Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. is a global electronic brokerage company that provides trading, investment and portfolio management services to individual investors, institutional clients, financial advisers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and introducing brokers. Through its subsidiaries, the company offers access to a broad range of markets and financial instruments, including stocks, options, futures, foreign exchange, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and certain digital assets.
Interactive Brokers provides its services through platforms such as Trader Workstation, IBKR Mobile and the Client Portal, as well as application programming interfaces for automated and institutional trading. Its offerings also include securities lending, margin lending, automated investing tools, reporting and portfolio management capabilities. The company emphasizes electronic execution, global market access and technology designed to support professional and active traders.
The company traces its history to 1977, when Thomas Peterffy founded the brokerage business. Interactive Brokers Group serves clients in numerous countries through a network of regulated subsidiaries and maintains operations across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, subject to local regulatory requirements. Thomas Peterffy serves as founder and chairman, while Milan Galik has served as chief executive officer since 2019.
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