India FIX Conference 2011

 
Mumbai 03 March 2011 - ITC Grand Central
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Sponsors
 
 
Liquidnet is the institutional equities marketplace, bringing together the world’s largest asset managers and public companies on a single network that directly connects traders, portfolio managers, analysts and corporate issuers. Liquidnet enables its Members to achieve greater performance by moving from investment idea to implementation faster, ultimately retaining more alpha throughout the entire institutional investment cycle. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet extends to 38 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. For more information on Liquidnet, its liquidity, block executions, and additional investment capabilities, visit www.liquidnet.com.
 
 
 
Tora is Asia’s leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services. Tora's unrivalled solutions span the entire trading process, offering a full suite of trade execution capabilities in markets across Asia, North America and Europe. Tora's high-performance EMS/OMS has been designed from the ground up by traders, and is currently used by traders at hedge funds, long-only funds and sell-side proprietary trading desks. Tora also provides clients with access to its unique liquidity pools including Asia’s leading non-displayed matching engine. Tora's dedicated Asia trading desk delivers to buy-side clients unmatched Asia expertise and extensive analytics focused on best execution. Tora's extensive suite of proprietary algorithms (trading and strategy-focused) is fully customizable and broker neutral. Tora has over 175 employees dedicated to Asia, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com.
 
 
 

aurionPro is the world-class technology firm founded by industry veterans and domain experts. aurionPro's three distinct businesses provide unparalleled software solutions, and technology services across banking and capital markets, consulting services and outsourcing services.

CameronTec, the financial industry's leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions, is a valued partner of E2E Infotech - an aurionPro group company. Through its core offering CameronFIX and flagship solution Catalys, CameronTec provides the FIX infrastructure and connectivity needs of financial firms worldwide, ranging from boutique trading houses, large investment banks and brokerage firms, to Exchanges and regulators, in over 25 countries.

 
 
 

Bombay Stock Exchange is Asia's first stock exchange and is popularly known as the BSE. It was established as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association" in 1875. Over the past 136 years, BSE has nurtured the growth of Indian Capital market. Today, BSE is the world's number one exchange in terms of the number of listed companies (over 5000). It is the world's 5th most active exchange in terms of number of transactions handled through its electronic trading system. And it is in the top ten global exchanges in the world in terms of the market capitalization of its listed companies (as of Dec 31, 2009). The companies listed on BSE command a total market capitalization of 1.63 USD Trillion (as of Dec 31, 2010) which is more than GDP of the country. BSE is the first exchange in India and the second in the world to obtain an ISO 9001:2000 certification. The BSE Index, SENSEX, is also India's most popular Stock Market benchmark index.

BSE is the first Indian Exchange to launch mobile-based trading in India in Sept 2010. Most recently, BSE has won NASSCOM - CNBC-TV18's IT User Awards, 2010 in Financial Services category and Skoch Virtual Corporation 2010 Award in the BSE StAR MF category.

For more information, visit http://www.bseindia.com/

 
 
 

HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services to more than 125 million customers through four customer groups and global businesses: Personal Financial Services (including Consumer Finance); Commercial Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets; and Private Banking.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. With offices in more than 60 countries and territories, Global Banking and Markets offers clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge.

In HSBC's Global Markets, the FIX Protocol has been implemented across the four primary asset classes; Equities, Futures, FX and Fixed Income.

HSBC's cross asset FIX implementation helps customers enjoy the benefits of having a single cost effective connection to HSBC Global Markets enabling them to trade a comprehensive mix of products across a large 102 execution destination footprint.

HSBC is a major user of advanced technology. Its e-business channels include the internet, PC banking and telephone banking via both fixed and mobile phones.

HSBC's world-class global presence and local accessibility ensure that the Group is well placed to offer a premier service around the world to all its clients, whether corporate, institutional, government or supranationals with all their financing, risk and investment needs.

 
 
 
Uniquely placed in Asia, with global experience and a real knowledge of Asian markets, Metabit provides the technology and support to help clients trade and connect effortlessly and efficiently. The company delivers an intuitive trading platform that encompasses a well-established trading community and unrivalled exchange connectivity solutions.

Metabit provides ultra low latency DMA trading solutions for Asian markets, serving buy side and sell side clients. It specializes in comprehensive compliance controls, whilst reducing transaction times and facilitating trading opportunities across fourteen Asian markets, including Japan.

Metabit’s flagship solutions are XiliX intuitive buy side trading platform and MLH a vendor neutral Market Liquidity Hub. Alpha provides ultra-low latency exchange connectivity and Exsim simulates Asian and Japanese exchanges. All Metabit’s products are powered by the CameronFIX engine.
 
