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Walt Bettinger promises Schwab will hold 'unique' market position.
June 5, 2020 at 2:17 AM

Thomas Peterffy founded Interactive Brokers in 1978, but his firm only entered RIA custody in 2002. Now, in 2020, he's got the RIA bug.

When Interactive Brokers sweetened its RIA custody offering in 2019, it worked -- so now it's investing in more sugar

The Greenwich, Conn. custodian now has 25,000 funds on its supermarket, new simplified trading software and a heightened sense of urgency as Wall Street scoops up competitors

June 3, 2020 at 4:43 PM

The TD Ameritrade headquarters building has only a 25% chance of remaining so and it's starting to look like August for when its walls are (at least figuratively) breached.

The odds are now 75% that Charles Schwab Corp. swallows TD Ameritrade Holding, says Morningstar, a probability Wall Street math and internal memos seem to support

With Thursday set for TD and Schwab virtual shareholder votes, August is circled on the calendar for a 'Schwabitrade' close, memos suggest, with the TD brand sticking around for ... quite a while

June 2, 2020 at 2:15 AM

Neesha Hathi: We developed Schwab Stock Slices to meet two important needs we heard from clients.

As Motif exits stock-bundle game, Schwab piles in with 'Slices,' fulfilling a pledge to offer free fractional shares

The San Francisco broker is reaching for Gen Z and Gen Alpha investors -- with RIAs, thus far, showing little interest, it says

May 6, 2020 at 3:27 AM

Walt Bettinger: 'This is uncharted territory for us all.'

Charles Schwab spends an extra $27 million on staff amid Covid-19, $37 million spent to keep three M&A deals chugging ahead

The San Francisco broker paid cash in March to workers amid challenges of the pandemic as trading exploded, retail calls spiked 16%

April 18, 2020 at 6:45 PM

Ari Sonneberg: I do not think that the current turmoil in the market will be something that helps this deal.

Schwab's merger with TD Ameritrade was sterling until the Covid-19 pandemic and financial collapse took some of the shine off the deal

Charles Schwab & Co.'s decision to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. in Nov. 2019 looked like a lock, but 'Schwabitrade' has been rocked by wholesale branch closings, plummeting share prices and emergency rate cuts to near zero.

April 14, 2020 at 11:13 PM

Megan Carpenter: 'The rules of the game have changed.'

COVID-19 crushes RIA conference schedule; 100 gatherings are in jeopardy along with the bottom lines of publications and organizations

Pershing INSITE is the latest biggie to cancel and firms are all over the map about when it'll be 'safe' for more than 10 people to gather at any one time.

April 14, 2020 at 5:58 AM

Walt Bettinger is abiding by what Homeland Security demands, the firm says.

Why Charles Schwab staffers are still waving COVID-19 red flags even after Walt Bettinger capitulated to allow most of them to work at home

Schwab employees cite outdated phone systems, using vacation days to stay safe and confusion, but firm says CEO is contending with unrevealed Homeland Security regs that supersede germ fears

April 1, 2020 at 3:44 AM

Walt Bettinger: Incredibly dedicated Schwabbies are providing superb service to clients.

Under withering staff pressure, Walt Bettinger course corrects to shut all Schwab branches and to let Charles Schwab Corp. non-branch employees work from home

The Schwab CEO is also coughing up a $1,000 comp check to each staffer and the company is still contending with makeshift technology to enable employees to work from home, but it may have had a breakthrough today -- making its choices easier

March 19, 2020 at 1:21 AM

Walter Bettinger:  Some employees who currently telecommute, may be required to work on-site as we manage our remote access capacity.

As COVID-19 crisis grows, Schwab charts own course, orders office workers to stay put, while Fidelity, other firms urge employees to work from home

Fidelity CEO Abby Johnson tells 45,000 staff to stay home, if possible; Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger says it's neither practical nor technologically feasible for most of his 19,000 staff to telecommute

March 16, 2020 at 4:09 PM

Ben Harrison: We’re not in any business at Pershing not to be a market leader ... We don’t aspire to be two or three … [and] we’re moving in that direction.

Mark Tibergien sets up Ben Harrison to challenge Schwabitrade with a $150 million cut to Pershing's minimum and millions more to develop Veo-busting technology

The CEO suite hand-off in Jersey City pulls a trigger on a plan to bypass Fidelity's and eventually Schwab's custody units by luring disaffected RIAs.

March 11, 2020 at 7:58 AM

Liz Ann Sonders: The path of least resistance is still down.

E*Trade, TD Ameritrade and Legg Mason deals look dicier, after share crashes crush market caps of merging firms

Schwab and Morgan Stanley are using their stock as currency; Franklin Resources is buying Legg Mason, mostly with hard cash

March 9, 2020 at 11:22 PM

Rick Wurster: 'Generating income is one of the greatest financial needs'

With USAA and TD Ameritrade deals pending, Schwab also resumes its SMA roll-up after eight-year hiatus with Wasmer, Schroeder deal

The San Francisco broker is purchasing a $10.5 billion bond manager after buying Windhaven in 2010 and ThomasPartners in 2012

February 26, 2020 at 2:50 AM

James Gorman: We’ll take on Schwab. We'll take on Fidelity

James Gorman delivers chilling remarks to E*Trade RIAs after doing no-money-down deal for the zero-commission discount broker

The Morgan Stanley CEO is arbitraging his puffed-up shares for downtrodden E*trade stock and admits old Trust Company of America custody unit is an afterthought in bigger game

February 21, 2020 at 3:45 AM

David Canter: 'With the changes in the marketplace over the past year, it was a natural point in time to have these discussions.'

Fidelity Investments will broaden custody fees in July, while Schwab counters with pledge: 'No custody fees and no intention to raise them'

The Boston giant adds a few hundred advisors and opt-out safety valve and really had no choice in zero commission world, analysts say

February 14, 2020 at 3:17 PM

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