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Non-Tech : Knight/Trimark Group, Inc.
KCG 20.000.0%Aug 17 5:00 PM EST

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To: Gary Korn who wrote (5455)11/2/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Gary Korn  Read Replies (2) of 10027
 
Some research snippets:

OptiMark Technologies (founded by Instinet's former chairman,
William Lupien, and financed in part by Dow Jones & Co. and IBM) now does
direct electronic crossing in all NYSE stocks listed on the Pacific Stock
Exchange. For actively traded stocks, OptiMark matches buyers and sellers every
three minutes; for others, every five minutes. They just keep queueing up the
orders and executing them.


. . .

In July, OptiMark did raise $100 million in a private placement, 90% of it from a venture-capital fund led by Japan's SoftBank Corp. (I.e., Future IPO of a company in which NITE could end up as the largest shareholder)
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