Sustainability at IBKR

A team collaborating on sustainability efforts at Interactive Brokers

Sustainability at
Interactive
Brokers

For decades, Interactive Brokers has thrived on supporting our customers with the best investment technology and market data to enable meaningful financial investment experiences. We recognize that our ability to continue to innovate for our customers is due to the unwavering commitment of our people. Sustainability to us means continually improving how we advance our business responsibly through the support of our people, customers, communities, and environment globally.

Our Commitment

Our Actions

Our Action

We are committed to advancing our sustainability goals and are focusing on several key projects.

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Our People

Our People

We have added key workplace benefits that allow our staff to spend more time with their loved ones and focus on wellness.

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Our Products

Our Products

We offer a suite of ESG investing and trading products.

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Our Community

Our Community

We have made donations to support health and community initiatives.

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Our Carbon Footprint

Our Carbon Footprint

We have procured renewable energy sources for our offices, representing over 90% of our operational footprint, and 64% of our data centers worldwide.

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Governance

We believe corporate governance is essential for accountability, transparency, and safeguarding our operations, financial strength, and client protection.

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Our Actions

  • We have a dedicated Sustainability department to oversee our growing sustainability programs and ESG initiatives. We continue to focus on strategic initiatives to expand diverse talent across all levels.
  • We prioritize a merit-based culture throughout our organization, ensuring that all employees are evaluated, selected, and rewarded based on their demonstrated abilities, talents, and achievements.
  • We continue to strengthen our corporate governance and risk management processes, through the expansion of personnel, systems and technology.
  • Our dedicated procurement department delivers a vigilant procurement process to ensure responsible sourcing and supply chain activity.
  • We have expanded our global regulatory monitoring to include upcoming changes to existing laws, rules and reporting requirements, including ESG draft legislation, allowing us to prepare appropriate tools and responses to the rapidly changing ESG regulatory landscape.
  • We have developed and continue to deploy a comprehensive and coordinated Enterprise Risk Management Framework, designed to support effective identification, assessment, management, monitoring and reporting of both financial and non-financial risks across the organization. This is strengthened by our TCFD disclosure (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure) outlining the climate related risks to our operations.

Sustainability Report

We are pleased to share our Sustainability Report, which focuses on the three main areas of our sustainability strategy.

  • Leadership and Governance
  • Our People
  • Environmental Stewardship

The report reviews our ongoing efforts to implement responsible business practices and sustainability initiatives, detailing our progress and performance.

Our inaugural Sustainability Report was published in 2022.

2022 Sustainability Report

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Our Products

We have expanded our suite of ESG investing and trading products by creating new award-winning tools, and by adding ESG features to existing ones. Clients can now view their investments through multiple lenses — financial, ESG and "impact" — fueled by a richer set of data to make more informed investment decisions. IBKR ESG products include the IMPACT app,1 the Impact Dashboard and ESG Scores.

Several core IBKR products also now incorporate ESG components, including Fundamentals Explorer, PortfolioAnalyst and Model Marketplace.

Interactive Advisors, an actively managed robo-advisor, offers its clients 18 portfolios centered on sustainable products. We have been recognized by Investopedia as best robo-advisor for sustainable investing.

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Our People

Human Capital and Social Initiatives

We strive to create a workplace that allows our employees to thrive within a healthy, engaged and empowered work environment that fosters the achievement of our company-wide objectives. At IB, talent acquisition is integral to our success and our recruiting process is an important part of our sustainability initiatives.

We believe in supporting an inclusive workplace and have established several employee resource groups that provide personal and professional pathways at the Company. Our global mentoring program offers our staff the support and guidance from senior management to build their careers and we continue to sponsor several wellness events at our offices around the world.

In support of our employees and their overall well-being, we have added new benefits for our employees in the U.S, such as a new parental leave policy that increases paid leave time for same sex, opposite sex and domestic partnership couples; enhanced benefits related to childbearing and adoption for employees; childcare support through a third party provider; healthcare travel reimbursement; and leadership coaching and training for new managers globally.

Our Community

Community Support Initiatives

  • Workplace Giving: We emphasize the value of giving back by matching charitable contributions up to USD 1,000 per employee via our Workplace Giving program. We enable employees to choose the causes that matter most to them, and financially support those endeavors.
  • Community Building: We provide opportunities for employees to connect through events and team building activities.

Our Carbon Footprint

Sustainable Practices

We have taken steps to reduce our global carbon footprint and implement sustainable practices. We continue to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption by installing automated energy efficient sensors and, where possible, switching to green energy. In several regions we relocated our offices to green buildings. By prioritizing energy efficiency measures across our offices, and the procurement of renewable power sources, we have reduced our Scope 1 and 2 tCO2e amounts globally. As a result, Scope 1 and 2 across our operating offices are now 90.93% renewable.

88% of our offices recycle, segregating waste according to local guidelines. We continuously work with building management on waste segregation initiatives. We are committed to conducting our business responsibly and ethically and expect the same commitment from our vendors.

renewable energy

More than 90%

of our offices used renewable energy in 2023

Governance

Our leadership, including our Board of Directors, Chairman, and CEO, drives our sustainability agenda, which covers both financial and non-financial objectives. The board receives regular updates on our sustainability strategy, including climate strategy and reporting, and reviews annual reporting for completeness and accuracy.

In coordination with our management, we implement policies, procedures, and internal controls that promote responsible practices and comply with relevant legal obligations. Our department heads contribute to areas of importance such as data privacy, cybersecurity, anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-corruption, sustainability, and responsible supplier practices. We prioritize the safety and security of our client’s investments and the integrity of our operations. Our robust risk management program employs a comprehensive framework that combines advanced technology with a culture of risk awareness. The program is designed to identify, assess, and mitigate risks across areas of our business.

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Disclosures

  1. The IMPACT application is a product of Interactive Brokers LLC that allows clients to generate analysis of their IBKR brokerage accounts using environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") data provided by unaffiliated third-party data providers along with proprietary in-house algorithms and trade and account data contained in IBKR's systems. For more information, please see the "Interactive Brokers LLC Disclosure regarding Use of IMPACT and ESG Dashboard and IMPACT Application".

    The projections or other information generated by IMPACT app regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results and are not guarantees of future results. Please note that results may vary with use of the tool over time.