Where advanced technology
meets trading ingenuity.
And vice versa.

About
Fintech @ Fifty
Market Insights
Trading Services
Liquidity & Crossing
Workflow Solutions
Careers
Ideas & Innovations

Agents
of change.

When Instinet gave birth to electronic trading in 1969, we were a small tech-focused upstart with a simple (but then, radical) point of view: that technology can bring great efficiency to the financial markets. No one had coined the term “fintech” yet, but that’s what we were. We’ve made it our mission to remain at the forefront of advancements that shape the financial markets ever since.

Today, as part of Nomura Group, Instinet’s global agency model* provides services that span the entire investment life cycle. Our goal is to help our institutional clients create, preserve and capture alpha in a changing world.

Our Approach

The vision to lead. The capabilities to perform.

We operate with a “client-first” approach. It’s built on robust and adaptive technology and decades of experience fine-tuning our capabilities to a constantly-shifting marketplace and for the evolving objectives of our clients.

Instinet offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, including market insights and commentary, full service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via our array of crossing pools, and a set of award-winning workflow solutions engineered to help our clients efficiently manage their investment process, their way.

The Investment Life Cycle

Expert commentary & analysis

  • Market structure
  • Trading strategies
  • Regulatory updates

High touch trading

  • Sales trading
  • Portfolio trading
  • Insight and analysis

Algorithmic trading

  • Benchmark strategies
  • Participation strategies
  • Liquidity-driven strategies

Low latency trading

  • Market access
  • Market data
  • Hosting and networking

Liquidity

A global suite of unique
alternative crossing venues

Analytics

  • Pre-trade strategy and analysis
  • Real-time trade performance data
  • Post-trade measurement and TCA

Newport EMS

Broker-neutral sell-side
execution platform

Newport OMS

End-to-end broker-dealer
order management and
middle/back-office platform

Plazma

  • Global CCA/CSA
    management platform
  • Provider-neutral research
    payment hub

Technology makes it possible. People make the difference.

Since Instinet’s beginning, technology has been what has set us apart. But relationships have always been the heart of our business. While new advancements and innovations continue to drive our business and industry forward, we believe human connection, interaction, and inspiration will always be the true fuel of the financial markets.

The agency model, by nature, focuses on client performance and transparency above all else. Assisting you in achieving best execution and delivering performance drives everything we do. That’s why we’re continuously investing in our core infrastructure and flexible technology, thoughtfully curating our access to internal and external liquidity, and carefully developing our client-centric team culture. We keep every part focused on relentlessly improving efficiency and performance across our solution set.

Explore our history of innovation

What is Fintech? Where did it begin?

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Leadership

Richard Parsons
Chief Executive Officer

Richard Parsons

Chief Executive Officer

Richard Parsons is the CEO of Instinet Incorporated, responsible for managing the agency-model brokerage firm's overall operations, across the globe. He also serves as the CEO of Instinet Europe, a role he has held since 2016. Mr. Parsons joined Instinet in 2002 as a US Equity Sales Trader and has taken on an evolving succession of senior execution leadership roles, including Head of International Trading and Head of European Coverage, before becoming the firm’s European CEO. In 2021, he became global Chief Operating Officer of Instinet Incorporated, and was named Chief Executive Officer in December 2022. Prior to joining Instinet, Richard spent nine years on the Buyside - starting his career at Gartmore Investment Management.

Eugene Chiulli
Chief Financial Officer

Eugene Chiulli

Chief Financial Officer

Eugene Chiulli is the Chief Financial Officer of Instinet Incorporated, with responsibility for global finance. He also serves as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Nomura Holding America and its major subsidiaries. He joined Nomura in 2019. Mr. Chiulli has extensive financial services industry experience, spending over 25 years covering products in the Retail Banking, Asset Management, Wealth Management, and Capital Market sectors. 

Prior to joining Nomura, he spent eight years at RBC Capital Markets LLC, the broker-dealer subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada in the US. Eugene was the US Controller for RBC and the CFO for its largest entity, RBC Capital Markets, and the RBC Asset Manager "GAM.” Prior to RBC, he worked at JP Morgan and Bear Stearns. 

