Brian Guckian, Chief Development Officer of Appital, said: We are very excited to add Virtu’s Triton Valor to our community of EMS partners. Its users are now able to originate bookbuilds and participate in price formation opportunities in a market for size that is relevant to them. Melissa Ellis, Head of European Workflow Sales, at…
Read more
Mark Badyra, CEO, Appital, said: I am thrilled to welcome Matthew to the Appital team. His industry insights and equity markets expertise are invaluable as we implement our vision to bring technological innovation, efficiency and transparency to equity markets and unlock latent liquidity for investors. Jefford’s appointment comes as Appital recently announced VC funding and…
Read more
Dr Robert Barnes, Group Head of Securities Trading & CEO Turquoise Global Holdings at London Stock Exchange Group, said: Where bookbuilding is the appropriate mechanism to find the right price for large block trades, Appital Turquoise BookBuilder™ innovates with the world's first automation of buyside bookbuilding seamlessly integrating STP trading to settlement. According to the…
Read more
Mark Badyra, CEO Appital, commented: We have been working with Bernstein to develop the platform from the early development phase. Asset managers told us they would like to use Bernstein to execute this type of flow because of their independent market position and strong research focus. Our collaboration gives our shared client base the functionality…
Read more
Additionally, Appital’s partnership with Turquoise allows buy-side firms access to over 20 settlement venues via a single point of access and with seamless straight-through-processing (STP). Mark Badyra, CEO of Appital, said: What we set out to do with Appital is provide unique, electronic price formation capabilities of illiquid equity positions to enable execution with minimal…
Read more
Through the new Appital platform, buy-side firms can obtain more exposure to deal flow opportunities, portfolio managers and heads of trading build can gain a comprehensive picture of liquidity, including highly illiquid, small and mid-cap stocks. Rebecca Healey of Redlap Consulting noted in The Trade, discussing her recent report “Liquidity in the Time of Covid”:…
Read more
Wharton’s appointment follows the latest funding round which will accelerate the development of Appital’s technology infrastructure. It will also speed up its integration with financial institutions and technology vendors and allow expansion of their engineering team to support the delivery of their strategy. This process has already started with the recent announcements of Appital’s partnership…
Read more
Andy Mahoney, Managing Director EMEA FlexTrade Systems, commented: This integration with Appital brings transparency and automation to an area of the market traditionally plagued by opacity and outdated, phone based bookbuilding activity. We see significant demand for Appital’s offering from some of our largest asset management customers. As a result, we have been collaborating with…
Read more
Mark Badyra, Chief Executive Officer of Appital, said: This is an exciting time for our business. We are delighted to have secured joint investment from Frontline Ventures and a number of angel investors to provide buy-side firms with new opportunities to discover and interact with latent liquidity. We enable buy-side firms to radically rethink their…
Read more
Stephane Carty has over 23 years of experience in trading and financial derivatives. In 2010 he founded global volatility fund Fir Post Capital and subsequently Blackheath Capital Management. Prior to that the served as a head of European Principal Strategies at Wachovia Securities International. Carty brings to Appital market structure expertise, insights into operating in…
Read more