Cboe Global Markets

Cboe Global Markets is a leading global exchange holding company, offering advanced trading, clearing, and investment solutions across multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, foreign exchange, and digital assets. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company operates several exchanges and markets, such as the BZX and BYX equities exchanges, and the Bats BZX and Bats EDGX options markets. Cboe is committed to fostering a trusted, inclusive global marketplace and providing innovative products, technology, and data solutions to empower market participants worldwide.

David Howson

Executive Vice President and Global President

John Palmer

President, Cboe Digital

Emma Quinn

President

Mandy Xu

Vice President, Head of Derivatives Market Intelligence

16 past transactions

Globacap

Series B in 2023
Globacap Limited is a London-based company founded in 2017 that operates a blockchain-based platform specializing in debt and equity issuance. The company provides an automated capital markets platform designed to streamline the entire capital lifecycle for businesses. Its digital ecosystem facilitates the creation, management, and transaction of digitized assets, significantly reducing administrative overhead and enhancing liquidity in secondary markets. By leveraging blockchain technology, Globacap enables users to efficiently issue and manage financial instruments, thus simplifying post-trade processes and ensuring a seamless experience for all participants involved in capital raising.

CoinRoutes

Series B in 2022
CoinRoutes is a provider of crypto trading software that specializes in algorithmic trading systems for cryptocurrency assets. The company's platform enables traders to have a comprehensive view of all cryptocurrency markets and liquidity providers, facilitating trades across multiple exchanges through a single transaction. CoinRoutes' system effectively filters out market noise, presenting an accurate representation of market conditions. This allows clients to maintain full control over their exchange keys and wallets while optimizing their trading strategies.

NEO Exchange

Acquisition in 2021
NEO Exchange is a capital markets fintech company that aims to facilitate positive change within the industry. It specializes in raising capital and assets, as well as providing services related to exchange-traded funds, trading, investing, and market data. By focusing on these key areas, NEO Exchange seeks to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of financial markets.

ErisX

Acquisition in 2021
ErisX is a Chicago-based company founded in 2018 that operates an online trading platform focused on the digital asset market. It offers both spot and futures contracts, facilitating easy access for users to exchange cryptocurrencies. The platform integrates advanced technology to create a reliable and compliant environment for trading, deposits, and withdrawals. By leveraging its digital asset exchange and clearinghouse capabilities, ErisX aims to streamline capital markets workflows, providing clients with a robust infrastructure for their trading needs.

Chi-X Global Holdings

Acquisition in 2021
Chi-X Global Holdings is a prominent operator of alternative market centers and trading exchanges in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan. The company specializes in providing a diverse array of on-market trading services, including equity trading and advanced technology solutions for the financial markets. By leveraging innovative trading platforms, Chi-X Global Holdings aims to enhance market efficiency and accessibility for its clients, contributing to the overall development of the trading landscape in the regions it serves.

BIDS Trading

Acquisition in 2020
BIDS Trading is a licensed broker-dealer that operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS), which facilitates anonymous trading of large share blocks between counterparties. The company's platform addresses the challenge faced by block traders in identifying reliable trading partners without disclosing their trading intentions in advance. By not publishing information regarding side, size, or price, BIDS Trading enables users to maintain the confidentiality of their orders and protect their identity throughout the trading process. Participation in the platform is open to all eligible broker-dealers and their institutional clients, provided they meet specific regulatory and credit requirements.

Trade Alert

Acquisition in 2020
Trade Alert is a software and services company focused on the synthesis and distribution of securities market intelligence to financial professionals. Trade Alert's system architecture combines proprietary software, ultra-low latency market data and high-performance computing to notify users of market activity and order flow dynamics relevant to their business in real-time.

