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Jeffrey Craig Sprecher (/ ˌ s p r ɛ k ə r /, SPREK-ər, born February 23, 1955) is an American businessman, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") [4] is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, [5] [6] [7] exceeding $25 trillion in July 2024. [8]
Jeffrey Sprecher was a power plant developer who spotted a need for a seamless market in natural gas used to fuel power stations. [2] In the late 1990s, Sprecher acquired Continental Power Exchange, Inc. with the objective of developing an Internet-based platform to provide a more transparent and efficient market structure for over-the-counter energy commodity trading.
BATS Global Markets is a global stock exchange operator founded in Lenexa, Kansas, with additional offices in London, New York, Chicago, and Singapore.BATS was founded in June 2005, became an operator of a licensed U.S. stock exchange in 2008 and opened its pan-European stock market in October 2008.
This is a list of presidents of the New York Stock Exchange. President 1817–1818 Anthony Stockholm: 1818–1824 Gurdon S. Mumford: 1824–1827 Edward Lyde: 1827–1830
The New York Stock Exchange Building (also NYSE Building) is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), located in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is composed of two connected structures occupying much of the city block bounded by Wall Street, Broad Street, New Street, and Exchange Place.
After the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) purchased Interactive Data in 2015, Martin became head of ICE's fixed-income and data business unit. [1] In December 2021, Martin was announced as the incoming 68th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with her predecessor Stacey Cunningham moving onto the NYSE's board of directors.
For the first time in its 213-year history, the New York Stock Exchange became a for-profit company, and began trading publicly on its own stock exchange under the NYX ticker. [9] Owners of the 1,366 NYSE seats received 80,177 shares of NYSE Group stock plus $300,000 in cash and $70,571 in dividends for each seat. [ 10 ]