Robinhood’s IPO is reportedly on maintain following GameStop drama

Nameless sources inside digital alternate Robinhood mentioned that its plans for preliminary public providing (IPO) have been placed on maintain amid the fallout of the GameStop saga, in line with Fox Enterprise Community senior correspondent Charles Gasparino.

SCOOP: Ppl inside @RobinhoodApp inform @FoxBusiness plans for an IPO are on maintain to give attention to surviving the present drama over buying and selling of shares and settlement points. Execs say they’ve entry to much more capital than further quantities raised at present. Extra @TeamCavuto 1230pm

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 1, 2021

“Ppl inside @RobinhoodApp inform @FoxBusiness plans for an IPO are on maintain to give attention to surviving the present drama over buying and selling of shares and settlement points. Execs say they’ve entry to much more capital than further quantities raised at present,” wrote Gasparino.

Lack of confidence

In response to a recent survey performed on nameless community Blind, 83% out of 8,750 surveyed professionals assume that Robinhood has certainly “screwed its IPO.”

As CryptoSlate reported, Reddit group WallStreetBets has despatched big ripples internationally of finance when it managed to pump the declining—and closely shorted by hedge funds—inventory of video video games retail community GameStop (GME). Because of this, a number of large gamers from Wall Avenue suffered big losses since they had been betting on the inventory’s value happening—not up.

Subsequently, Robinhood drew the ire of each most people and politicians alike when it restricted retail merchants from guying GME inventory amid the rally. The US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) has already said not too long ago that it “will carefully evaluation actions taken by regulated entities which will drawback buyers or in any other case unduly inhibit their skill to commerce sure securities.”

Whereas Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev later said that halting GME purchases “was a clearinghouse choice, and it was simply primarily based on the capital necessities,” it appears to be like like at the very least some irreparable injury to the platform’s status has already been achieved nonetheless.

Bracing for intense scrutiny

In the meantime, in line with Gasparino, the SEC will not be the one company that determined to evaluation the GameStop saga. The US Congress is reportedly planning to suggest some restrictions on hedge funds buying and selling, together with quick promoting, in response to the GameStop incident.

BREAKING: Hedge fund execs inform @FoxBusiness theyre bracing for intense congressional scrutiny, attainable restrictions on buying and selling reminiscent of quick promoting amid $GME–@Reddit–@RobinhoodApp frenzy. Hedge fund commerce teams gearing up and plan to foyer Congress. w Extra 330pm @LizClaman

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 2, 2021

“Hedge fund execs inform @FoxBusiness they’re bracing for intense congressional scrutiny, attainable restrictions on buying and selling reminiscent of quick promoting amid [email protected]@RobinhoodApp frenzy,” Gasparino famous, including, “Hedge fund commerce teams gearing up and plan to foyer Congress.”

On the intense aspect, Robinhood halting GME trades has seemingly led to DeFi and crypto recognition and decentralized exchanges’ tokens have been booming these days as properly.

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