Thomas Peterffy: Success Story of Interactive Brokers CEO
Thomas Peterffy, a Hungarian born American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman, founder, and largest shareholder of Interactive Brokers.
Thomas Peterffy was born in Budapest, Hungary, on the 30th of September 1944, in a hospital basement at the time of a Russian air raid. His father immigrated to the US after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution in the year 1956. Thomas , who went to Peterffy Tamas at the time, left his engineering studies in Hungary and immigrated to the US to rendezvous with his father in New York in the year 1965. When his father, who was living with his second wife, did not have room to accommodate his son, he gave Tamas $100 and told him to make something of himself. There began that would make a multi-billionaire out of a penniless refugee.
When he moved to New York City, he did not speak English. Peterffy begins his career in the US as an architectural draftsman working on highway projects for an engineering firm and later became a computer programmer.
Peterffy left his career designing financial modelling software, after a few months in the year 1977, Thomas purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange and played a major role in developing the first economic trading platform for the brokers and securities.
During his career in finance, he has consistently pushed to replace manual processes with more efficient and effective automated ones. He would write code in his head at the time of the trading day and then apply his ideas to computerized trading models after hours. Peterffy created a major stir among traders by introducing handheld computers onto the trading floor in the early 1980s.
His business-related to his AMEX seat eventually developed into interactive Brokers. He stepped down from the CEO in the year 2019.
Peterffy owns around 80% of the interactive brokers, and his net worth is around $20 billion as of January 2020.
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Riemann Finance LLC (RF) as an agent of Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) which is an American multinational brokerage firm. It operates the largest electronic trading platform in the U.S. by number of daily average revenue trades. The company brokers stocks, options, futures, EFPs, futures options, forex, bonds, and funds.
The company is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and has offices in four cities. It is the largest subsidiary of the brokerage group Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., which was founded by Chairman Thomas Peterffy, an early innovator in computer-assisted trading. IB is regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the New York Stock Exchange, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and other self-regulatory organizations. The company is a provider of fully disclosed, omnibus, and non-disclosed broker accounts[nb 1] and provides correspondent clearing services to 200 introducing brokers worldwide. The company serves 607,000 client brokerage accounts, with US$128.4 billion in customer equity. Interactive Brokers Group owns 40 percent of the futures exchange OneChicago, and is an equity partner and founder of the Boston Options Exchange.
The original organization was first created as a market maker in 1977 under the name T.P. & Co., and was renamed Timber Hill Inc. in 1982. It became the first to use fair value pricing sheets on an exchange trading floor in 1979, and the first to use handheld computers for trading, in 1983. In 1987, Peterffy also created the first fully automated algorithmic trading system, to automatically create and submit orders to a market. Between 1993 and 1994, the corporate group Interactive Brokers Group was created, and the subsidiary Interactive Brokers LLC was created to control its electronic brokerage, and to keep it separate from Timber Hill, which conducts market making. In 2014, Interactive Brokers became the first online broker to offer direct access to IEX, a private forum for trading securities. Currently about 16.6 percent of the company is publicly held, while the remainder is held by employees and their affiliates; Thomas Peterffy is the largest shareholder.
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