2016年科技50强：克里斯·康卡农

2012年3月23日，Bats全球市场首次尝试IPO，令人尴尬。技术故障迫使该公司中止了自己交易所的发行。2016年4月15日，当1530万股Bats全球市场股票开始在BZX交易所交易时，恶魔被驱除了，BZX交易所是总部位于堪萨斯州Lenexa的公司的四大股票平台之一。“IPO并不是终点，”他说克里斯协卡，48，自2014年12月及2015年3月以来的首席执行官以来总裁。投资者显然已同意，在5月31日之前将19美元的价格高达29美元，截至7月初跌至25美元。在公司的业务成就的背景下，IPO几乎是一个事后。Founded in 2005 as an alternative trading system and licensed as a U.S. exchange in 2008, Bats is now No. 2 in U.S. equity market share and No. 1 in Europe, runs two fast-growing U.S. options markets and owns foreign exchange platform Hotspot, whose acquisition from KCG Holdings was engineered by Concannon last year. In early May, Bats reported that its first-quarter operating income had virtually doubled, to $62 million, from a year earlier. The company also claimed a market-leading 26.2 percent share of trading in exchange-traded funds — it has been No. 1 since February 2014 — with 14 listings added in the first quarter, bringing the total to 70. On April 1, Bats acquired news and data provider ETF.com as part of its plan to be “a major player across the entire ETF ecosystem,” says Concannon, a graduate of Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, onetime Securities and Exchange Commission staff attorney, former head of transaction services at Nasdaq and president and COO of Virtu Financial. “I have always loved the exchange business,” he says, adding, “The growth of fintech services will undoubtedly redefine the costs of investing.” He believes blockchain, or distributed ledger, “will play a role in the future of the financial services sector,” but “we are at the very beginning of the discovery process.”

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