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Knight Capital Group Inc. (NITE)On Nov 18: 14.12   0.00 (0.00%)  
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Knight Capital Group Inc.
545 Washington Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07310
United States - Map
Phone: 201-222-9400
Fax: 201-557-6853
Web Site: http://www.knight.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Financial
Industry:Investment Brokerage - Regional
Full Time Employees:868

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Knight Capital Group, Inc., a financial services company, provides electronic and voice access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients, as well as asset management for institutions and private clients in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Asset Management and Global Markets. The Asset Management segment operates as an investment manager, as well as sponsors hedge funds. It primarily serves banks, insurance companies, funds-of-hedge funds, corporate and public pension plan sponsors, trusts, endowments, and private clients. The Global Markets segment offers a range of trade execution products and services across various asset classes for broker-dealers and institutions. This segment’s institutional products comprise equity, futures, options, and foreign currency trade execution solutions; block trading; program trading; international equities; special situations/risk arbitrage; soft dollar and commission recapture programs; corporate access services; direct market access; and crossing networks. Its customers include broker-dealers clients, including global, national, and regional broker-dealers and on-line brokers; and institutional clients consisting of mutual funds, pension plans, plan sponsors, hedge funds, trusts, and endowments. The company was founded in 1995. It was formerly known as Knight/Trimark Group, Inc. and changed its name to Knight Trading Group, Inc. in 2000. Later, it changed its name to Knight Capital Group, Inc. in 2005. Knight Capital Group is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Knight Capital Group Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Nov-08 is better than 81.3% of Russell 3000 companies and 72.7% of Diversified Financials companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Thomas M. Joyce , 53
    Exec. Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer
    $ 5.16M $ 18.78M
    Mr. Steven Bisgay , 41
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. Managing Director
    $ 999.00K $ 70.00K
    Mr. James P. Smyth , 52
    Exec. VP and Head of Broker Dealer Client Group
    $ 3.08M $ 2.41M
    Mr. Gregory C. Voetsch , 46
    Exec. VP of Equity Sales & Trading and Head of Institutional Client Group
    $ 2.99M $ 5.18M
    Mr. Steven J. Sadoff , 44
    Chief Information Officer and Sr. Managing Director
    $ 1.90M $ 744.00K
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-07 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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