– GTS and Veteran-Owned Mischler Financial Group Forge High-Tech, High-Touch Alliance to Serve Corporate Issuers, Investment Managers and Other Market Participants –
November 19, 2018 – GTS, the New York Stock Exchange’s largest Designated Market-Maker (“DMM”) and a leading electronic trading firm, and Mischler Financial Group, Inc. (“Mischler”), the financial services industry’s oldest minority broker-dealer owned and operated by service-disabled veterans, today announced a strategic alliance that will establish a best-in-class offering for primary debt and equity market underwriting as well as secondary market best execution across the capital markets.
The partnership, which is anchored by a technology-powered offering for public companies and a broad universe of capital markets participants, will yield a low-cost, more efficient and more effective trade execution experience. Mischler will become a “forward operating base” for the growing GTS capital markets franchise, affording clients access to technology and sources of liquidity that are generally only available to the world’s most sophisticated investors.
Founded in 2006 as a proprietary, quantitative trading firm, GTS is now a recognized leader in market structure and proudly oversees trading for more than one-third of NYSE-listed companies. The firm has an extensive track record developing and deploying proprietary, industry-best technology to bring better price discovery, trade execution and transparency to the markets.
(l) Ari Rubenstein, CEO, GTS (r) Dean Chamberlain, CEO Mischler Financial Group
“This is a high-tech, high-touch partnership designed to meet the needs of a new generation of issuers, asset managers, and trading and investment professionals seeking low-impact market liquidity and best-in-class execution,” said Ari Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GTS. “Clients are rightfully demanding innovation in the marketplace, and this alliance is uniquely designed to provide that and much more.”
Mischler, established in 1994, is an active underwriter across global equities, corporate and municipal debt, government securities and structured products. In the last three years alone, Mischler has played a role in almost 700 primary debt and equity market transactions. The firm also provides conflict-free share repurchase services for corporate treasurers as well as secondary market trade execution in equities and fixed income for a discrete universe of public plan sponsors and institutional investment managers.
Dean Chamberlain, Mischler’s Chief Executive Officer and a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army Officer, added: “The combined GTS-Mischler offering holistically provides a powerful arsenal of primary and secondary market solutions for the most demanding capital markets constituents. Mischler’s pedigree, capital markets expertise and front-line position – where we engage with a discrete network of corporate treasury executives and investment managers – is now further strengthened by the unrivaled technology and multi-asset trade facilitation platform that GTS has pioneered.”
Mischler is a fully-certified Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVOBE) and FINRA’s oldest veteran-owned investment bank and institutional brokerage. “For issuers and investment managers focused on retaining truly expert capabilities while fulfilling their Diversity & Inclusion goals, the combined GTS-Mischler platform will not merely meet, but will exceed all expectations,” added Mr. Chamberlain.
Mr. Rubenstein concluded: “This partnership is another trans-formative moment for the build-out of our capital markets business and reflects the next phase of an evolution in which GTS and Mischler constituents can more easily access and benefit from quantitative, algorithmic, and next generation AI applications. The current environment and the landscape of the future will reward market participants who responsibly leverage technology. If we can arm all investment professionals with these assets, they can thrive in new ways.”
The alliance between GTS and Mischler is highly complementary – with both entities sharing the same commitment to market integrity, fairness, bespoke service, and creating new and untapped value for their clients and stakeholders. Terms of the partnership include GTS acquiring an equity stake in Mischler, the details of which were not disclosed.
For more information about the GTS-Mischler partnership, please visit www.GTS-Mischler-Partnership.com
About GTS
Powered by combining market expertise with proprietary technology, GTS is a globally-recognized electronic market-maker for equities, ETFs, fixed income and FX. GTS is the New York Stock Exchange’s largest Designated Market Maker (“DMM”), where it is responsible for maintaining fair and orderly markets for more than 1,100 public companies representing more than $13 trillion of market capitalization. As a quantitative trading firm and market-structure thought-leader that is continually building for the future, GTS leverages the latest in artificial intelligence systems and quantitative pricing models to bring consistency, efficiency, and transparency to today’s financial markets. GTS’s recently announced plans to acquire Cantor Fitzgerald’s ETF and retail stock trading businesses will create a new standard that will marry technology and capital deployment to create robust efficiency for clients across all asset classes.
About Mischler Financial Group
Veteran-owned broker-dealer Mischler Financial Group, Inc. (“Mischler”) was established in 1994 and is a boutique investment bank and conflict-free institutional brokerage. A fully-certified minority-owned firm, Mischler was the first FINRA member to be designated as a Service-Disabled-Veteran-Business Enterprise (SDVBE). Today, Mischler is recognized for its role as a leading capital markets boutique operating across the primary and secondary financial market ecosystem. The firm serves Fortune corporate treasurers in the course of their issuing new debt and equity offerings and administering their respective corporate share repurchase aka 10b-18 programs. In many initiatives, Mischler is viewed as a pure complement to the role played by issuers’ lead underwriters and also assists state and local governments in selling tax-exempt and taxable municipal securities. Investment management clients of the firm’s secondary market execution platform include a broad spectrum of public plan sponsors and investment fund managers. Mischler also provides cash management for government entities and corporations, and asset management programs for liquid and alternative investment strategies. Mischler maintains offices in 8 major cities and is staffed by more than 50 securities industry veterans.
For Media
Mischler Financial Contact: The JLC Group; contact@thejlcgroup.com
GTS Contact: Profile Advisors; Rich Myers, 646-538-7904 rmyers@profileadvisors.com
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