Eugene graduated from Fordham University with a BS in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is also an active member of SIFMA and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He is also former Treasurer of the Institute of International Bank.

Faron Webb
General Counsel

Faron Webb

General Counsel

Faron Webb is General Counsel of Instinet Incorporated and the global head of Instinet's legal and compliance functions. Mr. Webb helped lead Nomura's acquisition of Instinet in February 2007 and was appointed General Counsel in April 2008. Prior to joining Nomura, Mr. Webb served as Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Société Générale and Cowen & Co., as the head of US Equity Compliance for J.P. Morgan, and as a senior attorney and regulatory advisor for PaineWebber. He also previously worked as senior counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and engaged in the private practice of law. Mr. Webb is a graduate of Eastern New Mexico University and Texas Tech University and is a certified public accountant.

* Instinet brokerage affiliates effect transactions primarily on an agency basis. They may act as principal or riskless principal to correct bona fide errors, to fulfill non-standard settlement requests, to provide ADR services, to effect foreign exchange transactions, and in other situations that do not involve substantial proprietary trading or investment.
 

Celebrating the first 50 years.
Imagining the next 50.

In 1969, we were upstarts with a radical idea. That idea was an electronic network for trading stocks.

This concept seems like a given now, but fifty years ago it was the beginning of a revolution—a fundamental shift that redefined how the markets work and how investors interact with each other.

The term hadn’t been coined yet, but Instinet was the original “fintech”.

Over the last five decades, we have often had the opportunity to be a positive transformative force in the markets. The innovations we've developed on behalf of our clients have played an integral role in many of the advancements that have shaped how the investment life cycle works today.

That pioneering spirit still drives us, and inspires innovation that improves our clients’ performance, creates more efficient and accessible markets, and effectively supports the investments that benefit people and enterprises all over the world.

What is Fintech? Where did it begin?

The Seventies

1969

Electronic trading is born.
The Instinet Communication System, the market’s first ECN, goes live.

1971

Exchange evolution.
NASDAQ launches the world’s first fully electronic stock market.

1977

Seeing green.
Instinet introduces the first US stock quote montage, the Green Screen.

The Eighties

1984

Electrifying specialists.
NYSE SuperDOT system allows orders to be routed electronically directly to specialists.

1986

First crossing.
Instinet launches the first point-in-time cross in the US.

1987

Hold the phone.
Automated NYSE Small Order Execution System (SOES) is introduced after dealers refused to answer the phone during the 1987 crash.

The Nineties

1992

FIXing everything.
The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) real-time electronic communications protocol is introduced.

1993

Meet the modern OMS.
Instinet OMS is among the earliest order management systems for equities.

1997

Let the revolution begin.
SEC Order Handling Rules remake the competitive structure of the US equity markets, boosting electronic trading and beginning the market’s tech revolution.

1999

Get smart.
As new trading venues fragment the US equity market, Instinet launches Helix, a pioneering smart-routing technology.

The Two Thousands

2001

Technology versus humans.
IBM researchers publish a paper that shows algorithmic strategies consistently outperforming human traders. Meanwhile, the US dot-com bubble is bursting.

2005

Going dark.
SEC National Market Structure (NMS) regulation is implemented, driving more volume into electronic markets and spurring growth of dark pools and high-frequency trading.

2006

The X factor.
Instinet launches Chi-X Europe to little fanfare; within five years, it becomes the largest pan-European trading platform.

2007

Good timing.
As the original Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is being rolled out (just prior to the Financial Crisis) Instinet joins the Nomura family, retaining separate, agency model execution brokerages focused on execution quality.

The Two Thousand Tens

2012

Well executed.
As global regulations impacting liquidity, risk provision, and order management increase market complexity, Instinet becomes the global execution arm of Nomura.

2014

Turn up the volume.
More than 75 percent of the stocks traded on US exchanges originate from automated systems.

