Robinhood Lands First IPO Underwriting Role in Oura Listing

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Robinhood has officially landed its first-ever formal IPO underwriting role, joining a syndicate of 18 institutions listed on smart-ring maker Oura's recent S-1 filing. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase are acting as lead bookrunners, while Robinhood appears at No. 18 on the underwriting list, a position the company says gives it stronger leverage over share allocations for its massive retail trading user base. "We want to do more," co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev told Yahoo Finance from the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference, adding that as an underwriter Robinhood will be able to represent retail in the room and hopefully secure bigger allocations. Tenev said the company had previously participated in IPOs only as a selling group member, distributing shares on behalf of underwriters, and that approval to serve as an underwriter changed that. He said Robinhood intends to be disruptive in the space, arguing the IPO process can be improved because issuers lack visibility into demand and price elasticity at different IPO prices. The push also cements Robinhood's efforts to become a one-stop shop for wealth management services, a strategy that has seen it venture into prediction markets and accrue more than $3 billion in banking deposits. Tenev declined to promise an underwriting position on an upcoming hot IPO such as Anthropic, saying only that the company is working hard across the board.

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