Yoni Assia

The retail investing landscape is changing as individuals are increasingly looking to take on more risk. Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO of investing platform eToro, believes crypto is playing a big role in the evolution of the retail investor. What To Know: Tuesday at the Benzinga Fintech Deal Day...

CEO of eToro US Operations, Lule Demmissie, steps down and transitions to advisory role through 2024. Andrew McCormick to take over as US head. eToro is in the spotlight as its CEO of U.S. Operations, Lule Demmissie, announced her decision to step down and transition to an advisory role for the...

eToro announced it secured a virtual currency and money transmitter license from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Now, the social investing and trading platform will be able to offer crypto services in the state through its eToro NY subsidiary. “Securing our...

After less than a day of assessing the company, cryptocurrency exchange Binance is reportedly unlikely to proceed with an acquisition of rival FTX.  Due diligence was a condition of Binance's non-binding letter of intent for the acquisition, which was made public on Tuesday. If...

A Super Bowl LVI commercial featured one of the most popular non-fungible token collections on the planet. If you blinked twice, or were looking at a different part of the screen, you may have missed it. What Happened: The Super Bowl LVI commercial from eToro is making headlines for featuring...

Another Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) user changed their profile picture to a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Friday. This time it wasn’t an athlete or celebrity making the change but instead the founder and CEO of a social trading and asset brokerage company, signalling the company’s interest...

What Happened: eToro, a multi-asset investment platform, raised its stake in GoodDollar’s universal basic income (UBI) protocol from $58,000 to $1 million. The development comes as part of eToro’s vision to empower people to grow their knowledge and wealth; with this new investment,...

What Happened: eToro, a multi-asset investment platform, has appointed Michael Ptasznik to its Board of Directors. The development comes as part of eToro’s vision to meet the empower people to grow their knowledge and wealth; with Ptasznik as part of its board, eToro is positioning itself for...

Trading platform eToro is set to go public via special purpose acquisition company FinTech Acquisition Corp V (NASDAQ: FTCV) in a $10.4 billion deal. Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro, on Wednesday discussed the trading platform and cryptocurrency at the Benzinga Crypto...

Yoni Assia, the founder and CEO of eToro joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep this week. Israel-based eToro is a trading platform that became popular because it was an early adopter of cryptocurrency trading. Now the platform is expanding into the U.S. market and branching out into stock trading...

Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick sat down with eToro CEO Yoni Assia for a fireside chat Wednesday at the 2018 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, to discuss eToro's rise and the future of cryptocurrency. Assia founded eToro in 2007 and it's promoted as a social trading network that has introduced...