Knight Capital Europe’s order execution service, Knight Link, will begin trading Nordic large-cap securities listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic.

Knight Link, a trading model for European equities, will initiate coverage of 75 stocks in Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

“We are very excited to expand Knight Link into the Nordic markets,” says Kee-Meng Tan (pictured), managing director, head of the electronic trading group in Europe. “Our unique model of providing liquidity to both retail and institutional broker-dealer clients on a single platform has been well received in the UK. We saw over USD4bn executed through Knight Link in January and hope that the expansion will facilitate further growth.”

Officially launched in Europe in November 2009, Knight Link offers order execution in a growing range of pan-European large- and mid-cap equities. Knight Link provides institutional and retail broker-dealers access to Knight’s liquidity. It is designed to bring European clients quality executions with high fulfilment rates and low cost on a low-latency platform. 

With the addition of the Nordic stocks, Knight Link will make markets in more than 600 European-listed stocks including those in the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

Knight Link in Europe is based on the model Knight developed for trading in the US equity markets.