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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

In Asia Pacific, the firm is based in Hong Kong and operates in 15 countries and has 26 offices. The firm’s history in the region dates back to 1872 when the first office opened in Sydney. J.P. Morgan draws on its global expertise and local knowledge in the operation of its Asset Management, Investment Banking, Private Banking, and Treasury & Securities Services businesses across Asia Pacific.

Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) provides a full suite of electronic products to institutional, middle market and hedge fund clients, including global direct market access, pre- and post-trade analytics and various algorithmic trading tools designed to minimize transaction costs and maintain anonymity. For more information please contact ECS Trading desk at +852 2800 8830.

 
 

CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions; its flagship product CameronFIX universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.

CameronFIX is the outcome of 12+ years investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX requirements. It is CameronFIX technology they rely on to underpin critical metrics for increasing customers, enhancing revenue streams, reducing market and operational risk as well as costs associated with pre and post trade services.

At FPL’s Asia Pacific Trading Summit in Hong Kong, CameronTec will preview CameronFIX 7; the outcome of a 3 year development roadmap for improved scalability, enhanced experience and generational renewal resulting from significant improvements to the defining aspects of the software, and leveraging industry standards for Java programming, integration and performance.

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.

CameronTec is a recently established subsidiary of Orc Software.

 
 

Instinet 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 business, which aims 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.

 
 

Credit Suisse AG

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.

 
 

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's corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses operate under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch brand. Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.

 
 

Fidessa group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world’s financial markets. Fidessa’s products and services are built on the simple vision of making it easier to buy, sell and own financial assets of all types on a global basis.

Fidessa’s products and services are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities.

Fidessa’s global network carries $640 billion of flow a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between over 2,400 buy-sides and 530 brokers across 130 markets worldwide.

Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 25,000 users across 850 clients, serving a broad spectrum of customers from major investment banks and asset managers through to specialist niche brokers and hedge funds.

Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FDSA) and is a FTSE 250 company. Fidessa has a turnover of around £240m, has delivered 30% compound growth since its 1997 listing and now employs 1,500 people globally.

www.fidessa.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, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com

 
 

A subsidiary of electronic trading pioneer Instinet, Chi-X Global is a global provider of market infrastructure technologies and trading venues. Through regional Chi-X trading platforms, Chi-X Global aims to provide investors around the world with the most efficient markets possible through their high-speed, low-cost, intelligent trading models, while its separately operated Chi-Tech services unit, whose data management and trading technologies have been deployed by some of the world’s leading exchanges and financial firms, provides a range of end-to-end trading and market data technologies. Chi-X Global believes that truly competitive, technology-driven markets benefit all participants in the trading process – investors, brokers and the primary exchanges – by making the market more attractive to the global trading community, which ultimately helps to increase overall market volumes and improve investor performance.

The name Chi-X is derived from the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, “χ” (Chi), symbolizing the “crossing,” or matching, of the two sides of a trade. Along with the “X” from the English alphabet, the name signifies a combination of the old world and modern world, or traditional securities trading techniques married with cutting-edge technology.

For further information, please contact:

Chi-X Asia Pacific
apac.sales@chi-x.com
www.chi-x.com/apac
Chi-X Canada
sales@chi-xcanada.com
www.chi-xcanada.com
Chi-East
sales@chi-east.com
www.chi-east.com
 
 


ITG is a specialist agency broker and technology firm dedicated to improving trading and cost efficiency. Combining technological expertise with in-depth trading knowledge, ITG offers institutional investors across the world a complete set of innovative tools to minimise transaction costs and improve the performance of their trading desk.

ITG has a unique approach covering the full trading cycle. Buyside traders can rely on the firm’s experienced sales trading desk, or trade themselves using ITG’s EMS technology and algorithms. All services are integrated with the firm’s world-leading pre- and post-trade analytical tools to reduce risk and deliver transparent results.

Established in 1987, ITG is headquartered in New York and has offices in North America and Europe. Across the Asia Pacific region, ITG has a presence in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. For more information please contact ITG on +852 2846 3567 or visit www.itg.com.

