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Last updated - February 10, 2026
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Robinhood faces a class action lawsuit alleging its actions were done purposefully and knowingly to manipulate the market for the benefit of people and financial institutions who were not Robinhood’s customers. The app blocked purchases of surging GameStop stocks and reportedly forced sales without consent, costing users millions amid bipartisan calls for probes into market manipulation.
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High Risk
Based on the available data, we advise consumers to avoid this Company altogether.
This advisory is based on an aggregate risk score derived from OSINT, Adverse Media, Reviews, and Risk Factors identified in our research.
You are likely to be at great risk by engaging in any sort of consumer-related activity with this entity.
Medium Risk
Based on the available data, we advise employees to be mindful when considering or continuing work with this Company.
This advisory stems from a medium-risk score compiled from OSINT, Adverse Media, Reviews, and Risk Factors uncovered in our analysis.
Employment with this entity may involve moderate risks.
Based on the available data, we urge investors and bankers to avoid financial involvement with this Company.
This advisory is informed by an aggregate risk score based on OSINT, Adverse Media, Reviews, and Risk Factors identified through our investigation.
Engaging in investment or lending activities with this entity poses a substantial risk to your financial interests.
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Enhanced Due Diligence required
Do Not Onboard
Monitor adverse media every 6 months
File SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) is warranted
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Robinhood faced fines for systemic supervisory lapses, including inadequate monitoring of social media influencers promoting the platform, leading to misleading statements and unaddressed red flags of misconduct.
Robinhood failed to implement reasonable AML programs, resulting in undetected manipulative trading, suspicious money movements, and account takeovers by hackers, prompting regulatory penalties.
Robinhood provided inaccurate information on “collaring” market orders, causing canceled trades and inferior re-entries that cost customers millions, alongside failures in fair execution disclosures.
Robinhood had vulnerabilities allowing unauthorized system access, failures in identity theft protections, and lapses in preserving electronic communications and databases as required by law.
Robinhood’s push into prediction markets, including sports outcomes, has drawn accusations of illegal gambling from state attorneys general, raising concerns over regulatory compliance and consumer protections.
Robinhood has been charged with short selling regulation breaches, including failures in failure-to-deliver closeouts, improper marking, and falsifying trade data, amid allegations of illegal practices.
Users report shady practices like gamification encouraging risky trading, outages during volatile periods, poor customer service, and selling orders to third parties, eroding trust in the platform.
Robinhood paid $70 million in 2021 for misleading customers and system outages, part of a pattern including over $100 million in 2025 penalties for multiple securities and AML violations.
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Robinhood pays $65M to settle SEC probe for misleading clients on stock order sales to HFT firms, failing best execution, costing users $34.1M.
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Florida AG probes Robinhood Crypto for deceptive pricing claims, citing PFOF model leading to higher costs despite low-fee promotions.
Robinhood fined $70M by FINRA for misleading info, outages harming millions; includes restitution, clears path for IPO amid scrutiny.
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Faced allegations of scamming others
Allegedly sold fake silver
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