Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Virtu Financial First Quarter 2016 Financial Results Earnings call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this call may be recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference, Mr. Andrew Smith, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning. As you know, our 2016 first quarter results were released this morning and are available on our website. Today’s call may include forward-looking statements, which may represent Virtu’s current belief regarding future events and are therefore subject to risks, assumptions and uncertainties which may be outside the company’s control. Our actual results and financial condition may differ materially from what is indicated in these forward-looking statements. It’s important to note that any forward-looking statements made on this call are based upon information presently available to the company and we do not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements as new information becomes available. We refer you to disclaimers in our press release. In addition to GAAP results, we may refer to certain non-GAAP measures including adjusted net trading income, adjusted net income, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin. We believe these non-GAAP measures are more reflective of our operating and core business performance. You’ll find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the equivalent GAAP terms in the earnings materials with an explanation of why we deem this information to be meaningful, as well as how management uses these measures. Speaking and answering your questions today are Mr. Douglas Cifu, our Chief Executive Officer; and Mr. Joseph Molluso, our Chief Financial Officer. They will begin with prepared remarks and then take your questions. I’d now like to turn the call over to Doug.

Thank you very much, Andrew. Good morning and thank you for joining our call to discuss Virtu’s first quarter 2016 results. On our last earnings call, in early February, I noted that the environment in early 2016 had been favorable. I stated that the sustained elevated volatility and corresponding volumes in the beginning of 2016, in the U.S. equities market in particular, showed promising early results for Q1 and were trending better than the fourth quarter of 2015. While comparisons to Q1 2015 are difficult given the Swiss Bank’s surprised de-pegging event in January 2015 and the subsequent sustained broad-based market volatility, Virtu’s first quarter 2016 results reflect the improved market conditions in several of our markets as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Our adjusted net trading income of $117.3 million reflects Virtu’s diversification across asset classes and geographies. We saw particularly strong performances in our Americas Equities and Global Commodities categories. Our $117.3 million of adjusted net trading income was up 9% versus the fourth quarter of 2015. We continue to perform well versus selected industry volume benchmarks. As we have mentioned in the past, Virtu’s facilitation of risk transference thrives in periods of high volumes and sustained volatility as bid-offer spreads widen. We review benchmark metrics in terms of total volume, shares or contracts traded, as well as the notional value traded. For example in Q1 2016, the average daily volume of shares traded increased 21% versus the prior quarter, while the average daily notional U.S. dollar of consolidated U.S. equities traded was up 12% versus the prior quarter. Our Americas Equities’ adjusted daily net trading income during the period was up 17% versus Q4 2015, certainly in line with the share and notional dollar-value traded increases during the same period. Continuing to look at the…

Thank you, Doug. Focusing on our continuing theme of driving revenue growth, maintaining strong expense discipline and operating efficiency and returning capital to shareholders, let me review a summary of our results in pointing out some financial highlights before we open it up to you for questions. Consistent with the financial presentation in our S-1 registration statement in recent quarterly results, we’ll provide non-GAAP financial information supplement of presentation. For the first quarter of 2016, our adjusted net trading income was $117.3 million. In total, non-GAAP net revenues were $119.4 million. Our GAAP net income before attribution to non-controlling interest was $51.4 million. On a non-GAAP basis, our normalized adjusted net income, excluding mainly the impact of stock-based comp and vesting of stock-based awards granted at the IPO, as well as other one-time items, was $66.2 million. Assuming a normalized tax rate for fully converted shares outstanding, this translates to $0.31 per share an adjusted EPS for the quarter. Compared to Q4 2015, our average daily adjusted net trading income increased 14% to $1.92 million per day. Our adjusted net trading revenue outpaced expenses as our adjusted net income margins expanded from 47.6% to 49.3% versus Q4 of 2015. On the expense side, our first quarter results continued to exemplify our disciplined approach to costs. We consider our core fixed expenses to the communications and data processing, employee compensation, operating and administration expense and depreciation and amortization. In terms of people costs, our fully loaded compensation expense, which excludes IPO related items and other vesting as well as severance, but includes stock-based compensation accruals, was 18% of adjusted net trading income and 25% of adjusted EBITDA. In a way, it's consistent with prior quarters and full-year 2015. We continue to retain and competitively compensate talented professionals of Virtu by keeping headcount at appropriate levels via automation and efficiency. Non-compensation core expenses were down versus the fourth quarter of 2015. So in total, our core expenses are up 3% versus first quarter of 2015 consistent with the guidance we had given around anticipated overall growth of core expenses. Our focus on expense discipline had allowed us to achieve superior margins. Our margins remained strong in the first quarter with adjusted net income margins and adjusted EBITDA margins at 49.3% and 67.9%, respectively. Consistent with our policy of returning free cash flow to our shareholders, our Board of Directors has authorized a regular quarterly distribution of $0.24 per share payable June 15 to shareholders of record on June 1. Finally, looking at our company as a fully tax C-Corp of all the class C and D shares converted to the public company Class A and B shares, our fully taxed adjusted net income would have been $42.7 million or $0.31 per share for the first quarter, assuming 140 million shares outstanding. Now I will turn the call back to the moderator for Q&A.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Rich Repetto with Sandler O’Neill. Your line is open.

