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With its sophisticated financial markets software solutions, IRESS services a full range of professional and non-professional financial participants.
The IRESS tool suite supports retail, institutional and operator traders, with solutions that are delivered via the desktop, web or mobile device. These solutions offer:
▪ Global market data
▪ Buy-side and sell-side order management (OMS and EMS)
▪ Direct exchange connectivity
▪ FIX (Financial Information eXchange) based routing
▪ Smart order routing (BMR)
The extensive IRESS FIX Interface provides direct connectivity between IRESS clients, global order routing systems and clients' internal order systems. IRESS offers FIX connectivity for all its order management solutions, and IRESS clients can choose to manage their FIX connectivity via a front-end administration module that seamlessly integrates into IRESS' products.
IRESS is the market leader in equity and derivative systems in Australasia. Globally, IRESS has significant client bases in Canada and South Africa, and a growing business in Asia with operations centred in Hong Kong and Singapore. |
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ULLINK is a global provider of trading software and services specializing in high touch and low touch trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side market participants. For over twelve years, ULLINK's clients have benefitted from consistent, reliable access to the most current and innovative technology available in the industry. Clients choose ULLINK for its modular, scalable front and middle-office solutions, across all asset classes, encompassing low latency, pre-trade risk, algorithmic, high frequency and direct market access (DMA) trading.
ULLINK's menu of solutions enables banks and brokers to rapidly achieve compliance with exchanges and regulatory regimes around the globe, with the flexibility of being deployed via the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-hosted and managed service.
Privately held, ULLINK services its clients, including top-tier global financial institutions, from offices in New York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Cluj, and Sydney.
Please contact sales@ullink.com for more information. |
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| Instinet, a global agency-only broker, is the independent equity trading arm of the Nomura Group. Through an advanced suite of electronic trading tools, sophisticated high-touch trading offering and unparalleled access to insightful content and unique agency-only liquidity, Instinet helps institutions globally lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Throughout its 40+ year history, Instinet has been a true electronic trading pioneer, having introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies as well as the world’s first major electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and, most recently, the Chi-X businesses. |
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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 25% 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
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Eurex Exchange
Eurex Exchange is one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges.
1,900 products across 10 asset classes on one single platform provide customers with new business opportunities. Our innovative and reliable technology gives 420 participants and 8,000 traders in 33 countries worldwide access to our products and services.
Asian activities
Futures and options on EUR-denominated government bonds (Bund, Bobl, Schatz) and derivatives on the European benchmark indexes DAX® and EURO STOXX 50® are important parts of our customers portfolios in Asia Pacific. Eurex branch and representative offices have been established in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
Through partnerships with the Singapore Exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Korea Exchange (KRX) and the Tokyo Financial Exchange, we aim to create mutually beneficial product co-operations and services for market participants. The link between Eurex and the Korean exchange KRX for example, provides customers with the opportunity to trade and clear KOSPI 200 Options after Korean trading hours.
The Eurex Group, member of Deutsche Börse Group, comprises six integrated businesses with representative offices in all major financial centers: Eurex Exchange, the International Securities Exchange, the European Energy Exchange, Eurex Clearing, Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo.
Contact
Henk Huitema
T +65 65973051
Email: henk.huitema@eurexchange.com
For more information please visit www.eurexchange.asia |
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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 42 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. |
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About Arista
Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-defined cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. With more than one million cloud networking ports being deployed worldwide, Arista offers a broad portfolio of Gigabit Ethernet solutions including 1,10 and 40 GbE switches that redefine network architectures, bring extensibility to networking and dramatically change the price/performance of data center networks. At the core of Arista’s platform is EOS (Extensible Operating System), the world’s most advanced network operating system, designed to build software defined cloud networks. EOS provides a single image consistency across hardware platforms and a modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility. |
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TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS to the financial community. TradingScreen's goal is to simplify the complexity of markets, by consolidating all investment workflows for exchange-traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major, global sell-side participants, leading regional brokers and the largest Buy side firms to a common environment, delivering market access, order- and liquidity-management and Investment services. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, asset classes, and geography, and a full integration of services front to back. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. For more information on TradingScreen, visit http://www.tradingscreen.com. |
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| IPC offers high- and low-touch trading communications solutions to the global financial services community, including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With a 100-percent focus on this sector and 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC's offerings include the first unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services, enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, day-to-day management of trading communications infrastructures and follow-the-sun service and support. IPC's global reach extends to nearly 60 countries - including a financial extranet of 4,500 on-net locations in over 700 cities and more than 115,000 turrets deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1,000 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com. |
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About CameronTec
CameronTec is the global industry standard in connectivity technology and trading infrastructure that today powers the largest user base among financial institutions. Uniquely positioned as a software and service provider delivering enterprise, hosted and managed platforms, our dedicated professional services team ensures optimal integration and deployment performance.
CameronTec's solutions are tested and trusted by the world's best firms in over 50 countries, on all five continents, that represent the broadest cross section of tier 1 and 2 investment banks, brokers, fund managers, exchanges, regulators, and the ISV community.
