Our Journey

Middle age - 57

Our Liquidnet 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

Liquidnet 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!

Liquidnet launches the SuperBlock initiative, starting with SuperBlock Matching

Analytics for listed derivatives

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

Listed Derivatives makes us a trio

Liquidnet expands into the Listed Derivatives market

Bienvenue Paris!

Liquidnet moves it’s EU hub from Dublin to Paris

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.

Better, faster, stronger primary bond markets

Liquidnet 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 Liquidnet.

Nǐ hǎo - China!

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

Liquidnet and TP ICAP go steady

TP ICAP announce their proposed acquisition of Liquidnet.

AI becomes IA

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

AI joins the party

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

Growing the family

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

Luck of the Irish

Liquidnet launches its Dublin office.

Bem-vindo, Brasil!

Liquidnet offers trading in Brazilian equities, bringing our global reach to 46 markets.

Discovery^® + Best Ex Replay

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

FI Virtual High Touch

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

45 strong

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

Advanced Analytics

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

Surge Capture

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

Huānyíng, Táiwān!

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

Liquidnet Labs

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

FI Targeted Invitations

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

FI Dark Pool

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

Next Gen Algos

Liquidnet launches global Next Gen Algo suite.

Targeted Invitations

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

Liquidnet 5

Liquidnet reimagines the way the buy side trades with the launch of Liquidnet 5 — 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.

Aapaka svaagat hai, Bhaarat!

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

Fixed Income

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

Welcome, Thailand!

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

Maligayang pagdating, Philippines!

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

Hoşgeldin, Türkiye!

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

Selamat datang, Indonesia!

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

Selamat datang, Malaysia!

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

Brucha ha’baa, Israel!

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

Welcome, New Zealand!

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

¡Bienvenido Mexico!

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

Tere tulemast, Eesti ja Leedu!

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

Witaj Polsko!

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

Dobrodošli, Slovenija!

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

Block liquidity

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

The big 3–0

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

APAC

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

A very g’day

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

Liquidnet down under

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

LN Asia

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

Miletus trading

Liquidnet acquires Miletus Trading.

Institutions only

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

O Canada

Liquidnet Canada launches.

Inc. 5000

Inc. Magazine recognizes Liquidnet 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 Liquidnet.

Gettin’ liquid

Liquidnet launches actionable streaming liquidity from Liquidity Partners.

Doubled membership

Liquidnet takes live its 200th Member firm.

Sharing + scaling

Liquidnet executes its two-billionth share.

A good year

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

Transatlantic

Liquidnet Europe launches with nine Member firms.

Triple digits

100th Member goes live.

With a B

Liquidnet executes its one-billionth share.

Put the fun in funding

$10 million raised in Series C Funding round.

Blastoff

Liquidnet launches in the United States with 38 Member firms.

The journey begins

Liquidnet is incorporated.