KCG Holdings

KCG Holdings is a bronze sponsor for the Princeton University Mathematics Competition.

History
Getco LLC was founded in 1999 by Stephen Schuler and Daniel Tierney. Its primary business was original, high-frequency trading and electronic market making. Knight Capital Group was founded in 1995, as Knight/Trimaric Group. It provided services such as institutional sales, trading, US equities for remi brokerage, dot pools, and electronic execution. After a technological breakdown almost putting Knight Capital Group out of business, it agreed to combine with Getco LLC. The final merge was made on July 8, 2013, by Daniel Coleman, whom merged Knight Capital Group and Getco LLC to combine to KCG Holdings. On January 2015 KCG Holdings sold its foreign exchange trading platform KCG Hotspot to BATS Global marker. On April 20 2017 KCG Holdings agreed to be acquired by Virtu Financial, which is what the company is known as today.