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BATS Global Markets Agrees to Acquire the Hotspot FX Market

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BATS Global Markets (BATS) today announced a definitive agreement with KCG Holdings to acquire Hotspot FX, a leading institutional spot foreign exchange market, in a cash transaction valued at $365 million. Closing is expected in the first half of 2015, and represents further expansion into non-equity trading businesses for BATS as it enters the world’s largest asset class. Turnover for the global FX market was estimated at $5.3 trillion in 2013.* J

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