TradeStation® Collaborates with Plaid to Enhance Financial Account Connectivity Capabilities
TradeStation integrates with Plaid to create a more secure and efficient client experience.
Plantation, Fla., May 23, 2023 – TradeStation Group, Inc. (“TradeStation”), a Florida-based company whose operating subsidiaries provide award-winning*, self-clearing online brokerage services for trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures, and crypto that aim to offer the ultimate trading experience, has announced its integration with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem.
The integration, delivered via TradeStation’s platform, makes it easier and more secure for customers to link their account data from their main financial institution through Plaid’s API into TradeStation’s web and mobile platforms and for customers to thereby fund their TradeStation accounts.
TradeStation has built a strong reputation as a trusted resource over the past 40 years with trading tools and platforms for traders, investors and institutions. Through Plaid’s modernized API technology, TradeStation clients will have an improved experience with significantly increased efficiencies, adding a distinct layer of security to safely transfer funds to fund their TradeStation accounts. Further, it ensures more reliable connections for users who grant permission to their accounts to Plaid-powered applications.
“TradeStation has remained committed to providing the best trading experience and as we continue to grow our business, account funding has been a critical success factor. Our collaboration with a leading open finance provider like Plaid takes TradeStation to the next level,” said John Bartleman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TradeStation Group, Inc. “Plaid’s expanded financial institution coverage, seamless user experience, higher funds transfer success rate and faster response times have already benefited TradeStation’s clients while positioning for future capabilities.”
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
For more than 30 years, the TradeStation Group companies have been pioneering leaders in the online trading industry, committed to delivering the best trading technology, brokerage services, trading education and support to individual and institutional traders. TradeStation’s award-winning trading and analysis platforms offer access to equities, options and futures trading at the major U.S. equities and options exchanges and market centers, as well as the major futures exchanges. TradeStation’s clients have access to the powerful tools needed to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate custom trading strategies, and its mobile and web trading apps allow clients to take the power of the TradeStation trading experience on the go. TradeStation also provides a vast array of educational offerings to help beginning and advanced clients learn online trading and investing skills to help them meet their trading and investment objectives.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & CME) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), and a member of major stocks, options and futures exchanges in the United States. The company’s technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services, and hosts the TradingApp® Store. TradeStation Crypto, Inc. offers cryptocurrency brokerage services.
*Visit TradeStation.com/Awards for more information.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC, NFA & CME) is a subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc. that offers self-clearing equities, options, futures and futures options brokerage services as a licensed securities broker-dealer and futures commission merchant (FCM) and is a member of major equities and futures exchanges in the United States. TRADESTATION SECURITIES, INC. IS A MEMBER OF NFA AND IS SUBJECT TO NFA’S REGULATORY OVERSIGHT AND EXAMINATIONS. HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE NFA DOES NOT HAVE REGULATORY OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY OVER UNDERLYING OR SPOT VIRTUAL CURRENCY PRODUCTS OR TRANSACTIONS OR VIRTUAL CURRENCY EXCHANGES, CUSTODIANS OR MARKETS. TradeStation Crypto, Inc. is a subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc. that offers self-clearing cryptocurrency brokerage services under federal and state money services business, money-transmitter and similar registrations and licenses. TradeStation Crypto, Inc. is not subject to NFA’s regulatory oversight and examinations.
* Visit TradeStation.com/Awards for more information.