March 2025 Summaries

Alpaca has partnered with Stocktwits, a social platform founded in 2008 with more than 10 million investors and traders, to make Stocktwits’ community-driven market content available to Alpaca Broker API partners. The integration supports Stocktwits Everywhere, an initiative intended to distribute the company’s proprietary data, news, and content beyond its own platform, and enables brokers to offer social feeds, published news, retail sentiment, stock pages, watchlists, discovery tools, and structured market data. Stocktwits says its API uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and predictive analysis to identify community trends and relevant trader content, with data delivered in XML and JSON formats and updated continuously. Alpaca notes that the companies are unaffiliated, that the material is informational rather than investment advice, and that securities and cryptocurrency investments carry risk, including potential losses.

Dime! is a Thai fintech company seeking to broaden access to global investing, particularly U.S. stocks, in a market where it estimates only about 5% of people hold investment accounts compared with substantially higher participation in Singapore and the United States. Targeting underserved adults aged 20 to 35, the company combines a user-friendly, gamified investing experience with financial-literacy efforts and reports 500% growth over the previous year. Its partnership with Alpaca’s Broker API supports fractional-share investing from 50 baht, streamlined W-8BEN tax filing, lower costs, and faster product development through Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure. Dime! plans to continue prioritizing products intended to improve customers’ financial health, including the planned introduction of options trading for more experienced investors, while noting that securities and options investments carry risk and do not guarantee returns.