Knight's Hotspot FX Named Best Professional e-Trading Venue by FX Week
JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) today announced that Hotspot FX received a 2011 e-FX Award for "Best Professional e-Trading Venue" from FX Week.
"The entire Hotspot FX team is honored to have won this prestigious e-Trading Award from FX Week," said John Miesner, Managing Director and Head of Global Sales for Hotspot FX. "We have spent the last two years focused on growing our platform, improving and enhancing our technology and expanding our product offering, and it is extremely gratifying to have our progress recognized by a panel of industry experts. We continue our hard work and efforts to best serve our clients with their electronic FX trading needs."
Announcing the Best Professional e-Trading Venue Award for 2011, FX Week Editor Joel Clark said that Hotspot "has made massive strides forward in recent years, with volume growth of more than 300% between January 2009 and April 2011, and 30% more users in the first four months of this year than last year. 2011 heralds a number of new innovations for the platform, including the launch of its own private label offering that will allow FX brokers to build their own customised marketplaces."
Hotspot FX closed the second quarter 2011 with record volume traded of $4.09 trillion, 16% higher than in the first quarter. Second quarter 2011 average daily volume was $63 billion, nearly 57% higher than in the second quarter of 2010.
The e-FX Awards, determined by a panel of judges, recognize industry excellence in electronic foreign exchange from banks and vendors. FX Week announced the awards at its annual ceremony in New York July 14. For more information, please visit www.fxweekefxawards.com.
Hotspot FX LLC is a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, Inc. Hotspot FX in Europe is a division of Knight Capital Europe Limited.
About Knight
Knight Capital Group (NYSE Euronext: KCG) is a global financial services firm that provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy- and sell-side firms and corporations. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J. with a growing global presence across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For further information about Knight, please visit www.knight.com.
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