Interactive Brokers Group Inc. was in talks with E-Trade Financial about merging their brokerage operations but decided the deal didn’t make sense, according to Interactive’s founder Thomas Peterffy. Peterffy, a digital trading pioneer who founded the online platform in 1978, told MarketWatch in a phone interview on Thursday that Interactive …
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