The Charles Schwab Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, banking, money management, and financial advisory services to individuals and institutional clients. The company operates through two segments, Investor Services and Institutional Services. It provides various banking products and services, including checking accounts linked to brokerage accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, demand deposit accounts, first mortgages, home equity lines of credit, personal loans collateralized by securities, and entity lending products. The company also offers various brokerage products and services, such as brokerage accounts with check-writing features, debit cards, and billpay services; individual retirement accounts; 529 college savings accounts; designated brokerage accounts; equity incentive plan accounts; and margin loans, as well as access to fixed income securities, equity and debt offerings, options, and futures. In addition, the company provides third-party mutual funds, such as no-load mutual funds, proprietary mutual funds, and other third-party mutual funds, as well as mutual fund trading and clearing services to broker dealers; and third-party and proprietary exchange-traded funds. Further, it offers advice solutions, which include separately managed accounts, customized personal advice for tailored portfolios, and planning and portfolio management; and trust custody services, personal trust reporting services, and administrative trustee services. Additionally, the company provides research, analytic tools, performance reports, market analysis, and educational materials; custodial, trading, technology, practice management, trust asset, and other support services to independent investment advisors; retirement plan products; and specialty brokerage services. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.