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UBS is committed to providing private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland, with superior financial advice and solutions while generating attractive and sustainable returns for shareholders. Its strategy centers on its Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Asset Management business and its Investment Bank. These businesses share three key characteristics: they benefit from a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital-efficient, and offer a superior structural growth and profitability outlook. UBS's strategy builds on the strengths of all of its businesses and focuses its efforts on areas in which it excels, while seeking to capitalize on the compelling growth prospects in the businesses and regions in which it operates. Capital strength is the foundation of its success.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and approximately 60,000 employees. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Center and five business divisions: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Retail & Corporate, Asset Management and the Investment Bank.





 

Trader Instinct®
Global Trading and Consulting Platform

#1 in Algorithmic Trading – Asian Investors
2015 Greenwich Associates

Break through with unleashed liquidity

In fragmented markets, you need to continually adapt and maximize your trading strategies. Trader Instinct® gives you access to the unique liquidity of Merrill Lynch. It helps you achieve high-quality trade execution by drawing on our experienced trading professionals, customizable electronic solutions or both, all through one expanding global trading and consulting platform.

Diverse liquidity pools
Sourcing liquidity is about making connections. Trader Instinct® connects you to one of the world's largest and most diverse networks—giving you a broader view and more trading opportunities across multiple asset classes.

Expert knowledge and advice
Gain an information edge for your trading decisions—from award-winning research to proprietary client think tank events to specialized experts who provide unique insights into market microstructure and strategic best practices.

bofaml.com/trader-instinct





 

About Itiviti

Itiviti is a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry. Trading firms, banks, brokers and institutional clients rely on Itiviti technology, solutions and expertise for streamlining daily operations, while gaining sustainable competitive edge in global markets.

With 13 offices and serving more than 400 customers worldwide, Itiviti was formed by uniting Orc Group, a leader in trading and electronic execution, and CameronTec Group, the global standard in financial messaging infrastructure and connectivity.

Itiviti is committed to continuous innovation to deliver trading infrastructure built for today’s dynamic markets, offering highly adaptable platforms and solutions, enabling clients to stay ahead of competitive and regulatory challenges.

Itiviti is owned by Nordic Capital Fund VII.

www.itiviti.com





 

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). For more information, visit: www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.





 

TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS to the financial community. TradingScreen’s goal is to simplify the complexity of markets, by consolidating all investment workflows for exchange-traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major, global sell-side participants, leading regional brokers and the largest buy-side firms to a common environment, delivering market access, order- and liquidity-management and Investment services. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, asset classes, and geography, and a full integration of services front to back. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in Boston, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. For more information on TradingScreen, go to http://www.tradingscreen.com.





 

About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.

About Autobahn
Autobahn Equity is part of Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform, providing you with access to execution solutions in all major equities markets including 12 within Asia Pacific. Autobahn trading is available in both lit and alternative venues via our flexible suite of algorithms or direct market access (DMA) and both are supported by robust risk controls. Detailed Asia Pacific market knowledge and algorithmic trading expertise are provided by our dedicated coverage team located in Hong Kong, India, Japan and Australia.

About SuperX
Deutsche Bank's own alternative liquidity venues are branded as SuperX and within the Asia Pacific region they are currently in operation in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. Deutsche Bank also operate an alternative liquidity venue aggregator called SuperX Plus providing access to deep, diverse liquidity whilst limiting information leakage.

Smarter Liquidity – Innovation with Integrity.
https://autobahn.db.com/equity





 

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 7266 / (toll free) +877 241 0495.

Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.





 

Liquidnet is the global institutional trading network where more than 800 of the world’s top asset managers and other like-minded investors come to execute their large trades with maximum anonymity and minimum market impact. As the global leader in large block trading, Liquidnet provides access to unique trading opportunities in 43 markets across five continents. Liquidnet approaches every market with the same bold vision to provide a better, more efficient way to trade on a massive scale. It is this focus on size, combined with the strength of its network, disruptive technology, and commitment to transparency, that is revolutionizing the way equities and corporate bonds are traded, and the way public and private companies raise capital. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com and follow us on Twitter @Liquidnet.





 

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets.

www.ipc.com





 

Societe Generale Prime Services part of the Global Markets’ division of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking is the bank’s prime brokerage business, offering a unique combination of execution, clearing, custody and financing services. It is truly multi-asset and multi-instrument across Listed Derivatives, Equities (Cash/synthetic), FX, Fixed Income and OTC Cleared. As a firm offering world leading derivatives brokerage services, unrivalled access to 125+ markets and exchange venues, Societe Generale Prime services provides its clients an extensive pool of liquidity and tailored value added services.





 

Telstra is one of the leading telecommunications and technology companies offering a wide range of services globally. We bring innovative technology, capability and talent from around the world to enable our customers to thrive in a connected world. Telstra’s heritage is proudly Australian, but we have a longstanding international business with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Today, we have over 3,500 employees based in 20 countries outside of Australia providing services to thousands of business and government customers.

Our customers are global, our people are local and our assets are anchored in Asia. Over several decades we have established one of the largest subsea cable networks in Asia-Pacific, with a unique and diverse set of infrastructure that offers access to the most intra-Asia lit capacity and largest subsea cable system in Asia Pacific.

