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Asia Pacific Electronic Trading Conferences 

 
     
 
Hong Kong 8 May 2012
 
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Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 58 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,800 retail banking offices and approximately 18,000 ATMs and award-winning online banking with 30 million active users. Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in more than 40 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Copyright 2012 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved. Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Broadcort and their logos are trademarks of Bank of America Corporation and/or its affiliates.

www.bankofamerica.com

 
     
     
   
     
 

With over 20 years proven experience in the world’s most demanding markets, NASDAQ OMX is the world’s largest exchange technology provider, powering 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions. Our integrated multi-asset trading and clearing platforms are the world’s fastest and most scalable, enabling the trading of any asset anywhere on the planet. Our market-leading surveillance and risk management offerings promote market integrity by providing real-time, cross-market risk monitoring and surveillance across the globe. NASDAQ OMX’s commercial technology business provides technology and advisory services to over 70 marketplaces, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in over 50 countries. More than 65 brokers in 35 countries leverage our risk management and surveillance solutions. Our capabilities are unique, unmatched by any exchange technology provider in the world.

Installed in more than 35 national exchanges and regulators, SMARTS surveillance and compliance solutions from NASDAQ OMX are the industry benchmark for the global exchange, regulator and broker community. With the integrated SMARTS offering, NASDAQ OMX is leading the way in helping our customers respond to the ever changing trading and regulatory landscape.

 
     
     
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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.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.

New technology, new regulation, new challenges: making money in today’s financial markets is all about staying ahead of the curve. Having the capability to spot new trends and act fast turns change into opportunity. That’s why 85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. It's also why $10 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global network each year. Because we’re the market leader, we can also offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.

Fidessa is a global business with scale, resilience, ambition and expertise. We’ve delivered around 30% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge, integrated solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.

fidessa.com

 
     
     
   
     
 

In 2012 CameronTec irrevocably changes the FIX messaging landscape.

Catalys 2.0 is an industry-first, inclusive, FIX-based ecosystem that is engineered on the industry-acknowledged standard in FIX technology, CameronFIX. Firms serious about FIX need the ultimate enabler; a solution built on a 20/20 vision to provide unprecedented levels of performance, data interoperability, convergence and business insight. CameronTec’s solutions are used by sell side firms representing some of the world’s largest brokers with the most demanding technology requirements. Buy side firms use our technologies to meet their new standards in client success. Hedge funds look to our latest technology to gain the fullest edge and make their mark. Exchanges committed to building an enduring marketplace turn to us. And ISVs find in us a superior and trusted technology partner.

CameronTec is a 10+ years Premier Global Member of the FIX Protocol Organisation.

www.camerontec.com

 
     
     
   
     
 

Ullink is a cutting edge global provider of trading software and services specializing in high touch and low touch trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side market participants. For over ten years, the Ullink client experience has been grounded in access to our reliability to deliver the most current and innovative technology available in the industry. Clients benefit from Ullink’s modular, scalable front and middle-office solutions, across all asset classes, encompassing low latency, pre-trade risk, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading.

Ullink’s menu of solutions enables banks and brokers to rapidly achieve compliance with exchanges and regulatory regimes around the globe, with the flexibility of being deployed via the UL Net global routing network, or as a fully-hosted and managed service.

In addition, Ullink has over 500 adapters enabling you to connect your business to counter-parties such as exchanges, customers, and other vendors in order to quickly extend your products, services and asset classes offering to your customers.

Privately held, Ullink services its clients, including top-tier global financial institutions, from offices in New York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. For more information, please contact sales@ullink.com.

 
     
     
   
     
  Instinet Incorporated is an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world’s first major electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Instinet operates two distinct business lines: a global network of agency-only brokers that seek to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading products, including smart-routing, algorithms, DMA, dark pools and EMS platforms, and also provide sales trading, commission management services and independent research; and the Chi-X® Global businesses, which aim to improve the efficiency of capital markets globally by providing high-performance, low-cost alternative execution venues and the technology required to power them. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.  
     
