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Scottrade is a privately owned American discount retail brokerage firm headquartered in Town and Country, Missouri. Its founder, former President and the current CEO is Rodger O. Riney. Scottrade has 503 branch offices around the U.S. It also offers services to Asian-Pacific customers with a service center staffing Chinese-speaking stockbrokers. ==History== In 1980, Rodger Riney, founder, moved from St. Louis to Scottsdale, Arizona where he and a partner incorporated Scottsdale Securities.〔(About Scottrade | Company History & Timeline ) Scottrade.com. Retrieved January 10, 2011.〕 In 1981, Riney returned to St. Louis to open a second branch, but ultimately split apart from his partner in the year 1985 due to conflicting business models. Riney kept the company name, Scottsdale Securities, and lowered the price of commissions to attract more clients. Riney's approach was successful and by 1991 Scottsdale Securities had a total of 15 branches throughout the US.〔 Scottrade.com was launched in 1996 (along with Scottrade''r''.com to supply streaming online quotes to clients). Scottrade.com was successful and grew rapidly amidst the dot-com bubble of the '90s.〔 By 1998, Scottrade.com commissions were as low as $7 per trade (the same price as of November 2011) increasing their customer base.〔 In 2000, Scottsdale Securities officially renamed to Scottrade due to the success of their online firm.〔 In 2003, Scottrade launched their Chinese trading site, Chinese.scottrade.com.〔 In 2004, Scottrade's corporate headquarters were relocated to a new building called Corporate Hill in West St. Louis County.〔 Scottrade saw substantial growth throughout the 2000s, expanding from 200 branch offices in 2004 to 500 by 2010.〔 In 2006, Scottrade formed a partnership with the St. Louis Blues NHL team, purchasing the naming rights to the 19,150-seat arena in downtown St. Louis. The arena was renamed the Scottrade Center.〔(Scottrade Center: Guide to the Scottrade Center - History ) Scottradecenter.com. Retrieved January 10, 2011.〕 During the late-2000s recession Scottrade did not lay off any of its associates. In 2008 alone, Scottrade hired 1,000 new associates and opened 75 new branches despite the economic turmoil.〔 Scottrade has won numerous awards, most prominently those of J.D. Power and Associates. See awards section below.〔 In December 2010, Scottrade opened its 500th branch office – located in the West Side of Manhattan.〔(Scottrade Today Opens Milestone 500th Branch Office ) Scottrade.com. Retrieved January 10, 2011.〕 On December 18, 2013, Scottrade announced to its customers that Scottrade (Hong Kong) Limited will cease operations by December 31, 2013, and that customers have the options of transferring to another brokerage at no cost or Scottrade US will liquidate the accounts and refund its customers by January 31, 2014 by check or wire transfer at no cost to the customers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scottrade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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