 

 

Equinix, Inc. provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 49 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 19 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest, consisting of global capital markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity with a broad range of market participants within a neutral environment. At Equinix, these customers can directly exchange data within the same physical location with trading partners, customers and vendors.

The Equinix Financial eXchange provides proximity hosting which enables financial community participants to expand operations within a scalable environment, access global markets, improve reliability and redundancy of operations, and significantly reduce connectivity costs. It also enables the fastest possible links to the world’s largest exchanges and execution venues, as well as access to a critical mass of financial networks, market data vendors and other service providers.

For more information, please contact:
David Wilkinson, Senior Director, Business Development, Asia-Pacific
Email: david.wilkinson@ap.equinix.com
Website: http://financial.equinix.com

 
 

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments.

The Apama Algorithmic Trading Accelerator is the market-leading platform for algorithmic trading, enabling both sell-side and buy-side traders to leverage proprietary trading strategies, rather than rely on packaged "black box" algorithms. Apama's "white box" platform puts control in the hands of traders, who now can create, test, deploy, and manage unique algorithmic trading strategies.

Apama offers a broad range of packaged connectivity choices as well as an Integrated Adapter Framework which supports building new connections by the customer. Many of the adapters leverage Apama’s configurable adapter for the Financial Information eXchange (FIX). The Apama FIX adapter supports order execution and/or pricing for connection to FIX destinations. Apama can also serve as a FIX destination. FIX 4.0–4.4 are supported; custom fields are easily configured.

 
 


TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of electronic trading solutions to the Buy Side. 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 caused by 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. For further information about TradingScreen visit www.tradingscreen.com

 
 

About NYSE Technologies

A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities that require next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services. This division operates four units: the Global Connectivity unit, offering one of the world's largest, most reliable financial transaction networks connecting firms and exchanges worldwide; the Trading Solutions unit, which creates and implements high performance, end-to-end messaging software and real-time market data distribution and integration products; the Exchange Solutions unit, which provides multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy; and the Global Market Data unit, which offers a broad array of global market information products covering multiple asset classes. With offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, NYSE Technologies' advanced integrated solutions for a wide range of services has earned the ability to power the trading operations of global financial institutions and exchanges. For additional information visit: http://www.nyse.com/technologies

 
 

ABOUT OMGEO

Omgeo creates certainty in post-trade operations through the automation and timely confirmation of the economic details of trades executed between investment managers and broker dealers. Every day Omgeo enables an efficient community of more than 6,000 financial services clients in 46 countries to manage matching and exception handling of trade allocations, confirmations, and settlement instructions.

Omgeo has also extended its trade lifecycle coverage to include counterparty risk management, which supports end-to-end collateralization and reconciliation across multiple asset classes. Omgeo offers a complete collateral management solution partnered with a unique, community-based reconciliation service – all from one provider. With Omgeo ProtoColl and Omgeo CrossCheck, clients can proactively reconcile positions, leading to a reduction in disputes with counterparties and a cleaner collateral management process.

Leading organizations rely on Omgeo to help manage an increasingly complex investment industry by providing operational stability and solutions that complement the focus on profitability in an era of escalating trade volumes. 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 about Omgeo, please visit www.omgeo.com

 
 

HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, London and is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. The Group has over 8,500 offices in 86 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, serves over 100 million customers and has assets of US$2,422 billion at 30 June 2009. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.

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.

Global Banking and Markets has offices in more than 60 countries and territories. Managed as a global business, we offer clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge.

Our clients are served by teams that bring together relationship managers and product specialists to develop financial solutions that meet individual client needs. To ensure that we build a comprehensive understanding of each client's financial requirements, we take a long-term relationship management approach.

For more information, please contact:

Gavin Williamson
Head of eEquities Asia-Pacific
Programs, Algorithms & DMA Trading
T 852 2996 6613
E gavinwilliamson@hsbc.com.hk
Website: www.hsbcnet.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.

