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Re:Robinhood launches 3% checking account by mikeryan on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:29PM (#18674140)
Moviepass was bought by what is, primarily, an analytics firm. Though apparently so is Robinhood.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-making-mi...

Re:Robinhood launches 3% checking account by tptacek on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:27PM (#18675191)
That's not "analytics"; that's order internalization, something almost every retail brokerage does†, both because they get paid to do it and because it improves outcomes for their customers.

† You could argue either way about whether IB gets paid to "internalize" orders or whether the order flow rebates they get are something else.

Re:Robinhood launches 3% checking account by pbreit on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:46PM (#18674311)
This article implies for example that on a $10,000 trade that Robinhood would be compensated $0.80 (0.00008 per $1 of trade). That seems pretty modest.