Knight Capital Group is a dynamic capital markets firm providing market access and trade execution services
across multiple asset classes to buy-side, sell-side and corporate issuer clients.
Knight was founded in 1995 as an execution destination for online broker-dealers. Today, we are the leading
source of off-exchange liquidity in U.S. equities and have greater share volume than any U.S. exchange.
Knight’s hybrid market model offers clients multiple electronic and voice access options to the global capital
markets allowing firms to trade according to individual preferences and requirements. In addition to U.S. equities,
we are growing volumes in fixed income, foreign exchange, futures, options and derivatives.
Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, Knight has offices across North America as well as a growing international
presence in Europe and Asia. The firm has three operating business segments, Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies
and Commodities (FICC) and Corporate.
Knight (NYSE Euronext: KCG) trades on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States and NYSE Euronext In Europe.
The Equities segment includes all global equities market-making and trading, including electronic trading and
traditional sales and trading, within Knight Equity Markets, L.P., Knight Capital Markets LLC, Knight Clearing
Services LLC, Knight Capital Europe Limited, Knight Capital Asia Limited, Knight Direct, LLC and Knight
Transition Management LLC. Products and services in this segment include Corporate Access, EdgeTrade Algorithmic
Suite, Knight Link, Knight Match and Knight Strategic Research.
The Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) business segment includes institutional fixed income sales,
trading, research and capital markets within Knight Libertas LLC, Knight Capital Europe Limited, Knight Asia
Europe Limited and Knight Capital Markets LLC. The FICC segment also includes Knight BondPoint, Inc. which
offers electronic fixed income trading solutions and the Hotspot FX foreign exchange ECN.
Corporate includes strategic investments in financial services-related ventures, corporate overhead expenses and
all other expenses that are not attributable to the Equities and FICC segments.