Yes. Good morning, Doug. Good morning, Joe. I guess my question is first on the unallocated bucket, I guess, in the net trading income. So it had almost $5.5 million negative adjustment, if you could just give us some color and explanation. That seems like the highest negative adjustment. Is it been…

Yes. Thanks. It's a good question, Rich. I will do my best to answer, and Joe, if I butcher it, please jump in and save me. But yes, it was roughly $5.5 million, $6 million. It's really composed of two things. These are not true economic losses, but unfortunately this is how GAAP requires us to reconcile our financials. So as you know and everyone on the phone knows, we trade across geographies, right. So if we put on a position, a European ADR against a U.S. ordinary stock, for example, we lock in that spread or that profit, if you will, at 11:30 New York time because that's when the European markets will close. And as far as Virtu is concerned, internally if we made $10 or $100 or $1,000 on that position, British Airways against British Airways ADR, we internally think we've made $1,000, and indeed we have, because we stop trading at 11:30. Unfortunately that's not what GAAP requires you to do. You have to mark that price to our - we’re a New York-based firm, to the New York settlement price, which would be 4:00 PM. And so as a result if that position “moves against you” that is distortion, if you will, of that price. It's not really a true economic loss, but for GAAP - GAAP doesn't recognize that profit. So that's about $3 million of that. And we've talked about that in the S-1. There is a footnote on it. And it really is ultimately just the timing issue, Rich. And so this quarter, it was material. It was around $3 million. The other $2.5 million of that is - we have our European unit, our Irish subsidiary, marks its books in the euro obviously because it's located there and it’s registered with the Central Bank of Ireland. Again when we reconcile that to GAAP, we have to use the U.S. dollar value. And so if you look on the balance sheet - Joe, what’s that category called?

It’s called a comprehensive income, Rich. You see another comprehensive income positive in the net income statement.

Right.

This quarter of $2.49 million.

Right. So the euro rallied, and so it looks like we made $2.5 million less out of our European business, if you will, not to give away state secrets but obviously that is not how we hedge, right. We don't hedge our internal P&L waiting for the end of the month and hoping that the euro didn't go up or down. So, again, that doesn't represent a cash or a true P&L for the firm, but unfortunately that’s - I don't make the rules and that's not how - what GAAP requires. So if you kind of fact back in those two adjustments, our adjusted net trading income - again, this is not a GAAP number - would have been $5.5 million, more roughly $123-ish million.

Understood. That's very helpful. And, I guess, I'm sure there is going to be a lot of question on the individual buckets, but I’ll leave them to follow-up calls. Just, Doug, when you talked about 2Q to-date really April, so volatility has come down, but you seem pretty optimistic about, not only the quarter but going forward. So I was just trying to get a little bit more depth on how April looked given that the metrics that we see are from a macro standpoint are relatively softer than 1Q.

