Plaid adds crypto strings to its bow

Plaid has announced that major crypto exchanges including Binance.US, Gemini, Robinhood, and SoFi, are now available on their network. Support for additional platforms, including Blockchain.com and BitGo is planned for later this year.

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Robinhood open waitlist for non-custodial web3 wallet

We’re excited to announce that Robinhood is building a brand new non-custodial, web3 wallet that will allow customers to have total control of their crypto and seamlessly access the decentralized web and all the opportunity crypto has to offer.