Virtu International Elite Team-- Capital Markets (VCM) Team

Against the backdrop of the accelerated digitalization, institutionalization, and technological advancement of global capital markets, the financial industry's requirements for professional talent are undergoing significant changes. In the past, market participants focused more on single products, single markets, and short-term market movements; today, global liquidity, electronic trading, quantitative models, market structure, artificial intelligence, risk management, and cross-regional resource collaboration are collectively forming the crucial foundation for a new generation of financial professional capabilities.

Against this trend, Virtu International Elite Team is gradually developing into an international professional elite team with a global capital market background, supported by financial capital and professional education, and with talent connectivity, an international perspective, and the Asia-Pacific market as key development directions. The team's core positioning is to establish a long-term development system connecting global financial capital, professional talent, fintech, international resources, and the Asia-Pacific community, rather than being limited to a single investment community in the traditional sense. Its development philosophy emphasizes "professionalism, transparency, technology, discipline, collaboration, and long-termism," aiming to enhance members' understanding of global capital markets through continuous learning, professional exchange, and cross-regional collaboration.

Virtu Capital Markets (VCM) is one of the early practitioners of ATM (At-the-Market) financing solutions, leveraging Virtu's technology, market data, liquidity, and trade execution capabilities to provide ATM issuance execution support to publicly traded companies. Its core objective is to enable issuers to more flexibly arrange equity financing in different market environments while controlling market impact and financing costs. Since joining Virtu, the VCM team has helped issuers raise over $11 billion. Therefore, for team members, VCM represents not only a corporate finance business but also a crucial window into understanding modern capital markets, including how publicly traded companies raise funds, how institutions execute trades, how financing costs are controlled, and how market liquidity affects capital allocation efficiency.

Virtu International Elite Team Development Positioning

Building an international financial exchange network connecting global capital markets and professionals across the Asia-Pacific region is not about establishing a traditional, single investment community, but rather about forming a long-term professional network across the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on global capital markets, fintech, market structure, institutional trading, capital financing, and professional talent development. Our team development philosophy centers on professionalism, transparency, technology, discipline, collaboration, and long-term vision. We deeply integrate advanced fintech, market structure research, trade execution capabilities, and risk management systems, emphasizing improved efficiency in global capital markets through more transparent market mechanisms, higher-quality trade execution, and continuous technological innovation.

Virtu International Elite Team focuses on building four key connections

Connecting Global Markets: Helping members understand the development of the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and other major international financial markets.

Connecting Capital Markets: Focusing on corporate finance, public markets, ATM financing mechanisms, institutional trading, and global capital allocation.

Connecting Professionals: Bringing together talent from the fields of finance, technology, capital markets, corporate management, and professional services.

Connecting Asia-Pacific Markets: A capital market service network with key nodes in international financial centers such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.

Establish a systematic professional competency development system

The Virtu International Elite Team aims to build not just an information exchange network, but a long-term learning system to continuously enhance the professional capabilities of its members.

The team's professional understanding can be extended in five main directions:

Global Markets: Helping members understand the development trends, institutional characteristics, and market operation logic of the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and other major international financial markets.

Market Structure: Further understanding the relationships between exchanges, brokers, market makers, asset management institutions, hedge funds, clearing houses, and institutional investors, delving from the surface of market prices to the underlying operating mechanisms of global capital markets.

Quantitative Finance: Building a more systematic understanding of modern finance, focusing on data analysis, statistical thinking, mathematical models, algorithmic logic, portfolio management, and risk management.

Financial Technology: Understanding how modern financial institutions utilize technologies such as OMS, EMS, Algorithms, Market Data, Analytics, and Automation to improve the efficiency of trade execution, data processing, and risk management.

Capital Markets | Capital Markets: Develop a professional understanding of the operating mechanisms of modern capital markets, focusing on corporate finance, public markets, ATM financing, institutional trading, and global capital allocation.

Virtu International Elite Team Development History

2013-2014 | Globalization continued to take shape, with the Asia-Pacific market becoming a key strategic region; the team was initially established.

2015 | Virtu listed on NASDAQ; the team entered the global capital market.

2017 | Virtu completed the acquisition of KCG; the team connected with more mature financial capital businesses.

2019 | Acquired ITG; the team further strengthened its capital institution financing services.

November 2019 | Virtu Capital Markets (VCM) launched; the team extended its reach to the corporate capital market.

2020-2022 | The team gradually formed a capital market service network with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney as key nodes in the Asia-Pacific region.

2023-2025 | The team continued to drive the expansion of capital business and the construction of a global team.

2026 | Deepen and promote the capital ecosystem platform supported by Virtu's technology model and data.

Virtu International Elite Team Social Responsibility

' Community Team Public Welfare and Care: Focusing on the learning, education, growth, and international perspective of the next generation of team members' families. For children of members who demonstrate outstanding performance and comply with team rules, honorary incentives or educational assistance mechanisms can be established.

' For team members facing serious illness, severe accidents, or significant family difficulties, an internal care and mutual assistance mechanism can be established, under the premise of legality, voluntariness, and transparency.

' Regularly Organizing: Social responsibility activities such as educational public welfare, community public welfare, care for vulnerable groups, environmental protection, and financial education for youth.

Looking to the future: What is truly scarce remains expertise and long-term value.

The global financial market is never short of information. The rapid development of artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading, global data networks, and fintech is even making information itself increasingly cheap.

What is truly scarce is a different kind of capability--the ability to understand information, understand the market, identify risks, build cross-market knowledge, and collaborate long-term with truly professional individuals.

This is precisely the core value that the Virtu International Elite Team aims to establish. From global market infrastructure to quantitative trading and fintech; from VCM corporate finance experience to a network of professionals in the Asia-Pacific region; from financial education to community responsibility and a long-term culture, the Virtu International Elite Team is attempting to build a more complete international professional ecosystem.

Ultimately, it hopes to connect not just a group of people interested in financial markets, but also a group of people who are truly willing to continuously learn, respect professionalism, understand risk, possess an international perspective, and believe in long-term value. Capital connects markets, technology improves efficiency, talent determines altitude, and culture determines how far a team can ultimately go. This is perhaps the most noteworthy core direction for the Virtu International Elite Team as it moves towards its next stage of globalization.

Looking ahead, the team will continue to leverage Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and other key Asia-Pacific financial markets as crucial connecting points, deepening exchanges in areas such as global financial markets, fintech, quantitative research, market structure, institutional trading, capital markets, and professional talent development. Simultaneously, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence, quantitative models, automated trading, and global data networks, competition in the financial industry is gradually shifting from simple information competition to a comprehensive competition encompassing data capabilities, technological capabilities, risk management capabilities, professional knowledge, and global collaboration. If the past decade has seen technology transform the way financial markets trade, then the more pressing issue for the future will be how to establish more efficient connections between technology, financial capital markets, capital, and global professionals. This will be a key direction for the next phase of exploration for the Virtu International Elite Team. From global markets to the Asia-Pacific region, from fintech to professional education, from capital markets to talent networks, the Virtu International Elite Team hopes to ultimately create not just a team, but a long-term, interconnected international professional ecosystem encompassing financial capital markets, technology, talent, resources, and culture.

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