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Citadel Securities — institutional liquidity provider

This record reflects the firm's current operational status and available disclosures.

Citadel Securities LLC · Chicago, USA

evidence score
74/100

Licence, read literally

RegulatorLicence numberJurisdictionTierSource
SEC/FINRACRD 116797 (SEC 8-53574)USAT1open source
SEC/FINRACRD 281102 (SEC 8-69663)USAT1open source
Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-2 means real supervision and client-money segregation, without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

Residuals a counterparty carries

2

  1. R01

    Unpublished trading venues

    No trading venues have been published by the firm.

    Source: firm disclosures page

  2. R02

    Lack of founding date

    The firm's timeline does not state an explicit founding year.

    Source: firm timeline

The claims ledger

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

  • Global headquarters: 131 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603 USA (firm's own locations page; verified via Wayback snapshot of citadelsecurities.com)
  • BrokerCheck register: Citadel Securities LLC, CRD 116797, SEC 8-53574, status ACTIVE (FINRA BrokerCheck JSON)
  • Firm timeline: electronic options market making launched 2002; #1 Designated Market Maker on the NYSE in 2016; institutional client base grew to over 1,000 in 2018
  • Site business lines: Equities (including Designated Market Maker), Options, Fixed Income & FX, Corporate Solutions

Claims we cannot verify from outside

  • 'Becoming industry leader in 18 months' and market-share percentages are the firm's own timeline claims
  • Award claims (Risk Magazine, IFR, ETF.com) reference third-party publications not independently re-verified

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes
Equities, Options, Fixed Income, FX
Venues
Connectivity
Clients accepted
Institutional clients (over 1,000 by 2018 per firm timeline), Retail brokers via equity wholesale market making (over 40% retail equity market share by 2018, per firm timeline)
Explicitly refused
A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as disclosure, not as a defect.