Knight Appoints Didier Bankole Vice President of Sales for the Electronic Trading Group in Europe

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey and LONDON, April 12, 2010 - Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced the appointment
of Didier Bankole to Vice President of Sales for the Electronic Trading Group
(ETG) in Europe. Mr. Bankole will lead the sales effort across continental
Europe for Knight Link, which provides institutional and retail
broker-dealers with access to Knight's liquidity in more than 700 European
equities.

Mr. Bankole joined Knight from NYSE Euronext where he was in charge of
Global Account Management as well as additional responsibilities for NYSE
ARCA Europe as Market Structure Manager. Prior to that, he was Deputy
Director, Head of Prospect Management at Euronext Paris SA.

"Knight Link has an established footprint in the U.K. both in the
institutional and the retail space, and we believe investors across Europe
can also benefit from its liquidity and quality executions," Kee-Meng Tan,
Managing Director and Head of the Electronic Trading Group in Europe. "Didier
brings considerable experience to our expansion efforts on the continent
where we look to raise our profile among broker-dealers and institutions and
further highlight our market-making ability."

Officially launched in Europe in November 2009, Knight Link offers rapid
order execution in a broad and growing range of pan-European large- and
mid-cap equities. Knight Link provides institutional and retail
broker-dealers access to Knight's unique liquidity, quality executions with
high fulfillment rates, and low cost on a low-latency platform. Knight Link
makes markets in more than 700 European-listed stocks including those in the
UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

"The Knight Link model offers broker-dealers across continental Europe an
opportunity to improve execution quality for their retail customers," Mr.
Bankole said. "I look forward to showcasing Knight's strengths in volume and
breadth of securities traded to new clients and helping to drive greater
activity in Knight Link."

The UK Financial Services Authority authorises and regulates Knight Link
as a Systematic Internaliser, in accordance with the Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive. Knight Link is a Retail Services Provider (RSP) in the
UK and a retail market maker on Equiduct's PartnerEx platform. Knight Link
helps clients to achieve MiFID-mandated best execution requirements through a
combination of high-quality stock execution and low transaction costs. This
new source of liquidity for Europe is made possible by Knight's extensive
market-making operation as well as Knight's access to the full range of
trading venues in Europe.

Mr. Bankole is based in Knight's London office at 55 Basinghall Street,
6th Floor, London EC2V 5DU, United Kingdom, phone +44(0)20-7997-7823 and fax
+44-20-7997-7788.

Biography

    Didier Bankole
    Vice President
    Knight Equity Markets International Limited

Didier Bankole is Vice President of Sales for the Electronic Trading
Group in Europe with responsibility for overseeing sales for Knight Link in
continental Europe. He is an expert in continental European exchanges.

Mr. Bankole joined Knight in February 2010 from NYSE Euronext where he
was in charge of Global Account Management as well as additional
responsibilities for NYSE ARCA Europe as Market Structure Manager. Prior to
that, he was at Euronext Paris SA where most recently he was Deputy Director,
Head of Prospect Management and, previously, Co-Head of the Membership
Department for the firm. Prior to joining Euronext Paris, he worked in legal,
audit, regulation and membership positions for MATIF SA.

Didier has a MBA and a master's in international capital markets from
University of Paris-Dauphine, as well as a bachelor's and master's in
economic sciences from University Paris X-Nanterre.

About Knight

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) is global financial services
firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple
asset classes to buy- and sell-side firms. Knight's hybrid market model
features complementary electronic and voice trade execution services in
global equities and fixed income as well as foreign exchange, futures and
options. The firm is the leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities by
share volume. Knight also offers capital markets services to corporate
issuers. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ with a growing global
presence across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For more
information, please go to www.knight.com.

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