外媒：全球最大高频交易公司在中国启动大宗商品交易

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据彭博报道，全球最大的高频交易公司之一Virtu Financial Inc.启动了在其第35个国家的交易：中国。
Virtu首席执行官Doug Cifu表示，公司在今年第二季度与一家中国券商达成了协议，在“非常有限的基础上”提供流动性。Virtu采用自动化做市策略来买卖中内地上市的大宗商品。在其它市场上，公司还从事股票和汇率等各种资产类别交易。
“我们认为该协议是一个非常长期过程的第一步。”Cifu表示。
Cifu说,“我们认识到了最近中国股市的波动，以及当地的监管机构对电子交易实施的监管审查。”“从长期看，我们认为中国是一个确立的资本市场，其交易量将媲美我们现有业务所在的最大市场。”
以下是彭博报道原文：
  Virtu Financial Inc., one of the world’s biggest high-speed trading firms, has started trading in its 35th country: China.
The company reached an agreement during the second quarter with a Chinese brokerage house to provide liquidity on “a very limited basis,” according to Virtu Chief Executive Officer Doug Cifu. Virtu is using automated market-making strategies to buy and sell commodities listed in mainland China. In other markets, it trades other assets including stocks and currencies.
“This agreement is the first step in what we view as a very long process,” Cifu said in a conference call on Wednesday. He did not identify the firm’s Chinese partner.
Chinese equities have plummeted since the middle of June, prompting the government to intervene in the stock market to prop up prices, even banning some shareholders from selling their stakes.
Mainland exchanges have frozen 38 accounts, including one owned by Citadel Securities, as the local authorities investigate algorithmic traders.
“We are certainly cognizant of the recent market volatility in China, and the regulatory scrutiny being placed on electronic trading by the local regulator,” Cifu said. “Long term, we view China as an established capital market with volumes comparable to the largest markets in which we operate.”
Virtu will confine its presence to Chinese data centers. It won’t be opening offices or “putting boots on the ground,” he said.
Chinese equity markets -- unlike, the stock markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan -- are largely dominated by retail investors. Automated market makers like New York-based Virtu have transformed trading in other parts of the world with their computer-driven strategies.
<p>High-speed trader Optiver is also trying to build a bigger presence in China.