Robinhood CFO on Retail IPO Demand, AI Trading Agents and Prediction-Market Surge

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Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma discusses retail demand for Anthropic IPO access, rising customer interest in AI trading agents and a surge in prediction-market activity, amid broader midterm and fintech regulation talk.

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Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma says retail investors are actively asking for access to big IPOs such as Anthropic’s offering, and that the firm is pushing issuers to include retail on cap tables. He also reports rising customer interest in AI-driven, agentic trading tools, automated assistants that can trade or suggest trades on behalf of users, and a jump in non-sports activity on Robinhood’s prediction-market product. Those three concrete trends, IPO access demand, agentic tools, and prediction-market growth, are the core takeaways from a short Bloomberg segment focused on retail behavior and product demand.