BATS Global Markets

BATS Global Markets is a prominent operator of financial exchanges that provides a range of trading solutions and products across various asset classes, including equities, derivatives, digital assets, and foreign exchange. The company runs multiple equities exchanges, specifically the BZX, BYX, EDGA, and EDGX Exchanges, alongside two U.S. equity options markets, namely Bats BZX Options and Bats EDGX Options. By offering advanced trading, clearing, and investment solutions, BATS Global Markets plays a significant role in the financial markets, catering to the needs of investors worldwide. The company is recognized for its innovative approach to trading, contributing to the overall efficiency and accessibility of market services.

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CoinRoutes

Series B in 2022
CoinRoutes is a crypto trading software provider.

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 runs the Alternative Trading System (ATS), a platform that allows anonymous trading of large shares between counterparties. It solves the age-old block trader problem of needing to locate reliable trading partners without disclosing one's trading intentions in advance. All eligible broker-dealers and their institutional clients may participate, subject to satisfying the minimal regulatory and credit conditions.

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, accounting for nearly 65 percent market share in total Canadian dark trading.

Hanweck

Acquisition in 2020
Hanweck is the leading provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets focusing on the large-scale risk problems of banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds, central counterparties and exchanges — where the number of instruments and positions number in the millions. Hanweck delivers risk analytics as a real-time service in flexible ways, from feeds to APIs, that dramatically simplify integration with customers' risk architecture. Founded in 2003, Hanweck expanded from consulting into product development in 2006. Hanweck was a first mover and remains the industry leader in applying graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware accelerated computing to the equity derivatives market. The firm has created a range of data products and custom integrated solutions that build upon this expertise. Hanweck also delivers risk measurement solutions and consulting across a range of asset classes including fixed income products and derivatives.

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.

ETF.com

Acquisition in 2016
Delivering the latest ETF News, analysis, & investment tools created specifically for investors and advisors. The 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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