VIRTU FINANCIAL,INC. (NASDAQ:VIRT) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

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VIRTU FINANCIAL,INC. (NASDAQ:VIRT) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On June30, 2017, the Company held its 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2017 Annual Meeting”). The following items were voted upon by stockholders at the 2017 Annual Meeting:

1. Each of the director nominees was elected ClassII Director of the Company to act in accordance with the amended and restated bylaws of the Company for a term of three years expiring at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in 2020 and until such director’s successor has been duly elected and qualified. The votes for the election of directors are set forth below:

Nominee

For

Withhold

BrokerNon-Voters

Douglas A. Cifu

824,560,954

4,297,778

6,663,503

John F. (Jack) Sandner

823,305,439

5,553,293

6,663,503

2. To ratify the appointment of Deloitte& Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December31, 2017. The votes for the ratification of appointment of Deloitte& Touche LLP are set forth below:

For

Against

Abstain

BrokerNon-Voters

835,337,244

160,055

24,936

3. To approve the Virtu Financial,Inc. Amended and Restated 2015 Management Incentive Plan (the “Amended Plan”). The votes for the approval of the Amended Plan are set forth below:

For

Against

Abstain

BrokerNon-Voters

828,295,687

530,242

32,803

6,663,503


About VIRTU FINANCIAL,INC. (NASDAQ:VIRT)

Virtu Financial, Inc. is a holding company. The Company is a technology-enabled market maker and liquidity provider to the financial markets across the world. It is engaged in buying or selling a range of securities and other financial instruments and earning small bid/ask spreads across various transactions. It has a single, multi-asset, multi-currency technology platform through which it provides quotations to buyers and sellers in equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income and other securities on exchanges, markets and liquidity pools in various countries around the world. It makes markets in a range of different assets classes, such as Americas Equities; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Equities; Asia Pacific (APAC) Equities; Global Commodities; Global Currencies, and Options, Fixed Income and Other Securities. It makes markets for global banks, brokers and other intermediaries, and indirectly provides services to retail and institutional investors.