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Prime Broker services to help you efficiently manage your business and serve clients.

Flexible Client Management Flexible Client Management
Client Billing Flexible Client Billing
Innovative Technology Innovative Technology
Lower Costs Lower Costs
Investors' Marketplace Investors' Marketplace
Global Markets Global Markets
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Account Structure Account Structure
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The IBKR Advantage

  • A turnkey solution for Prime Brokers covering trading, clearing, reporting, and billing – with no long-term contract required.
  • Access powerful trading technology and advanced trading tools to trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds on over 150 markets in 34 countries and 28 currencies.*
  • Pre-trade compliance, real-time market-risk management and monitoring provide a comprehensive measure of risk exposure.
  • Lower your costs – no ticket charges, no minimums and no technology, software, platform, or reporting fees.
  • Transparent, low commissions and financing rates and access to IBKR BestXSM. IBKR BestXTM is a powerful suite of advanced trading technologies designed to help clients achieve best execution and maximize price improvement while minimizing market impact.
  • Free client relationship management tools to help you efficiently manage clients.
  • Support for global regulatory reporting including FATCA, MiFID II, AML, GDPR and others.
  • Market your services in the Investors’ Marketplace.
  • Full white branding and custom website creation services.

Flexible Client Management

Our Broker Portal is a powerful client relationship management (CRM) system for brokers.

Integrated Client Management

  • Manage the complete client acquisition and relationship lifecycle.
  • Use Client Data Queries to generate reports to segment and analyze your client base.
  • Quickly and easily consolidate financial information from any financial institution with PortfolioAnalyst, a fully featured portfolio management tool.
Flexible Client Management

Efficient Design

Use simplified workflows, logically grouped menus and user access rights to efficiently manage your relationships from any desktop or mobile device.

Reliable Client Onboarding Processes

IBKR offers multiple options for adding clients and migrating to our platform, including fully- and semielectronic account applications, a mass upload feature and support for customized client account applications using our application XML system.

Manage User Access Rights

Set up enhanced user access and account security by creating one or more Security Officers for the master account and designate up to 250 users by function or account.

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Flexible Client Billing

Use our CRM to implement flexible fee structures, automate fee administration and provide dynamic fee management.

Commission Markups

  • Charge clients for services rendered based on a fee-per-trade unit for each asset class, exchange and currency. The trade unit is determined by the unit IBKR uses for its commissions charges and can be on a per share, per contract, or percent of trade value basis.
  • Apply client fee schedules to individual accounts or store them in templates.
  • Easily maintain different fee schedules for multiple client accounts.

Electronic Invoicing

  • Automatically submit client fee invoices.
  • Set maximum invoicing amounts or percentage caps.
  • Meet your compliance obligations by notifying your clients of advisory fee details.

Interest Markups and Markdowns

  • Mark down credit and short proceeds credit interest and mark up debit interest. Markups and markdowns are entered as percentages with 8 fields available for input.
  • Charge markups to clients based on IBKR stock borrow rates, entered as a variable or fixed percentage of our borrow rate. You can enter both types of markups and our system will apply the markup rate that results in the larger total amount.

Caps and Limitations

  • Client markups by introducing brokers are limited to 15 times IBKR's highest tiered rate plus external fees.
  • For US stocks, the highest tiered rate would be USD 0.0035 per share. USD-denominated bonds are subject to a separate cap on markups. US option markups are limited to 10% of trade value.
  • Limits are subject to change, and specific products may have an additional limit in place.
  • No markups are applied if the client calls IBKR to close a trade.
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Trading Technology to Help Introducing Brokers Succeed

Trading Platforms

Powerful, award-winning trading platforms and tools for managing client assets. Available on desktop, mobile, web and API.

Order Types and Algos

90+ order types – from limit orders to complex algorithmic trading – help you execute any trading strategy.

API Solutions

Our proprietary API and FIX CTCI solutions let institutions create their own automated, rules-based trading system that takes advantage of our high-speed order routing and broad market depth.

Sophisticated Risk Management

Understand risk vs. returns with real-time market risk management and monitoring that provides a comprehensive measure of risk exposure across multiple asset classes around the world.

Securities Financing

From trade date to settlement date, our Securities Financing solutions provide depth of availability, transparent rates, global reach and automated lending and borrowing tools.

Advanced Trading Tools

Spot market opportunities, analyze results, manage your account and make informed decisions with our free advanced trading tools.

Free Account Tools

Manage taxes and corporate actions, learn about T+1 settlement and trade allocations, and read about additional tools and services available to clients.