     
   
     
  TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of electronic trading solutions to the Buy Side, named best buy-side trading system in the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading and Technology in 2011. The company offers a suite of execution management and connectivity solutions encompassing all asset classes across global markets. TradingScreen’s goal is to simplify the complexity of market fragmentation and the proliferation of asset class and broker specific trading tools, by consolidating execution management of both exchange traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major global sell side participants and leading regional brokers to a common environment. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, products, geography and services ranging from execution to algorithmic trading services, prime brokerage and clearing. This functionality is delivered through a proven and reliable ASP install- and-support model. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Geneva, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.  
     
     
   
     
 

ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software has been a leading provider of global technology solutions that automate the investment process since 1995. The Eze OMS™, a global, multi-strategy order management system, leverages a real-time, service-component architecture to streamline the investment cycle for all asset classes – from idea generation through settlement. The Eze OMS provides functionality to support:

  • Portfolio Management – comprehensive modelling; “what-if” analysis; real-time P/L, exposure and liquidity analysis; cash management; portfolio rebalancing.
  • Compliance – fully configurable pre-, intra- and post-trade compliance; regulatory, investor and firm-level rules; hundreds of standard libraries and templates including beneficial ownership, concentration, exposure, benchmarks, restrictions and requirements.
  • Trading – flexible, real-time blotters; generate and allocate orders with asset class-specific workflows; access to 500+ execution venues via FIX including dark pools, crossing engines, and 650+ advanced trading strategies.
  • Operations – vendor-neutral integration with 250+ third parties; auditing; real-time alerting and system monitoring; commission management; reference data management; comprehensive reporting.

Eze has more than 400 clients worldwide and offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Stamford, and Sydney.

For more information contact:
Laura Ryan
Manager of Sales, Asia Pacific
Suite 1401, Ruttonjee House, 11 Duddell Street, Hong Kong
+ 852 3664 1000
lryan@ezecastlesoftware.com
www.convergex.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, Romania, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions is a leading provider of convergent voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities. It is an international subsidiary of the Orange Group, employing over 450 people in the major financial centres across the globe; supported by a global partner network of distributors in 50 countries offering customers 24/7 service.

Trading Solutions has more than 45 years' experience of working with the financial services trading industry. Focusing on building long-term partnerships with customers, the company brings innovative solutions and the highest quality services to the trading community. It provides optimised solutions over its dedicated trading network to a community of more than 2,000 network member organisations, encompassing buy-side and sell side institutions and trading venues.

It also offers flexible trading products and services including state of the art, unified voice trading solutions. Its next generation Open Trade smart turret was named 'best innovation by an IT or software firm' in the trading and execution category in the FOW Awards 2011 and Trading Solutions was recognised as a Financial-i leader in innovation' two years running in 2010 and 2011, for its IP network offering.

http://www.orange-business.com/trading-solutions

 
     
     
   
     
  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 39 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.  
     
     
   
     
 

IPC Systems offers high and low touch trading communications solutions to the global financial trading community including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With 100% focus on this sector and nearly 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC provides customers with unified solutions that support collaborative voice trading and real-time electronic trading and market data connectivity.

IPC's market-leading offerings include the first unified communications/ application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services including enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, and follow-the-sun service and support. IPC’s global reach extends to more than 58 countries – including a Financial Extranet of 4,000 on-net locations in over 700 cities and more than 115,000 turrets deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1,000 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Charles River Development provides fully managed solutions including software, hosting and data services to automate front- and middle-office investment operations for buy-side firms. SaaS solutions and on-premises software support portfolio management, compliance and risk monitoring, order and execution management, access to global liquidity and post-trade processing. The company has more than 300 clients in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, alternative, wealth management, insurance, banking, pension and custody markets.

The Charles River Network is a broker-neutral financial network that supports global electronic trading via FIX and provides access to hundreds of global liquidity venues. Full integration between the Charles River Network and Charles River Investment Management Solution ensures fast and reliable direct access between buy-side clients, sell-side brokers and trading venues to simplify system management and improve trading reliability. Charles River FIX Network Services offer clients complete FIX software administration, connectivity management and support for each sell-side broker and trading destination. These services eliminate FIX network administration and increase network reliability through continuous end-to-end testing, certification and monitoring.

www.crd.com

 
     
     
   
     
 

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.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com.

