Robinhood files for US IPO
03:20, 2 July 2021
Meme stock trading app Robinhood has filed to go public in the US and is looking to raise $100m from its initial public offering (IPO).
The company’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to go public comes a day after receiving a record $70m in penalties from domestic regulators for misleading its users.
Robinhood intends to market its IPO to its own users and a 35% allocation of its Class A shares for retail investors – representing a much higher amount than a typical IPO. According to the Financial Times, Robinhood is targetting a $40bn valuation.
Custody figures
Robinhood has 18 million funded accounts, 17.7 million monthly users and $81bn of assets under custody, according to its SEC filing.
Robinhood’s SEC filing said that its “mission is to democratize finance for all”, however, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which polices US brokers and exchanges, poor oversight meant the firm had inappropriately allowed millions of investors to trade complex options during the March 2020 bear market.
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System upgrades
Despite yesterday’s rap on the knuckles from the US regulator, the company’s co-founders, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, said that due to system upgrades Robinhood would in future be able to manage 30 times the volumes that they struggled with during the volatile March 2020 market.
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are lead underwriters on the IPO.
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