NEW YORK, April 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ ) announced that trading of Virtu Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIRT ) commenced on The Nasdaq Stock Market on April 16, 2015.
Virtu is a technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the global financial markets. Virtu provides quotations to buyers and sellers in more than 11,000 securities and other financial instruments on more than 225 exchanges, markets and liquidity pools in 34 countries. Virtu's corporate headquarters is located in New York with trade floors and development groups in North America, Europe and Asia.
“Since its founding, Virtu has been dedicated to developing a cutting edge trading platform through innovative proprietary technology for each stage of a trade from execution to post-trade processing,” said Bob Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq. “We congratulate Virtu on its successful initial public offering and we look forward to celebrating many more milestones with the team and their shareholders in the future.”
By listing with Nasdaq, Virtu joins many of the world’s largest and most revolutionary companies. Year-to-date over 50 percent of financial companies listed on the U.S. markets have listed on Nasdaq. In 2014 Nasdaq was the exchange of choice to over 60 percent of financial companies that listed on the U.S. markets.
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