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Robinhood shares soar after FTX chief buys 7.6% stake

Robinhood's share price jumped more than 20% on Friday after it emerged that Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of crypto exchange FTX, has acquired a 7.6% stake in the trading app.

13 May 2022

News/people

Robinhood to cut nine per cent of staff

Discount brokerage Robinhood is to sack nine percent of its employees, citing an unwieldy growth curve that resulted in the creation of "duplicate roles and job functions".

27 April 2022

News/crypto

Robinhood to buy UK crypto firm Ziglu

Robinhood is expanding into the UK after agreeing to buy London-based crypto firm Ziglu. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

19 April 2022

Company announcement/payments

Robinhood unveils Cash Card

Investing can be a powerful way to build wealth, but for many people, it can feel out of reach. That’s why we’re introducing the Robinhood Cash Card to help a new generation start their investing journey—and get rewarded—while spending on the things they need and love.

22 March 2022

News/regulation

Robinhood pays $640k to settle with Vermont over outages

Robinhood has agreed a $640,000 settlement with Vermont's financial regulator over a series of outages at the trading app in 2020.

18 March 2022

News/crypto

Crypto giants form travel rule compliance platform

Some of the biggest players in crypto - including BlockFi, Coinbase and Robinhood - have joined forces to develop technology that helps them meet a rule designed to counter money laundering.

18 February 2022

News/markets

Robinhood shares tank on Q4 results

Shares in Robinhood fell as much as 16% in pre-market trading on Friday after the stock trading app's fourth quarter results missed analysts' estimates.

28 January 2022

Company announcement/people

Robinhood moves to permanent remote working

We are excited to announce that Robinhood will be staying primarily remote.

12 January 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Robinhood aquires cross-exchange crypto trading platform Cover Markets

We’re excited to share that Cove Markets is joining Robinhood.

15 December 2021

News/security

Robinhood shares slip on data security breach

Shares in Robinhood have taken a dip after the retail stockbroking platform revealed that five million customer e-mail addresses were lifted from its servers during a social engineering hack.

09 November 2021

News/crypto

Robinhood trials crypto wallet; Revolut set to offer US stock trading

Robinhood is reportedly testing a cryptocurrency wallet and transfer features. Meanwhile, the firm is set to face some new competition, with Revolut getting the US regulatory greenlight to start offering commission-free stock trading.

21 September 2021

Company announcement/crypto

Robinhood rolls out crypto recurring investments

Today we’re rolling out crypto recurring investments, a new feature that allows you to regularly buy your favorite coins, commission-free and with as little as $1 on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule of your choice.

08 September 2021