Knight Libertas UK Appoints Ron Thompson as Managing Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey and LONDON, January 5 - Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced that Knight
Libertas UK appointed Ronald E. Thompson, Jr. as Managing Director, Global
Head of ABS Strategy, effective as of November 30, 2009.

"Ron brings considerable experience to our securitized products effort in
the U.S. and Europe and broadens the services we provide to our institutional
structured securities clients," said Ronak Khichadia, Managing Director,
Global Head of ABS/MBS sales and trading. "We intend to further leverage our
intellectual capital to enhance the products and services we deliver to
clients as Ron helps us build out our ABS/MBS strategy and analytics platform
to support sales and trading. We are growing our platform globally to meet
the opportunities, and strategy will play a key role in helping us expand our
franchise across the structured markets."

Knight Libertas is an institutional fixed income broker-dealer providing
trade execution, fundamental investment research across a broad range of
fixed income securities including ABS/MBS. Knight Libertas also provides
secondary market liquidity and credit-based analysis for High Grade and High
Yield Bonds, Bank Loans, Emerging Market Credit and Sovereigns as well as and
capital markets services for corporate issuers.

"I am pleased to join Knight Libertas and look forward to working with
the team to build a strong ABS/MBS platform. Knight Libertas already boasts
extensive research and strategy capabilities in other fixed income arenas,
namely High Yield and Emerging Markets. The ABS/MBS sales and trading groups
in the U.S. and Europe have quickly established themselves as core trading
counterparties, and they intend to add to that strength with a build out in
analytics and strategy," said Thompson.

Mr. Thompson is based in the London office, phone +44(0)20-7997-2163 or
email rthompson@knight.com. Knight Libertas UK is a division of Knight
Capital Europe Limited, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Capital
Group, Inc.

Biography

    Ronald E. Thompson, Jr.
    Managing Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy
    Knight Libertas UK

Ronald. E. Thompson is Managing Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy.

Mr. Thompson joined Knight Libertas from the Royal Bank of Scotland where
he spent eight years, most recently as global head of ABS strategy in
Stamford and London. Before RBS, Thompson held research and strategy roles
with Citigroup and Salomon Brothers as well as banking and research roles in
several other institutions. Highly ranked in Euromoney and Institutional
Investor polls, Ron's research on ABS and CDOs has also appeared in several
books, including the "Handbook of Bank Loans", "Handbook of Structured
Financial Products", "Guide to Mortgage and Asset Backed Securities", and
"Reserve Management Trends".

Ron has a bachelor of science in engineering with distinction from
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

About Knight

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) is a global capital markets
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 consistently ranked as the leading source of
off-exchange liquidity in U.S. equities. Knight also provides 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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