KCG announces Q1 2017 earnings, Virtu Financial Inc. acquires all shares of KCG’s Class A Common Stock LeapRate

April 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG announces Q1 2017 earnings, Virtu Financial Inc. acquires all shares of KCG's Class A Common Stock

KCG announces consolidated earnings of $0.05 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2017 KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement for Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) to acquire all outstanding shares of KCG's Class A Common Stock for $20.00 per share in cash. The price represents…

February 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TRAFiX offering access to Bats Options BAM Auction

Bats Global Markets (Bats:BATS) and TRAFiX, a fintech company and innovator in next-generation Order and Execution Management Systems, today announced TRAFiX will offer access to the Bats Auction Mechanism (BAM), launched last year on the exchange group’s EDGX Options Exchange. BAM is an options auction process that provides Members with an opportunity for price improvement for…

February 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes Global X Funds as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace

This week Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) makes another entry to its Bats ETF Marketplace with Global X as a new issuer. The Global X Founder-Run Companies ETF (Bats: BOSS) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive U.S. Founder-Run Companies Index. Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global…

February 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats One Premium market data now available through FactSet

Bats Global Markets (Bats:BATS) announced that its Bats One Premium market data product is now available for distribution across numerous FactSet products and platforms. FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications and industryleading service, this month became the first distribution partner to offer this new product. Bats One Premium features five levels…

July 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICAP routes €212 billion notional equity baskets into Bats Europe’s ETR service

Interdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP) and global exchanges operator Bats Global Markets, Inc. (BATS:BATS) have announced that following a successful launch of ICAP’s cleared equity basket solution in April 2015, over €212 billion of notional trades have been routed through the Bats Exchange Trade Reporting (ETR) service for clearing during the financial year ended June…

May 23, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hotspot FX parent Bats Global Markets added to Wilshire 5000 stock index

Another milestone for Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS:BATS), the parent company of Forex ECN Hotspot FX. BATS, a leading global operator of exchanges and services for financial markets, has announced that it will be included in the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index effective immediately, in conjunction with the monthly additions and deletions of the index. The Wilshire 5000 Total Market…

April 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Bats Global Markets announces IPO price of $19.00 per share

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about Bats Global Markets, Inc. planning an initial public offering on the Bats BZX Exchange... Bats today announced the pricing of its IPO at a price to the public of $19.00 per share – this is the upper end of previously forecast range of $17.00 - $19.00 per share. The…

March 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Money.Net to utilize Bats One Feed for market and trade data

International operator of exchanges and provider of services for financial markets Bats Global Markets (Bats) is now providing real-time stock quote and trade information via the Bats One Feed to financial terminal Money.Net. Money.Net is leveraging the Bats One Feed, a market data product from Bats that provides cost-effective, high-quality quote and trade information for…

March 08, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Bats Global Markets partners with T3 Index over SPYIX Market Volatility Index

Bats Global Markets (Bats), which recently underwent corporate rebranding, has partnered with T3Index (T3), part of the Triple3 Partners Group, to launch the SPYIX (“the Spikes”). SPYIX is an index measuring expected 30-day volatility in SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). The SPYIX is calculated using prices from highly-active, electronically-traded multiply-listed SPY options. SPYIX also includes important…

February 24, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Bats names Tony Barchetto Executive VP, Head of Corporate Development

Bats Global Markets (Bats), which recently unveiled its new logo and name changes for some of its businesses, today announces the appointment of Tony Barchetto as Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Development. The appointment, which represents a promotion for Mr Barchetto, is effective immediately. Mr. Barchetto was previously Senior Vice President, Business Development, at Bats.…

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