06.20.2016

OTC Markets Group Expands Relationship with Interactive Brokers to Display Real-Time Level 2+ Market Data

06.20.2016

PRNewswire – New York – OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of the OTCQX®, OTCQB® and Pink® markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced that Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, has added real-time Level 2+ service to their Trader Workstation platform.  With this agreement, Interactive Brokers’ 353,000 client accounts will have access to complete quote data for OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities, as well as unique security information such as Market Designation, Security Type, Piggyback Status and Caveat Emptor status.

“We are pleased to expand our partnership with Interactive Brokers and provide their clients with a real-time, complete view of our markets,” said Matthew Fuchs, Executive Vice President of Market Data and Strategy at OTC Markets Group.  “By integrating our data into their innovative trading applications, we are giving individual and institutional investors a superior information experience to make intelligent trading decisions.”

“We are excited to offer our clients access to Real-Time Level 2 Data,” said Steve Sanders, EVP of Marketing and Product Development.  “This will give our users greater access to depth of liquidity information on OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities and provide a more comprehensive view into this important market.”

OTC Markets Group provides mission-critical quote and trade data, as well as company and security information on OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities to the trading, investment, legal and regulatory communities.  The Company’s data products include real-time data, end-of-day data, historical quote data, company financial data, security master data, corporate reference data and compliance data.  OTC Markets Group also provides data through leading market data redistributors.  For more about OTC Markets Group’s real-time market data products, including connectivity information, visithttp://www.otcmarkets.com/services/market-data/realtime-data/overview.

About OTC Markets Group Inc.
OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates the OTCQX® Best Market, the OTCQB® Venture Market, and the Pink® Open Market for 10,000 U.S. and global securities.  Through OTC Link® ATS, we connect a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services.  We enable investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice and empower companies to improve the quality of information available for investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient markets, visit www.otcmarkets.com.

OTC Link ATS is operated by OTC Link LLC, member FINRA/SIPC and SEC regulated ATS.
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About Interactive Brokers
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an automated global electronic broker that specializes in catering to financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and sophisticated risk management tools at exceptionally low costs. The brokerage trading platform utilizes the same innovative technology as the Company’s market making business, which executes and processes trades in securities, futures and foreign exchange instruments on more than 100 electronic exchanges and trading venues around the world. As a market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds from a single IB Universal AccountSM. Employing proprietary software on a global communications network, Interactive Brokers Group continuously integrates its software with a growing number of exchanges and trading venues into one automatically functioning, computerized platform that requires minimal human intervention.

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