Citi Match EMEA equities platform executes over US$16bn of trades in Q4
First Published Wednesday, 3 February 2010 from Automated Trader : Algorithmic Trading News
Citi Match EMEA equities platform executes over US$16bn of trades in Q4
Citigroup has announced that it has executed over US$16 billion worth of trades on its Citi Match electronic equity trading platform in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2009. This is an increase from $14.4 billion executed in the third quarter of 2009.
"Citi Match offers our institutional clients the opportunity to interact with the vast and diverse liquidity Citi is able to generate and attract," said Jack Vensel, Managing Director and Head of Electronic Trading in EMEA. "Our clients benefit from having the first opportunity to trade against all the flow."
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