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Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

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Re: Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That is, it was false representation used to induce people providing Robinhood things of value, and thus, arguably, commercial fraud. That's assuming they knew the representation was false. If they reasonably expected to be able to get the insurance, claiming that they would get it was a true statement of their intentions.

Ummm but if you want people to trust you with their money and build reputation shouldn't you do your DD and make sure what you say is true? imo RH is either reckless or deceptive, and neither is a good look for a company like them

They hurt their reputation and they look like idiots, sure.

Above, people are suggesting that we need regulatory and/or criminal charges. There isn't any harm to customers and there isn't any evidence of fraud or criminal wrongdoing.

RH harmed themselves by looking stupid in front of the world. That's it. The rest is misguided hysteria.

Re: Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

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post #23

I think it's becoming increasingly clear what happened. As whitepoplar noted here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691477 ) other similar services are FDIC insured because the funds are swept into FDIC bank accounts behind the scenes. But FDIC insured bank accounts pay very, very little interest, and Robinhood wanted to offer a high interest rate. Their innovation was, instead of sweeping the funds into FDIC…

There are plenty of FDIC insured savings accounts in the 2-2.5% range...

My local bank even has a promo for 2% checking (some requirements, like debit transactions), so getting decent interest on checking isn't out of the question.

Re: Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

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post #2

Somebody from Robinhood's legal team either said "yeah, the SPIC will totally be okay with this" or management ignored any advice to the contrary, whichever it was those people need to pull their heads out of their asses. Even Schwab, an investor bank, has insurance from the FDIC for their deposit (and sweep) accounts - if they could have gotten away with just SPIC coverage don't you think they would have?

Hahaha, flagged for pointing out that it’s SIPC and “SPIC” is an ethnic slur. I will add my comment again, thank you very much.
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