 
     
     
   
     
 

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

 
     
     
   
     
 

About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong private client 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 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

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 Stealth & SuperX Plus
Stealth is Deutsche Bank's next generation liquidity seeking algorithm. The strategy utilises advanced high frequency alpha models to source dark and bright liquidity, identifying short term market signals for smarter executions. By continually adapting to intraday market conditions, Stealth rapidly captures trading opportunities when quality liquidity is discovered.

SuperX Plus 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:

US:                  

Europe:            

+1 212 250 3988
+1 800 553 1226
+44 20 7547 2587

Asia:                 +852 2203 6028
Japan:              +813 5156 6642
Australia:          +612 8258 2862

www.db.com

 
     
     
   
     
 

ITG is an independent broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement. With our launch of the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, we founded ITG with a strong commitment to empower buyside investors. And over the years, we’ve continued to deepen that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology to offer the unmatched insights that help clients generate and preserve alpha.

With 17 offices in 10 countries and multi-asset capabilities that support the needs of large equity portfolios, we combine the power of global reach with the precision of local vision. Bringing together market-leading tools and unmatched expertise, we have helped clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk, and navigate increasingly complex markets.

We are your trusted, independent partner offering objective insights and guidance through complicated and changing global market structures.

 
     
   
     
 

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of networked IT services for the financial industry, bringing together all of the communications technology and services needed to trade and stay connected to the markets.

The BT Radianz Cloud provides 15,000 financial customer locations around the world with access to over 400 of the world’s leading content and service. The fully-managed BT Radianz service consolidates all of a firm’s connectivity onto a single connection, ensuring secure, reliable access to trading partners and services.

BT Radianz Ultra provides low-latency connectivity with sub-millisecond round-trip delays to select execution venues. BT Radianz Proximity combines connectivity with fully-managed hosting facilities, and BT Radianz Venue Interconnect extends low-latency connectivity to execution venues around the world.

The BT Radianz Cloud also supports connectivity for post-trade services, where security and reliability are paramount. BT Radianz Messaging ensures secure, reliable, tamper-proof and non-repudiable message delivery.

BT Unified Trading is a software-based, cloud-compatible trader voice, multi-media platform that enables communication, collaboration and compliance for trading firms. BT Unified Trading is designed to give market professionals the flexibility to interact, collaborate and trade securely and with greater compliance through multiple communication channels, across their enterprise and with their clients and counterparties.

BT is a Premier Member of FPL.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Eurex Exchange
Eurex Exchange is one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges.1,650 products across 11 asset classes on one single platform provide customers with new business opportunities. Our innovative and reliable technology gives 430 members and 8,300 traders in 30 countries worldwide access to our products and services.

Asian activities
Futures and options on EUR-denominated government bonds (Bund, Bobl, Schatz) and derivatives on the European benchmark indexes DAX® and EURO STOXX 50® are important parts of our customers portfolios in Asia Pacific. Eurex branch and representative offices have been established in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

Through partnerships with the Singapore Exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Korea Exchange (KRX) and the Tokyo Financial Exchange, we aim to create mutually beneficial product co-operations and services for market participants. The link between Eurex and the Korean exchange KRX for example, provides customers with the opportunity to trade and clear KOSPI 200 Options after Korean trading hours.

The Eurex Group, member of Deutsche Börse Group, comprises six integrated businesses with representative offices in all major financial centers: Eurex Exchange, the International Securities Exchange, the European Energy Exchange, Eurex Clearing, Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo.

Contact
Paul Lo
T + 852 3446 2800
Email: paul.lo@eurexchange.com

For more information please visit www.eurexchange.com.

