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Dan Arnold: We are creating an affiliation model that is focused 100% on an RIA-only firm.
February 13, 2020 at 4:33 AM

Joe Martinetto: This can't be a system-by-system, platform-by-platform, pick-the-best and drive to an optimized platform over the long run -- that will just take too long.

Schwab execs all but dash RIA hopes for TD Ameritrade VEO One survival by pitting the open-API platform against expediency and an admitted pro-Schwab bias

Schwab COO Joseph Martinetto scoffs at 'platform-by-platform' cherry-picking of Schwab and TD systems: 'That will just take too long.'

February 7, 2020 at 6:47 AM

Scott Ignall: Fidelity’s size, private structure, and leading positions across various marketplaces  are unmatched. in our industry and put us in a unique position to deliver greater value.

Fidelity beats Schwab to market with free fractional share trading, after Schwab beat Fido by months with promises, but has yet to deliver

The Boston-based giant is reporting the capability simultaneous with its launch -- albeit not for RIAs, for now

February 1, 2020 at 8:27 AM

Tom Nally: 'We are not letting up.'

TD Ameritrade hedges its bets that Schwab can swallow it whole as DOJ letter lands, LINC 2021 gets planned and TD pledges it'll go 'full tilt'

The Omaha, Neb.-based firm is ready to combine with Charles Schwab & Co. if need be but ready, too, to remain its nemesis until anti-trust hurdles dissipate and the ink dries.

January 31, 2020 at 2:10 AM

Gregory H. Woods: The Court dismisses this action sua sponte [without prompting] without prejudice because Plaintiff BlackCrown Inc. is not represented by counsel.

Antitrust suit against Schwab and TD Ameritrade merger draws 'stunt' accusations and judge agrees

Franklin Tsung’s company, BlackCrown, filed suit in New York against Schwab and TD, but his decision to do so without a lawyer made it a clear 'stunt,' sources say.

January 3, 2020 at 5:26 PM

Tobin McDaniel: More than half of our existing digital advice clients are over the age of 50.

Schwab set to launch 'shoe-that-dropped' subscription retirement income robot that acts like a virtual annuity and produces 'predictable' paycheck

With ex-Nationwide exec in lead, Schwab Intelligent Income helps 'unsolved conundrum' creep closer to a solution -- but no guarantees on income

December 20, 2019 at 2:25 AM

Robinhood founders, Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev,  are having their 'Little John' moment of zapping fees and having the saving trickle down to investors from big brokers.

With Robinhood pacing the new norm, Interactive Brokers outpaces Schwab in race to give RIAs free fractional-share trades

The Greenwich, Conn., discount broker -- with Robinhood promising to be next -- has already pulled the free-fractional lever for retail investors and plans to make the time interval for RIAs between promise and delivery -- i.e. vaporware -- far shorter than the Schwabitrade merging conglomerate.

December 18, 2019 at 10:49 PM

Andy Rachleff: 'We realized [a high-yield checking account] is a better entry point than an investment account.

After Andy Rachleff explains Wealthfront's corrective to banking, Jon Stein told how Betterment is investing heavily in banking but mindful of 'frothiness'

The Redwood City, Calif.-based robo-advisor co-founder explained the banking pain points at InVest West and the New York-based robo co-founder told of a $1B banking week but exulted more about RIA custody

December 6, 2019 at 11:48 PM

Charles 'Chuck' Schwab's acquisition of TD Ameritrade has yet to be approved by regulators, leaving both firms sitting on a potential $950 million landmine.

Breaking up is hard to do: Schwab and TD Ameritrade both on hook for $1 billion should either firm get cold feet, shareholders revolt, or antitrust regulators quash deal

The Omaha, Neb.-based Schwab target, TD, has its neck most exposed, sources say, and anti-trust concerns are real but Schwab Chairman Chuck Schwab may have improved his odds in Washington with donations to the party in power

December 5, 2019 at 9:37 PM

Charles 'Chuck' Schwab is cleaning his Schwab house but mudballs roll downhill and small RIAs say they are already paying a service-level price.

Schwab sends most RIAs to 1-800 custody service -- a downgrade the mass of incoming TD Ameritrade RIAs will have to swallow

The Charles Schwab Corp. is taking relationship managers from RIAs with less than $200 million in AUM, a threshold that thousands of TD RIAs will cross next year along with other presumed merger integration glitches

December 3, 2019 at 4:09 AM

Pristine, spacious, cheap and sterile, Schwab now has a Silicon Valley-style super-campus but it's not in San Francisco, Omaha or San Antonio.

Schwab's headquarters shift to Texas amid TD Ameritrade merger seems to please nobody -- outside the Dallas Chamber of Commerce--Omaha feels especially omitted

Paper benefits -- no income tax, low corporate taxes, cheap labor, cheap space -- abound, but no Schwab, TD or USAA execs are committing to working there

November 28, 2019 at 4:56 AM

Walter Bettinger: 'There may be some re-papering required and some where it’s not required.'

Walt Bettinger sugarcoats nothing to TD Ameritrade RIAs about re-papering or technology and he calls 'modest' the importance of RIA revenues to Schwab

The Schwab CEO stressed his soon-to-be Fort Worth, Texas-based firm's emerging alpha status: 'We're on offense. We press those advantages'

November 26, 2019 at 2:09 AM

'Chuck' Schwab recently called takeout of a discount brokerage rival a 'logical conclusion' and promised to strike at the 'right' price.

Reported Schwab-TD merger is a 'blockbuster' combo that creates a 10,000-RIA, $2-trillion custody juggernaut and may signal long-expected industry shakeout

The San Francisco and Omaha companies were the fiercest of rivals, so everybody presumed E*Trade would be the next domino to fall.

November 22, 2019 at 1:49 AM

Charles 'Chuck' Schwab: I grew to hate the whole idea of limits.

Charles Schwab, a true American oligarch, shows no signs of slowing at 82, throwing his substantial fortune behind Donald Trump, hard-right politics and his continuing financial services revolution

The billionaire is dumping San Francisco's liberal warrens for full-time residence in the exclusive enclave of Atherton, Calif., where he'll rub shoulders with other billionaires.

November 5, 2019 at 3:35 PM

Walt Bettinger: I don’t know that I’d go so far as to say that we’re committed to letting anyone and anything on to our platform without regard to the economic implication.

Charles Schwab & Co. makes mutual fund owners fume by denying access to critical RIA asset data; some call it a 'cynical power play;' Schwab calls it a OneSource streamline

CEO Walt Bettinger tells analysts profit-taking and fund consolidation could be looming after $400 million hit from zeroing-out commissions.

November 1, 2019 at 7:42 PM

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