KCG Holdings
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : KCG |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Founded | 2013 from merger of Knight Capital Group and Getco LLC |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
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Key people
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Daniel Coleman, Chief Executive Officer |
| Products | Market making and trading |
| Revenue |
 US$ 1.316 billion (2014) |
 US$ 61.1 million (2014) |
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| Total assets |
US$ 6.830 billion (2014) |
| Total equity |
US$ 1.522 billion (2014) |
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Number of employees
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1,093 (2014) |
| Website | www.kcg.com |
KCG Holdings, Inc. is an American global financial services firm engaging in market making, high-frequency trading, electronic execution, and institutional sales and trading. The company was formed July 1, 2013 at the completion of the previously announced merger whereby Knight Capital Group, Inc. and GETCO Holding Company, LLC were combined. Global growth equity firm General Atlantic, with a 25% stake in GETCO, made an additional equity investment at the time of the merger. Rene Kern, Managing Director at General Atlantic joined the board of directors
On April 20, 2017 KCG announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Virtu Financial for $20 per share in cash.
Getco LLC was founded in 1999 by Stephen Schuler and Daniel Tierney, former floor traders in Chicago, and had 400 employees at the time of the merger. The firm's primary business was electronic market making/high-frequency trading, though it also provided execution algorithms and a dark pool through its client services arm, Getco Execution Services.
Knight Capital Group was founded in 1995 as Knight/Trimark Group and had about 1400 employees at the time of the merger. Its largest business was market-making in US equities for retail brokerages, though it also provided other services such as electronic execution, dark pools, plus institutional sales and trading. In August 2012 a technological/managerial "breakdown" caused Knight to lose $460m, nearly putting the firm out of business. In December 2012, it agreed to be acquired by Getco LLC. The merger was approved by the respective stockholders and unitholders of both companies on June 25, 2013.
On July 8, 2013, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Coleman rang the opening bell at the , marking the completion of Knight and Getco's merger and the unveiling of a new corporate identity, KCG Holdings.
In January 2015, KCG Holdings announced it would be selling its foreign exchange trading platform KCG Hotspot to BATS Global Markets for $365 million.
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