 
 

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs over 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura’s unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through three business divisions: retail, wholesale (global markets, investment banking, and other wholesale), and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com.

Nomura's Electronic Trading Services benefit from the long standing experience, intelligence and technology of the Nomura Group. Renowned for providing clients with a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform, the fully integrated product suite combines DMA and strategy execution via the ModelEx suite. The suite is supplemented with advanced pre, intra and post trade analytical tools such as ModelEx™ Monitor and TradeSpex™, and provide clients with a full service solution to their low touch execution needs. All execution channels are underpinned by next generation smart order routing logic, providing access to multiple sources of available liquidity with an intelligent placement approach. Client execution experience is further enriched via access to Nomura's NX dark pool.

 
 
 
Greenline provides superior FIX Protocol and electronic trading technology solutions and services across all asset classes for leading global financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship product suite, VeriFIX®, CertiFIX®, MagniFIX®, MetriFIX®, and Latency Monitor delivers end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX Protocol. In addition, its premier Professional Services consultancy can evaluate and improve clients’ business strategy and trading technology operations, leveraging its expertise across all connectivity and messaging protocols. With global reach and client experience, Greenline is ideally positioned to meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a member of FIX Protocol Limited – North Americas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com.
 
 
 

Omnesys NEST is a leading multi-asset, multi venue trading system from Omnesys. The NEST product suite is available as a firm or broker hosted model, and in a Software As a Service (SaS) Model. Omnesys NEST is a platform of choice for leading institutions, exchanges and brokers worldwide.

Omnesys NEST is a fully integrated eco-system for securities including Order Management System, comprehensive pre-trade risk management systems, supports various types of front ends, automated trading systems, and Algos. Omnesys NEST also provides FIX execution capabilities and APIs for both buy and sell side firms, and generic execution algo development capability. With exceptional throughput and scalability capabilities, NEST has captured significant market share in the Indian markets within a short period of time. A substantial percentage of the volumes on the markets happen through Omnesys NEST automated trading systems and algos. The largest single installation handles over 25000 concurrent dealer logins, and more than 1.5 million orders / trades a day.

For more information : www.omnesysindia.com

 
 
 

Fueling growth on client satisfaction, 100% independent with no tie to any broker or financial institution, ULLINK is a leading provider of comprehensive low-latency connectivity and trading solutions. ULLINK enables buy and sell side financial institutions to build comprehensive trading environments across asset classes (Equities, Futures and Options, Fixed Income, Forex). Users simply plug their existing applications to the UL BRIDGE connectivity platform, select their destinations and start trading.

ULLINK provides low-latency DMA to over 50 major international markets, and a comprehensive OMS with care order management, exception management, algorithmic trading, risk management, and business monitoring across the globe. These flexible solutions are available as enterprise solutions (hosted and managed by the customer) or as a fully-managed services (where ULLINK handles everything).

ULLINK employs over 220 dedicated professionals with offices in New-York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, and growing. ULLINK supports customers worldwide, around the clock. Our proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned us the trust of hundreds of clients, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions.

For more information, please contact sales@ullink.com.

 
 
 

Decisions by financial market players about who provides their mission critical connectivity and data services are too important to involve taking a risk. True reassurance only comes from engaging a partner with a long-held reputation for reliability, global reach and specialist sector knowledge. For over a decade Transaction Network Services (TNS) has supplied these services, highly tailored to the financial community’s unique needs, and were one of the world’s first organizations to offer the industry a secure dedicated low latency extranet. Since those pioneering days, we’ve expanded our extremely resilient, highly secure network’s coverage globally and now provide services to customers in over 40 countries, including in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

We can currently deliver:

• Access to e-Commerce and FIX connectivity, proprietary trading, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs
• Third party and order routing services
• On-net connectivity within days of request
• 24/7/365 network monitoring
• Customer portals, for ordering and monitoring
• Connection to over 1600 financial community endpoints around the world
• Strategic hosting /co-location

Participants include: fund managers, proprietary traders, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs.

Asset classes supported include: equities, foreign exchange, derivatives, fixed income and options hosting.

For further information, please e-mail financial@tnsi.com, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or call 91-22 2410 1010

 
 
 

About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 74 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

About Autobahn
Autobahn Equity is Deutsche Bank’s algorithmic trading platform, providing you with access to execution solutions in markets worldwide. The platform combines award-winning algorithms with our direct market access (DMA) offering for smarter liquidity.

