Timber Hill Canada resigns from IIROC membership

Maria Nikolova

Timber Hill’s resignation from membership in the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada is effective March 27, 2020.

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) today posted a brief notice on its website, informing the public that Timber Hill Canada has resigned from its IIROC membership.

The resignation is effective March 27, 2020.

In September 2019, FinanceFeeds reported that Timber Hill Canada intends to abandon its IIROC membership. Let’s note that Timber Hill Canada, formed in 1998, is listed as an operating subsidiary of Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers conducts its market making business principally through its Timber Hill subsidiaries. As per Interactive Brokers’ latest annual report, Timber Hill Canada discontinued its market making activities in Canada in 2019.

In March 2017, Interactive Brokers announced its intention to discontinue its options market making activities globally. Back then, Thomas Peterffy explained that “Today retail order-flow is purchased by large order internalizers and joining them would represent a conflict we do not wish to have. On the other hand, providing liquidity to sophisticated, professional synthesizers of short-term fundamental, technical and big data is not a profitable activity”.

Additionally, in the end of September 2017, Interactive Brokers completed the transfer of its U.S. options market making operations to Two Sigma Securities, LLC. The US options market-making business of Interactive Brokers used to be conducted by its Timber Hill affiliate. Upon completing the acquisition, TSS assumed about 1,300 exchange specialist assignments previously operated by Timber Hill.

Interactive Brokers also exited the majority of its market making activities outside of the United States by December 31, 2017.

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