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The Options Clearing Corp. provides equity derivatives clearing services. It provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to stock exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Founded in 2000 by Alistair Brown and Mark Gorton, Lime Brokerage LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of WEDBUSH, Inc. Lime Brokerage's clients include professional traders, hedge funds, asset managers and other broker/dealers. Clients use the firm's advanced technology to execute equities transactions on multiple exchanges, ECNs and trading venues. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Cboe Trading, Inc. provides electronic security trading services. It specializes in buying and selling securities such as stock, bonds and mutual funds. The company was founded by David R. Cummings in June 2005 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

ITA Software, Inc. develops software for the travel and airline industry. The firm offers services for various sectors including domestic and international airlines, online and traditional travel agents, corporate and government-managed booking tools, global distribution systems, metasearch services, leisure packaging systems, and technology providers. The company was founded by Jeremy Wertheimer, David M. Baggett and Carl de Marcken in 1996 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ethoca, Inc. provides secure network platform. Its platform enables card issuers and merchants to identify fraudulent and suspicious transactions, which are undetected by the other party that results in financial losses and administrative costs. The company was founded by Andre Edelbrock, Trevor Clarke, Keegan Johnson, and Darryl Green in 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Direct Edge Holdings LLC operates an electronic communication network for trading financial products. It trades all listed U.S. equities with a market share in the, the company regularly trades shares, fluctuating with the overall market volume. It operates two separate platforms, EDGA Exchange and EDGX Exchange. The EDGA Exchange is a low cost exchange with a taker and maker pricing model. The EDGX Exchange is an exchange with maker and taker pricing model offering high rebates for liquidity providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Cboe Exchange, Inc. provides security services for innovation and technology markets. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. operates securities and exchanges markets as well as equities. The company is headquartered in Lenexa, KS.

Part of Cboe Global Markets, Inc., CBOE EDGA Exchange, Inc. is a company that provides security brokerage services. The company is based in Lenexa, KS.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Cboe Exchange, Inc. provides options exchange services. It trades equity options, security index options, options on exchange traded notes and products, binary options, one-week and quarterly options, long-term equity anticipation securities options, and flexible exchange options. The firm also provides information on various stock and options trading strategies, options trading tools, stock and option quotes and data; and options information and education. Additionally, they offer access to product information, conference notices, portfolio management tools, and educational materials for institutional investors and products and strategies for advisors to protect client’s portfolios. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Easdaq NV is engaged in the operation of a pan-European market. The firm trades under the name Equiduct. The company was founded by Jos Peeters on September 30, 1996 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

LexisNexis Risk Data Management, Inc. develops public record solutions to business, financial services, legal, and government agencies. Its products include Accurint and Securint, which support in critical activities such as debt recovery, due diligence, fraud detection, identity verification, law enforcement, legal investigations, pre-employment screening, resident screening, and data supercomputing. The company was founded by Hank E. Asher in 1998 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission engages in protecting market users and the public from fraud, manipulation related to the sale of commodity and financial futures, and options market. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Trintech, Inc. provides transaction reconciliation and payment infrastructure software solutions. Its portfolio of financial solutions include Cadency, Trintech Disclosure Management, ReconNET and T-Recs. The firm offers its solutions under the categories of account reconciliation, intercompany reconciliation, journal entry, close, compliance, disclosure & financial reporting and unclaimed property compliance. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

The District of Columbia Bar provides legal services. The private company is based in Washington.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citibank, Inc. is a commercial bank based in New York, NY. Citibank, Inc. provides commercial banking services. Michael Louis Corbat has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Global World-Check Holdings Ltd. provides critical risk information services. The company was founded by David Leppan in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

SEC Group, Inc. provides engineering consulting, planning and surveying services. The company was founded on October 25, 2017 and is headquartered in Chino Hills, CA.

KCG Europe Ltd. engages in security and commodity contract dealing activities. It provides execution services for institutional and broker-dealer clients, primarily in equities, fixed income, FX products, and buy-side and sell-side classes. The company was founded on September 16, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Virtu Americas LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 2012. The firm is a direct subsidiary of Virtu Strategic Holdings LLC and their ultimate parent is Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT). Virtu provides brokerage services to their clients.

Part of Cboe Global Markets, Inc., Cboe Futures Exchange LLC is a securities exchange. The company is based in Chicago, IL.

Definitive Healthcare LLC engages in the provision of of data, intelligence, and analytics on the healthcare marke. It offers healthcare data solutions to pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices, technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors. The company was founded by Jason Krantz in 2011 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Salt Financial LLC is a leading provider of index-based products, risk analytics, and ETFs for the investing community. The private company is based in Greenwich, CT and has subsidiaries in the United States. Salt Financial uses higher frequency returns and modern data science to develop more sophisticated measures of volatility and market risk. The company's analytics, including TruBeta™ and TruVol™, power index-based solutions for investment advisers and financial institutions to help target and control risk in their portfolios. Salt Financial is committed to collaborating with industry leaders to empower the pursuit of financial outperformance for investors worldwide. The company was founded by Alfred Eskandar and Anthony Barchetto, with Anthony Barchetto serving as CEO since incorporation.

KC Tech Council operates as a regional advocate for the technology industry. The private company is based in Kansas.

Salt Funds Trust is an open-end management investment company. The company was founded on July 27, 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY.