CBOE Starts Platform for Trading Private Company Shares

  • CBOE Private Markets registered an alternative trading system
  • London-based Globacap to provide technology for new venture

Traders work in the S&P options pit at the Cboe Global Markets exchange in Chicago, Illinois.

Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg
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CBOE Global Markets Inc. is partnering with a London-based tech firm to create a US trading platform for shares of closely held companies, a traditionally illiquid market that investors have increasingly sought to access.

CBOE Private Markets registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as a broker-dealer, according to a filing in August — an essential step in setting up a so-called alternative trading system. The new venue will compete with a platform that Nasdaq Inc. spun out in 2021.