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Liquidnet is the institutional equities marketplace, bringing together the world’s largest asset managers and public companies on a single network that directly connects traders, portfolio managers, analysts and corporate issuers. Liquidnet enables its Members to achieve greater performance by moving from investment idea to implementation faster, ultimately retaining more alpha throughout the entire institutional investment cycle. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet extends to 38 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. For more information on Liquidnet, its liquidity, block executions, and additional investment capabilities, visit www.liquidnet.com.
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
Tora is Asia’s leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services. Tora's unrivalled solutions span the entire trading process, offering a full suite of trade execution capabilities in markets across Asia, North America and Europe. Tora’s high-performance EMS/OMS has been designed from the ground up by traders, and is currently used by traders at hedge funds, long-only funds and sell-side proprietary trading desks. Tora also provides clients with access to its unique liquidity pools including Asia’s leading non-displayed matching engine. Tora’s dedicated Asia trading desk delivers to buy-side clients unmatched Asia expertise and extensive analytics focused on best execution. Tora’s extensive suite of proprietary algorithms (trading and strategy-focused) is fully customizable and broker neutral. Tora has over 175 employees dedicated to Asia, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com.
 
 
 

CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions.  Its market innovation Catalys takes FIX further and is the industry reference for FIX ecosystems.  Developed specifically to address the cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISVs, Catalys is a highly adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure. 

Catalys is based on the industry’s most widely installed FIX engine, CameronFIX.  CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications.  It is the outcome of 14 years continuous investment in performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness.  CameronFIX is today used by boutique to larger investment firms, brokerage houses, exchanges and regulators in 25 countries, on all five continents.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company and an active premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

www.camerontec.com 

 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

A division of NYSE Euronext (NY X), NYSE Technologies provides connectivity and transaction capabilities, data and infrastructure services, and managed solutions for a range of customers requiring next-generation performance and expertise for trading services.

NYSE Technologies offers a diverse array of products, services and solutions for: institutional investors, including order routing, liquidity discovery and access to a community of broker-dealers and execution destinations; broker-dealers and systematic traders, including high performance, end-to-end messaging software and innovative market data products delivered on a leading financial transaction network; and market operators, including multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and consultancy.

With offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, NYSE Technologies offers advanced integrated solutions for the global capital markets community, earning the ability to power trading operations for many of the world’s financial institutions and exchanges.

For more information, visit: www.nyse.com/technologies or contact nyse-technologies-sales@nyx.com

 
 
 

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 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-level 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; access to 500+ execution venues via FIX including dark pools, crossing engines, and 650+ advanced trading strategies from 65+ brokers.
  • 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:
 
Andrew Sit
Director of Sales, Asia
24/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong
+ 852 2840 6653
asit@EzeAsiaPac.com
www.convergex.com

 
 
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
 
 
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.
 
 
 

UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions and manage CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 65,000 people. Under Swiss company law, UBS is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. UBS AG is the parent company of the UBS Group (Group). The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Center and four business divisions: Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Wealth Management Americas, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank.

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 and access to the world's capital markets for corporate and institutional clients, governments, financial intermediaries and alternative asset managers and private investors.

www.ubs.com/investmentbank

 
 
 
Corvil is a provider of latency management systems to the world's leading trading organizations including global banks, exchanges, electronic market makers and service providers to financial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London 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.
 
 
 

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

With global experience and an intimate knowledge of the Asia markets, Metabit provides ultra low latency DMA trading solutions for markets in Asia. Serving buy side and sell side clients, Metabit solutions specialize in comprehensive compliance controls, whilst reducing transaction times and facilitating trading opportunities across fourteen markets in Asia, including Japan.

Metabit’s flagship solutions are Xilix, the intuitive buy side trading platform; MLH, the vendor neutral Market Liquidity Hub; Alpha, provides ultra-low latency exchange connectivity; and Exsim which emulates the unique behavior of individual exchanges in Asia including Japan. All Metabit’s products are powered by the CameronFIX engine.

 
 
 

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

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

 
 
 

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 Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. For more information please contact ITG on +852 2846 3567 or visit www.itg.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.

