TD Lender Group to obtain digital fastened profits investing business

Acquisition expands TD Securities’ automated buying and selling infrastructure and capabilities

TORONTO, March 23, 2021 /CNW/ – The Toronto-Dominion Bank (“TD”) (TSX: TD) (NYSE: TD) and Headlands Tech Holdings, LLC (“Headlands Tech”) right now declared a definitive arrangement, issue to sure closing problems, for TD to purchase Headlands Tech International Markets, LLC, a Chicago-dependent quantitative set income trading firm.

“This acquisition further more strengthens our digital bond buying and selling infrastructure and underscores our commitment to providing facts-pushed innovation and increasing our world platform,” stated Bob Dorrance, Chairman, Main Govt Officer and President, TD Securities. “Headlands Tech Worldwide Markets’ platform and men and women will expand our U.S. capabilities in the municipal and corporate bond marketplaces. We glance ahead to welcoming the workforce and operating with each other to deliver an increased buying and selling working experience for our clientele.”

Launched in 2013, with workplaces in Chicago and San Francisco, Headlands Tech Worldwide Marketplaces has produced proprietary application to provide absolutely automatic electronic current market-generating in municipal and expense grade company bonds. The firm’s 15 employees, such as Co-CEOs Martin Mannion and Matthew Schrager, will join TD Securities at closing.

“We created our business to supply clientele with a top-quality, completely automated execution knowledge in fixed revenue merchandise,” mentioned Co-CEO, Martin Mannion, Headlands Tech Global Markets. “Our crew is a potent cultural match with TD Securities, and we are self-confident that our proven abilities in electronic investing will complement the firm’s present business enterprise, advancement ambitions and commitment to excellent customer service.”

TD’s invest in of Headlands Tech Worldwide Markets is anticipated to near mid-2021 subject matter to receipt of regulatory approvals, and satisfaction of other customary closing problems. On closing, TD expects the transaction to have a minimum affect on money.

TD Securities served as economic advisor in link with this transaction. Evercore served as economic advisor to Headlands Tech.

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The Bank’s acquisition of Headlands Tech International Marketplaces, LLC is matter to particular closing disorders. There is no assurance that the acquisition will be finished as explained in this document or at all. There can be no assurance that the Bank will notice the expected gains or final results, and genuine benefits could vary materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-searching statements. Examples of materials assumptions built by the Bank in the forward-on the lookout statements include assumptions relating to expected strategic and other positive aspects, based on the Bank’s working experience.

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About TD Financial institution Team

The Toronto-Dominion Financial institution and its subsidiaries are collectively identified as TD Lender Team (“TD” or the “Financial institution”). TD is the fifth premier lender in North America by property and serves over 26 million prospects in 3 key companies functioning in a selection of destinations in money centres about the world: Canadian Retail, which include TD Canada Rely on, TD Vehicle Finance Canada, TD Prosperity (Canada), TD Immediate Investing, and TD Insurance plan U.S. Retail, together with TD Lender, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, TD Automobile Finance U.S., TD Wealth (U.S.), and an financial investment in The Charles Schwab Corporation and Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities. TD also ranks amongst the world’s top online monetary solutions companies, with additional than 14 million active on the net and cellular buyers. TD had CDN$1.7 trillion in belongings on January 31, 2021. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades underneath the symbol “TD” on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.

About Headlands Tech World-wide Marketplaces

Headlands Tech World wide Marketplaces (HTGM) is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer that presents proprietary liquidity to preset earnings marketplaces. Leveraging a special completely automatic solution, HTGM is ready to supply exact and well timed pricing throughout hundreds of 1000’s of instruments in the fastened money universe. Established in 2013, HTGM has grown to come to be a person of the biggest members in the U.S. municipal bond marketplace, executing countless numbers of trades for every day with hundreds of counterparties throughout the economical landscape. With a growing existence in other asset classes these types of as expenditure-grade company bonds, HTGM is dedicated to leveraging its technology to strengthen liquidity and transparency throughout the fastened revenue marketplaces.