Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) is the compensation a brokerage firm receives to direct its customer orders for trade execution to a certain market maker. In a special study of PFOF, which was ...

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 ...

Payment for order flow is the money brokerage firms make by sending trade orders to high-frequency traders or market makers. When an individual investor places a trade, the brokerage firm sends ...

Markets are a means, not an end. Access to investing, therefore, is a means to achieving an outcome. The debate around payment for order flow seems to have lost that critical point, centering on ...

While they have not banned payment for order flow, regulators have called into question whether it presents conflicts of interest in how retail brokers route their customers’ trades.

In an ad for Public, Michael Bolton sings about payment for order flow. It’s a shot at Robinhood — Public abandoned payment for order flow after the GameStop debacle.

“Payment for order flow enables commission-free trading,” said Robinhood chief executive Vlad Tenev during Congressional testimony in February 2021 following the Gamestop debacle.

Robinhood warns crypto, payment for order flow regulation poses risk to business model PFOF and transaction rebates from cryptocurrency trading accounted for 79% of revenue in 2nd quarter ...