Virtu Financial, Inc. Class A

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Good day and welcome to the Virtue Financial 2021 first quarter results conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touch-tone button. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I'll now turn the conference over to Andrew Smith. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Grant, and good morning. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Our first quarter results were released this morning and are available on our website. On this morning's call, we have Mr. Douglas Sifu, our Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Joseph Maluso, our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, and Mr. Sean Galvin, our Chief Financial Officer. They will begin with prepared remarks and take your questions. First, a few reminders. Today's call may include forward-looking statements which represent Virtue's current belief regarding future events and are therefore subject to risks, assumptions, and uncertainties, which may be outside the company's control. Please note that our actual results and financial condition may differ materially from what is indicated in these forward-looking statements. It is important to note that any forward-looking statements made on this call are based upon information presently available to the company. and we do not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements as new information becomes available. We refer you to disclaimers in our press release and encourage you to review the description of risk factors contained in our annual report and form 10-K and other public filings. During today's call, in addition to GAAP results, we may refer to certain non-GAAP measures, including adjusted net trading income, adjusted net income, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted EBITDA margins. Non-GAAP measures should be considered as supplemental to and not superior to financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. We direct listeners to consult the investor portion of our website where you'll find supplemental information referred to on this call as well as reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the equivalent GAAP term in the earnings materials with an explanation of why we deem this information to be meaningful as well as how management uses these measures. And with that, I turn the call over to Doug.