 
 

About SunGard

SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. These solutions meet a multitude of needs, but support a common aim: to help drive our customers' unique business strategies—whether that means increasing efficiency, improving customer service, complying with regulations, or capturing growth opportunities through innovation.
www.sungard.com

About Global Trading

SunGard’s Global Trading business (formerly GL Trade) provides a comprehensive range of advanced trading solutions from the front to the back office across all listed asset classes. We offer global market coverage with access to over 130 liquidity pools, comprehensive FIX connectivity, and a liquidity management suite encompassing order management, advanced execution and smart routing. Our complementary risk management, clearing, settlement and market data solutions combine to deliver an integrated and flexible STP platform.
www.sungard.com/globaltrading

For more information, contact Gregory So on +852 3719 0800 or email info.globaltrading@sungard.com

 
 

ABOUT ULLINK

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 latency-sensitive buy and sell side financial institutions to build vendor-neutral trading environments around modular solutions for every asset class: users simply connect their existing applications to the UL BRIDGE connectivity platform, select their destinations and start trading.

ULLINK provides low-latency DMA to over 40 major international markets, and comprehensive care order architectures with OMS, exception management, best execution, and algorithmic trading across the globe. These flexible solutions are available in-house, or through the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-managed service (UL NET+).

Using fiber-optic connectivity, and co-located with the execution venues whenever possible, UL NET+ offers near-zero latency, while the system’s full redundancy and constant monitoring by ULLINK’s expert staff ensure unprecedented levels of availability. UL NET+ also includes an advanced pre-trade risk component to filter orders and to monitor positions globally.

ULLINK employs over 180 dedicated professionals with offices in New-York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and growing. They support customers worldwide, around the clock. ULLINK’s proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned it the trust of hundreds of clients, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions.

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

 
 

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

 
 

Bloomberg L.P. began in 1981. Mike Bloomberg’s goal was to create an information service, news, and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data they need on a single, all inclusive platform.

The New York-based company employs more than 10,000 people in over 135 offices around the world. Bloomberg is about information: accessing it, reporting it, analyzing it and distributing it, faster and more accurately than any other organization. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service, the core product of Bloomberg, is the fastest-growing real-time financial information network in the world.

The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service is the source of real-time and historical financial news and information for central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices and agencies, law firms, corporations and news organizations in over 160 countries.

Our customers trade, do research, and communicate using the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service to help them make decisions and to execute. Information is delivered to their desktops in whatever way they need it - any time, anywhere.

 
 

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

 
 

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With 77,053 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

Within Deutsche Bank, the Global Markets Division is responsible for the origination, sale, structuring and trading of fixed income, equity, commodity, foreign exchange, derivative and money market products.

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

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

www.db.com

 
 

BT GLOBAL BANKING & FINANCIAL MARKETS

BT provides networked IT services to the global financial services community. BT offers a portfolio of services that includes access to largest secure networked financial services community in the world as well as world-leading voice trading systems. BT is one of the world’s leading suppliers of trading communications and collaboration solutions to financial organisations. BT provides secure, reliable, scalable connectivity and hosting to the global financial services community through the BT Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure which connects over 14,000 financial customer locations around the world, while providing access to more than 400 application service providers from over 250 of the world’s leading providers of application services and content. BT’s ITS voice trading architecture is used by 60,000 traders across 51 countries. With its multimedia capabilities and ergonomic design, ITS.Netrix provides traders with the ability to manage all communications channels including voice, video, instant messaging, email and web through a single, fully configurable device.

BT is a Premier Member of FIX Protocol Ltd and is an active participant in FIX activities around the world. Its network supports thousand of organisations internationally that use the FIX Protocol.

 
 

Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd. (renamed from Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. effective on January 1st, 2010) has built up an impressive track record since its formation in April 1999 in Japan. We are resolved to taking the leadership position in the market, thereby serving the needs of clients, both at home and abroad. Since its foundation, Daiwa has been engaged in a broad range of investment banking operations involved in capital raising, IPOs, Merger & Acquisitions and principal finance amongst others, while expanding conventional sales and trading operations.

Daiwa Securities Electronic Trading - DSET provides clients with a state-of-the-art execution platform that connects traders directly to global equities and derivatives markets. Daiwa has leveraged on its historical strengths in equity trading to provide clients with DART (Daiwa Algorithmic Trading) and access to liquidity that helps in generating trading alpha by reducing market impact & trading costs. Clients can access the DSET suite of tools through their own proprietary systems or third-party systems.

