About Liquidnet

Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Since our founding in 1999, our network has grown to include more than 1,000 institutional investors that collectively manage $33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets. Our network spans 46 markets across six continents. We built Liquidnet to make global capital markets more efficient and continue to do so by adding additional participants, enabling trusted access to trading and investment opportunities, and delivering the actionable intelligence and insight that our customers need. Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries are part of TP ICAP Group plc. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com and follow us on Twitter @Liquidnet.

About Instinet

Nomura and Instinet’s Global Execution Services (“GES”) is shared strategic approach bringing together two strong, well-established brands together in a joint effort to leverage the best attributes, brand affinity/loyalty, and brand equity of each firm in a purpose-driven strategy. Nomura’s and Instinet’s global execution services serve our clients in a global equity market that is dynamic and continually evolving. Our aim is to offer clients’ seamless access to the harmonized expertise and broad capabilities of our platforms.

GES is designed to further promote the differentiating elements of our execution capabilities, and expand our global franchise, while harmonizing our global execution efforts so that the best strengths of both brands and the full array of Nomura and Instinet offerings may be delivered to clients in a way that adds even more value, and enhances the client experience.

About Cboe Australia

Cboe Australia is a regulated stock exchange committed to transforming, improving and growing Australia’s securities and derivatives markets. Cboe Australia has experienced strong and sustained growth and has achieved significant milestones including gaining over 20% market share, a daily record of $5.98 billion traded value in equity trading and up to 45% of the Australian ETF market (trading and reporting). The Cboe Australia investment products platform offers a range of unique products exclusively traded on Cboe Australia, including Funds (ETFs & Quoted Managed Funds), and Cboe Warrants. For more information visit: www.cboe.com.au

About Iress

We harness the power of technology to enable a smarter financial system that delivers more for everyone.

More than 12,000 institutional, retail and online traders around the world use Iress' trading software to connect across multiple markets, monitor and manage risk, access end-to-end multi-asset trading support, and deliver better performance. Iress recently launched the Iress FIX Hub, a cloud-native financial information exchange platform that excels at the fundamentals - speed, cost, and reliability - to connect buy-side, sell-side and trading venues across global markets. For more information, please visit www.iress.com or connect with us on Linkedin.

About Bank of America

Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

Our Businesses

Global Markets
Global Markets provides banking products and services through Bank of America and trading and other broker dealer products and services, including research through BofA Securities. Our institutional clients are across fixed-income credit, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets product coverage includes securities and derivative products in both the primary and secondary markets. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit and commodity derivatives, fixed-income and mortgage-related products.

To support our institutional investor clients globally in their investing and trading activities, the Global Markets team provides financing, securities clearing, settlement and custody services. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide foreign exchange products.

Visit: bofa.com/international for further detail.

About FlexTrade

FlexTrade Systems is a provider of customized multi-asset execution and order management trading solutions for buy- and sell-side financial institutions. Through deep client partnerships with some of the world's largest, most complex and demanding capital markets firms, we develop the flexible tools, technology and innovation that deliver our clients a competitive edge. Our globally distributed engineering teams focus on adaptable technology and open architecture to develop highly sophisticated trading solutions that can automate and scale with your business strategies.

About AMD

Financial services institutions (FSIs) require high-performance computing solutions to facilitate faster trading and transactions, expedite access to market intelligence and data-driven insights, and enhance overall customer experiences—all while minimizing TCO, streamlining system management, and maintaining robust security.

Low-latency solutions are critical for high-frequency electronic trading, exchanges, and complex trading simulations. Latency needs vary depending on the type of electronic trading. The AMD networking product portfolio addresses various trading categories with a range of solutions purpose-built for financial services. AMD addresses various trading categories with a range of server and network solutions.

AMD Solarflare™ Ethernet adapters, featuring the Onload™ family of kernel bypass software, deliver exceptional performance and low latencies optimized for electronic trading.

About ITRS Group

ITRS Group ensures operational resilience for enterprises engaged in transforming their IT estate for a digital future, as well as the ongoing health of their on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid IT estate. By transforming the mass of raw data on performance, resource usage, and cost, ITRS Group’s solutions can detect and actively prevent problems and maximise cost efficiency, reassuring enterprises that their IT estates are running effectively. With experience in legacy technologies as well as the dynamic environment of cloud-delivery, agile development, and service-based architecture, ITRS Group’s people and software serve more than 4500 clients across industry markets. As new disruptors, new technologies, and new regulations continue to shape the marketplace and change the expectations of consumers, ITRS Group offers a best-in-class service and is a source of confidence for the always-on enterprise. For more information, visit www.itrsgroup.com.

About Scila

Scila is a world-leading provider of systems for market/trade surveillance, AML and market risk. Scila serves regulators, exchanges and market participants across the globe covering all asset classes and market models.

Founded in 2008, Scila has been highly successful in a very short time and profitable from the start. The company has never taken in any external capital but has grown very quickly, which shows that it has a truly viable business model in the highly competitive global market of financial technology. Scila has a unique company culture that includes a very strong service commitment to demanding and highly sophisticated clients.

Scila’s mission is to support investor confidence by providing tools to quickly and effectively identify market abuse, risk, money laundry or operational errors.

Company characteristics

• Scila is independent of trading venues, investment banks, brokers and regulators and focuses on product development only.
• Scila is not involved in product development in other areas, allowing the firm to focus entirely on developing the best AML, risk and market/trade surveillance systems in the market.
• Scila is not only delivering systems, but also expert knowledge on how to deliver and implement systems.

For more information, please visit scila.se

About CMC Connect

CMC Connect provides multi-asset liquidity provision and tailored trading technology to a global institutional client base of banks, brokerages, funds and dealing desks. Our clients have access to multiple asset classes worldwide allowing them to seamlessly execute their chosen strategy and increase revenue potential. Our continuous innovation and investment in trading technology means that we are able to respond consistently to changing markets.

For more information visit: https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/connect.

About KX

Our mission is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. KX is trusted by the world's top investment banks & hedge funds, aerospace and defense, life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing companies.

Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. They help our customers process data at unmatched speed and scale and empower LOB leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbocharge their favorite analytics tools in the cloud, on premise, or at the edge.

KX technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster, better informed decision making which drives competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information visit www.kx.com.

About Cboe Australia

Cboe Australia is a regulated stock exchange committed to transforming, improving and growing Australia’s securities and derivatives markets. Cboe Australia has experienced strong and sustained growth and has achieved significant milestones including gaining over 20% market share, a daily record of $5.98 billion traded value in equity trading and up to 45% of the Australian ETF market (trading and reporting). The Cboe Australia investment products platform offers a range of unique products exclusively traded on Cboe Australia, including Funds (ETFs & Quoted Managed Funds), and Cboe Warrants. For more information visit: www.cboe.com.au

About Instinet

Nomura and Instinet’s Global Execution Services (“GES”) is shared strategic approach bringing together two strong, well-established brands together in a joint effort to leverage the best attributes, brand affinity/loyalty, and brand equity of each firm in a purpose-driven strategy. Nomura’s and Instinet’s global execution services serve our clients in a global equity market that is dynamic and continually evolving. Our aim is to offer clients’ seamless access to the harmonized expertise and broad capabilities of our platforms.

GES is designed to further promote the differentiating elements of our execution capabilities, and expand our global franchise, while harmonizing our global execution efforts so that the best strengths of both brands and the full array of Nomura and Instinet offerings may be delivered to clients in a way that adds even more value, and enhances the client experience.