MATCHNow

Acquisition in 2020
MATCHNow is a broker-neutral dark pool located in Toronto, Canada, specializing in the provision of dark liquidity within the Canadian equities market. It holds a significant market position, accounting for nearly 65 percent of total dark trading in Canada. The company focuses on providing an alternative trading system that caters to the needs of traders, emphasizing a commitment to understanding their requirements and enhancing trading efficiency. By operating as a dark pool, MATCHNow facilitates the execution of trades away from public exchanges, enabling greater confidentiality and reduced market impact for its users.

Hanweck Associates

Acquisition in 2020
Hanweck Associates, established in 2003, specializes in providing real-time risk analytics services for global derivatives markets. They cater primarily to large-scale financial institutions such as banks, hedge funds, and exchanges, offering solutions for managing millions of instruments and positions. Hanweck delivers its analytics via flexible methods like feeds or APIs, simplifying integration with clients' existing risk management systems. The company pioneered the use of graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware accelerated computing in equity derivatives markets and has since expanded its offerings to include fixed income products and custom integrated solutions. Additionally, they provide consulting services for risk measurement across various asset classes.

FT Options

Acquisition in 2020
FT Options offers a suite of customizable, automated, and integrated applications designed for class research and analytics functionality for prop trading firms, hedge funds, and separately managed accounts that traffic in options. It is a portfolio management platform that combines risk and volatility analytics and research, providing an edge as you identify and act on profit opportunities. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago.

EuroCCP

Acquisition in 2019
EuroCCP is a prominent central counterparty (CCP) that specializes in clearing and settlement services for pan-European equity markets. It offers low-cost equity clearing solutions and is responsible for clearing equities from 18 European markets as well as from the United States. Additionally, EuroCCP handles Depositary Receipts, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and Currency Exchange-Traded Commodities (ETCs). The company has a diverse ownership structure, with equal shares held by Euronext, ABN Amro Clearing Bank, Bats Europe, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, and Nasdaq.

Cboe Global Markets

Acquisition in 2016
Cboe Global Markets is a leading global exchange holding company, offering advanced trading, clearing, and investment solutions across multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, foreign exchange, and digital assets. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company operates several exchanges and markets, such as the BZX and BYX equities exchanges, and the Bats BZX and Bats EDGX options markets. Cboe is committed to fostering a trusted, inclusive global marketplace and providing innovative products, technology, and data solutions to empower market participants worldwide.

ETF.com

Acquisition in 2016
ETF.com is a leading provider of exchange-traded fund (ETF) data, news, and analysis, aimed at improving investment outcomes for investors and advisors. The company serves as a comprehensive resource for ETF intelligence, delivering independent and authoritative information about ETFs online. By focusing on education and insights, ETF.com aims to enhance awareness and support the growth of the investment community surrounding exchange-traded funds. Its offerings include the latest news and analytical tools designed specifically for its audience, ensuring that clients are well-informed and equipped to make better investment decisions.

Hotspot FX

Acquisition in 2015
Hotspot FX brings the powerful benefits of an independent, transparent ECN marketplace structure to institutional foreign exchange trading. These benefits include full depth-of-book view, centralized price discovery, direct and anonymous market access, instantaneous trading on live, streaming prices and robust real-time pricing, benchmark, and reference data. For hedge funds, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), corporate treasuries, and institutional asset managers, Hotspot FX's FX ECN model provides full market transparency and greater control of the trading process, enabling better trade execution and lower execution costs.

Direct Edge

Acquisition in 2014
The company provides an electronic marketplace for investors to buy and sell U.S. stocks. It also offers connectivity and market data services, including book feeds, as well as access to last sale information and historical data for members; and trading functionality and market operations support services. In addition, the company provides liquidity aggregation tools, smart order routing strategies, attribution incentive programs, and pre-trade risk tools.

Chi-X Europe

Acquisition in 2011
Chi-X Europe operates a pan-European multilateral trading facility. It offers trading in listed cash equity securities within 25 indices across 15 national European markets, as well as in ETFs, exchange-traded commodities, and international depositary receipts through two order books operated on a single platform.
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