Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

Interactive Brokers LLC

Headquarters at One Pickwick Plaza
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: IBKR S&P 600 Component
Industry	Financial services
Founded	New York City, United States (1978; 39 years ago (1978))
Headquarters	Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Number of locations	24 offices in 12 countries
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Thomas Peterffy (founder, Chairman and CEO)
Products	Direct market access to , options, futures, forex, bonds, ETFs and CFDs
Services	Online brokerage, direct-access trading
Revenue	US$1.4 billion (2016) US$1.2 billion (2015)
Operating income	US$761 million (2016) US$458 million (2015)
Net income	US$699 million (2016) US$415 million (2015)
Total assets	US$54.7 billion (2016) US$48.7 billion (2015)
Total equity	US$5.8 billion (2016) US$5.3 billion (2015)
Number of employees	1,204 (2016) 1,087 (2015)
Parent	Interactive Brokers Group
Website	interactivebrokers.com

Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) is a U.S.-based electronic brokerage firm. It is the largest U.S. electronic brokerage firm by number of , and is the leading forex broker. The company brokers , options, futures, EFPs, futures options, forex, bonds, funds and CFDs. Interactive Brokers also services commodity trading advisors (CTAs), making it the fifth-largest prime broker servicing CTAs.

The company is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and has offices in four cities. It is the largest subsidiary of market maker and brokerage group Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., which was founded by CEO and Chairman Thomas Peterffy, an early innovator in computer-assisted trading. IB is regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and other self-regulatory organizations. The company is a provider of fully disclosed, omnibus, and non-disclosed broker accounts and provides correspondent clearing services to 200 introducing brokers worldwide. The company serves 385 thousand client brokerage accounts, with US$86 billion in customer equity. Interactive Brokers Group owns 40 percent of the futures exchange OneChicago, and is an equity partner and founder of the Boston Options Exchange.