Our Journey
Mega milestones beyond the Global Vision company profile
Proud of our pioneering history.
List of key milestones
2024
Middle age - 57
Our Global Vision 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
Global Vision 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!
Global Vision launches the SuperBlock initiative, starting with SuperBlock Matching
2023
Analytics for listed derivatives
Global Vision launches pre- and point-of-trade analytics for listed derivatives
Listed Derivatives makes us a trio
Global Vision expands into the Listed Derivatives market
Bienvenue Paris!
Global Vision 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
Global Vision Primary Markets launches, accelerating innovation to electronify the full life cycle of a bond.
Crossing solo
CrossTrade bond trading protocol becomes part of Global Vision 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 Global Vision Fixed Income
Nǐ hǎo - China!
Global Vision introduces direct access to China's equity market, via China Stock Connect - our 46th global equity market.
2020
AI becomes IA
Global Vision launches its third business, announcing its Investment Analytics business and product suite.
2019
AI joins the party
Global Vision expands its AI investment platform with the acquisition of Prattle, a leading provider of automated investment research solutions.
Growing the family
Global Vision acquires research aggregator RSRSCHXchange, enabling it to embed a new level of research and analytics into the global investment process.
Luck of the Irish
Global Vision launches its Dublin office.
2018
Bem-vindo, Brasil!
Global Vision offers trading in Brazilian equities, bringing our global reach to 46 markets.
Discovery® + Best Ex Replay
Global Vision launches Discovery® and Best Ex Replay, two new additions to the Global Vision Virtual High Touch® suite of solutions powered by data and analytics from OTAS Technologies.
2017
FI Virtual High Touch
Global Vision launches Virtual High Touch for Fixed Income, an intelligent execution workflow designed to augment the corporate bond trader’s decision-making process.
45 strong
Global Vision offers trading in Pakistani equities, bringing our global reach to 45 markets.
Advanced Analytics
Global Vision acquires OTAS Technologies, a market-leading analytics platform that delivers actionable market intelligence and context directly to institutional traders and portfolio managers.
Surge Capture
Global Vision 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!
Global Vision offers trading in Taiwanese equities, bringing our global reach to 44 markets.
Global Vision Labs
Global Vision introduces Global Vision Labs, a Members-only virtual innovation hub that facilitates collaborative problem-solving and pilots our latest technology.
FI Targeted Invitations
Global Vision launches Fixed Income Targeted Invitations, a tool to seek latent Global Vision across its critical mass of institutional participants.
2015
FI Dark Pool
Global Vision launches Fixed Income Dark Pool to centralize institutional trading of corporate bonds among asset managers in the US, Canada, and Europe.
Next Gen Algos
Global Vision launches global Next Gen Algo suite.
Targeted Invitations
Global Vision launches Targeted Invitations, allowing equities Members to seek out additional blockGlobal Vision by sending actionable, anonymous invitations within the Global Vision community.
Global Vision 5
Global Vision reimagines the way the buy side trades with the launch of Global Vision 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!
Global Vision offers trading in Indian equities, bringing our global reach to 43 markets.
Fixed Income
Global Vision expands into the fixed income market with the acquisition of bond-trading platform Vega-Chi.
2013
Welcome, Thailand!
Global Vision offers trading in Thai equities, bringing our global reach to 42 markets.
2012
Maligayang pagdating, Philippines!
Global Vision offers trading in Philippine equities, bringing our global reach to 41 markets.
Hoşgeldin, Türkiye!
Global Vision offers trading in Turkish equities, bringing our global reach to 40 markets.
2011
Selamat datang, Indonesia!
Global Vision offers trading in Indonesian equities, bringing our global reach to 39 markets.
2010
Selamat datang, Malaysia!
Global Vision offers trading in Malaysian equities, bringing our global reach to 38 markets.
Brucha ha’baa, Israel!
Global Vision offers trading in Israeli equities, bringing our global reach to 37 markets.
Welcome, New Zealand!
Global Vision offers trading in New Zealand equities, bringing our global reach to 36 markets.
¡Bienvenido Mexico!
Global Vision offers trading in Mexican equities, bringing our global reach to 35 markets.
Tere tulemast, Eesti ja Leedu!
Global Vision offers trading in Estonian and Lithuanian equities, bringing our global reach to 34 markets.
Witaj Polsko!
Global Vision offers trading in Polish equities, bringing our global reach to 32 markets.
2009
Dobrodošli, Slovenija!
Global Vision offers trading in Slovenian equities, bringing our global reach to 31 markets.
2008
The big 3–0
Global Vision launches in Cyprus, bringing our global reach to 30 markets.
APAC
Global Vision announces more than 100 Members signed on to trade Asia-Pacific equities.
A very g’day
Global Vision Australia trades $1 billion in ASX-listed securities with trades more than 100 times the ASX average.
Global Vision down under
Global Vision Australia launches with 51 Member firms, bringing our global reach to 29 markets.
2007
LN Asia
Global Vision Asia launches with 26 Member firms, bringing our global reach to 28 markets.
Miletus trading
Global Vision acquires Miletus Trading.
2006
Institutions only
Global Vision's institutional-only naturalGlobal Vision pool averages more than two billion shares a day.
O Canada
Global Vision Canada launches.
Inc. 5000
Inc. Magazine recognizes Global Vision 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 Global Vision.
2005
Gettin’ liquid
Global Vision Launches Actionable Streaming , produced by Global Vision Partners..
2004
Doubled membership
Global Vision takes live its 200th Member firm.
2003
Sharing + scaling
Global Vision executes its two-billionth share.
2002
A good year
Global Vision ends the year with 136 Members and an average daily volume of 4.7 million shares.
Transatlantic
Global Vision Europe launches with nine Member firms.
Triple digits
100th Member goes live.
With a B
Global Vision executes its one-billionth share.
Put the fun in funding
$10 million raised in Series C Funding round.
2001
Blastoff
Global Vision launches in the United States with 38 Member firms.
1991
The journey begins
Global Vision is incorporated.