 
 
 

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 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

 
 
 

Local Insight and a Global Network of Information, People and Ideas

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 with one core mission: to bring transparency to capital markets through access to information. Today’s Bloomberg – totaling more than 13,000 employees in hundreds of locations and countries around the globe – builds on that foundation. Everything we do connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of global and local information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions.

Our products are fueled by five core offerings – data and analytics, news, technology, customer service, and research. Bloomberg is information, in its purest definition. The insights that our customers derive from our services clarify positions, impact decisions and move markets. Our competitive edge comes from working with our customers for over 30 years to understand their workflow, find new solutions, and then introduce improvements into our products. As a result, more than 340,000 of the world’s leading players in the global and financial markets rely on Bloomberg for the best information possible to run their business.

 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

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

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

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

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

 
 
 

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

We can currently deliver:

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

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

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

For further information, please e-mail financial@tnsi.com, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or call +852 3180 9302.

 
 
 

IPC is a leading provider of financial trading communications solutions to the world's leading financial services firms and global enterprises. With nearly 40 years of expertise and innovation, 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 75 countries. Based in Jersey City, N.J., IPC has more than 900 employees throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.

 
 
 

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the strongest banks in the world*. The Group has a presence in more than 80 countries with more than 200,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In its Corporate & Investment Banking, BNP Paribas enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia. (*Rated AA by Standard & Poor's i.e. 3rd rating level on a scale of 22.)

Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives is the business line within Corporate & Investment Banking arm of the group which combines the complementary activities of Structured Equity, Flow & Financing and Commodity Derivatives. Structured Equity and Flow & Financing offer a full range of innovative equity, index and fund-linked products. In addition, they offer a comprehensive range of research and execution services in Asian equity products and their derivatives. Commodity Derivatives offers a full range of price risk management solutions.

BNP Paribas Electronic & Algorithmic Trading Services (BEATS) offers a complete suite of powerful and intelligent electronic trading strategies. This customizable trading platform gives an access to additional liquidity (BIX – BNP Paribas Internal eXchange) and allows clients to execute transactions with ease and confidence.

For further information on BEATS, please contact beats@asia.bnpparibas.com.
 
 
 

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

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

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

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

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

www.db.com

 
 
 

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

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

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

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

www.sgcib.com

 
 
 

Citi Electronic Execution

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

Citi

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

 
 
 

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of networked IT services for financial service. For 10 years, the BT Radianz Managed Infrastructure has been the leading connectivity service for financial firms. Supporting 15,000 financial customer locations, the BT Radianz platform provides access to 400 of the world’s leading financial content and service providers including exchanges, banks, broker-dealers, central counterparties, and central securities depositories.

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 connectivity is fully-redundant, diversely routed to the customer site, and carries 100% availability SLA.

The BT Radianz platform network supports thousand of organizations internationally that use the FIX Protocol. BT Radianz Ultra Access provides low-latency connectivity with sub-millisecond round-trip delays to select execution venues. BT Radianz Proximity Solution combines connectivity with fully-managed hosting facilities. The BT Managed Secure Messaging ensures secure, reliable, tamper-proof and non-repudiable message delivery.

BT also provides the ITS Voice Trading Platform used by more than 70,000 traders at 800 firms and exchanges in 51 countries. One of every three traders around the world uses a BT trading turret.

BT is a Premier Member of FPL.

 
 
 
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) 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. Providing with a neutral meeting place for the world’s leading financial market participants including trading venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks, Equinix allows customers to locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers to support mission critical financial services applications with highly reliable, low-latency connectivity. Equinix hosts the world’s densest and most mature financial services ecosystem, bringing together 550+ participants from across the financial ecosystem, including 50+ exchanges and trading venues and 130+ financial service providers. Our high-performance, global financial ecosystem enables you to grow addressable markets and global reach across 15 leading financial centers.
 
 
 

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.

At Barclays Capital, we are committed to realizing our clients’ strategic vision at every stage of growth. For further information, please visit our website at www.barclayscapital.com.

 
 
 

a single source of innovation.

