ODX attracts investment from Cboe, Virtu Financial & Optiver
Osaka Digital Exchange (ODX) has accepted equity participations by Cboe Worldwide Holdings, a subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Virtu Investments, a subsidiary of Virtu Financial, and Optiver PSI, a subsidiary of Optiver Holding.
Cboe, one of the three major exchanges in the USA, is a leading provider of financial market infrastructures and a variety of market traded products, providing world leading trading, clearing, and investment solutions to market participants globally.
Virtu, a leading provider of global, multi-asset financial services that delivers liquidity and innovative, transparent products across the complete investment cycle to the global markets.
Optiver is a global market maker that provides liquidity in a wide range of products on multiple exchanges across the world, participating in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.
Not only do these three firms play important roles in traditional financial markets, they also have strong interests in the development of Security Tokens.
ODX was established in April 2021, launched its equity PTS (Proprietary Trading System) in June 2022 and is scheduled to start Security Token PTS by the end of 2023. Through collaboration with its new shareholders, ODX will obtain cutting-edge technology and expertise, allowing it to push ahead with innovative solutions. It is believed that ODX will be able to bring about changes in the financial markets to benefit investors.
Moreover, SBI Holdings, the 100% parent company of SBI PTS Holdings (PTSHD), which is the parent company of ODX, had previously announced a potential collaboration with Cboe in the field of traditional finance, such as PTS Business, as well as in the field of digital finance. Cboe’s equity participation will connect the two companies more closely. PTSHD remains the majority shareholder in ODX.
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