Knight Capital Group

25 results about this entity

Period: 04 Apr 2005 - 17 Oct 2013

SmartPool signs up members

SmartPool, the European exchange-led dark pool for block trading set up by Nyse Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan says 14 investment firms have now signed up to the platform.

Ballista gets funding

Ballista Holdings, operator of an ATS for block options and delta neutral orders, has received funding from a group of investors including the International Securities Exchange, Knight Capital Group, Morgan Stanley and Susquehanna Growth Equity.

Nasdaq clearing service to compete with DTCC

Market operator Nasdaq OMX is gearing up to launch a clearing and settlement system for US cash equities that will compete directly with industry-owned Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

Knight Capital acquires EdgeTrade

New Jersey-based Knight Capital Group has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held trade execution outfit EdgeTrade in a cash and stock deal worth around $59.5 million.

Nyse Euronext teams with Bids for block trading JV

Exchange operator Nyse Euronext is establishing a block trading joint venture with Bids Holdings, the Wall Street consortium that is setting up its own alternative platform for equity block stock trading.

Citadel buys into Knight's Direct Edge ECN

Citadel Derivatives is to purchase a minority equity interest in Knight Capital's Direct Edge ECN. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Six more Wall Street banks invest in Bids

Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Knight Capital have each invested in the Block Interest Discovery Service (Bids), an alternative platform for equity block stock trading.

E-trading and buy-side demands shifting FX markets - Celent

The global foreign exchange market is rapidly moving towards an exchange traded business model as e-trading accelerates and the traditional segregation of the interdealer and dealer-to-client markets is breached, according to research conducted by analyst house Celent.

Bats New Year sale delivers market share uplift

Steep price cuts have helped Bats ECN set a new daily volume record and claim nine per cent of Nasdaq-listed volume on the first day of trading in the New Year.

Wall Street banks, e-trading firms acquire majority stake in NSX

The all-electronic National Stock Exchange (NSX) has confirmed that Wall Street banks Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch, along with e-trading firms Bloomberg and Knight Capital, have acquired a majority equity stake in its business.

US banks, e-trading firms to take stakes in National Stock Exchange

A group of Wall Street banks, including Citigroup, Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse, is teaming with e-trading firms Bloomberg and Knight Capital to buy a 50% stake in the all-electronic National Stock Exchange (NSX), according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Knight to buy Attain ECN

Knight Trading Group is to acquire Attain ECN, an alternative trading system that operates an electronic communications network for the trading of Nasdaq securities, from privately-held Domestic Securities.