2015

Keep calm and carry on.
In anticipation of MiFID II unbundling rules, Instinet Europe Limited becomes the first broker to register with the FCA as a payment institution.

2016

Independent thinkers.
Instinet brings the US Equity Research team over from Nomura, establishing a new MiFID II-ready research boutique offering.

2017

Block party.
Instinet acquires BlockCross ATS, adding another unique block trading capability to its platform.

2018

The new normal?
MiFID II arrives, reshaping the European financial regulatory landscape and fundamentally changing the flow of liquidity and relationships between market participants.

2019

Fintech@Fifty
Insinet celebrates its role as the original “fintech” and 50 years as a transformative force in the markets.

Research & Insights

MarketInsights

Clarity is
invaluable.

It’s not always possible to “see around corners” perfectly, but experience is a good teacher. Staying ahead of major ground shifts is both an art and a science. It takes more than vision; it also takes focus and discipline.

Research & Insights

Every portfolio, every investment, and every trade, starts with an idea. Fresh insight, market color, index, microstructure and liquidity analysis form the foundation of the value we provide our clients throughout the investment life cycle.

Market Structure & Sales Commentary

Uncovering insights that make a difference.

A “boots on the ground” perspective on market structure, the liquidity landscape, and efficient trading strategies can make a meaningful difference to execution quality. So we keep you up to date on the trends and issues that impact your business.

This includes ongoing market and trading commentary, regional analyses and updates, and deep-dive white papers that explore new technologies, shifting regulations, and more.

Trading Services

TradingServices
Execution

It’s a day-by-day, trade-by-trade process.

Engineered for today’s markets. Calibrated to your objectives.

As an agency-model* trading firm, our first order of business is carrying out your trading strategies as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Part of that responsibility is being transparent about what we do and how we evaluate what we do. The other part is committing to maximizing execution quality at every step. Whether you trade through our desks, plug into our algo suite, or connect to the markets through our low latency infrastructure, you can count on us to keep these high standards.

High-Touch Trading

From desks located throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, we combine the talent and experience of our hands-on traders with our innovative multi-asset electronic platform, global liquidity network, and high-speed market infrastructure.

Our traders access liquidity from hundreds of exchanges and venue destinations globally across every MSCI developed and emerging market and a majority of frontier markets. This includes all of the major electronic liquidity providers, multilateral trading facilities, and proprietary liquidity pools.

The breadth and depth of Instinet’s global trading network

60+
 Markets
150+
 Venues
300+
 Broker desks
125+
Algo suites

14 full-service trading desks

AMERICAS EMEA APAC

Boston
Denver
Geneva
Los Angeles
New York
Rye Brook
St. Louis
Toronto

Frankfurt
London
Paris

Hong Kong
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo

Services in these markets provided seamlessly via Nomura.

Sales trading

Our sales traders can help you execute your equities, options, and futures trades, manage complex and contingent orders, and source liquidity among Instinet’s extensive institutional community. We also provide dedicated desks for derivatives, special situations, sector-specific, and international trading. They put it all together with one goal: to meet your most demanding execution objectives, day in and day out.

Instinet traders are masters of our technology and algo strategies, and understand every advantage and nuance of our extensive liquidity network.

Global portfolio trading

Our global portfolio traders are supported by a team of market analysts, algorithmic engineers, technologists, and product specialists. They combine their multidisciplinary expertise to deliver customized execution strategies built for today’s complex markets—and finely-tuned to your portfolio’s unique characteristics.

Portfolio desks in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC seamlessly pass trades, allowing portfolios to be worked globally 24x6.

Exceptional coverage

100%
coverage of MSCI developed and emerging markets
75%
coverage of MSCI frontier markets

Trading insights

Global index advisory

Daily, weekly, and monthly analyses of various corporate actions' effects on the major indexes globally, as well as regular projections on the impact of rebalances.

Event-driven trading

Daily commentary on trading opportunities that arise from corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, and other factors.

