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description: "Bad news: Chinese clients are no longer eligible for IBKR's account opening referral rewardsI wonder if any of you have noticed, IBKR's interface for referring friends to open accounts has been quietly changed, adding a new clause: excluding Mainland China residents from eligibility for account opening referral rewards.This used to be pretty good. For each friend referred, the referrer could get a $200 reward, and the referred person could get up to $1000 worth of IBKR stock. In comparison, for established US brokers like Charles Schwab, referrers get no reward at all, and the rewards for the referred are very few.It's a real shame. I guess it's for compliance reasons, as there won't be any related Mainland China clients in the future.$Interactive Brokers(IBKR.US)"
datetime: "2026-07-02T13:19:56.000Z"
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author: "[浩浩荡荡地](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/19784218.md)"
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# Bad news: Chinese clients are no longer eligible f…


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## Comments (1)

- **绝不追高 · 2026-07-13T14:38:43.000Z**: I discovered it last month too