Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) Securities Fraud Class Action

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Please complete this form relating to your transactions for Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) securities between March 1, 2019 and April 28, 2023, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”).

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COMPANY	Virtu Financial, Inc.
COURT	United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
CASE NUMBER	23-cv-03770
JUDGE	The Hon. Nicholas Garaufis
CLASS PERIOD	March 1, 2019 and April 28, 2023
SECURITY TYPE	Common Stock

Virtu investors may receive additional information about the case by clicking the link "Submit Your Information" above. If you are a member of the class described below, you may no later than July 18, 2023 move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff of the class, if you so choose.

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of those who purchased or acquired Virtu Financial, Inc. ("Virtu") (NASDAQ: VIRT) securities between March 1, 2019 and April 28, 2023, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”).

Case Background:

Virtu is a financial services company whose product suite includes offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics and broker-neutral, and multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology. As part of its operations, Virtu claims to have established information access barriers, or separations between different departments or individuals designed to block the exchange of confidential information and prevent conflicts of interest.

Throughout the Class Period, however, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that the company maintained deficient policies and procedures with respect to its information access barriers, and that, as a result, Virtu had overstated the company’s operational and technological efficacy as well as its capacity to block the exchange of confidential information between departments or individuals within the company.

On February 17, 2023, after the market closed, Virtu published its full year 2022 financial results, and revealed that Virtu had been responding to requests for information from the SEC in connection with an investigation of Virtu’s information access barriers. Following this news, Virtu’s stock price fell $0.32, or 1.6%, to close at $19.69 per share on February 21, 2023.

Then, on April 28, 2023, Virtu released its first quarter 2023 financial results, once again stating that it had been in contact with the SEC, and that it may receive a Wells Notice from the SEC which would be expected to allege violations of federal securities laws with respect to the company’s information barriers policies and procedures for a specified time period in and around January 2018 to April 2019 and related statements made by the company during such period.

On May 1, 2023, The Wall Street Journal published an article reporting that a Virtu spokesperson stated that the investigation was “primarily focused on an access controls weakness in one of [Virtu’s] internal back office systems containing post trade information that theoretically could allow certain system users access greater than what was intended by our policies.”

Following this news, Virtu’s stock price fell $1.13, or 5.7%, over two consecutive trading days to close at $18.77 per share on May 3, 2023.

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