* Brokerage affiliates effect transactions primarily on an agency basis, and may act as principal or riskless principal on trades to correct bona fide errors, to fulfill non-standard settlement requests, to provide ADR services, and in other situations that do not involve substantial proprietary trading or investment risk.

Algorithmic Trading

To address our clients’ diverse range of trading styles and goals, we provide a core set of global, event-driven, multi-asset trading strategies. With a library of regularly updated component tactics and extensive controls to refine behavior, you can easily tailor our strategies to your specific objectives.

Suite of Strategies

Strategy Objective Availability
Nighthawk® Seeks to maximize the percentage of hidden liquidity. Features embedded anti-gaming controls and footprint minimization. All low-touch markets except Chile and Mexico.
Work Depending on configuration, can be used for either arrival price trading or opportunistic participation. All low-touch markets.
Cobra Aggressively seeks both hidden and displayed liquidity across exchange-based and dark-liquidity sources. All low-touch markets.
BlockPeg® Posts visible orders on the passive side of the market to maintain competitive standing while crossing the spread for a specified quantity threshold. All low-touch markets except Chile and Mexico.
Synchronized Exchange Sweep (SES) Grabs all available liquidity at a given level; seeks to minimize fade on exchanges. All low-touch markets.
DynaPart Adjusts participation rates dynamically in response to relative price movements. All low-touch markets.
StepPart Trades at a targeted percentage of market volume, adjusting its participation rate if it reaches up to two separate user-defined price levels. All low-touch markets.
Part Trades as a targeted percentage of market volume. All low-touch markets.
Target Close Seeks to trade into or on the closing auction. Applies commonly used parameters to create a simple order ticket. All low-touch markets except Chile and Mexico.
Target Open Balances impact and benchmark dispersion relative to the opening price. All low-touch markets except Chile and Mexico.
VWAP Trades against the volume-weighted average price over the specified trading horizon.  All low-touch markets.
IS Employs a single-stock arrival price strategy. Explicitly optimizes for the balance between expected impact and opportunity cost. All low-touch markets except Brazil, Canada, Chile, and Mexico.
TWAP Distributes trades evenly across the time horizon while reducing impact and maximizing anonymity through sophisticated execution techniques.  All low-touch markets.
Strategy Objective Availability
Nighthawk® Seeks to maximize the percentage of hidden liquidity. Features embedded anti-gaming controls and footprint minimization. All low-touch markets except Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Work Depending on configuration, can be used for either arrival price trading or opportunistic participation. All low-touch markets.
Cobra Aggressively seeks both hidden and displayed liquidity across exchange-based and dark-liquidity sources. All low-touch markets.
BlockPeg® Posts visible orders on the passive side of the market to maintain competitive standing while crossing the spread for a specified quantity threshold. All low-touch markets.
Synchronized Exchange Sweep (SES) Grabs all available liquidity at a given level; seeks to minimize fade on exchanges. All low-touch markets.
DynaPart Adjusts participation rates dynamically in response to relative price movements. All low-touch markets.
StepPart Trades at a targeted percentage of market volume, adjusting its participation rate if it reaches up to two separate user-defined price levels. All low-touch markets.
Part Trades as a targeted percentage of market volume. All low-touch markets.
Target Close Seeks to trade into or on the closing auction. Applies commonly used parameters to create a simple order ticket. . All low-touch markets.
Target Open Balances impact and benchmark dispersion relative to the opening price. All low-touch markets.
VWAP Trades against the volume-weighted average price over the specified trading horizon.  All low-touch markets.
TWAP Distributes trades evenly across the time horizon while reducing impact and maximizing anonymity through sophisticated execution techniques.  All low-touch markets.
Strategy Objective Availability
Nighthawk® Seeks to maximize the percentage of hidden liquidity. Features embedded anti-gaming controls and footprint minimization. All low-touch markets except Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Poland, and South Africa.
Work Depending on configuration, can be used for either arrival price trading or opportunistic participation. All low-touch markets.
Cobra Aggressively seeks both hidden and displayed liquidity across exchange-based and dark-liquidity sources. All low-touch markets.
BlockPeg® Posts visible orders on the passive side of the market to maintain competitive standing while crossing the spread for a specified quantity threshold. All low-touch markets.
Synchronized Exchange Sweep (SES) Grabs all available liquidity at a given level; seeks to minimize fade on exchanges. All low-touch markets.
DynaPart Adjusts participation rates dynamically in response to relative price movements. All low-touch markets.
StepPart Trades at a targeted percentage of market volume, adjusting its participation rate if it reaches up to two separate user-defined price levels. All low-touch markets.
Part Trades as a targeted percentage of market volume. All low-touch markets.
Target Close Seeks to trade into or on the closing auction. Applies commonly used parameters to create a simple order ticket. All low-touch markets.
Target Open Balances impact and benchmark dispersion relative to the opening price. All low-touch markets.
VWAP Trades against the volume-weighted average price over the specified trading horizon.  All low-touch markets.
TWAP Distributes trades evenly across the time horizon while reducing impact and maximizing anonymity through sophisticated execution techniques.  All low-touch markets.

