Thomas Peterffy was born on September 30,1944 and is a Hungarian-born American billionaire businessman.
19 Facts About Thomas Peterffy
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Thomas Peterffy is the founder, chairman, and the largest shareholder of Interactive Brokers.
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Thomas Peterffy was born in Budapest, Hungary, on September 30,1944, in a hospital basement during a Russian air raid.
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Thomas Peterffy's father emigrated to the US after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
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Thomas Peterffy left his engineering studies in Hungary and emigrated to the United States to join his father in New York in 1965.
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Thomas Peterffy began his career in the US as an architectural draftsman working on highway projects for an engineering firm.
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Thomas Peterffy left his career designing financial modeling software and bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange to trade equity options.
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Thomas Peterffy wrote code in his head during the trading day and then applied his ideas to computerized trading models after hours.
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Thomas Peterffy created a stir among traders by introducing handheld computers onto the trading floor in the early 1980s.
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Thomas Peterffy's business related to his AMEX seat eventually developed into Interactive Brokers.
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In 1999, Thomas Peterffy was influential in persuading the Securities and Exchange Commission that US options markets could be linked electronically, which would ensure that investors receive the best possible options prices.
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Thomas Peterffy has testified before the United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment about adding banking regulations.
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Thomas Peterffy bought millions of dollars of air time on networks such as CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
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The ads consisted of a minute-long spot narrated by Thomas Peterffy, warning against creeping socialism in the United States.
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The ads were out of the ordinary, because Thomas Peterffy was not a candidate and did not buy the ads through a 527 group, but instead paid for them directly.
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Voter registration records in Connecticut show that Thomas Peterffy has been registered as an independent voter.
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Thomas Peterffy lives three doors down from Mar-a-Lago, where he is a member.
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Thomas Peterffy donated $7 million to the Senate Leadership Fund a super PAC closely-linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Thomas Peterffy was the 65th richest person in the world, and the richest Hungarian in the World in 2021.