By Yasin Ebrahim
Investing.com -- Robinhood jumped in afterhours trading Thursday after Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of crypto exchange FTX, acquired a 7.6% stake in the trading platform, according to a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) was up more than 20% in afterhours following the report.
Emergent Fidelity Technologies, which is owned by Bankman-Fried, invested about $648.3 million in Robinhood, according to the filing.