17 January 2023, Paris. Horizon Software, a global leading vendor in Market Making and Algo Trading Technology, announces today that the company is now B Corp™ Certified. As a B Corp, Horizon is now part of a global community of businesses working collectively for economic systems change.
This B Corp Certification means that Horizon software has been verified as meeting B Lab’s™ high standards for social and environmental impact, that it has made a legal commitment to stakeholder governance, and that it is demonstrating accountability and transparency by disclosing this record of performance in a public B Corp profile.
Augustin Boulot, Executive Director of B Lab France, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Horizon Software to our French community, which now includes more than 275 Certified B Corporations®. Their path to add value to the investor experience and nurture a more transparent, flexible, and open trading environment is consequential. We look forward to advancing these topics and ongoing work of the B Corp™ community even further with the expertise of Horizon Software.”
Sylvain Thieullent, CEO at Horizon Software added: “After nearly 2 years, Horizon is proud to have met the B Lab’s high standards and to have become a Certified B corporation. As a B Corp in the electronic trading industry, we’re counted among businesses that are leading a global movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. This certification is the beginning of a journey towards continuous improvement and collective action”.
About Horizon Software Horizon, a global leading vendor in Market Making and Algo Trading Technology, has been empowering capital market players for over two decades by building powerful algorithmic technology into its electronic trading platform and offering trading opportunities through direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide. Horizon enables clients to quickly create, test and implement automated trading strategies in real-time, in line with its ‘Trade Your Way’ philosophy. Its platform can be easily integrated with rich APIs and allows proprietary strategies to be built while keeping traders’ code confidential. More information: www.hsoftware.com
Certified B Corporation™
Certified B Corporations, or B Corps, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. This name is always styled as ‘B Corp,’ with a space, not ‘B-Corp’ or ‘BCorp.
B Lab™
B Lab is the non-profit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. B Lab creates standards, policies, tools, and programs that shift the behaviour, culture, and structure of capitalism. We mobilize the global B Corp community towards collective action to address society’s most critical challenges, and we collaborate with governments, academia, coalitions, and other institutions to drive economic systems change.