For over 45 years, 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 15 worldwide major financial centres and supported by a global network of distributors in 50 countries offering customers 24/7 service.

With a focus on building long-term partnerships with customers we bring innovative solutions and the highest quality services. It provides optimised solutions over our dedicated trading network to a community of more than 2,000 network member organisations, encompassing buy-side and sell side institutions and trading venues.

We offer flexible trading products and services including state of the art, unified voice trading solutions with over 40,000 turrets in play featuring user’s programmable interfaces, touch screens and voice/instant messaging recording solutions.

 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 840 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the set up of ASP infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 144.5 million in 2009. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN - Reuters LDSV.LN - Bloomberg LIN:FP.

For more information, please visit www.linedata.com or call us on +852 3583 7900.

 
 
 

Fusion's Raptor is the performance leader in Asia-Pacific ultra-low-latency DMA and broker connectivity.

For sell-side firms, Raptor provides FIX and OUCH to market-native DMA for all major Asia-Pacific cash and derivatives exchanges, and alternative venues. Performance is consistently sub-100 microsecond latency at extreme TPS rates for all markets. Raptor is live for HFT and systematic trading flows with multiple global investment banks in both Hong Kong and Tokyo. Raptor has key features that are missing from competitor and in-house solutions, including cumulative position-based risk filters, order event resequencing, smart DMA short-sell pegging, replication, failover and full recoverability with no single point of failure. Raptor leverages hardware acceleration to achieve ultra-low-latency.

For buy-side firms, Raptor provides FIX-based multi-broker/venue, and multi-parameter-set algo smart order routing (SOR). SOR algorithms incorporate feedback from post-trade comparative performance analysis of broker algos.

Fusion Systems is an Asia-Pacific technology company with a long history of servicing top-tier capital markets firms in the region with products, technology solutions and consulting services. With offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai, Fusion's clients include companies such as Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Nomura Securities.

For more information about Raptor, please visit www.fusionsystems.org.

 
 
 

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 2011 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

 
 
 
Dow Jones & Company is a global provider of news and business information and a developer of technology to deliver content to consumers and organizations across multiple platforms. Dow Jones produces newspapers, newswires, Web sites, apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, radio and video. Its premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, SmartMoney and All Things D. Its information services combine technology with news and data to support business decision making. The company pioneered the first successful paid online news site and its industry leading innovation enables it to serve customers wherever they may be, via the Web, mobile devices and tablets. The Dow Jones Local Media Group publishes community newspapers, Web sites and other products in six U.S. states. Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
 
 
 

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. It has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries, providing software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also delivers disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.

About SunGard Solutions for Global Trading

SunGard provides equities, futures and options traders with multi-asset, front-to-back trading and risk management solutions on 130+ markets worldwide. SunGard’s Valdi supports front-office businesses with market data, integrated trade and order management systems, advanced and smart execution services, and risk management. SunGard's global trading solutions can be delivered as enterprise software or as hosted services (SaaS). They help buy- and sell-side firms achieve increased performance, low latency and execution across multiple platforms, instruments and geographies.

www.sungard.com/globaltrading

Contact us: info.globaltrading@sungard.com

 
 
 

RBS Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific houses four of our six global trading hubs. We service corporations and financial institutions in 11 countries – Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. In wholesale banking markets, we are a top five player in the region.

RBS’s network of 4,000 GBM professionals in the region continuously exchanges intelligence. The GBM business in Asia Pacific plays a vital role in providing regional and global clients, especially those in the US and Europe, with Asian execution capabilities.

Committed to our clients. The world over

We put our clients’ requirements first. Our committed experts take your objectives and develop solutions, often highly tailored, by drawing on our broad variety of products and services.

We have the products for you

Clients’ requirements are often very specific. We have a broad variety of financing and risk management products at our fingertips. Our deep product expertise means we often tailor multi-product solutions or develop specific products for clients based on their exacting needs.

We deliver for you

We have a reputation for delivery. Our dedicated product specialists work to generate solutions of the highest standard for our clients. Our renowned access to global distribution networks means you can rely on us to get transactions done efficiently.

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