Virtu Financial (VIRT) is a public company. Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients.

We combine our market structure expertise and execution technology to provide deep liquidity and competitive bids and offers in over 25,000 securities, at over 235 venues in 50+ countries and unrivaled execution technology to our clients, while creating more efficient and stable markets worldwide.

We strongly believe that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions while making markets more efficient. We strictly adhere to our core set of client values with each and every trade: Transparency, Reliability & Virtue. Founded in 2008. It has 1,040 employees. IPO 2015.

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Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, welcome to the Virtu Financial Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, please press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to Matthew Sandberg, Head of Investor Relations. Matthew, please go ahead.

Matthew Sandberg — Head of Investor Relations

Thank you. Good morning. Our second quarter 2026 results were released this morning are available on our website. With us today on this morning's call, we have Aaron Simons, our Chief Executive Officer, Cindy Lee, our Chief Financial Officer, and Joseph Molluso, our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer. We will begin with brief prepared remarks then take your questions. First, a few reminders. Today's call may include forward-looking statements which represent Virtu's current belief regarding future events and are therefore subject to risks, assumptions, and uncertainties which may be outside the company's control. Please note that our actual results and financial conditions may differ materially from what is indicated in these forward-looking statements. It is important to note that any forward-looking statements made on this call are based on information presently available to the company, we do not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements as new information becomes available. We refer you to disclaimers in our press release and encourage you to review the