Our Journey
Mega milestones beyond the Liquidnet company profile
Proud of our pioneering history.
List of key milestones
2024
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
2023
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
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
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.
2020
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.
2019
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.
2018
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.
2017
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.
2016
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.
2015
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.
2014
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.
2013
Welcome, Thailand!
Liquidnet offers trading in Thai equities, bringing our global reach to 42 markets.
2012
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.
2011
Selamat datang, Indonesia!
Liquidnet offers trading in Indonesian equities, bringing our global reach to 39 markets.
2010
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.
2009
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.
2008
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.
2007
LN Asia
Liquidnet Asia launches with 26 Member firms, bringing our global reach to 28 markets.
Miletus trading
Liquidnet acquires Miletus Trading.
2006
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.
2005
Gettin’ liquid
Liquidnet launches actionable streaming liquidity from Liquidity Partners.
2004
Doubled membership
Liquidnet takes live its 200th Member firm.
2003
Sharing + scaling
Liquidnet executes its two-billionth share.
2002
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.
2001
Blastoff
Liquidnet launches in the United States with 38 Member firms.
1999
The journey begins
Liquidnet is incorporated.