Robinhood fined $1.25 million over how it routed customer orders

Robinhood Financial agreed to pay $1.25 million penalty to a brokerage industry regulator for failing to ensure that its customers received best prices for securities orders. Robinhood, which lets its customers trade stocks for free, routed all trades to four securities firms that paid it for order flow, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said in a Thursday statement. In doing so, Robinhood didn’t consider factors such as “price improvement” that it could have obtained for clients by sending trades elsewhere, the regulator said. Read More: Robinhood Is Said to Get 40% of Revenue From Firms Like Citadel Retail brokers like Robinhood often make money from selling its customers’ orders to high-frequency trading firms, or market makers. Robinhood also didn’t perform a systematic review of several order types such as stop and limit orders, Finra said. Robinhood didn’t admit or deny the allegations, which took place from October 2016 to November 2017. As part of the settlement, Robinhood agreed to hire an independent consultant to conduct a thorough review of its compliance practices. “The facts on which the settlement is based do not reflect our practices or procedures today,” Robinhood said in an emailed statement. “Over the last two years, we have significantly improved our execution monitoring tools and processes relating to best execution, and we have established relationships with additional market makers.” Robinhood, which has become a Silicon Valley darling for its popularity among millennials, has had recent stumbles. In November, certain customers took advantage of a flaw that allowed them to make highly leveraged trades without putting down enough cash to back the transactions. Last December, the company botched the rollout of a new checking account by falsely saying customer deposits would be backed by the Securities Investor Protection Corp. -- Matt Robinson (Bloomberg)

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