Yes, look, I mean, I guess I’m an optimistic guy by nature. We have run a great firm. I'm blessed to have great people work for us in the firm, continues to perform very, very well. You're right. The first, I think there were 21 trading days in April, the first 18 were pretty light. It picked up a little bit towards the end, so I was kind of reflecting that. But certainly, look, the metrics don't lie, Rich. I mean the volumes in April - and I know you all cover the exchanges and see what they put out on CBOE and what-not. And so we can only react, if you will, to the volumes that are out there. But I was probably more reacting to the last couple of days of April where we did see some pick up. And obviously I'm an optimistic guy and I’m hopeful that investor confidence will come back may be with the presidential election coming. In the future, people will have more conviction and start moving portfolios back and forth again.

Understood. Thanks for all the color. Appreciate it.

Yes. No problem. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alex Kramm with UBS. Your line is open.

Hi. Good morning, everyone. Maybe just following up on Richard’s question here for a second, on April. Can you also talk about the quarter a little bit in, I don’t know, different slices for different periods. I mean, it was - it looked like it was a fairly consistent quarter in the first couple of months and then March looked a lot different. So any color you can give us in terms of the different MTI [ph] that you saw in those different environments, anything else that stands out? Just want to get some perspective. Thanks.

Yes, I forgot exactly what day we did our last call, but it was probably middle of Februaries or early Februaries. And certainly at that point - Alex, you're exactly right, I mean, it was almost like a tale of two cities in the quarter. The first two months were pretty robust. We obviously don't disclose our monthly adjusted net trading income, but certainly January and February exceeded March fairly significantly just on an average basis. Unfortunately March - and you guys see these numbers from the exchanges and from everybody else, March volumes, I don't want to say they fell off the cliff, but they were certainly materially lower than what we saw in January and February. So had the trend continued, I think we would have been talking about obviously - I would have been talking about much different type of quarter. That being said, I think we performed well given the opportunity. And given the question Rich asked about some of the unallocated adjustments to adjusted net trading income, we would have come in at something in the neighborhood of $122 million, $123 million, $124 million which has given our historic capture rates for quarters were there isn't some extreme exogenous event like Swiss de-pegging or August 24, frankly would have been, in my mind, right in line. So I think we performed consistent with capture rates and volumes and volatility for periods where you didn't have one or in the other extreme kind of exogenous events.

All right, great. That's helpful. And then just secondly, I guess, to dig into some of the business bucket here. I mean, the FX obviously is still big attention grabber. I think you gave some good color at the beginning between spot and futures. But generally speaking, what kind of updates can you give us on the secular opportunities here? Are you still seeing new marketplace you can sign up, or are you seeing more competition in some of these marketplaces, what are you seeing from the banks? I mean, any incremental color, because I think a lot of us expected this to be a nice new opportunity to focus on. It hasn't really played out yet. So any updated thoughts would be great. Thanks.

Yes, it's a great question. Obviously, look, I'm not satisfied with the results and no one here is and I don't want anyone to think we are not redoubling our efforts, and we will get better there. I'm 100% positive of that. I think, look, from a longer term perspective, which is obviously how I've always looked at Virtu, I liked what I saw in the first quarter in the sense that we continue to be engaged by big financial institutions that want to do business with us. We've increased the number of counterparties that we’re transacting with. We are a significant player in non-G7 currencies, so emerging market payers and NDFs. And I think the regulatory regime and the opportunity set with respect to making markets and NDFs is only getting better. I think it is important when people look at - this is one category where it's very, very difficult to pick one proxy or one index and look at it and say, okay, well, how should they outperform? If you look like EBS’ numbers that may present an increase, but really you have to dig through and see what are their spot volumes during the quarter. I'm not picking on them, but just giving you an example. So I think Hotspot puts out a composite spot index between that and the CME Futures that's probably like the best comparison that we could use. But again as I’ve said on prior calls - and I'm not going to talk about specific prayers. We are stronger in certain payers than other players. So if in a quarter X, Y and Z payer volumes are down significantly that might more materially impact what we do in FX than if those players are doing better. So we do well in emerging…

