Articles from Alpaca

Kraken, one of the world’s most trusted and longest-standing cryptocurrency platforms with more than 15 million global clients, now offers US securities to US-residing clients. By expanding their product offering, Kraken continues to bridge the gap between digital and traditional assets– furthering their position as an institutional grade, multi-asset-class trading platform.

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure API, announced its $52 million Series C funding round today from its new office in Manhattan, New York. This significant milestone further accelerates Alpaca’s global expansion and development of its industry-leading product offerings.

Alpaca, a brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, and Options, that support hundreds of financial institutions worldwide, today announced a new strategic partnership with Derayah Financial (“Derayah”), a leading financial services firm and the first digital investment platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”), to further expand financial accessibility in the Middle East.

Alpaca, an API-focused brokerage that operates a modern infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, and options trading and serves hundreds of financial services businesses globally, and Citadel Securities, a leading global market maker, today announced an extension of their strategic partnership in Japan to jointly leverage their expertise in brokerage infrastructure, trade execution and clearing, and recordkeeping for U.S. Stocks and Options trading. Alpaca has partnered with Citadel Securities for trade execution services since 2019, and today Alpaca’s infrastructure serves businesses from 30 different countries globally.

Alpaca, a global brokerage platform for stock and crypto trading that supports launches of hundreds of investing businesses worldwide, today announced a new strategic partnership with SBI Group (“SBI”), a Japan-based financial services group that has the largest online broker (the second largest brokerage firm) in Japan by revenue and has more than 400 billion yen assets under management for VC/PE investments.

Alternative investments management firm Alpaca (or the “Firm”) announced today the launch of Alpaca Real Estate (or “ARE”). Daniel Carr and Peter Weiss are co-founders leading the new platform and its inaugural dedicated real estate offering which is anchored by capital from GCM Grosvenor, a global leader in alternative investments, made on behalf of several investors.

Alpaca, the research-driven venture capital firm led by former founders investing at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, today announced the 30/30 PropCo Summit. The highly curated retreat will connect PropCo founders and operators with real asset allocators in order to further build connection and bridge the education gap around PropCo structures in today’s real estate technology landscape.

Alpaca, a crypto and stock investing platform for businesses from startups to Fortune 500s, announced it has closed the acquisition of a Japanese licensed broker-dealer, AlpacaJapan Co.,Ltd. (“AlpacaJapan”). This acquisition is the first step of many in Alpaca’s global strategy, expanding Alpaca’s global reach and opening access to investing for people around the world.

Alpaca, an API-first stock and crypto platform, announced today that they would be partnering with Benzinga, a financial media outlet and data provider, to offer embedded, real-time news and data to their customers.

Alpaca, a Silicon Valley based API-first stock broker, has added some leading fintech execs as investors including Nate Roland, Robinhood ex-COO, and the company also unveiled its new Alpaca Broker API, and said it is already being deployed in more than 50 countries through platform partners Gotrade and Midas.