Virtu Financial is a leading global electronic market-making and high-frequency trading firm headquartered in New York, with its Hong Kong entity serving Asia-Pacific markets. The firm uses sophisticated proprietary technology to provide liquidity across equities, fixed income, currencies, and derivatives, earning revenue from bid-ask spreads and trading activity. Its clients are primarily institutional, including broker-dealers and exchanges that rely on Virtu for market-making and execution services. Virtu's automated trading services licence in Hong Kong reflects its core business of algorithmic and high-frequency market-making in Asian securities markets.
Licensed headcount
Active licence holders · monthly snapshot
Where talent comes from
Top 8 of 20Source firms · arrivals 2003–present
Where talent goes
Top 8 of 20Destination firms · departures 2003–present
Regulated activities
Country of origin · active staff
Inferred from name · current members only
People
| Name ↕ | CE# ↕ | Joined ↓ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOON Zhen Jie Kyle 溫政傑 DealingAuto Trading | BWW659 | 2025-10-02 | |
| WHITAKER Thomas Grant DealingAuto Trading | BRV618 | 2024-06-07 | |
| CHEUNG Ka Him Jason 張嘉謙 DealingAuto Trading | BRX179 | 2023-11-10 | |
| WONG Kenneth Sze-ho 王詩顥 DealingAuto Trading | AWT852 | 2023-01-13 | |
| JUSUFI Mirgim DealingAuto Trading | AYR638 | 2019-08-01 | |
| JIANG Feng DealingAuto Trading | BHQ334 | 2016-06-22 | |
| MOONEY Heath Christopher DealingAuto Trading | BAU631 | 2013-02-06 | |
| THOMSON Alasdair Bruce DealingAuto Trading | AIO062 | 2003-05-30 | |
| YU Chun Fai 余俊輝 DealingAdvisingCorp FinanceAuto TradingAsset Mgmt | AFJ184 | 2003-04-01 |
Top competitors by talent overlap
Score combines talent flow volume, regulatory activity overlap (Jaccard), and business similarity (embeddings). Higher = more competitive overlap.