0/ We have the @RobinhoodApp & @vladtenev testimony today. The prepared remarks provide some insights on the business & what happened with $GME etc...
They have 13M customers, 13% trade options, 2% multi leg options and 3% are margin enabled
1/ The median age of an investors is 31; 1/2 are first time investors.
The median / average customer account size is $240 / $5,000.
This supports various theses that RH is the “play account” while users have another longer term oriented brokerage account.
2/ On the $GME saga they provide the timeline of collateral requirements during the week of 1/25.
Their obligation 1/25 as $124M the same day the VIX spiked 62% (3rd largest daily gain since 1990).
On 1/28 NSCC told them they had a deposit deficit of $3B. ($1.3B of VaR based)
3/ In addition to the VaR based they had an "excess capital premium charge" over $2.2B. The NSCC indicated RH owed $3.7B versus $696M already on deposit with NSCC, so the net amount due was approximately $3B
4/ They also mentioned over the course of 4 days they raised ~$3.4B from investors