When was etrade founded

Quickcash Digital Hub in the fin-tech sector. Skip to content. Patricia Zoundi Yao. Advocate for Western Africa. Ivory Coast. Meet Patricia. Patricia Zoundi Yao is a serial entrepreneur based in Ivory Coast. She founded various successful companies among which Quickcash and Canaan Land. She believes in using digital tools to create a more equal and gender inclusive economy. The following year, TradePlus services were also added to another large database service of the time, Dialog Information Retrieval Service.

The concept of online investment transactions was catching on, although individual investors were still burdened by monthly subscription charges. TradePlus's primary customers, meanwhile, included a growing number of discount brokerage houses, conducting their activities via the TradePlus system. Online trading continued to build momentum. By the summer of , TradePlus reported that its servers were in use nearly every minute, often by several people at once, 24 hours per day, including a large number of international customers as well as domestic customers.

Anderson, two banks began offering TradePlus as a brokerage gateway. Electronic trading seemed on its way to becoming a competitive force in the investment community. Then, in October , the market crashed. Trade volume contracted, and the online trading services, TradePlus included, withered.

Trading picked up only slowly as the s began, crippled by a national recession and then by the U. In , however, Porter, still active with TradePlus, again showed his visionary side. By the following year, Wall Street had recovered from its slump, entering the bull market of the s. At the same time, interest in the online services began to build, while advances in modem technology and falling prices among computer equipment in general, were providing faster access to a widening range of people.

As trade volumes continued to build, interest in investing--particularly among the Baby Boom generation--was also rising. By the mids, more than 20 percent of the nation's population was investing in stock, compared with less than 5 percent the decade before.

The new availability of investment information, accessible by the online services' customers 24 hours per day, added to the popularity of investing, and particularly self-directed investing by the growing numbers of computer-literate customers. Both America Online and Compuserve were undergoing their own growth boom during this period. By , the two companies counted some two million customers between them. In less than three years, America Online alone would count more than eight million customers.

The company, which counted 44 employees in , scrambled to keep up with its own growth, adding more than employees in one year and expanding its office space from 4, square feet to more than 20, square feet in By , the new American information revolution was firmly underway. However, the company had already taken the lead among the growing home investors community, which was also served by such popular online services as America Online's Motley Fool investment information area.

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