Excellent. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alex Blostein with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Thanks. Bigger picture question around the order routing business that you guys are trying to execute upon. Doug, can you just give us your thoughts. I understand it's not going to be a needle-mover, I guess, in the near-term, but bigger picture, what do you envision this business to be for Virtu? And I guess more importantly, in the past, you guys have talked about one of the advantages of the business model is the fact that you don't quite have customers and that allows you to do certain things that other people can't. So how do you balance the two, and just help us understand the vision for the business?

Yes, thank you. It's a great question. And look, we kind of stumbled into this business. I think people are aware of the history, right. We - after the events of 2014, we kind of opened the kimono and showed a lot of buy-side folks, regulators, and you guys, what our business was all about. We did some live trading demonstrations. And then people said, hey, you’ve got a pretty robust system here and it works real well. Would you ever consider routing orders for us? And candidly, obviously I thought about it but it didn't seem to me to be something that was consistent with our headcount and our infrastructure et cetera. What it became clear to me that we could do is - and I think I called it development rope last quarter, we could do it in a Virtu way. In other words, we were not going to add personnel. We were not going to add headcount, and we could frankly have a smaller number of high-end clients, if you will, that really understand market structure and really want to get great execution and understand the benefits of working with a, I'll call a non-conflicted efficient broker, that this could be a nice business for us. And so we are fortune enough to add a gentleman named Steve Cavoli from Morgan Stanley, who knows this business real well and is very well regarded by institutional investors, and so we launched into this foray. We have not added a single person. We have used our existing infrastructure. We've used our existing algorithms, if you will, that were very good at mitigating risk for our own portfolio and our own positions. And so we are doing it in the Virtu way and it will be a Virtu high margin…

Got you. Understood. And just a follow-up question around the environment over the course of the first quarter. Obviously you've seen a lot of very volatile days and a lot of funky things were happening in the market over the course of the first quarter. How have your risk systems handled days like that, and I guess more importantly, can you comment on profitability on the basis whether MTR was positive for every day of this quarter?

Well, just regards to the last one, I keep bringing up the histogram even though I don't want to bring up the histogram right around profitability. So I promised myself that I would never comment again on our daily profitability. But in general, to get back to your original question on risk management, look, that's what the firm - that was the basic foundation for this firm was we’re a firm - I’ll use a sports analogy that we’ll hit singles all day. As Vinnie says, we’re picking up the scraps on the floor as the market maker, we are never swinging for the fences. We don’t make bets. We try not to guess. We try very, very hard not to be directional. And so we are trying to make a tick. And when it's very clear that we are not going to make a tick, we are going to get out of the position. And so we are not perfect. Hubris is a horrible voice. I don’t want to ever say never, but we’ve really constructed this firm to manage the transference of risk back and forth between buyers and sellers in a very, very efficient manner. Again, on August 24, a lot of people asked, did we handle it very well and I made the mistake of saying something like the firm was built for that day. I didn't mean because we made a gazillion dollars, I meant because we handled the transference of risk between literally hundreds of thousands of people that wanted to get in and out of positions in a very, very effective and very, very efficient manner. So in the first quarter, to answer your question more directly, we performed very well. We had no hickies, no hiccups in our risk system. We continued to perform very well, and it's something that we are very, very focused on. We spent a lot of hours on our lockdowns, on our controls, on our reconciliation procedures. We are not perfect. We strive to get better every day but the firm performed very, very well in the first quarter and continues to perform very well in the second quarter with regard to risk management.

Okay. Thanks. I figured I’d try.

Yes, good try. Thanks.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ken Worthington with JP Morgan. Your line is open.

