Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse ...

Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and sell ...

If U.S. regulators crack down on the controversial practice of payment for order flow, it may have one unintended consequence. Big trading outfits could become much larger and even more influential in ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said it could eliminate the business model that helps brokerages charge no fees on stock trades, but the founder of one brokerage says he doubts ...

In January 2021, the GameStop trading halt exploded across the headlines. Consumer advocates and the financial press pointed fingers at a number of industry players, paying particular attention to the ...