 
     
     
   
     
  About OmgeoSM

At Omgeo, we are the operations experts, automating trade lifecycle events between investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks. We enable 6,500 clients and 80 technology partners in 52 countries around the world to seamlessly connect and interoperate. By automating and streamlining post-trade operations, we enable clients to accelerate the clearing and settlement of trades, and better manage and reduce their counterparty and credit risk. Our strength lies with our global community and our ability to adapt our solutions to enable clients to realize clear returns on their investment strategies, while responding to changing market and regulatory conditions. Across borders, asset classes, and trade lifecycles, Omgeo is the global standard for operational efficiency across the investment industry. Formed in 2001, Omgeo is jointly owned by the DTCC and Thomson Reuters. For more information, please visit www.omgeo.com.
 
     
     
   
     
 

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 in 2011. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com.

About SunGard’s solutions for capital markets
SunGard’s solutions for capital markets help banks, broker/dealers, futures commission merchants and other financial institutions grow their business by improving the efficiency, transparency and control of their securities and derivatives trading and processing. From market connectivity and trade execution to accounting and securities financing, and from data management to tax reporting, our solutions provide control across multiple platforms and markets. With cross-asset support for the entire trade lifecycle, customers can increase trading efficiency, make more informed decisions, improve the use of capital and manage risk more effectively. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com/capitalmarkets.

 
     
     
   
     
 

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 is a market-leading algorithmic trading platform that enables both sell-side and buy-side traders to leverage proprietary trading strategies.

To know more please visit www.progress.com/apama. For more information on Progress Apama (North and South East Asia) please email Sharon Wu shwu@progress.com or phone +65 6303 5020.

 
     
     
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NYSE Technologies in Asia-Pacific

NYSE Technologies has a fast-growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo. The group seeks to develop meaningful strategic and technology relationships with local exchanges and trading firms by actively addressing the unique opportunities and challenges of electronic trading in APAC. NYSE Technologies has strong regional leadership with a deep understanding of local financial markets. Its regional offices work closely together on APAC initiatives, relationship management, and technology development, and they are committed to offering a full range of exchange and trading solutions for their clients. NYSE Technologies’ experienced development team focuses on APAC-specific product functionality, and actively collaborates with its global team to provide robust and integrated solutions for the APAC market. NYSE Technologies, a leading provider of scalable exchange platforms, works with a wide range of emerging and established high-volume markets. NYSE Technologies’ innovative, high speed market data and messaging platform includes tick capture software and entitlement products, as well as comprehensive feed handler (market data) and market access gateway (orders) coverage of APAC markets. NYSE Technologies’ solutions are available as fully deployed enterprise software or as managed services, and are served by a regional support desk during APAC hours (7am – 7pm Singapore/Hong Kong time). http://www.nyse.com/technologies/1250850190795.html

 
     
     
   
     
 

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Advanced Execution Services® (AES) is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures and foreign exchange. With AES’s tools, traders can improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the marketplace and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognized consistently as the leader in algorithmic trading. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.

 
     
     
   
     
  Corvil is a provider of Latency Management systems for global financial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London, Singapore and Dublin. Customers use Corvil for precision monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting of performance for their trading applications and networks. In addition, Corvil’s products are used to demonstrate latency compliance and transparency of services such as co-location, direct feeds and Direct Market Access (DMA) offered to trading clients. For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.com.  
     
     
   
 

Transaction Network Services (TNS) was one of the world’s first organizations to offer a low latency extranet dedicated to meeting the unique needs of the financial community. Since those pioneering days, we’ve expanded our hugely resilient, highly secure network’s coverage globally and allow end user to connect in over 45 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 1700 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 +852 3103 1095.

 
     
     
   
     
  Equinix, Inc. connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 690 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia- Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth.  
     