Hi, good morning. Just two follow-up on some of the products. Commodities, so quarter at a time when oil bonds involved facility were up. There are some good metals price movements in products like gold. It wasn't the weakest quarter from an MTR perspective but it was, I'd say, a weaker quarter. Can you flush out kind of the ins and outs of commodities versus similar to what you did earlier in the internet [ph] for FX?

Yes, we were up as compared to the fourth quarter about 44%. And again it's a great question, Ken, because commodities by definition is a very, very broad category, so it includes everything from corn sugar, cocoa and cotton to gold and silver to natural gas, gas oil, crude, I could go on and on, right, anything that kind of comes out of the ground or from a livestock or whatnot is included in that category. I would say the one sub-asset or subclass, if you will - and you guys know this very well, that continues to be a challenge is natural gas. That's really a factor, if you will, of lack of price movement and volatility and it's become a very, very obviously low price sub-asset class, if you will. Lot of the assets - I'm not a natural gas expert, but you guys get it, fracking and oversupply and what-not and all of that kind of stuff. And so as a result, that continues to be a sub-asset class within this asset class that has not performed as well as it certainly did last year or frankly the couple of years before that as natural gas prices were tumbling. I think the other thing is we did very well in crude during the quarter, but as the price of crude goes down, you have to imagine that the capture rate product goes down as well, right, because the notional size, notional volume of what's being transacted will naturally compress. So, look, overall I was very happy with the quarter. We were up, as I said, according to what Joe was showing, we hear about 44% from Q4, and if you look at the indexes, the CME contracts were up around like 17%-ish, CME and ICE in crude and what-not. So I think as a comparison basis, I'm pretty happy with where we ended up. But again it’s a broad category. For competitive reasons, we are not going to sit there and say here is what we did in soft, here is what we do in metals, here is what we do in the various energy products. So by definition, it's going to be a little vague and lumpy, but overall I was pretty pleased with how we performed.

Okay, thank you. And just maybe a little more color there. How big is energy in terms of global commodities for you versus the Ag and other stuff - I don't need the Ag and other stuff, but how - is energy majority, is it less than the majority - like where does that fit in to the complex?

Yes. It is the majority of the complex. It's not a vast majority, right, but it's more than 50% of that complex. Don't forget, we trade a lot of metals products and we do that globally. These our global businesses, right, so we are trading - while we’re all sleeping in New York, we are making markets in TOCOM and in Dubai and other places where precious metals are transacted and base metals as well. We trade a lot of copper and some other base metals. And then of course there is all the various soft products which tends to be a smaller commodity and a little more U.S. or our time zone kind of centric. But it probably in that kind of cascading order I would say. The energy complex, metals complex and soft complex are kind of one, two and three within commodities category.

Okay, great. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of William Katz with Citigroup. Your line is open.

Okay. Yes, thanks so much. Can we sort of come back to the unallocated for just a moment? I appreciate your disclosures very simple. But just still look at the swings over the last couple of quarters and this is, as you mentioned, a bit on the higher side. What changed this particular quarter that made it such a wide negative relative to like last couple of quarters?

Well, two things, and Joe will jump in. One is, it really just depends what the size of the positions are and how the currencies are moving or how the settlement prices are moving, right. So we could have a large hedge position in a bunch of ADRs because we saw value in that spread. And it just so happens on March 31 that the price in London versus the price in United States or frankly as you know, we traded Asia, so maybe the price in Japan as compared to the price in New York, 12, 13 hours later changes materially is complete in another half [ph] stance, it’s non-economic. It's not how I would look at the firm from a kind of internal database P&L perspective, but as I said, we are rule followers and that's what GAAP says. I mean, Joe did I answer is correctly?

I mean, look, the clock strikes midnight for GAAP when it does and that's kind of what we need to do to mark settlement prices. And as Doug said, depending on the size of the position, depending on time zones, depending on which way things are going, it has nothing to do with the way we trade it. It is no different than anything else we do. It's just literally - as the footnote says that we wrote, it's just really deferring our accelerating revenue from one day to another or one reporting period to another as the case may be. So it's completely non-economic as Doug says.

