NEW YORK CITY -- It's official, The Xerox corporation has completed a separation with Conduent, creating two publicly traded companies.

Members of Conduent's executive leadership team celebrated Tuesday by ringing the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

Xerox top executives will take their turn at the opening bell Wednesday.

"Conduent Incorporated" will trade under the symbol "CNDT."

The original Xerox company will still trade under it's symbol "XRX"

As part of the split, Xerox shareholders received one share of Conduent stock for every five shares of Xerox stock.

Xerox received $1.8 billion in cash it says will be used to retire about $2 billion of debt.

There are currently just over 6,000 Xerox employees in the Rochester area.

Several hundred employees working in the call center here will now report to Conduent.