The US agency broker ITG has been busy investing in its European operations since its most profitable year in the region in 2014, new accounts show.

According to accounts for ITG Ventures Ltd and its subsidiaries - filed at Ireland's Companies Registration Office in August - the group opened a new trading desk in Paris with the aim of winning business from the country's asset management community, which includes Amundi and Carmignac, and a new trading desk for ETFs is based in London.