Ally Invest Securities

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Ally Invest Securities

Basic information
Founded	2016
Legal structure	Subsidiary
Industry	Stockbrokering
Official website	https://www.ally.com/invest

Ally Invest Securities, LLC (also known as Ally Invest) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ally Financial which provides securities brokerage and financial services.

Ally Invest provides services to customers who are natural persons or legal entities such as trusts.

Consumer impact summary

Forced arbitration

Ally Invest may present customers with agreements that force arbitration, without an opt-out clause:

THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A PRE-DISPUTE ARBITRATION CLAUSE. BY SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS: (I) ALL PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT ARE GIVING UP THE RIGHT TO SUE EACH OTHER IN COURT, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO A JURY, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY THE RULES OF THE ARBITRATION FORUM IN WHICH A CLAIM IS FILED.

Asymmetric indemnification clauses

Ally Invest may present customers with an account agreement which includes language like the following:

In addition, I agree that the Indemnified Parties will not be liable for any Losses that result from....any activities of or services provided by the Indemnified Parties in connection with My Account (including, without limitation, any technology services, reporting, trading, research or capital introduction services)

I consent to the use of automated systems....I understand that the use of Automated Systems entails risks...that could cause substantial damage, expense or liability to Me. I understand and agree that Indemnified Parties will have no liability whatsoever for any Losses arising out of or relating to a System Failure.

But in practice, the customer will be expected to unconditionally make timely and competent performance on cash, securities, instructions, documents, etc. or suffer consequences like margin loan interest without any provision for indemnification.^{[citation needed - Personal account]}

Similarly, Ally Invest requires the customer to endorse a sweeping guarantee of "Information Accuracy" but does not make the same guarantee (specifies indemnity for itself instead).^{[citation needed (November 2025)]}

Information collection and sharing

Ally Invest may use or transmit data related to a customer's account or device with a wireless carrier. They may present customers with account applications specifying text like the following:

Customer Authentication. I authorize My wireless carrier to use or disclose information about My account and My wireless device, if available, to AIS or its service provider for the duration of My business relationship, solely to help them identify Me or My wireless device and to prevent fraud.

Piercing the corporate veil

Ally Invest may try to require customers provide it with a security interest in their property that reaches beyond the relationship strictly between the customer and Ally Invest Securities:

Setoff and Security Interest Rights. I grant AIS a security interest in each of My accounts with AIS and its affiliates (each, an “Ally Company”) for obligations owing to any Ally Company.

An intentionally broad and/or vague definition of "affiliates" could be an attempt of Ally Invest Securities to use the customer's property to satisfy business dealings that are not directly between the customer and Ally Invest Securities.^{[citation needed (November 2025)]}

Customers should be aware of the risk that Ally Invest Securities may have already invested in legal arguments on this matter that could result in the customer's substantial economic losses in the case that one of Ally's related interests (potentially a very close "affiliate") is able to create a successful claim against customer property where such a breadth of (successful) claimants may not have existed under similar circumstances (such as with a different broker).^{[citation needed (November 2025)]}

Interest rates charged

Ally Invest may be charging customers a higher rate of interest than the maximum allowed rate named in statutory laws in some jurisdictions in the United States. For example, the 2024 Maryland Code Commercial law sec. 12-102 states a maximum rate of interest of 6 percent per annum, but Ally Invest does not specify that it does not allow its interest rates to go above 6% for customers residing in Maryland. It is worth noting, however, that other companies providing brokerage services publicly advertise similarly high (less favorable) interest rates to customers. As of 2025-01-19, the public-facing Ally Invest website cites a margin loan interest rate as of 2024-12-18 of between 7.50% and 12%.^{[citation needed (November 2025)]}