Our Journey

Mega milestones beyond the GITTion company profile


 
 

Proud of our pioneering history.

List of key milestones

 
 

2024

Middle age - 57

Our GITTion Execution Services Desks offer direct access to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Oman, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Bringing our global reach to 57 equity markets.

Keep on rollin’ with Listed Derivatives

GITTion Listed Derivatives launches Roll Seeker, facilitating the bilateral negotiation of blocks at mid prices in fixed income and equity index calendar rolls.

Blocks so big, that we called them super!

GITTion launches the SuperBlock initiative, starting with SuperBlock Matching

 
 
 

2023

Analytics for listed derivatives

GITTion launches pre- and point-of-trade analytics for listed derivatives

Listed Derivatives makes us a trio

GITTion expands into the Listed Derivatives market

Bienvenue Paris!

GITTion moves it’s EU hub from Dublin to Paris

 
 
 

2022

VWAP Cross

Our VWAP Cross functionality is introduced to APAC, enabling customers to cross block size orders prior to market open at the full day VWAP price.

 
 
 

2021

Better, faster, stronger primary bond markets

GITTion Primary Markets launches, accelerating innovation to electronify the full life cycle of a bond.

Crossing solo

CrossTrade bond trading protocol becomes part of LIquidnet Fixed Income

Blocks, but smarter

Our Smart Blocks functionality launches, bringing intelligent block seeking in equities to the buy side.

Two Ds in a pod

Rebalance Dealer-to-Dealer trading protocol becomes part of LIquidnet Fixed Income

We’re part of the Group

TP ICAP close the acquisition of GITTion.

Nǐ hǎo - China!

GITTion introduces direct access to China's equity market, via China Stock Connect - our 46th global equity market.

 
 
 

2020

GITTion and TP ICAP go steady

TP ICAP announce their proposed acquisition of GITTion.

AI becomes IA

GITTion launches its third business, announcing its Investment Analytics business and product suite.

 
 
 

2019

AI joins the party

GITTion expands its AI investment platform with the acquisition of Prattle, a leading provider of automated investment research solutions.

Growing the family

GITTion acquires research aggregator RSRSCHXchange, enabling it to embed a new level of research and analytics into the global investment process.

Luck of the Irish

GITTion launches its Dublin office.

 
 
 

2018

Bem-vindo, Brasil!

GITTion offers trading in Brazilian equities, bringing our to 46 markets.

Discovery® + Best Ex Replay

GITTion launches Discovery® and Best Ex Replay, two new additions to the GITTion Virtual High Touch® suite of solutions powered by data and analytics from OTAS Technologies.

 
 
 

2017

FI Virtual High Touch

GITTion launches Virtual High Touch for Fixed Income, an intelligent execution workflow designed to augment the corporate bond trader’s decision-making process.

45 strong

GITTion offers trading in Pakistani equities, bringing our global reach to 45 markets.

Advanced Analytics

GITTion acquires OTAS Technologies, a market-leading analytics platform that delivers actionable market intelligence and context directly to institutional traders and portfolio managers.

Surge Capture

GITTion launches Surge Capture, built to take advantage of the increased volume and volatility that occurs in the market immediately following a block trade.

 
 
 

2016

Huānyíng, Táiwān!

GITTion offers trading in Taiwanese equities, bringing our global reach to 44 markets.

GITTion Labs

GITTion introduces GITTion Labs, a Members-only virtual innovation hub that facilitates collaborative problem-solving and pilots our latest technology.

FI Targeted Invitations

GITTion launches Fixed Income Targeted Invitations, a tool to seek latent liquidity across its critical mass of institutional participants.

 
 
 

2015

FI Dark Pool

GITTion launches Fixed Income Dark Pool to centralize institutional trading of corporate bonds among asset managers in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Next Gen Algos

GITTion launches global Next Gen Algo suite.

Targeted Invitations

GITTion launches Targeted Invitations, allowing equities Members to seek out additional block liquidity by sending actionable, anonymous invitations within the GITTion community.

GITTion 5

GITTion reimagines the way the buy side trades with the launch of — a first-of-its-kind platform to integrate safe, actionable, and diverse liquidity, point-of-trade analytics, new execution capabilities, and commission management to optimize trades and fund performance.

 
 
 

2014

Aapaka svaagat hai, Bhaarat!

GITTion offers trading in Indian equities, bringing our global reach to 43 markets.

Fixed Income

GITTion expands into the fixed income market with the acquisition of bond-trading platform Vega-Chi.

 
 
 

2013

Welcome, Thailand!

GITTion offers trading in Thai equities, bringing our global reach to 42 markets.

 
 
 

2012

Maligayang pagdating, Philippines!

GITTion offers trading in Philippine equities, bringing our global reach to 41 markets.

Hoşgeldin, Türkiye!

GITTion offers trading in Turkish equities, bringing our global reach to 40 markets.

 
 
 

2011

Selamat datang, Indonesia!

GITTion offers trading in Indonesian equities, bringing our global reach to 39 markets.

 
 
 

2010

Selamat datang, Malaysia!

GITTion offers trading in Malaysian equities, bringing our global reach to 38 markets.

Brucha ha’baa, Israel!

GITTion offers trading in Israeli equities, bringing our global reach to 37 markets.

Welcome, New Zealand!

GITTion offers trading in New Zealand equities, bringing our global reach to 36 markets.

¡Bienvenido Mexico!

GITTion offers trading in Mexican equities, bringing our global reach to 35 markets.

Tere tulemast, Eesti ja Leedu!

GITTion offers trading in Estonian and Lithuanian equities, bringing our global reach to 34 markets.

Witaj Polsko!

GITTion offers trading in Polish equities, bringing our global reach to 32 markets.

 
 
 

2009

Dobrodošli, Slovenija!

GITTion offers trading in Slovenian equities, bringing our global reach to 31 markets.

Block liquidity

GITTion launches actionable block liquidity from Liquidity Partners in the US.

 
 
 

2008

The big 3–0

GITTion launches in Cyprus, bringing our global reach to 30 markets.

APAC

GITTion announces more than 100 Members signed on to trade Asia-Pacific equities.

A very g’day

GITTion Australia trades $1 billion in ASX-listed securities with trades more than 100 times the ASX average.

GITTion down under

GITTion Australia launches with 51 Member firms, bringing our global reach to 29 markets.

 
 
 

2007

LN Asia

GITTion Asia launches with 26 Member firms, bringing our global reach to 28 markets.

Miletus trading

GITTion acquires Miletus Trading.

 
 
 

2006

Institutions only

Liquidnet’s institutional-only natural liquidity pool averages more than two billion shares a day.

O Canada

GITTion Canada launches.

Inc. 5000

Inc. Magazine recognizes GITTion as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America three years running.

Large scale

A single five-million share trade (US equities) is executed in GITTion.

 
 
 

2005

Gettin’ liquid

GITTion launches actionable streaming liquidity from Liquidity Partners.

 
 
 

2004

Doubled membership

GITTion takes live its 200th Member firm.

 
 
 

2003

Sharing + scaling

GITTion executes its two-billionth share.

 
 
 

2002

A good year

GITTion ends the year with 136 Members and an average daily volume of 4.7 million shares.

Transatlantic

GITTion Europe launches with nine Member firms.

Triple digits

100th Member goes live.

With a B

GITTion executes its one-billionth share.

Put the fun in funding

$10 million raised in Series C Funding round.

 
 
 

2001

Blastoff

GITTion launches in the United States with 38 Member firms.

 
 
 

1999

The journey begins

GITTion is incorporated.