Latency Sensitive Trading

The LSET suite

Instinet’s suite of latency-aware solutions provides a bundled product for quantitative hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms, incorporating FPGA-based, ultra-low latency direct market access, raw and normalized market data, and value-added hosting services globally.

Market Access

LSET Direct LSET Gateway Co-located Smart Order Router
FPGA-based, ultra-low latency execution in exchange native protocol FPGA/software hybrid solution with execution in normalized FIX protocol Low latency connectivity to US lit and dark pools with dynamic liquidity analysis and customized venue and style selection

Hosting and Networking

LSET Host LSET Ring
Primary exchange co-location and proximity hosting options Bespoke design with point-to-point connectivity between exchanges and liquidity pools

Market Data

LSET Data LSET Book LSET Vision
Ultra-low latency raw market data availability Ultra-low latency normalized market data with full order book API Live control of LSET trading

 

 

* Instinet brokerage affiliates effect transactions primarily on an agency basis. They may act as principal or riskless principal to correct bona fide errors, to fulfill non-standard settlement requests, to provide ADR services, to effect foreign exchange transactions, and in other situations that do not involve substantial proprietary trading or investment.

Liquidity & Crossing

Liquidity& Crossing

Sometimes more
is actually more.

Incremental liquidity, with purpose.

Liquidity Venues

Choice is a good thing.

Sourcing and aggregating different types of liquidity, while minimizing the risks of information leakage, is a fundamental role of a broker. And the key to better and more consistent execution quality. With that objective in mind, we’ve developed a suite of liquidity venues that provide our clients with opportunities for different crossing experiences—each engineered for particular objectives, strategies, and order types.

Venue

Description Deployed Markets
CBX

A limit order book with price-time priority matching.

US, Canada

BLX A block-focused pool designed to provide price improvement through its midpoint pricing model. Australia
MOCX An anonymous environment to match offsetting market-on-close orders. US
VWAP Cross A block-focused anonymous venue offering a 9:00AM ET crossing session that prices at full-day VWAP. US and Canada
BlockCross A source of natural liquidity from a wide range of buy- and sell-side counterparties. US
BlockMatch Unique anonymous crossing model UK, Europe, and Asia

 

Workflow Solutions

WorkflowSolutions

Your workflow is personal.
Your platforms should be, too.

Powerful tools that extend and enhance
your expertise and capabilities.

Workflow Solutions

Made by trading and investment experts, for trading and investment experts.

You know what you’re doing, and what you need to do. So we give you tools to help you apply that expertise and add efficiencies to your workflow with solutions across the investment life cycle.

Execution Management

Newport®: Inspiration, applied.

Newport® is a broker-neutral, global execution management system built to adapt and respond to your workflow and preferred trading style. Built-in flexibility and powerful tools let you customize trading strategies, leverage integrated real-time analytics, and seamlessly manage strategies across globally dispersed teams.

