1 Minute Read by Reuters Staff In this illustration, taken on July 2, 2021, the Robinhood logo is visible on a smartphone in front of a displayed stock graph. Illustration by REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (Source: Reuters) After briefly experiencing a service interruption, Robinhood Markets Inc, an app-based brokerage firm, announced on Friday that it had fixed an outage affecting crypto trading on its platform. “We take any service interruption seriously, and we apologize to everyone who was inconvenienced by tonight’s brief outage. We’ve fixed the problem and are here to assist you if necessary “In a tweet, the company stated. For roughly an hour late Friday, Robinhood’s platform had crypto trading and display difficulties. According to the outage monitoring website Downdetector, more than 1,000 customers in the North America region were complaining about troubles with Robinhood at one point. On Thursday, Robinhood, which has been at the core of Wall Street’s recent retail trading frenzy, filed for an IPO. Aakriti Bhalla contributed reporting from Bengaluru, while Daniel Wallis and Leslie Adler edited the piece./n
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