Lightspeed Financial

Lightspeed Trading

Type	Private
Industry	Financial Services
Founded	2006
Headquarters	New York City, NY, USA
Services	Online Brokerage Services, Electronic Trading
Website	http://www.lightspeed.com

Lightspeed Trading is a New York City stock and options brokerage and day trading services company.

Regulation

Lightspeed Trading LLC is a registered broker-dealer, member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.^[1]

Awards

• Stockbrokers.com #1 Broker for Active Trading 2016^[2]
• Stockbrokers.com Best in Class for Active Trading 2015^[3]
• Stockbrokers.com #1 Broker for Active Trading 2014^[4]
• Best Broker for Frequent Traders, Barrons' 2013^[5]
• Stockbrokers.com #1 Broker for Active Trading 2013^[6]
• CTO Scott Ignall named to The Trading Show's Top 21 CTOs in North American Electronic Trading 2013^[7]
• Best Broker for Frequent Traders, Barron’s 2010, 2011 & 2012^[5]
• 2012 Inc. 5000 List^[8]
• CTO Scott Ignall named to Institutional Investor's Trading Technology 30 List 2011^[9]
• Deloitte's 2011 Technology Fast 500 Ranking^[10]
• Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2010^[11]
• Crains Best Places to Work in 2010^[12]

Current officers

Lightspeed Financial's current officers are as follows:^[13]

• Keith Petzold – Chief Compliance Officer
• Jason Lyons – Chief Financial Officer
• Eric Jones – Executive Vice President, Finance

Competitors

• Interactive Brokers^[14]

Timeline of acquisitions

1. 07/13/06 – E*TRADE Professional Trading, LLC and ETP Technologies, LLC^[15]
2. 01/15/08 – Integrity Trading^[16][17]
3. 02/17/10 – NobleTrading^[18][19]
4. 06/16/10 – Terra Nova Financial^[20][21]
5. 06/22/10 – Exclusive License to Operate Anvil Professional Trading Platform^[22]
6. 06/20/11 – Lime Brokerage International (Ireland) Limited^[23][24][25]
7. 07/07/11 – Greenmoor Financial Group^[26][27]

See also

• Comparison of online brokerages

References

1. "FINRA List of Members - L". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
2. "2016 Best Active Trading Brokers", February 16, 2016.
3. "2015 Online Broker Review", February 17, 2015.
4. "2014 Best Active Trading Brokers", February 18, 2014.
5. "Lightspeed Rated a "Best for Frequent Traders" by Barron’s for Fourth Consecutive Year". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
6. "#1 Broker for Active Trading". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
7. "Top 21 CTOs". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
8. "Inc. 5000 List". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
9. "Trading Tech 30". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
10. "Fast 500 Ranking" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-29.
11. "Finalists for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2010". Retrieved 2011-11-29.
12. "Best Places to Work 2010". Retrieved 2011-11-29.
13. "Lightspeed Management Team". Retrieved 2009-02-13.
14. "Lightspeed Financial, CrunchBase Profile". Retrieved 2009-02-13.
15. "Barrons: Making Changes at Lightspeed". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
16. "Lightspeed Financial Acquires Integrity Trading". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
17. Wahba, Phil (2008-05-07). "Lightspeed Trading sees sales doubling". Reuters. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
18. "Lightspeed Financial Acquires NobleTrading". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
19. "Lightspeed Financial acquires Noble Trading". Retrieved 2011-11-29.
20. "Lightspeed to acquire Chicago’s Terra Nova". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
21. "Lightspeed Financial Completes Acquisition of Terra Nova Financial". Retrieved 2011-11-29.
22. "Lightspeed Financial Acquires Exclusive License to Operate Anvil Professional Trading Platform". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
23. "Lightspeed Makes First Move Overseas; Acquires Lime Brokerage International (Ireland)". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
24. "Lightspeed Financial Buys Lime Brokerage's Ireland Unit". The Wall Street Journal. 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
25. "Lightspeed Financial Acquires Lime Brokerage International (Ireland) Limited". Retrieved 2011-11-29.
26. "Lightspeed Acquires Greenmoor Financial Group". Retrieved 2011-11-28.
27. "Lightspeed Financial buys Chicago options firm". Retrieved 2011-11-28.

External links

• Official website
• Lightspeed Institutional