Integrated, customizable support for multiple styles

Single Stock

Pairs

Options

Portfolios

Newport is continually developed and supported by a dedicated team that understands your workflow needs and the trading environment.

Broker-neutral: tapped into our extensive network of brokers, algo racks, and venues.

Single, global platform: one environment to trade 24/6 across 64 markets.

Exchange-grade technology: market-tested by leading firms and our own high-volume agency business.

Workflow - EMS

Be your own EMS architect

Newport lets you customize your desktop environment and tool-sets to match your asset class, trading style, and objectives.

Analytics

Data and decision making are inseparable.

Trading optimally means continuously collecting, evaluating, and balancing a dizzying number of inputs in real time. Instinet’s Analytics Suite not only helps you distill, consolidate, and compare critical data—it gives you the tools to measure, analyze, and calibrate strategies and tactics across every part of your trading workflow.

Integrated and coordinated analytics—powered by a free flow of data.

PRE-TRADE

Develop, analyze, and test strategies.
Completed trade data and trade modeling tools help shape investment ideas and strategy.

INTRA-TRADE

Practice continuous tactical optimization.
Real-time visualization and analysis tools provide clarity and confidence in the heat of the trade.

POST-TRADE

Assess outcomes, evaluate strategies, and refine objectives.
Data is analyzed holistically, uncovering patterns and trends that feedback into strategy and tactics.

Workflow - Modeling, Monitoring...

Modeling, monitoring, and analysis tools fine-tuned for today’s complex trading environment.

Developed by and for traders and strategists, our purpose-built platforms empower users to make better investment and trading decisions—from idea generation and strategy through tactical execution and outcome analysis.

Commission Management

Plazma: Value, uncovered.

Performance is more than making the right investment decisions. Finding and maintaining an edge means fine-tuning every part of the investment life cycle—including your commission management process.

Plazma’s comprehensive functions and tools can transform how you think about and execute your end-to-end commission management process. From allocating budgets, to tracking commissions, managing payments, creating custom reports. And more, all in one integrated view.

The Commission Management Cycle

Plazma guides you through your entire commission management workflow, helping you manage, collect, and analyze valuable data that feeds back into the budgeting process. All in one view.

Workflow - Excelence

Recognized for excellence

Plazma has been consistently ranked #1 for quality and performance in Greenwich Associates’ annual poll.

*Source: Greenwich Associates. For 2015, 2016, and 2017, Plazma was ranked #1 in Overall US Equity Commission Management Service & Execution Quality, #1 in Overall Satisfaction with the US Equity Commission Management Program, #1 in Most Execution Channels to Accrue Commissions, #1 Best Online Tools to Manage Commissions, #1 Most Prompt at Making Payments to Third Parties, and #1 Most Accurate and Timely Recordkeeping.

Newport OMS for Broker Dealers

Designed for brokers by brokers.

As a leading electronic broker-dealer, we’ve made a decades-long investment in advanced technology, massive high-speed infrastructure, and comprehensive global market connectivity to deliver premier solutions for our buy-side clients.

We tap this deep experience and battle-tested technology to provide an OMS that meets the complete functional, analytical, and operational needs of broker dealers. And can stand up to the most challenging scenarios in today’s complex markets.

Our services to brokers are completely segregated from our own brokerage business. Your data, relationships, and service communications are always confidential.

Workflow - Order management...

Order management and middle-office

To manage the full cycle of your client orders and trades, we give you a front-to-back platform you can tailor to your specific workflow.

Efficiently manage the entire life of your trades
Newport OMS offers an end-to-end solution for handling your client orders. From accepting an order to processing your clearing and allocation files.
Manage risks and help enhance compliance
Comprehensive risk and supervisory controls are built in. Manage global risk exposure and oversee regulatory requirements from a central platform.
Meet your clients’ unique needs and execution styles
Easily switch from executing single stock orders to managing global, multi-asset programs. Use the flexible layout to customize strategies, trading workflow, and analytics for specific client objectives.
Take advantage of integrated real time trading analytics
Flexible pre- and intra-trade analytics provide an exceptional depth of performance monitoring. Drive your execution strategies with detailed liquidity metrics and benchmark data.
Integrate middle- and back-office processing
Newport OMS consolidates and streamlines post-trade processing. Keep track of execution details in real time and manage allocations, reference data, and settlement instructions all in one place.
 
