Forex order flow refers to the real-time record of buy and sell orders in the foreign exchange market. It represents the collective actions of currency market participants and provides invaluable ...

For years, paying for order flows allowed firms to centralize customers’ orders for another firm to execute. Such allowed smaller firms to use economies of scale of larger firms. Such enables small ...

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. You’ve likely heard this adage about how you can’t get something for nothing. Yet, some “free” things really do feel free. Ever signed up for a “free” trial?

The GameStop (GME) story has fueled interest in the once-arcane process known as payments for order flow, an industry practice that exploded in 2020 amid the retail investor frenzy over the stock ...

Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

Now that almost every brokerage has followed in the footsteps of Robinhood and adopted commission-free trading, how do these companies make money? One main source of revenue is from a small sum of ...

Thank you, Rich (Repetto), for that kind introduction. It is good to be with you again. As is customary, I’d like to note my views are my own, and I’m not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners ...

Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, called payment for order flow “an inherent conflict of interest.” By Matt Phillips Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and ...