Buy Side
Knight’s client-centered philosophy is evidenced by our hybrid market model which gives clients the choice of electronic and voice access
and trade execution services. Knight has one of the largest and highest-quality teams of sales and cash traders on Wall Street and superior trading technology.
We offer market access across multiple asset classes and high-quality trade executions according to client-defined measures.
Knight has the capacity to handle up to 20 million trades per day through accessing liquidity from our natural order flow,
connectivity to other liquidity pools in the marketplace and through our own capital facilitation. Knight is a vital source of liquidity for equity market participants
because of our combined order flow from buy- and sell-side clients. In expanding our range of asset classes and financial instruments, as
well as integrating existing and new technology, we have created a “virtual exchange” for our clients. Knight’s “virtual exchange” offers
voice and electronic access across equities, fixed income, options, foreign exchange and futures.
Knight's offerings are unbundled. Our clients are able to choose from our suite of products and services to design the solution that best
fits their unique requirements.
Knight’s buy-side clients include the following:
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Institutional Investors
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Investment Managers
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Hedge Funds
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Plan Sponsors
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Plan Sponsor Consultants
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Proprietary Traders
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Sell Side
Knight is the number one execution firm serving the sell side because of our ability to trade in over 19,000 U.S. equities, the quality of our trade executions, our connectivity
to one of the largest sell-side networks in the industry with over 700 broker-dealers, and the size of our liquidity pool. We have
become the leading market destination for order flow by offering the sell side consistent, high quality trade executions according to
their customers’ needs. Sophisticated systems, software and trading algorithms allow us to make nearly instantaneous decisions on most
client orders. Our cash traders help our clients with complicated trades, such as oversized orders, specialized order types and stocks
impacted by breaking news or events. We have one of the largest sell-side networks in the industry, connected to over 700 Broker-Dealers.
Knight provides sell-side clients a range of equities markets trading platforms and support services as well as complementary ECN offerings in
fixed income and foreign exchange. The scope of our offerings enables the sell side to extend multiple asset class trading opportunities
to their customers.
Knight’s sell-side clients include the following:
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Online broker-dealers
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Regional broker-dealers
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National full-service broker-dealers
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Private wealth managers
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Registered investment advisors (RIAs)
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Corporate Issuers
Knight has an in-depth understanding of order flow and how our clients interact with the markets. We are the number one trader in
over 1,000 issuer names. As such, we can provide market intelligence to corporate issuer clients and facilitate access to the investment community. We
also can assist in issuers’ financing needs, bringing to them a boutique capital markets offering for both equity and debt instruments.
Knight’s corporate issuer clients include the following:
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Micro-, Small- and Mid-Cap companies
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