Virtu Financial

Virtu Financial is a market maker and financial services firm founded in 2008, headquartered in New York and publicly listed on Nasdaq since 2015 under the ticker VIRT. The firm provides liquidity to global markets through proprietary trading technology, quoting competitive bids and offers in over 25,000 securities across more than 235 trading venues in 37 countries.

Its technical work spans high-frequency trading, market making, execution technology, market structure and liquidity provision, supported by scalable trading platforms built in-house. The business is organised around three lines: Market Making, which supplies deep liquidity to create more efficient and stable markets; Client Execution Services, which offers transparent trading solutions and execution to clients worldwide; and a set of complementary trading venues that, combined with the other businesses, drive the firm's tools and platforms.

The workforce combines traders, researchers and technologists working on complex problems in financial markets. The company describes its culture as pairing the creativity and speed of a technology startup with the stability and discipline of a financial services firm, with an emphasis on innovation and scalability.