Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Virtu Financial Ireland Limited
EU Transparency Register
942073927339-83 First registered on 31 May 2017
Goals / Remit
Virtu Financial Ireland Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Virtu Financial, Inc. and is a market-leading liquidity provider in European markets with a focus on equities, exchange traded funds and exchange traded derivatives.
Founded in 2008, Virtu Financial has become a global leader in electronic market making. Through its subsidiaries in the US, Ireland and Singapore it actively makes markets by providing quotations to buyers and sellers in more than 12,000 securities and other financial instruments across a broad range of asset classes including equities, foreign exchange, commodities, options and fixed income, on more than 230 unique exchanges, markets and liquidity pools in 35 countries around the world.
Virtu believes that its broad diversification, in combination with its proprietary technology platform and low-cost structure, enables it to facilitate risk transfer between global capital markets participants by supplying liquidity and competitive pricing while at the same time earning attractive margins and returns.
As liquidity providers, Virtu lowers costs for both retail and institutional investors by supplying competitive bids and offers, without seeking to take on risky directional positions. Virtu's liquidity provision plays a vital role in the overall health and efficiency of the global financial markets, especially in times of market turbulence.
Virtu is successful because it focuses not just on the trade but on every aspect of the "life cycle" of a trade, from market structure knowledge and execution technology to post-trade processing and relationship management. At the core of its business is the development of innovative, proprietary technology, designed to automate market making and post-trade activities. Virtu is the new model for a financial services company.
Virtu continually strives to leverage its global and EU-centric knowledge of capital markets structure, deep employee experience and technical proficiency to achieve scale and provide the best bids and offers in the market.Main EU files targeted
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/Regulation, Capital Requirements Directive/Regulation, Market Abuse Directive/Regulation, European Market Infrastructure Regulation, Capital Markets Union, Cybersecurity, Taxation.
Address
Head Office
Whitaker Court, Whitaker Square, Block C, 3rd Floor
Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Dublin Dublin 2
IRELAND -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr James McQuillan (Head of EMEA Compliance, Market Structure and Regulatory Relations)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr David Furlong (Managing Director)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
FIA EPTA
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 27 Oct 2021 Location virtual Subject Payment for Order Flow Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jun 2017 Location Brussels Subject MiFID II / MiFIR; Systematic Internaliser; Prudential Regime Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Tatyana Panova (Cabinet member)