Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Knight) is a financial services firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy- and sell-side firms, as well as offers capital markets services to corporate issuers and private companies. The Company has three operating segments: Equities, FICC and Corporate. Equities segment includes equity market-making and electronic and voice institutional sales and trading in global equities, futures and options. The FICC segment includes global research, voice sales and trading in fixed income, as well as electronic trading in fixed income and foreign exchange. The Corporate segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains all corporate overhead expenses and all other expenses that are not attributable to the Equities and FICC segments.