 
 

Transaction Network Services (TNS) has been a leading provider of mission critical connectivity and data services to financial communities since 1990.

As one of the first organisations in the world, TNS deployed a dedicated financial community extranet which is resilient, highly secure and supports VPNs, eCommerce (including FIX), straight through processing and the delivery of market data from exchanges or market data vendors.

Since its inception, TNS has expanded its network coverage extensively around the globe, including the Asia Pacific region, North America and Europe.

Choose TNS for:
     • Hosting & Co-location
     • 3rd Party & Order Routing Services
     • On-net Connectivity within Days of Request
     • 24x7x365 Network Monitoring
     • Customer Portal (Ordering & Monitoring)
     • Connection to Over 1500 Financial Community End-points Around the World
     • Access to eCommerce and FIX connectivity, Proprietary Trading, Broker Dealers, Exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs

Participants Include: Fund Managers, Proprietary Trading, Broker Dealers, Exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs

TNS’ Financial Instruments Include: Equities, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, Fixed Income and Options Hosting

To find out how TNS can help you stay ahead of the market in the fast paced financial world, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or contact John Pilch on +65 9822 5698 or jpilch@tnsi.com

 
 

MetaBit is the provider of the MLH (Market Liquidity Hub), an Asian broker portal that offers Direct Market Access (DMA) to 36 execution destinations and access to exchanges in twelve Asian countries through its intuitive DMA buy side trading platform XiliX. The MLH is also accessible through the FIX Protocol, and provides access to more than 1,800 execution destinations worldwide in conjunction with MetaBit’s FIX partner networks. MetaBit is the only provider of pure FIX to native exchange connectivity to TSE, OSE (including JASDAQ), and TOCOM that focus on high performance and sustained latency below 150 microseconds. Other products include Exchange Message Simulators to Japan’s major stock exchanges, and FIX testing and certification products. MetaBit actively promotes FIX throughout Asia.

XiliX and MLH are registered trademarks of MetaBit.

 
 

UBS is a global firm providing financial services to private, corporate and institutional clients. Its strategy is to focus on international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, UBS is the leading bank for individual and corporate clients. UBS is present in all major financial centers and has offices in over 50 countries. It employs more than 65,000 people around the world. UBS comprises four business divisions and a Corporate Center.

The Investment Bank provides securities and other financial products and research in equities, fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and precious metals. It also provides advisory services as well as access to the world's capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

www.ubs.com/investmentbank

 
 

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 about 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: retail, global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.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.

 
 

EzeCastle

ConvergEx's Eze Castle Software has been a leading provider of global technology solutions that automate the investment process since 1995. The Eze OMSTM, a multi-currency, 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 modeling; "what-if" analysis; real-time P/L; exposure and liquidity analysis; cash management; portfolio rebalancing

• Compliance – fully-configurable pre- and post-trade compliance; regulatory, investor and firm rules; hundreds of standard libraries and templates; restricted lists, concentration, comparison, and risk exposures

• Trading – flexible, real-time blotter; multi-asset class trade and allocation processing; centralized access to 450+ execution venues via FIX including dark pools, crossing engines, ECNs, and advanced trading strategies from 50+ brokers

• Operations – vendor-neutral integration with 150+ third parties; auditing; real-time alerting and system monitoring; commission management; reference data management; comprehensive reporting

With offices in Boston, New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, and Sydney, Eze provides over 400 clients with a global support model and a personalized, partnership approach towards client service.

 
 

The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC is a products and consulting services firm that specializes in financial messaging protocols. We focus on building tools that significantly lower the cost of FIX ownership, while at the same time improving the overall quality of FIX services offerings.

Lasalletech's products cover the entire life cycle from the specification of the FIX Service offering using FIX Explorer through development and deployment using FIX Technician, onboarding using FIX Conductor, and operations and maintenance using FIX Detective.

Lasalletech has completed projects for exchanges, sell side brokerages, buy side firms, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, as well as other ISVs. Lasalletech is especially experienced in defining FIX service offerings for new markets.

We don't make your FIX Engine - we make it better!

