Robinhood, FINRA discussing settlement over 2020 outages
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-03-01T18:26:00
Online stock-trading platform Robinhood said it may face at least $26.6 million in costs related to resolving investigations by FINRA concerning its options-trading practices and outages its platform suffered last year.
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