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.