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We’re excited to have Tarun Ajwani, Alpaca’s Senior Vice President, join an executive panel on the topic of “E-Trading Technology: Simple is More” at iFX EXPO LATAM 2025 in Mexico City. Tarun will be sharing his expertise and insights on emerging trading technology trends shaping 2025, the impact of AI and ML on trading activities, and how technology is enhancing customer experience. With a proven track record of leadership in finance and technology, Tarun brings a valuable perspective to iFXEXPO’s audience of fintechs, brokers, hedge funds, and traders. 📍 Where: Mexico City 📅 When: Wednesday, April 9th at 4:40 PM CST

The Alpaca team is excited to be in Cayman during GAIM Ops Cayman 2025! If you’re attending, please reach out to Tony Lee, President of Alpaca Securities, Tarun Ajwani, Senior Vice President, and Melek Kartal, Director of Institutional Sales. We’d love to chat about how Alpaca can accelerate your trajectory. 📍 Where: Cayman Islands 📅 When: April 6th-9th

We are thrilled to announce that Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is joining us as a sponsor for the Alpaca Partner Summit in Kyoto! The incredible support from Arjun Sethi, Jake Ellowitz, and the rest of the Kraken team is making this event a reality. The Alpaca team, including Yoshi Yokokawa and Tarun Ajwani, is deeply appreciative of their partnership. Learn more about the upcoming summit: https://bit.ly/4csq0hz

We’re less than two months away from our 2nd Alpaca Partner Summit in Kyoto ⛩️🦙 And none of this would be possible without the support of our sponsors: Aquanow, Blue Ocean Technologies, LLC, BridgeWise, FinChat, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, NYSE, Pierson Ferdinand LLP, Sagard, Spark Capital, Stocktwits, Tribe Capital, Unbound, and Virtu Financial. We’re extremely grateful and excited to welcome them on May 19! See who’s also joining us: https://bit.ly/3Rc9cS9

As a developer-first API organization, Alpaca opens financial services to everyone on the planet. Yoshi Yokokawa, our CEO and Co-Founder, recently joined Stocktwits' Trends with Friends podcast to discuss how AI has lowered this development barrier and why our APIs will serve as the foundation of the financial services industry for years to come. Watch the full episode with Yoshi, Howard Lindzon, Philip Pearlman, and Michael Parekh: https://bit.ly/4bJYdZs Remember that some trading strategies, including options, are not suitable for all investors due to their inherent high risk, which can potentially result in significant losses. Please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options and other important disclosures which can be found in our disclosure library: https://lnkd.in/gFdNQd8u

As a self-clearing broker-dealer at DTCC, Alpaca is redefining the trading experience. With this designation, we can launch products faster, at a lower cost, with enhanced security and operational efficiency. By eliminating third-party dependencies, we reduce fees, accelerate innovation, and ensure that every trade is processed securely. This achievement is all about empowering our customers with the reliability and support they should expect from global fintech partners. Learn more about why this milestone is so significant: https://bit.ly/3Fwwhfx

We are delighted to announce the second Alpaca Partner Summit 🦙, taking place this time in the vibrant city of Kyoto, Japan from May 19-20th! 🇯🇵⛩️ This event builds on the incredible success of last year's summit– bringing together fintech founders, executives, leaders, and investors from across the globe for networking and insightful discussions. Special guests for the event include Howard Lindzon, Founder and CEO of Stocktwits, the world’s biggest investing social app, and Nathan Rodland, Robinhood’s Founding COO. Howard is a globally influential, early-stage fintech investor serving as a General Partner at Social Leverage and is responsible for discovering iconic companies such as Robinhood and eToro. Nate is a prominent figure in fintech, having played a pivotal role in scaling Robinhood by overseeing multiple verticals such as operations, finance, and marketing. Both Howard and Nate have been instrumental in bringing forward a new era of investing applications. We are excited to have them speak about how they discovered opportunities and navigated the “ups and downs” of their fintech journey. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gcBH46Ta

Alpaca is lowering our margin rates by 50 basis points for all Trading API users! With this change, our rates will start as low as 5.5% (Fed + 1%), depending on your investment level, reducing margin costs for our users. And this is only the beginning. We’ve been listening to our users and will have more updates to our margin rates coming in the near future, aligning with our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. Interested in leveraging some of the industry’s lowest rates? Check out Alpaca Elite: https://bit.ly/3DtPxd7 Learn more about trading on margin with Alpaca: https://bit.ly/422j2Mi

Provide real-time social sentiment that drives growth with Stocktwits’ new API integration at Alpaca! This collaboration will help our partners utilize community-driven insights and industry news that increases trader confidence and business impact by: 1. Leveraging visual signifiers like trending ticker widgets, sentiment indicators, and discussion volume 2. Creating detailed stock pages including conversations around trends, price targets, and trade ideas 3. Allowing traders to create alerts around unusual activity or highlighting shifts in sentiment on their watchlist We’re excited to be working with Howard Lindzon, their CEO & Founder, and Shiv Sharma, President & COO, to provide social data that creates more engaged traders for our partners. Learn more about the partnership: https://bit.ly/3R8lhYc Start integrating today: https://bit.ly/4hBtqiK

"We see a big gap in the investment community in Thailand. We want to make investing as easy as possible, as fun as possible, and bridge that gap. That’s one of the reasons we had 500% growth in the last year. We help people save and invest money in the most enjoyable way possible." Chattrin Laksanabunsong, Chief Product Officer at Dime! by Kiatnakin Phatra. Driven by their mission to improve the financial literacy and health of Thai people in an accessible way, Dime! leverages unique marketing strategies and their user-friendly platform to help young investors. They partner with Alpaca to create the backend infrastructure, allowing them to focus primarily on offering user experiences like: 1. US securities for as little as 50 baht (about $1.5 USD), making investing incredibly accessible 2. Simpler W8-BEN tax filing processes, putting more money back into their customer’s pockets. 3. Introducing new financial services more quickly and at lower costs. Learn more about how Dime! is bringing affordable and accessible financial services to Thailand by partnering with Alpaca: https://bit.ly/41CgpQ0