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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.kcg.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105070&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1834388 )〕 == History == 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kcg.com/about/history )〕 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.〔(October 23, 2013, Register, "Lone Sysadmin triggers 462 Million dollar crash" )〕 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 New York Stock Exchange, marking the completion of Knight and Getco's merger and the unveiling of a new corporate identity, KCG Holdings.〔(NYSE Press Release, July 03, 2013 )〕 In January 2015, KCG Holdings announced it would be selling its foreign exchange trading platform KCG Hotspot to BATS Global Markets for $365 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deals of the day- Mergers and acquisitions )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCG Holdings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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