Many brokerages bring in revenue from market makers in exchange for routing client orders. Learn more about Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) now.

Payment order flow has had a spiral effect where it just made it really, really easy to trade and actively trade. I think that it does benefit the market makers and the high frequency trading firms.

Now, in the payments for order flow structure, the broker is going to take the order, and it's going to pass it to a wholesale market maker, Citadel Securities or Virtu Financial.

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and ...

Markets are a means, not an end. Access to investing, therefore, is a means to achieving an outcome. The debate around payment for order flow seems to have lost that critical point, centering on ...

Duke Law Professor Gina-Gail S. Fletcher told Congress that payment for order flow models "undermine the relationship" between brokers and clients.

And did the SEC's allowing payment for order flow embolden Madoff to go on to bigger and worse things later? If he ends up on "60 Minutes," I think that would be a good question for him.

During the House Financial Services Committee's Thursday hearing on the recent GameStop stock frenzy, there was talk of a practice known as "payment for order flow" (PFOF). To anyone not fluent in ...

Investor takeaway Payment for order flow is practically the beginning and end of Robinhood's business, at least financially.

Former TD Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia said banning payment for order flow would be a "disservice" to retail traders. Moglia said retail traders get everything for free on a trade except a "little ...

Payment for order flow is a common practice in the investing world that lets retail brokers be paid by market makers, wholesalers and others in exchange their retail clients’ orders to buy and ...