And look, just to be clear, I'm not winding and complaining about it, it could cut either way. All I'm suggesting is if you all want to kind of get a true perspective internally as a management team how I and Joe and the others here are looking at our performance, I don't look at - of course, I look at our GAAP P&L, I shouldn't say that, but I look at our internal database P&L which is literally on my screen second by second and then I compare it to their metrics and opportunities. So I look at the quarter and I say, hey, we did very, very well. I mean one of you all, I forgot who it was, put out a research report in the last couple of days where someone had the number and I smiled and said to myself, well, they really kind of hit it right on the head. I forgot which one of you all put that out. But it really - again it's something that's going to vary quarter by quarter. It’s a GAAP thing, sort of nothing we can do about it.

Okay. That's helpful. Sorry to [indiscernible] point.

No, not at all.

Lot of my big picture questions were already asked, but just as you look on the expense dynamic on a go forward basis, assuming January-February type volatility would not persist, and then you have a couple of sort of longer dated expense initiatives on the way. How are you thinking about - Tom [ph], I know you mentioned in your prepared remarks you're still within your range. So how do you think about that may be technically as we look out the next couple of quarters and longer term about the long-term margin in the franchise?

I don't think it will change at all. I think the first quarter accrual is consistent with - as I said, what we did last year on a full-year basis, it's within a range, as I’ve said in the past, our compensation expense will behave much more like a fixed cost than a traditional variable cost that you may see in an investment bank. It will look more like compensation expense at the exchanges that you cover. And obviously it will fluctuate within a band but it should not change. I mean there is nothing that we have underway in any of the initiatives that we've talked about that would cause that philosophy to change, or would cause the way we account for it or accrue for it to change

Yes, I think the important thing - and we've said this over and over again, this firm is - again, we've got wonderful people here. They are very, very talented. And every one of them owns equity in the firm and everyone is totally driven to produce results. But this firm is really ought about automation and making the markets more efficient, and you see - I was there a couple of years ago when our headcount was 140-something. What's your headcount going to be in two years? And I said around the same and perhaps maybe a little bit lower, and everyone kind of scratched their head, said how could possibly be. This is not a firm where we need 200 to 300 people to accomplish our mission. We are at a good size right now. It's just a question of getting more efficiencies out of the business and having our people effectively grow and mature and continue to work hard and produce. And we've built that culture. It's much more of a technology style culture, if you will, than it is a trading firm culture and I see no reason why we would ever change that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Ashley Serrao with Credit Suisse. Your line is open.

Good morning guys.

Good morning, Ashley. How are you?

I’m okay. Thanks. I guess, first question. Can you just talk about your aspirations of electronic fixed income? I know there has been some press. What segment of the market do you think can effectively compete in, what segments would not be a match for your style? Any color there would be appreciated.

Yes, look, I think it's a great question. As we've always said and I said in my remarks and I wasn't specifically referring to fixed income, but this is an asset class where we need transparency. Right now the SEC and CFTC and Treasury as I'm sure you're well aware kind of circling around, do we have trades for treasuries, do we have real-time reporting? Obviously as compared to fully electronic, central clearing, central order book-style firm, we are big believers in real-time disclosures of data and prices and what-not. I mean that's not - everybody on Wall Street doesn't agree with that statement, but I think it's the right thing for the marketplace. So as - and we are essentially involved in that discussion. We put in comment letters. We've got representatives in Washington including myself who goes down there and we try to lobby for those things because we do think it's the right thing for the market. And so we think it's a good thing ultimately for Virtu. So if you had a number of competitive platforms, where for example U.S. Treasury is other, cash government instruments were traded in a fully electronic manner, that's a good thing for our business. So that segment of the marketplace we think we can be very, very competitive in. The same thing with interest rate swaps that are now transacted to some extent on various swap execution facilities. As the marketplace continues to evolve and the buy-side insists on real-time execution in a fully disclosed transparent manner, that's going to be a good thing for our business and then we think we can be significant market makers and players in that. You’ve seen some of our competitor firms all over the world have already made that push and are doing…

Great. Thanks for the color there. And then moving onto FX, I was curious how your customized liquidity offering is faring. Any color on the growth, what's in the pipeline? And then can you also remind us of - for spread differential, if there is any, between transacting directly on Reuters and EBS and White Labeling’s liquidity?

