Liquidnet
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| Liquidnet Inc. | |
| Key People | Seth Merrin: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director; Robert Young, Chief Operating Officer, William Maw, Chief Financial Officer; Alfred Eskandar, Global Head of Corporate Strategy[1] |
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| Products | Supernatural |
| Web site | www.liquidnet.com |
Liquidnet is an electronic marketplace for block trading. It enables buy-side firms to access the largest natural pool of institutional liquidity in the industry, and it allows them to execute institutional-sized orders directly and anonymously with significant price improvement and little to no market impact.[2]
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Liquidnet offers a variety of trading strategies, which traders can access through its web-based interface, MultiVerse By Liquidnet, through FIX, or through Liquidnet’s trading desk.
On June 8, 2009, Liquidnet announced a partnership with NYSE Euronext, a competitor, to launch new services for interactions between institutional investors and corporate issuers serviced by both organizations. Liquidnet is launching Liquidnet InfraRed, a proprietary desktop application accessed through NYSE’s ‘NYSEnet’ system to aggregate institutional demand, news sentiment and block trading data.[1]
On Jan. 27, 2010, Liquidnet announced it had been ranked as the number one overall performance leader for the second consecutive year in U.S. Equities Operations by Z/Yen’s 2009 survey of Operational Performance of Brokers. [2]
References
- ↑ Liquidnet Announces Partnership with NYSE Euronext® to Launch New Services to Uniquely Connect Institutional Investors with Corporate Issuers. NYSE. Retrieved on June 8, 2009.
- ↑ Liquidnet Voted #1 for Operations in Annual Broker Survey. Liquidnet. Retrieved on January 27, 2010.