We started
a revolution.
And we’re still
leading the way.

Instinet is about putting vision into action. We translate our vision into technology and solutions that change the way the markets work, and the way investors think and trade. And it all starts with our people.

What makes Instinet special?

Practice hands-on innovation.

Big ideas are great. Big ideas that work are even better. If you like to get in the weeds and solve problems from the bottom up, you’ll love our collaborative team culture and flexible, client-focused approach to technology.

Practice hands-on innovation.
Meet the future head on.

In our business, change is the only constant. We started out as pioneers, and we’ve stayed in front of the fundamental shifts that define today’s markets. Find out how you can help us shape the next 50 years.

Meet the future head on.
Work to make a difference.

Helping our clients meet their objectives is our responsibility, but it’s also our inspiration. It’s not just getting things done, it’s about making a real difference. You’ll get the chance to make a difference, and see the results, every day.  

Work to make a difference.
Go beyond expectations.

“Is there a better way?” “What’s missing?” “What if?” If you’re not afraid to ask the big questions or push the envelope, we give you the opportunity—and the tools you need—to break new ground.

Go beyond expectations.

Instinet is 850+ professionals working from market centers across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Boston, Denver, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rye Brook, Singapore, St. Louis, Sydney, Toronto

Are you ready to challenge the status quo?
Here’s how you can make a difference at Instinet.

What is Fintech?

"Fintech" may seem like a buzzword, but it's a big part of our daily lives. And not as new as one might think. Do you want to know where it all began?

What is Fintech?
Sales & Trading

For today’s traders, cultivating relationships, strategic insights, and a global perspective are just as important as mastering the technology. Whether it’s traditional high-touch or next-generation algos, we give our traders the opportunity—and the industry-leading tools—to make a difference in the global markets. 

Sales & Trading
Quant Analytics

Capturing, sifting, and distilling profitable insights from the overwhelming mass of market data and media is critical to our clients’ success. Our quantitative analysts research and develop strategies and tools that drive new ways of trading using the latest financial modeling techniques.

Quant Analytics
Information Technologies

We’re always fine-tuning, enhancing and building our trading and analytics technology to meet our clients’ evolving needs. Engineers and product specialists at Instinet help keep our systems, infrastructure, capabilities, and innovative solutions at the edge of what’s possible—and at the forefront of our industry.

Information Technologies
Finance & Operations

Delivering the value our clients expect means maintaining and operating our middle and back office at the highest standards. As part of our finance and operations team, you’ll advise, execute, and report on the leading practices that keep our unique business model thriving.

Finance & Operations
Supervision & Control

Today’s complex regulatory landscape demands leaders who understand how to help our clients navigate, adapt, and thrive in an increasingly complex business and competitive environment. At Instinet, your expertise ensures that we continue to provide efficient and compliant solutions and exceptional service for our clients, day in and day out. 

Supervision & Control
Strategy & Business Management

Our Strategy and Business Management Teams work on growing our businesses and running an efficient firm.  Whether it’s optimizing our existing businesses and processes or expanding into new business lines, we are relentlessly focused on the future and keeping up with ever changing markets.

Strategy & Business Management
Internships

Instinet offers internships to students interested in a variety of functions across the organization from sales, technology, finance, and operations . When you join Instinet as a summer intern, you get the opportunity to do meaningful, hands-on work and collaborate directly with experts in their field.  Please contact us at careers@instinet.com to hear about opportunities.

Internships

Ingenuity,
uninhibited.

Never stop asking, “Is there a better way?”

Innovations happen when you’re trying to fix something others might not even view as broken.

Our solution experts and strategists are always analyzing what we do—and how we think about what we do—and how our (and your) business is affected by global financial and investment trends, evolving regulations, and technological innovation.

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