There’s no such thing as a free lunch. You’ve likely heard this adage about how you can’t get something for nothing. Yet, some “free” things really do feel free. Ever signed up for a “free” trial?

High Frequency Traders (HFTs) like Citadel are catching considerable flack in the wake of the GameStop phenom. HFTs are blamed for adding an unnecessary cost, payments for order flow, to retail ...

As with Gamestop, I hesitated to write a payment for order flow post given that so much has been written about this already. But since it is a topic that comes up often, I thought I would share my ...

Robinhood, the uber-popular brokerage, helped usher in a new era of commission-free trading. It pushed established financial institutions, such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity, to follow suit. Sadly, ...

During the House Financial Services Committee's Thursday hearing on the recent GameStop stock frenzy, there was talk of a practice known as "payment for order flow" (PFOF). To anyone not fluent in the ...

Asset bubbles are easy enough to define, but not so simple to identify. WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji explains what bubbles are exactly, how they form and what happens when they burst. Illustration: Jacob ...

Adding to it, Nagar said, "For MSMEs, this model could be game-changing. Most small businesses don’t have heavy assets to ...

(TNND) — Close to a third of Americans have made purchases with a buy now, pay later service. And close to half have reported problems including overspending, missing payments and regretting their ...

Now that almost every brokerage has followed in the footsteps of Robinhood and adopted commission-free trading, how do these companies make money? One main source of revenue is from a small sum of ...