Robinhood Financial LLC has agreed to pay up to $10.2 million in penalties for operational and technical failures that harmed main street investors.
The settlement stems from an investigation spearheaded by state securities regulators in Alabama, Colorado, California, Delaware, New Jersey, South Dakota and Texas coordinated through the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) regarding Robinhood’s operational failures with respect to the retail market.
The investigation was sparked by Robinhood platform outages in March 2020, a time when hundreds of thousands of investors were relying on the Robinhood app to make trades.
In addition, prior to March 2021, there were deficiencies at Robinhood in…
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