About SuperX
SuperX intelligently seeks dark liquidity while offering a sophisticated level of order protection for smarter execution. It is dark trading made intelligent, bringing you global access to the best pools of liquidity.  The algorithm provides access to deep, diverse liquidity without advertising your size or intent to the market, minimizing the risk of information leakage.

For more information on Deutsche Bank’s suite of electronic trading applications, please contact your Deutsche Bank regional representative:

Contact details:
US:                   +1 212 250 3988
                        +1 800 553 1226
Europe:             +44 20 7547 2587
Asia:                 +852 2203 6028
Japan:              +813 5156 6642
Australia:          +612 8258 2862

www.db.com

 
 
 

Financial Technologies (India) Ltd (www.ftindia.com) is a global leader in creating and operating next generation financial markets that are transparent, efficient, and liquid across multi-asset classes. Our markets transform lives by democratizing global trade and propagating price discovery, trade efficiency & risk hedging.

Flagship products include:
ODIN™ - 'Trading Platform of Choice' powering over 880 Indian brokerage houses with over 80% market share
DOME - 'Exchange Platform of choice' for next generation financial markets

Exchange Ventures

– MCX: World’s 6th largest commodity futures exchange
– MCX Stock Exchange: India’s new stock exchange
– IBS-Forex: Inter-bank Forex trading platform
– NSEL: Pan-Indian electronic spot market for agri-commodities
– IEX: India’s first power exchange
– GBOT, Mauritius: Electronic exchange to serve Africa
– SMX, Singapore: Pan-Asian commodity & derivatives exchange
– Bourse Africa, Botswana: Multi-asset pan-African exchange & ecosystem
– BFX, Bahrain: International multi-asset exchange
– DGCX, Dubai: Middle East’s first international commodity & currency derivatives exchange

Ecosystem Ventures

– NBHC: Pan-India warehouse platform
– TickerPlant: Retail financial information distribution platform
– atom technologies: Platform enabling 'any transaction on mobile'
– FTKMC: Financial Technologies' knowledge hub
– MCX-SX Clearing corporation: A clearing corporation of MCX Stock Exchange

 
 
 

With access to one of the largest liquidity pools in Global Equities (including #1 market share on Euronext), Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking's Global Execution Services team offers global coverage across 65 markets, comprehensive liquidity solutions, advanced algorithms and an integrated execution product, which includes all equities & ETFs.

At the core of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 11, 000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.

For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes.

www.sgcib.com

 
 
 

Citi Electronic Execution

The right choice will get you there.
When it comes to choosing electronic execution solutions, you need a global provider that can manage all of your trading needs. You want premium execution tools, unique liquidity and innovative technology that meet the challenges of today's complex global markets. Citi Electronic Execution will get you there.

Citi

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Citi's major brands include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Smith Barney and Banamex. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.

 
 
 

Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur—to capitalise on opportunities, drive efficiencies, and reduce risk.

The comprehensive Progress portfolio provides leading solutions for enterprise integration, data interoperability and application development, including SaaS enablement and delivery in the cloud. The Progress® Responsive Process Management suite lets users gain real-time visibility into processes, immediately sense and respond to events, and continuously improve business processes.

The Progress® Apama® platform for capital markets specialises in algorithmic trading, market aggregation, smart order routing, real-time pricing, market surveillance and monitoring, commodities/energy trading and real-time risk management.

Apama gives firms the tools for creating, testing and deploying unique strategies for low latency, high throughput applications. Progress Apama a market-leading algorithmic trading platform enables both sell-side and buy-side traders to leverage proprietary trading strategies.

To know more please visit www.progress.com. For more information on Progress Apama in India please get in touch with us at +91 22 40837062 or email us at indiamarketing@progress.com.

 
 
 

Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com) and a leading provider of global news and business information. Its principal products include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Dow Jones Indexes. Its Local Media Group operates community-based newspapers and Web sites. Dow Jones also provides news content to television and radio stations.

More than 438,000 financial professionals in 66 countries turn to Dow Jones for breaking news, commentary and analysis, including market-moving corporate, economic, market, financial and political news. Reporting from nearly 90 bureaus across the globe, Dow Jones publishes up to 18,000 news items each day, in 11 languages, covering all asset classes. Dow Jones products help customers build relationships, create market opportunities and enhance trust in their services.

 
 
 
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Automated Trader is the first global magazine dedicated to automated and algorithmic trading, and offers in-depth business and technical coverage through comprehensive news, features, in-depth articles on best practice/techniques and detailed user case studies. In addition to thousands of CTAs, hedge funds, proprietary trading operations and conventional asset managers globally, Automated Trader is also read by all major sellside participants in automated and algorithmic trading.
 
 
 
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