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

EVP, 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 operates a blockchain-based platform that facilitates debt and equity issuance, as well as the administration and custody of financial instruments. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the company provides an end-to-end digital capital-raising ecosystem designed to automate and streamline post-trade processes. By digitizing assets, Globacap supports businesses throughout their capital lifecycle, allowing for the efficient creation, management, and transaction of digitized equity. The platform aims to reduce ongoing administrative overhead and enhance liquidity in secondary markets, making it easier for users to manage their financial assets.

CoinRoutes

Series B in 2022
CoinRoutes is a provider of trading software focused on cryptocurrency assets. The company has developed an algorithmic trading system that allows traders to access a unified view of various cryptocurrency markets and liquidity providers. This system enables users to execute trades across multiple exchanges in a single transaction, thereby enhancing efficiency. Additionally, CoinRoutes' platform filters out market noise to deliver a clearer perspective on trading conditions. Importantly, the system allows clients to maintain full control over their exchange keys and wallets, ensuring enhanced security and autonomy in their trading activities.

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 digital asset trading platform that facilitates access to both spot and futures markets for cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company integrates advanced technology and capital markets workflows to provide a reliable and compliant trading environment. ErisX's platform enables users to trade, deposit, and withdraw digital assets seamlessly, leveraging its exchange and clearinghouse capabilities to ensure robust market operations. The company aims to simplify the process of cryptocurrency trading for its clients while maintaining high standards of compliance and reliability.

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) designed for the anonymous trading of large blocks of shares. The platform addresses the challenge faced by block traders in identifying reliable trading partners without exposing their trading intentions. By not disclosing side, size, or price information, the system allows participants to maintain confidentiality and protect their identities during transactions. All eligible broker-dealers and their institutional clients can engage with the platform, provided they meet certain regulatory and credit requirements. This innovative approach facilitates efficient trading while ensuring discretion for users.

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 based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in providing alternative trading solutions for equities. The platform accounts for nearly 65 percent of the total market share for dark trading in Canada, offering traders access to dark liquidity in the Canadian equities market. MATCHNow is dedicated to understanding the needs of traders, ensuring an efficient and discreet trading environment.

Hanweck Associates

Acquisition in 2020
Hanweck is a leading provider of real-time risk analytics focused on the global derivatives markets, catering to banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, central counterparties, and exchanges. Established in 2003 and transitioning from consulting to product development in 2006, Hanweck specializes in addressing large-scale risk challenges where the number of instruments and positions can reach millions. The firm has pioneered the use of graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware accelerated computing within the equity derivatives market, positioning itself as an industry leader. Hanweck offers a range of data products and custom integrated solutions, as well as risk measurement services across various asset classes, including fixed income products and derivatives. Their risk analytics platform provides high-performance management and trading services, delivering comprehensive, real-time, and cross-asset risk analytics with flexible integration options to streamline customer risk architecture.

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. The company operates as a low-cost provider, clearing equities from 18 European markets as well as from the United States, including Depositary Receipts, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and Currency Exchange-Traded Commodities (ETCs). Recently, Euronext became an equal shareholder in EuroCCP, joining existing partners such as ABN Amro Clearing Bank, Bats Europe, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), 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 provider of comprehensive information and analysis focused on exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The company serves both investors and financial advisors by offering the latest news, educational resources, and investment tools specifically tailored to enhance understanding and decision-making regarding ETFs. By delivering independent and authoritative insights, ETF.com aims to improve investment outcomes for its clients and foster awareness within the ETF community. Through its online platform, the company facilitates access to critical data and analysis, positioning itself as a single source for ETF intelligence.

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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