Liquidnet Joins Plato Partnership as First Strategic Partner

Plato Partnership, the not-for-profit member organization bringing solutions and efficiencies to today’s equity marketplace, has admitted Liquidnet, the technology-driven, agency execution specialist, as its inaugural Strategic Partner. According to a story in MarketsMedia news, Liquidnet will play a pivotal role in shaping and informing Plato’s initiatives across the capital markets landscape. As a Strategic Partner, Liquidnet will actively participate in three of Plato’s core initiatives:

• Plato Strategic Initiatives Group aims to identify issues and opportunities to improve equity market structure. In cooperation with industry providers, the Group develops a range of solutions to benefit all market participants.
• Plato’s Market Innovator (MI3)program identifies key challenges facing the marketplace and sponsors independent academic research to help solve them. This includes identifying better ways of executing trades, lowering costs, and improving the quality of processes required to support the execution lifecycle.
• Turquoise Plato Expert Group aims to deliver market model enhancements to improve equity block liquidity and deliver increased efficiencies in anonymous equity block trading.