A message
from our CEO

2020 was a year like no other.
The global pandemic not only disrupted life as we know it, but it also brought unprecedented and rapid change.

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People-First
Culture

Employees and their families
The board of directors and senior management’s absolute priority is the health and safety of our people. Due to our early and active monitoring of COVID-19, Virtu took quick and decisive action.

585+

Employee-led internal, social and team-building events, to promote togetherness.

With ~95% of our employees working from home, extensive assistance resources were made available to address physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, to ease financial burdens, provide at home child care, tutoring and so much more.

Created and hosted employee-led weekly internal, global and regional social events to foster togetherness: new skill workshops, fitness classes, trivia nights, happy hour hangouts and other topics and entertainment activities.

Clients
Virtu teams demonstrated our values of reliability, virtue and commitment by continuing to support our clients and providing tools and resources to help them adapt to physically distant work ergonomics.

48 virtual client events with over

1,750

client attendees in 2020.

Identified and delivered additional and customized trading analytics to help clients adapt and confirm their execution strategies in 2020’s volatile markets.

Virtu Market Making delivered US$1.3B in price improvements back to retail investors. Helping people keep more of their hard-earned money builds trust and contributes to the sustainability of the recent rally.

Community
Virtu in partnership with employee-led relief efforts has donated their talent, time, money and PPE to over 175 COVID-19 charities and community-based support groups. Employees and clients worked together to support a myriad of organizations across the globe including local food insecurity and adopt-a-family initiatives.

175+

COVID-19 related organizations were supported across the globe.

Virtu Social
Responsibility (VSR)

Powered by change, focused on the future.

Our numbers1

$3.2b

revenues

$2.3b

adjusted net trading income

30%

market share in retail order flow

$1.3b

price improvement to retail investors

One for all.

Virtu is an independent, global financial technology company that creates innovative, transparent trading solutions to help reduce the end-to-end cost of implementing investments for investors around the world and delivers liquidity to the global markets.

Transparency and efficiency, powered by technology.

Virtu was founded on the belief that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions and that all investors benefit from markets that are more efficient.

We use technology to solve problems and reduce risk. Virtu’s application of technology to create solutions, automate processes and manage risk have enabled us to provide customized, reliable liquidity and raise the bar of transparency into client order handling and trade analysis.

25,000+

securities

235+

venues

50+

countries

North America Austin • Boston • Chicago • New York • Short Hills • Toronto

EMEA Dublin • London • Madrid • Paris

APAC Hong Kong • Singapore • Sydney

Global
Financial
Services

Powerful end-to-end trading technology and personal client service. 

Virtu provides market making, execution services and analytics to a diverse client base of retail and institutional capital market participants.

our services
Market making

Technology service provider to the global financial markets.

Virtu combines its deep understanding of market structure, technology, automation and risk management tools to provide a fundamental service to the global markets by providing two-sided prices to investors in over 25,000 financial instruments on hundreds of venues.

Client Market Making
Our global footprint combined with our deep market making expertise uniquely positions us to provide institutional and retail clients with competitive pricing, liquidity and service in the industry.

Customized Liquidity
We combine specialized market structure expertise with real-time data to provide you with unique product and trading solutions in equities (vEQ link), fixed income (vFI), foreign exchange (vFX) and metals (vMX).

We leverage our investment in Market Making technology to deliver unique and cutting edge solutions to VES clients.

  • Virtu client solutions
    Execution Services
    Workflow Tech
    Venues (Liquidity Sourcing)
    Trade Analytics, Reporting and Data
  • Scalable platform
    235+ venues
    50+ countries
    60+ accessible markets
  • Unique sources of liquidity (opt-in)
    Retail/RIA
    Institutional blocks
    Principal market making flow
  • Global Multi-Asset
    We transact in 25,000+ financial
    instruments every major asset class
Technology

Benefits to all market participants

  • • Transparent global liquidity
  • • Efficiently priced markets
  • • Improved execution for institutional investors
Client solutions

Our complete suite of solutions covers the entire trade-lifecycle

We leverage our exceptional technology, market structure expertise and scale to drive value and lower execution costs for our clients throughout the entire multi-asset trade cycle.

Multi-asset execution and analytics tools and services

Portfolio Management

  • • Portfolio Optimization
  • • Cost Curves
  • • Fair Value
  • • Risk Models
  • • Execution Consulting

Pre-Trade

  • • Pre-Trade TCA
  • • Agency Cost Estimator
  • • Commission Management
  • • Risk Analysis
  • • Liquidity Studies
  • • Index Analysis

Trade

  • • Algos 
  • • DMA/SOR
  • • High-touch/Blocks
  • • Real-Time TCA
  • • Trade Surveillance
  • • Crossing
  • • 3rd party liquidity access 
  • • Order delivery to desk

Post-Trade

  • • Prism Frontier
  • • Open Tech (data APIs)
  • • Clearance/settlement
  • • Peer Group data
  • • Venue analysis/Outlier monitoring
  • • Post-Trade TCA
  • • MIS/reporting
  • • Book and records

Corporate
information

Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Virtu Financial, Inc. will be held virtually on June 3, 2021 at 9:00 AM ET.

Transfer Agent and Registrar
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (AST)

Stock
Since the Company’s initial public offering on April 16, 2015, shares of Virtu have been quoted on the NASDAQ, and trade under the symbol “VIRT”.

Independent Registered Accounting Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP