Jim Smyth, Executive Vice President and Head of Broker-Dealer Client Group of Knight Capital Group, presides over the NASDAQ Opening Bell.
About Knight Capital Group:
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NITE) is a leading financial services firm that provides electronic and voice access to the global capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients. In Global Markets, we provide market access and trade execution services in nearly every U.S. equity security and a large number of global equities and fixed income, foreign exchange, futures and options. Our approach to trading combines deep liquidity with robust trading technology and capital facilitation, when necessary, to deliver high quality trade executions consistent with client-defined measures. We recently exited the Asset Management business, which had consisted of our 51% ownership of Deephaven Holdings, the parent company of Deephaven, a global multi-strategy alternative investment manager. For information regarding our exit from our Asset Management segment, refer to the Form 8-K's furnished by the Company on April 1, 2009 and January 27, 2009, and the Form 8-K filed by the Company on February 26, 2009. More information about Knight can be found at www.knight.com.
About NASDAQ OMX:
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,900 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, including First North; and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs.
NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.
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