 
 

Autex has played an integral part in the trader workflow for four decades. At the heart of this business is the leading Autex platform for equity Indications of Interest (IOIs) and one of the world’s largest FIX networks.

Autex’s state-of-the-art Smart IOI™ technology analyzes real-time and historical order flow to match buy-side institutions with intelligently-routed Natural liquidity from broker-dealers globally. The Smart service supplements a broker-dealer’s original list of targeted addressees with buy-side clients actively trading on the contra-side, exposing the buy-side to liquidity they would not normally see.

Autex Trade Route, the global standard for multi-asset class FIX order routing, provides both liquidity and access to over 1,100 of the world's leading institutional and brokerage firms. Over 1.5 billion shares are traded daily over 8,000+ connections between subscribers.

Autex is owned and operated by Tradeweb, a leading global provider of online markets, majority owned by Thomson Reuters.

 
 

IPC Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of indispensable financial trading communications solutions to the world's leading financial services firms and global enterprises. IPC provides its customers with global systems and solutions, as well as a suite of products and enhanced services that includes advanced Voice-over-IP technology and integrated network and 24x7x365 management services in more than 60 countries.

IPC‘s Electronic Connectivity Services are engineered from the ground up for electronic trading applications.  ECS is also fast to deploy, especially among market participants that are already part of IPC’s network community.   IPC’s global Financial Extranet helps banks, inter-dealer brokers, alternative investment firms, asset managers, and broker/dealers connect to the marketplace.  Execution venues also rely on IPC, including established exchanges and alternative trading systems such as Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) and Electronic Crossing Networks (ECNs).

With a 35 year history of first-to-markets, IPC is recognized as a technology innovator. IPC performs its own research, development and manufacturing and has a reputation for unrivaled quality with systems routinely achieving 99.999% reliability.  Headquartered in New Jersey, USA, IPC has approximately 900 employees throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.  

www.ipc.com

 
 

Liquidnet is the world’s premier institutional investment community, facilitating equities trading for institutional investors worldwide. By giving buy-side traders a first look at a global natural liquidity pool of US$65 billion average daily liquidity (for the quarter ended 31 March 2010), Liquidnet consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of more than 600 buy-side trading firms. Institutional investors use Liquidnet to enhance the quality of trade execution, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall trading costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in 32 equity markets across five continents. This year, Liquidnet Asia has been awarded: Best Crossing Network 2010 in the Asset Asian Awards, Best Electronic Trading Platform 2009 in the Asia Asset Management Awards, and Best Electronic Trading Platform 2009 in the Asian Banker Awards.

 
 

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

 
 

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, with the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.

As acknowledged leaders in advanced equity products and services, our sales and trading teams provide clients with distinctive trading insight, full-service trade execution and customised solutions across all products. Our Liquid Markets business aligns cash and portfolio trading with electronic trading to address all of the execution needs of our clients. We provide intelligent and efficient access to liquidity globally through an end-to-end suite of electronic trading solutions executed through a variety of order/execution management systems, including RealTick®.

BARX is Barclays Capital’s award-winning electronic services offering, which provides electronic execution across fixed income, FX, futures, commodities, money markets, emerging markets, structured products and equities.

For equities electronic trading solutions, please contact us at +813 4530 2263 (JP), +852 2903 2370 (Asia ex JP) or email AsiaElectronicTrading@barclayscapital.com.

 
 

Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial advice and market execution. With more than 1,200 offices in 37 countries, the people of Morgan Stanley are dedicated to providing our clients the finest thinking, products and services to help them achieve even their most challenging goals. 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.

For more information contact: Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET), 1585 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036, Tel: (877) 761-MSET, E-mail: mset-na@morganstanley.com

 
 

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary execution tools and services to manage the investment process from start to finish, from pre-trade analysis to post-trade consulting. Clients access our global offering via REDIPlus and FIX, available for trading global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange and swaps. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using the SIGMA smart order router and take advantage crossing opportunities in SIGMA X.

 
 

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the six strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor's* and the largest bank in the eurozone by deposits. With a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including 160,000 in Europe, BNP Paribas is a leading European provider of financial services on a worldwide scale. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Retail Banking, the Group has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the United States. BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending in Europe. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.

*Within its peer group

 
 
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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.