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Geographic Information and Business Segments | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Geographic Information and Business Segments | Geographic Information and Business Segments The Company operates its business in the U.S. and internationally, primarily in Europe and Asia. Significant transactions and balances between geographic regions occur primarily as a result of certain of the Company’s subsidiaries incurring operating expenses such as employee compensation, communications and data processing and other overhead costs, for the purpose of providing execution, clearing and other support services to affiliates. Charges for transactions between regions are designed to approximate full costs. Intra-region income and expenses and related balances have been eliminated in the geographic information presented below to accurately reflect the external business conducted in each geographical region. The revenues are attributed to countries based on the locations of the subsidiaries. The following table presents total revenues by geographic area for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31,
(in thousands) |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Revenues: |  |  |  |
United States (1) |  | $ | 291,336 |  |  | $ | 743,152 |
Ireland |  | 35,675 |  |  | 14,023 |
United Kingdom |  | 284 |  |  | 11,600 |
Singapore |  | 26,838 |  |  | 46,200 |
Canada |  | 5,212 |  |  | — |
Australia |  | 3,302 |  |  | — |
Others |  | 344 |  |  | 78 |
Total revenues |  | $ | 362,991 |  |  | $ | 815,053 |
(1) Includes $337.6 million gain on sale of BondPoint for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The Company has two operating segments: (i) Market Making and (ii) Execution Services; and one non-operating segment: Corporate. The Market Making segment principally consists of market making in the cash, futures and options markets across global equities, options, fixed income, currencies and commodities. As a market maker, the Company commits capital on a principal basis by offering to buy securities from, or sell securities to, broker-dealers, banks and institutions. The Company engages in principal trading in the Market Making segment direct to clients as well as in a supplemental capacity on exchanges, ECNs and alternative trading systems (“ATS”). The Company is an active participant on all major global equity and futures exchanges and also trades on substantially all domestic electronic options exchanges. As a complement to electronic market making, the cash trading business handles specialized orders and also transacts on the OTC Link ATS operated by OTC Markets Group Inc. and the AIM. The Execution Services segment comprises agency-based trading and trading venues, offering execution services in global equities, options, futures and fixed income on behalf of institutions, banks and broker-dealers as well as technology services revenues. The Company earns commissions and commission equivalents as an agent on behalf of clients as well as between principals to transactions; in addition, the Company will commit capital on behalf of clients as needed. Agency-based, execution-only trading in the segment is done primarily through a variety of access points including: (i) algorithmic trading and order routing in global equities and options; (ii) institutional sales traders who offer portfolio trading and single stock sales trading which provides execution expertise for program, block and riskless principal trades in global equities and ETFs; and (iii) matching of client orders in POSIT Alert and in the Company's ATSs, including Virtu MatchIt, POSIT, and MATCHNow. The Execution Services segment also includes revenues derived from providing (a) proprietary risk management and trading infrastructure technology to select third parties for a service fee, (b) workflow technology, the Company’s integrated, broker-neutral trading tools delivered across the globe including trade order and execution management and order management software applications and network connectivity and (c) trading analytics, including (1) tools enabling portfolio managers and traders to improve pre-trade, real-time and post-trade execution performance, (2) portfolio construction and optimization decisions and (3) securities valuation. The Corporate segment contains the Company's investments, principally in strategic trading-related opportunities and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the Company's other segments. Management evaluates the performance of its segments on a pre-tax basis. Segment assets and liabilities are not used for evaluating segment performance or in deciding how to allocate resources to segments. The Company’s total revenues and income before income taxes and noncontrolling interest (“Pre-tax earnings”) by segment for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 are summarized in the following table:
(in thousands) | Market Making |  | Execution Services |  | Corporate (1) |  | Consolidated Total
2019: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total revenue | $ | 279,221 |  |  | $ | 83,518 |  |  | $ | 252 |  |  | $ | 362,991 |
Income before income taxes and noncontrolling interest | 47,539 |  |  | (44,405 | ) |  | (19,338 | ) |  | (16,204 | )
2018: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total revenue | 432,536 |  |  | 383,779 |  |  | (1,262 | ) |  | 815,053 |
Income (loss) before income taxes and noncontrolling interest | 163,163 |  |  | 331,185 |  |  | (25,812 | ) |  | 468,536 |
(1) Amounts shown in the Corporate segment include eliminations of income statement and balance sheet items included in the Company's other segments.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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