Comprehensive Reporting

Our statements and reports cover real-time trade confirmations, margin details, transaction cost analysis, sophisticated portfolio analysis, tax optimization and more. And if you need trade surveillance support, we may be able to help.

Professional Pricing – Maximize Your Returns

Commissions start at USD 0 on US listed stocks and ETFs,1 with low commissions on other products. There are no added spreads, ticket charges or account minimums.

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Margin rates up to 50% lower than the industry.2

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Earn interest rates of up to USD 4.33% on instantly available cash.3

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Earn extra income on your lendable shares.

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  1. IBKR Lite provides commission-free trades in US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs. For complete information, see ibkr.com/commissions
  2. For complete information, see our margin rate comparison
  3. Restrictions apply. See additional information on interest rates. Credit interest rate as of October 3, 2024 .

Investors' Marketplace

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The Investors' Marketplace lets individual traders and investors, institutions and third-party service providers meet and do business together.

Search for and do business with multiple advisors, brokers, and wealth managers. Access dozens of advisor portfolios, including Smart Beta portfolios, offered by Interactive Advisors. Accredited investors and qualified purchasers can search for, research and invest with hedge funds.

  • Advertise your services at no cost and reach individual and institutional users worldwide.
  • Locate third-party vendors offering API and FIX CTCI solutions.
  • Find third-party, institutional-caliber research providers and access research directly through Trader Workstation (TWS).
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Discover a World of Opportunities


Invest globally in stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds from a single unified platform. Fund your account in multiple currencies and trade assets denominated in multiple currencies. Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week.

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Markets

34

Countries

28

Currencies*


Global Markets

*Available currencies vary by Interactive Brokers affiliate.

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A Broker You Can Trust

When placing your money with a broker, you need to make sure your broker is secure and can endure through good and bad times. Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls are designed to protect IBKR and our clients from large trading losses.

IBKR

Nasdaq Listed

$16.1B

Equity Capital*

74.2%

Privately Held*

$10.9B

Excess Regulatory Capital*

3.12M

Client Accounts*

2.70M

Daily Avg Revenue Trades*


IBKR Protection
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*Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section.

Introducing Broker Account Structure

Fully Disclosed Broker

Account Information

Fully Disclosed Brokers provide their clients with customer service and marketing. Broker clients can electronically trade or the broker may input trades for the client.

Clients open accounts electronically.

Fully Disclosed Brokers can create multiple tier accounts by adding Registered Advisor, unregistered Family Advisor, Proprietary Trading Group Separate Trading Limit (STL) and Multiple Hedge Fund master accounts to their broker account structure. Each Advisor, Proprietary Trading STL and Multiple Hedge Fund master account holder can add client, sub and hedge fund accounts as required.

Brokers can trade for themselves in the Proprietary Account for Broker-Dealers.

All fees, commission and interest owed to the broker are first sent to the broker's Master account and then swept nightly to the Proprietary Account for Broker-Dealers.

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Fully Disclosed Broker Account Structure

A master account linked to an individual or organization client accounts.

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New Account Opening Information

You are currently on the website of Interactive Brokers LLC, a US incorporated company. If you are a resident of Asia, except India, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and Singapore, and continue with the account opening process, your account will be opened with Interactive Brokers LLC in the US.

Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of NYSE, FINRA, and SIPC and regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

By continuing to open an account, you agree to the above terms.

Broker accounts at Interactive Brokers give global regulated brokerage companies the means to reduce their operational, brokerage and clearing costs while providing electronic market access worldwide with our professional white branded trading technology.

Accounts are accepted from citizens or residents of all countries except citizens or residents of those countries or regions that are on the sanction list of the US Office of Foreign Asset Controls or similar lists, or other countries determined to be higher risk. See all available countries.

Please note that monthly activity and other minimum fees may apply.

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Disclosures

  1. Available currencies vary by Interactive Brokers affiliate.
  2. Lowest Cost Broker according to StockBrokers.com Online Broker Survey 2023: Read the full article Online Broker Reviews, May 18, 2023. "Because Interactive Brokers' core clientele are professional traders and institutional investors (e.g., hedge funds), it is crucial to provide the lowest commissions schedule available. In our rigorous assessment, there is no question Interactive Brokers delivers."
  3. Restrictions apply. See additional information on interest rates. Credit interest rate as of October 3, 2024 .
  4. For complete information, see our margin rate comparison
  5. Any discussion or mention of an ETF is not to be construed as a recommendation, promotion or solicitation. All investors should review and consider associated investment risks, charges and expenses of the investment company or fund prior to investing. Before acting on this material, you should consider whether it is suitable for your particular circumstances and, as necessary, seek professional advice.
  6. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section.