Ahead of IPO, Robinhood expands risky stock market lending
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Robinhood has rapidly expanded its business of extending potentially risky loans to customers of the stock-trading app in the run-up to its initial public offering.
The popular but controversial online brokerage confirmed on Tuesday that it has begun the process of selling shares in Robinhood to the public for the first time. The company said in a blog post that it had filed confidential paperwork for the IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission and that the regulator is reviewing its registration. Robinhood did not disclose a time frame for the public offering. In a separate regulatory filing, Robinhood reported earlier this month that its lending to help customers buy stock "on margin" — in which someone borrows money to purchase stock, options or other securities in hopes of boosting their investment returns — rose by $2 billion in the second half of 2020. As of the end of the year, Robinhood had $3.4 billion in outstanding margin loans, up more than 400% from the $650 million it had outstanding at the end of 2019.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.