Interactive Brokers is an online broker through which retail and professional investors trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds, among other products. Its offering includes direct-access trading, clearing, securities lending, margin lending and prime brokerage. Clients work through trading platforms on desktop, web and mobile, and the company delivers its services through different group entities by region.
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut (United States), is listed on Nasdaq and is incorporated in Delaware. According to public filings the group is controlled by its founder, so there is no foreign parent company. For European clients, the group's privacy policy names a local entity, such as Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited in Dublin. Where client data is stored is not publicly stated; because the group is headquartered in the United States, US laws such as the CLOUD Act may apply to data it controls. A European organisation routing investment or employee accounts through this platform should check which group entity acts as data controller and how transfers to the US are covered.