Knight Appoints Kee-Meng Tan Head of the Electronic Trading Group in Europe

JERSEY CITY, N.J. and LONDON, Nov. 25  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) today announced the appointment of Kee-Meng Tan to the newly-created position of Managing Director, Head of the Electronic Trading Group (ETG) in Europe. Mr. Tan will lead the European introduction of Knight Link, the firm's highly successful off-exchange liquidity source.

Mr. Tan joined Knight last spring from CQS Management, a London-based alternative asset manager, where he was an equity derivatives trader. Prior to that, he was Head of EMEA Global Execution Services at JP Morgan.

"As a firm, Knight is focused on developing our liquidity offering within Europe," said Jamil Nazarali, Managing Director and Global Head of the Electronic Trading Group. "Knight Link is a proven trade execution service in the U.S. with nearly US$5 billion in average daily dollar value traded in October. We believe the time is right to bring the Knight Link model of access to dark liquidity, high fulfillment rates and low-cost trade execution to Europe."

Knight Link provides clients with rapid, electronic trade execution in a broad range of equities while helping clients reduce trading costs and limit market impact. Knight Link can accommodate a wide range of trading architectures and capacity requirements for easy integration into a firm's smart order router, dark liquidity-seeking algorithms and/or OMS systems. Knight Link has developed innovative technologies using built-in anti-gaming logic designed to protect clients.

"Knight Link is fully customizable and provides clients with tremendous utility in terms of anonymity, quality fills, high speed and low costs," Mr. Tan said. "We look forward to rolling out Knight Link to clients across Europe in the coming months."

As part of this effort, Knight will also become a Retail Services Provider (RSP) in the UK, providing market making services, initially in FTSE 350 stocks, to the retail market.

Mr. Tan is based in Knight's London office, phone [phone] and fax [phone].

  Biography

  Kee-Meng Tan

  Managing Director, Head of the Electronic Trading Group in Europe

  Knight Equity Markets International Limited

  Kee-Meng Tan is responsible for overseeing broker dealer electronic
  trading including Knight Link Europe.

  He joined Knight from CQS Management, the London-based hedge fund, where
  he was an equity derivatives trader. Prior to that, he was Head of EMEA
  Global Execution Services at JP Morgan where he was responsible for
  portfolio, algorithmic and ETF trading.

  Mr. Tan has a MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business
  and a BA from Vassar College.

  About Knight



Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) is a leading capital markets firm that provides electronic and voice access to the global capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients. In Global Markets, we provide market access and trade execution services in nearly every U.S. equity security and a large number of international securities, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures and options. In Asset Management, Knight owns a 51 percent stake in Deephaven Holdings with Deephaven Partners controlling the remaining 49 percent as of February 1, 2008. Deephaven (http://www.deephavenfunds.com/) is a global, multi-strategy alternative investment manager serving institutions and private clients. More information about Knight can be found at http://www.knight.com/.

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