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Alphacution Press: Protocol Highlights Crypto PFOF

Fintech reporter, Tomio Geron, from Protocol – a new media company from the publisher of POLITICO focusing on the people, power and politics of tech – published “Regulators are going after payments for stock orders. What about crypto?” on September 16, 2021 based in large part on Alphacution’s research.

Crypto Wholesaling Takes Center Stage

Alphacution has written recently about the emerging evidence of "crypto PFOF." Based on Robinhood's latest earnings and other regulatory data, Alphacution takes that recent analysis a step further to illustrate the emerging significance of wholesale market making in cryptocurrencies and the players behind it...

Happy Robinhood IPO Day, Suckers! Alphacution Publishes “The Robinhood Effect”

In this 193-page, 272-exhibit, 30,800-word case study, “The Robinhood Effect,” Alphacution brings together data and modeling from 25 entities – 11 retail brokers and 14 wholesale market makers – to explain a new phenomenon that now lives at the center of the US capital markets ecosystem. Alphacution’s most ambitious research project to date, this report covers the governing liquidity economics framework that defines PFOF rates, the mechanics of Robinhood’s aggressive retail brokerage model, the transformation of the retail brokerage industry,...
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