Sharebuilder/ING Direct New Changes

Since ING Direct purchased and acquired ShareBuilder on November 19, 2007 for $220 million, everyone was wondering what changes would come about. Well, there’s good news! Not only did they change the color scheme, but the price for real-time trades has gone down to $9.95 per trade rather than the old $15.95. That’s a 35% discount! This price brings ShareBuilder in line with other discount online brokers, but it still does not beat free stock trades with Zecco. Contact me if you want to open a Zecco account for a FREE $25 bonus!

ING Direct is the country’s largest direct bank with assets of $77 billion with about six million customers. I contacted media relations for ING regarding the changes that would come about due to the acquisition but they have not gotten back to me yet. I’m interested to see if there will be more changes since I am a customer for both ShareBuilder and ING Direct. It would be great if there were instant transfers from ING accounts to/from ShareBuilder just like the transfers between Electric Orange (checking) and Orange Savings.

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