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trading firm

American  
[trayd-ing furm] / ˈtreɪd ɪŋ ˈfɜrm /

noun

  • trading firms
    plural
  1. Finance. a company or institution whose main purpose is to buy and sell securities.


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They are known in the industry and by Western officials as the Coral network, after a now-defunct trading firm where many of them used to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

By early 2026, they had acquired Valence, a prediction-market trading firm backed by Y Combinator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Also attending was Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend who was running Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm that was a sister organization to FTX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Kalshi shareholder Jump Trading was one of the parties to the rapid transactions, according to a person familiar with the matter; another participant was crypto trading firm Wintermute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

They longed for a relationship with some big Wall Street trading firm and mentioned the desire to their accountant.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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