The Interactive Brokers Group was founded 33 years ago, in 1982. The broker has its headquarters in the United States (Greenwich Connecticut), but is also represented in numerous other locations outside the USA. InteractiveBrokers offers a wide range of trading services, from equities, options and bonds to foreign exchange and funds. The broker is regulated by the NYSE, among others. AVATrade (founded in 2006 as AVAFX) is part of Dublin-based AVA Capital Markets Ltd. and offers clients trading currencies, stocks, commodities and indices. AVATrade is regulated and monitored by the Irish financial supervisory authority IFSC. AVATrade offers also a trading platform with either MetaTrader 4 or the in-house platform AVATrader.