Yes, that's a great question. I would - the answer is - look, I'm very bullish about it because to me it's just a - remember our model, right. We've got one basic product which is a two-sided price and we don't have customers in a traditional sense, right. So we have to disseminate that price through intermediaries either they are exchanges, they are dark pools or they could be brokers, technology providers. And in the FX market largely because it's highly unregulated and because there is a history of taking a single bank fees and multi-bank fees, folks are more than happy to take our prices directly. So you tend to have in the all-to-all market, the EBS and the Reuters and the Hotspots in their all-to-all platforms. You tend to have - obviously it's an anonymous market, but you tend to have wider spreads and there is lack of accountability and people complain about the high frequency traders and blah, blah, blah, all the other stuff that I’m sure you’re very familiar with. When you’ve got more directed fees either through - we can stream directly through our own API, or we can do it through our technology provider or we can do it through FXall or EBS Direct and some of these other platforms, you can get - we'll have - we will show a tighter spread and obviously we'll be fully disclosed to the counterparty, so they understand price impact and what-not, and we have to put our money where our mouth is, if you will, and actually show them a good product. So that offering is very competitive in the highly transacted payer, so dollar-euro and dollar-yen and things like that, you are going to see a lot of providers that are providing that stream,…

Great. Thank you for taking my questions.

Yes, any time. Thank you.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Ian Johnston with Prudential. Your line is open.

Hi, thanks. Since going public, could you maybe explain your tax bases? I'm looking at - I'm trying to figure out the cash taxes and I'm comparing it to the provision for taxes, and it looks like a relatively low effective tax rates. So I'm just trying to understand how we should factor that in going forward and how we should provide for that?

Yes, sure. I’m happy to handle - this is Joe. I’m happy to handle that question.

You don’t think I can handle it, Joe?

You can.

Okay. Go forward, Joe.

So we’re on [indiscernible] so we actually - the public company owns around 27% of the partnership unit, so the actual cash taxes that we pay reflects that kind of low cash tax number that you're coming up with. So the provision for income taxes in Virtu Financial Inc. just reflects the amount of income that Virtu Financial Inc. gets from the partnership. We all, assume that, as an investor, as a research analyst, you want to look at the company as if it were a fully taxed C-Corp and that's why we use the fully loaded effective corporate tax rate. But you're correct in that, our actual cash taxes are much lower at a corporate - on an actual corporate. So when you look at our GAAP income statement, you see the cash taxes are above the line and then we look at GAAP EPS sort of after that.

Okay. Got you. And I believe I read recently that Virtu purchased a very large piece of real estate in Brooklyn of the order of about $100 million or so. Anything to that?

No. In fact the headline was 100% wrong and Virtu is not in the real estate business. Our Chairman and Founder Mr. Viola obviously from time to time makes his own personal investment decisions that has absolutely 100% nothing to do with Virtu Financial. Vinnie is the Chairman of Virtu Financial. So Mr. Viola makes personal investments and occasionally big surprise reporters screw up and assume its Virtu doing all these things. I can assure you we are not in the real estate business and have no plans or intentions to get into the real estate business.

That's great to hear. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Thank you. And that does conclude today's Q&A portion of the call. I'd like to turn the call back over to CEO, Doug Cifu, for any closing remarks.

Well, thank you very much everybody for participating today. We really appreciate the questions and all the great feedback. Again we continue to be very excited about our business and optimistic. We continue to run a very efficient business we think that is providing wonderful value and efficiency to the marketplace in the form of our two-sided prices into over 230 marketplaces. So we look forward to continuing our conversations with you in the near future and we'll talk to you all soon. Thank you very much.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. That does conclude today's conference. You may all disconnect. Everyone have a great day.