Robinhood sneglar på Europa och kryptohandel med aktier
Amerikanska börsappen Robinhood arbetar med en ny plattform riktad mot europeiska småsparare, enligt två källor till Bloomberg. Målet är att möjliggöra handel på Wall Street med hjälp av blockkedjeteknik.
Systemet kommer sannolikt att byggas ihop med ett kryptoföretag och Robinhood uppges välja mellan Solana och Arbitrum som teknisk bas. Något slutgiltigt beslut har ännu inte tagits, enligt uppgifterna.
Robinhoods vd Vlad Tenev sa i en intervju nyligen att man undersöker möjligheten att ”tokenisera” börsen, det vill säga att avbilda värdepapper som tokens på en blockkedja. Tenev resonerade att det kan vara ett sätt att närmare integrera det digitala och finansiella systemet.
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Wikipedia (en)
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, options, index options, futures contracts, outcomes on prediction markets, and cryptocurrency. It also offers cryptocurrency wallets, wealth management, credit cards and other banking services, some in partnership with banks insured by the FDIC, as well as a news website, Sherwood.News. The company's revenue comes from transactions (including payment for order flow and markups on cryptocurrency; 67% of Q4 2024 revenues), net interest income (primarily from margin lending, interest earned on customers' cash balances, and credit cards; 29% of Q4 2024 revenues), and other sources (subscription fees and advertising revenue on Sherwood.News; 4% of Q4 2024 revenues). The company has 25.2 million funded customers and $193 billion in assets under custody. Its platform is available in the U.S., the UK, and, for cryptocurrency trading only, in the European Union.
The company is named after Robin Hood, based on its mission to "provide everyone with access to the financial markets, not just the wealthy". The company has been referred to as an innovator in zero-commission stock trading, as it relies on other sources of revenues. Robinhood has targeted millennials as customers; in March 2025, the average age of its customers was 35.
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