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The Global Electronic Trading Company (GETCO), or Getco LLC, is an American proprietary algorithmic trading and electronic market making firm based in Chicago, Illinois. In December 2012, the firm agreed to acquire Knight Capital Group; this merger was completed in July 2013, forming the new company KCG Holdings. [2] [3]
Jane Street Capital is a global proprietary trading firm. [4] It employs more than 2,600 [5] people in six offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Singapore, and trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries.
Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using customer funds) to make a profit for itself.
SoFi was founded in 2011 as a student loan refinancing company. In 2019, SoFi — , short for Social Finance — expanded into investment services, offering a user-friendly platform to new investors.
In 2015, DRW acquired proprietary trading firm Chopper Trading. [7] In August 2017, Reuters reported that DRW had acquired high-frequency trading firm RGM Advisors. [8] Later, in November 2017, DRW established an energy trading group in Houston from Martin Energy Trading. [9] DRW has also been active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.
Each year Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised for private-equity investment in the last five years. [1] In the 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained the top spot from KKR. [2]
Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm with a focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies. The firm has over 700 employees in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Shanghai, Bristol, Gurgaon, Gandhinagar, Sydney, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Paris and is active in futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide.
Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG) is a privately held, global trading and technology firm.SIG comprises a number of affiliated entities specializing in trading and proprietary investments in equities, fixed income, energy, commodity, index and derivative products, private equity and venture capital, research, customer trading and institutional sales.