     
   
     
  With over 170 clients worldwide, including UBS, Barclays, Berenberg Bank, GBM, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan, FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi–asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies. FIX Flyer provides low latency Direct Market Access Gateways with Risk Checks; a reliable FIX Engine with custom high performance Exchange Adapters; Managed FIX services; the Daytona trade monitor; the Ignition testing, certification and trade and algorithm validation tool; Flyer Online OMS; and tools for commission management for global trading. The Flyer Engine is the first FIX server designed to manage high volume, ultra low latency trading networks and ECNs, easily scaling to thousands of connections. FIX Flyer hosts and partners with Equinix, the leading global provider of network–neutral data center and interconnection services. FIX Flyer is an IBM Business Partner with real world experience on IBM systems hardware, MQ Series, WebSphere Application Server and Pure Systems. FIX Flyer has headquarters in New York City with offices in Boston and Hyderabad, India. FIX Flyer trading software tools are additional distributed and supported in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg by FIX Solutions (fixsolutions.de) in Frankfurt. Visit fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer.  
     
     
   
     
  Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, or HKEx, operates a securities market and a derivatives market in Hong Kong and the clearing houses for those markets. HKEx was listed in Hong Kong in 2000 and is now one of the world’s largest exchange owners based on the market capitalization of its shares.  
     
     
   
     
 

TS-Associates is a leading supplier of precision instrumentation solutions for latency sensitive trading systems. With the TipOff network monitoring appliance and the Application Tap software instrumentation card, TS-Associates provides a complete range of precision instrumentation solutions capable of providing nanometric transparency into the latency dynamics of trading systems.

TS-Associates precision instrumentation solutions have been integrated with all leading transaction, market data, middleware and HFT systems. With deployments at leading financial institutions throughout North America, Europe and AsiaPac, TS-Associates offers a truly global support capability through its centres in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore.

 
     
     
   
     
  MarketPrizm brings together a compelling combination of industry, trading and technology expertise. MarketPrizm is dedicated to helping financial services firms better manage their infrastructure, trading and technology requirements. MarketPrizm offers a range of services which include raw and normalized market data delivered to clients on PrizmNet, the ultra fast and dedicated multi-venue connectivity infrastructure for the financial trading industry. Founded in 2009 by Instinet Holdings LLC, MarketPrizm was acquired by Colt Group S.A. in May 2011. For more information, please visit www.marketprizm.com.  
     
     
   
     
 

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,300 offices in 42 countries.

Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) provides a complete spectrum of services from pre-trade analytics and execution to post-trade execution performance analysis and commission management. We offer a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access (DMA) strategies, including our smart order routing technology and our dark liquidity pool aggregator. Whether you are connecting to us via a third-party order management system or using our Morgan Stanley Passport execution management system, our global product offering provides seamless access to trade portfolios, single stocks, ETFs, options, futures, swaps, and foreign exchange. Our team is committed to providing stellar trading solutions for the most demanding specifications.

 
     
     
   
     
 

Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.

Macquarie's main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. We have expertise in specific industries, including resources and commodities, energy, financial institutions, infrastructure and real estate.

Macquarie Group Limited is listed in Australia (ASX:MQG; ADR:MQBKY) and is regulated by APRA, the Australian banking regulator, as the owner of Macquarie Bank Limited, an authorised deposit taker. Macquarie also owns a bank in the UK, Macquarie Bank International Limited, which is regulated by the FSA. Macquarie's activities are subject to scrutiny by other regulatory agencies around the world.

Macquarie's management approach fosters an entrepreneurial culture among staff. Strong prudential management is fundamental to this approach. Robust risk management practices are embedded in business unit management with central oversight of credit, market, funding, compliance and operational risk. These, together with a strong and committed team, are key drivers of Macquarie's success.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie now employs more than 15,000 people in over 28 countries. At 30 September 2011, Macquarie had assets under management of $US317 billion.

 
     
     
   
     
  RealTick’s ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability. This includes advanced execution tools, unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers and their products plus lit and dark liquidity pools, real-time market and derived data, news, pre- and post-trade analytics and proven risk management capabilities.

RealTick is available through its flagship execution management system (EMS), comprehensive data and trading APIs, RealTick for Microsoft Excel® plug-in, FIX and RealTick Mobile™. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick’s software-as-a-service model is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers, network redundancy and world class client service. RealTick LLC is a member company of ConvergEx Group. RealTick is a registered trademark of RealTick LLC. For more information, visit www.realtick.com.
 
     
 

 

 

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