The network plays a crucial role underpinning the digital economy in Asia-Pacific, meeting the needs of wholesale and enterprise customers around the world. We also provide sophisticated network application services and have growing interests in software, video delivery, e-commerce and health.

Growing our business globally is a strategic priority for Telstra, and we are focused on being the leading service provider for our customers across Asia-Pacific. We are also seeking to leverage our capabilities and assets to capture connectivity opportunities in industries where technology is creating competitive disruption.





 

IRESS is an innovative, reliable and respected technology partner providing connectivity, trading, wealth management and market data solutions globally. Established across 14 offices worldwide IRESS provides fully managed financial services technology to a complete range of clients including large multinational investment banks, asset managers and brokers. IRESS offers an extensive suite of FIX routing solutions all connected by our open global SmartHub network. Our order management and execution systems (OEMS) paired with our comprehensive real time risk and limits engine gives clients the power and flexibility they need to manage complex order flow with confidence.





 

Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate the front and middle office investment management process across asset classes on a single platform. Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment simplifies client operations, improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.





 

ITG applies technology and trading expertise to reduce implementation costs, helping clients improve investment performance. An independent broker established in 1987, ITG provides liquidity, execution, analytics and workflow solutions to leading asset management and brokerage firms. Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG) has offices in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America and offers trading services in more than 50 countries. For more information, please visit www.itg.com.





 

TPG is one of Australia's largest telecommunications infrastructure companies. We operate resilient voice, internet and data networks, underpinned by wholly owned metro, regional, inter-capital and international network assets. This extensive network has enabled the provision of ICT services for some of Australia’s largest enterprise blue chip companies, and supports some of the most critical networks operating in the country today.





 

FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi–asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies.

Since 2005, as an agile technology provider we have partnered with our 170+ clients worldwide, including UBS, CS, Barclays, TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity, Berenberg, Unicredit, GBM, Interacciones, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, MexDer, ASX, and more to build high quality, feature-rich software.

Flyer has built a team of operational experts who manage and provide Managed FIX software-as-a-service. Our subject matter experts create and operate FIX servers for you to realize the full potential of our software to deliver the highest level of service and return on investment.

The FIX 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 also provides the Daytona trade surveillance monitor, the F1 Risk Control Gateway, the Ignition regression test and certification tool; the Flyer Online hosted OMS, and the Flyer Trading Network.

FIX Flyer has headquarters in New York City with offices in Boston and Hyderabad India.

Visit fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer.





 

Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology and human expertise they need to find trusted answers.

We enable professionals in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets to make the decisions that matter most, all powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (symbol: TRI).





 

China Telecom Global Limited ("CTG") headquartered in Hong Kong, establishes subsidiaries in 31 countries and regions and owns 63 overseas POPs transmitting more than 9T capacities in international connectivity bandwidth and intercontinental capacity.

Leveraging on its abundant resources in Mainland China, CTG bridges the Asia Pacific region and connects the world. It has gradually become a world-class integrated provider of communications services including network deployment, service support and product supply. Targeting international carriers, multinational corporation clients and overseas Chinese, CTG provides customized and economical integrated communication solutions and diversified telecom services to cater for their global business needs. Its services include internet direct access, internet transit, broadband, unified communications, cloud computing, ICT, fixed and mobile voice and value added services, professional services and industry solutions, operation consultancy, and outsourcing.

CTG has established more than 20 low latency routes connecting 13 premier financial markets around the world. Only with incredibly trustworthy up-to-the millisecond trading data transmitted on an ultra-fast, stable network can financiers make shrewd decisions instantly. CTG provides the premium low latency connectivity based on its global network and proximity collocation service to accommodate your global trading needs and share benefits to all branch offices over the world.





 

About FlexTrade

FlexTrade Systems Inc. is the industry pioneer and global leader in broker-neutral execution management and order management systems for equities, foreign exchange, options, futures and fixed income. FlexTRADER, our award-wining flagship platform for algorithmic trading, is widely viewed as unique in the industry for its combined high performance and multi-asset capability. With offices in Asia, North America and Europe, FlexTrade has a worldwide client base spanning more than 175 buy- and sell-side institutional trading firms, including many of the largest investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors and institutional brokers. For more information, visit FlexTrade Systems at www.flextrade.com or follow news of the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/flextrade or LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/flextrade.





 

Metamako designs and manufactures enterprise grade network devices with the goal of simplifying networks, reducing latency and increasing flexibility. Metamako's industry leading products range from MetaConnect, a layer 1+ switch which can replicate data streams in 4 nanoseconds with undetectable jitter, to MetaApp, a hybrid switch with FPGA and x86 server technology allowing clients to bring their own business intelligence directly to the edge of the network without compromising performance.

Since the genesis of Metamako's products in high-frequency trading and financial services they have grown in scope and functionality with expanding use-cases in telco, data centers, security, pharmaceutical and media sectors.




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Vocus Communications is the business services provider you want to work with. We help businesses in Australia and around the globe realise opportunities and achieve success through our national scale, smarter solutions, fast turnaround times and excellent service. Our massive network and data centre footprint connects thousands of buildings nationally and comprises data centres in a number of cities across both Australia and New Zealand. Our team of passionate and talented people consistently deliver a better telco experience to the many Australian businesses that work with us. Whether its Unified Communications, Voice or Cloud, we’re proud to be shaking up corporate telecommunications.