The mission of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.  today is the same as it was when it was inaugurated.  It seeks to:  “create technology to provide liquidity on better terms. Compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools.” Since its founding more than three-and-a-half decades ago, it is today, one of the principal securities firms, boasting more than $4.8 billion in equity capital. Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, employing around 850 people throughout its global offices, the company conducts its broker/dealer and proprietary trading businesses at more than one hundred market destinations throughout the world. It provides direct online access trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for various electronically-traded products including stocks, options, futures, Forex, bonds, CFDs and funds worldwide. It engages in market making for its own account in approximately 6,500 different electronically-traded products. Together with its affiliates, Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.  executes almost 1,000,000 daily trades.