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TD Ameritrade was a stockbroker that offered an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets.The company was founded in 1975 as First Omaha Securities.In 2006, it acquired the United States operations of TD Waterhouse from Toronto-Dominion Bank and was renamed TD Ameritrade.
Sosnoff, who spent 10 years as an options-market maker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, created Thinkorswim in 1999 and sold it this year to TD Ameritrade for more than $600 million.
In January 2009, it was acquired by TD Ameritrade in a cash and stock deal valued around $606 million. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In October 2020, Charles Schwab Corporation acquired TD Ameritrade and the thinkorswim platform became available for Charles Schwab customers.
The business was renamed TD Ameritrade. In April 2007, TD Bank acquired all remaining shares of TD Banknorth, transforming TD Banknorth into a fully owned subsidiary of TD Bank, and resulting in it being no longer traded on the New York Stock Exchange. [21] In the same year, TD Bank acquired Commerce Bancorp, a bank based in Cherry Hill, New ...
Tom Sosnoff (born March 6, 1957) is an entrepreneur, options trader, co-founder of Thinkorswim [1] and tastytrade, and founder of Dough, Inc. He was senior vice president of trading and strategic initiatives at TD Ameritrade.
By 2000, more than 90% of the company's trades were initiated online. The name of the company was changed to Scottrade because the domain Scottrade.com was available. [2] [6] [7] For 2 years after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, revenue declined, although it fully recovered by 2004. [7]
John Joseph Ricketts (born July 16, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chairman of TD Ameritrade. [3] He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes. [4]
In September 2017, TD Ameritrade acquired Scottrade. [4] In March 2019, Riney's family office Lightchain invested in Arch Oncology, a cancer drug startup. [8] He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. [9] On the Forbes 400 2019 list, he ranked #225, with a net worth of $3.6 billion. [10]