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Schwab President and CEO Rick Wurster (left) and Forge CEO Kelly Rodriques [Photos: Schwab/Forge]
North Texas’ Charles Schwab to Acquire Forge Global in $660M Deal, Aims to ‘Democratize Access’ to Private Markets
by Lance Murray | Nov 6, 2025
San Francisco-based Forge operates a premier private market platform and a leading trading marketplace through which investors have bought and sold more than $17 billion in private company shares. Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said his company will use Forge's marketplace to "further democratize access to this increasingly important source of wealth creation for investors."
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