Catalys is our flagship offering, designed to provide a superior and resilient integrated platform for operations, infrastructure and trading management - covering all aspects of the deal life-cycle: pre-trade, trade and post-trade. It is underpinned by our market-leading connectivity technology, and engineered on the widely acknowledged standard in FIX engines, CameronFIX. This covers customer-facing, system-facing, and market-facing connectivity.
Our products and services are exceptionally supported by regionally focused teams in London, Stockholm, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sydney and Mumbai.
www.camerontec.com |
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| 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 210 employees dedicated to Asia, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Romania, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com. |
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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 7258 / (toll free) +800 222 2334. |
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Equinix is home to the largest collection of exchanges and trading platforms, top market data vendors, a myriad of service providers, and hundreds of buy-side and sell-side firms. Together with Equinix financial data centers, these form a broad-based marketplace of electronic trading and financial technology services that give you the ability to connect - and adapt - like never before.
Equinix interconnects the financial services industry in all leading financial markets worldwide, facilitating proximity hosting and FIX connectivity on a global scale and providing a neutral foundation for online and mobile banking, payments, and insurance systems.
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,000 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world's most networked data centers. No other provider can match the global reach of Equinix. With over 95 data centers in 31 major business markets, you can rapidly deploy a scalable, global footprint while maintaining Equinix’s premium standards of performance, reliability, security and network choice.
www.equinix.com |
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Trader Instinct™ - The Global Equities Trading and Consulting Platform
When you execute with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, you have a global platform of trading professionals and tools to help you access the natural liquidity provided by one the world’s largest
private client and institutional networks. Our Trader Instinct™ platform helps you to achieve high quality execution by drawing on our expansive market presence, knowledge and experience, trading
acumen and strategies, financial capital and liquidity destinations. All continually adapting to realtime
market signals to align your trade objectives and conviction. |
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| 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 Exchange Central 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 Trading Community - North Americas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com. |
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Local Insight and a Global Network of Information, People and Ideas
Bloomberg, a leader in global business and financial information and news, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 340,000 subscribers globally. www.bloomberg.com |
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ITG is an independent broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement. With our launch of the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, we founded ITG with a strong commitment to empower buyside investors. And over the years, we’ve continued to deepen that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology to offer the unmatched insights that help clients generate and preserve alpha.
With 17 offices in 10 countries and multi-asset capabilities that support the needs of large equity portfolios, we combine the power of global reach with the precision of local vision. Bringing together market-leading tools and unmatched expertise, we have helped clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk, and navigate increasingly complex markets.
We are your trusted, independent partner offering objective insights and guidance through complicated and changing global market structures. |
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Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Macquarie's main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. We have expertise in specific industries, including resources and commodities, energy, financial institutions, infrastructure and real estate.
Macquarie Group Limited is listed in Australia (ASX:MQG; ADR:MQBKY) and is regulated by APRA, the Australian banking regulator, as the owner of Macquarie Bank Limited, an authorised deposit taker. Macquarie also owns a bank in the UK, Macquarie Bank International Limited, which is regulated by the FSA. Macquarie's activities are subject to scrutiny by other regulatory agencies around the world.
Macquarie's management approach fosters an entrepreneurial culture among staff. Strong prudential management is fundamental to this approach. Robust risk management practices are embedded in business unit management with central oversight of credit, market, funding, compliance and operational risk. These, together with a strong and committed team, are key drivers of Macquarie's success.
Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 13,400 people in 28 countries. At 30 September 2012, Macquarie had assets under management of $A353 billion. |
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NYSE Technologies in Asia-Pacific
NYSE Technologies has a fast-growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila and Tokyo. The group seeks to develop meaningful strategic and technology relationships with local exchanges and trading firms by actively addressing the unique opportunities and challenges of electronic trading in APAC. NYSE Technologies has strong regional leadership with a deep understanding of local financial markets. Its regional offices work closely together on APAC initiatives, relationship management, and technology development, and they are committed to offering a full range of exchange and trading solutions for their clients. NYSE Technologies' experienced development team focuses on APAC-specific product functionality, and actively collaborates with its global team to provide robust and integrated solutions for the APAC market. NYSE Technologies, a leading provider of scalable exchange platforms, works with a wide range of emerging and established high-volume markets. NYSE Technologies' innovative, high speed market data and messaging platform includes tick capture software and entitlement products, as well as comprehensive feed handler (market data) and market access gateway (orders) coverage of APAC markets. NYSE Technologies' solutions are available as fully deployed enterprise software or as managed services, and are served by a regional support desk during APAC hours (7am - 7pm Singapore/Hong Kong time).
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Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary tools to manage their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis. Our clients access our products via FIX or any EMS/OMS, including the top-ranked REDIPlus® platform. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA X™ non-displayed liquidity suite. Along with providing clients access to global equity markets, we also offer foreign exchange, futures, and options across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit http://gset.gs.com.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial 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 all major financial centers around the world.
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UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, and retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and leading universal bank in Switzerland. Together with a client-focused Investment Bank and well-diversified Global Asset Management business, UBS will expand its premier wealth management franchise and drive growth across the Group.
The Investment Bank provides corporate, institutional and wealth management clients with expert advice, innovative financial solutions, outstanding execution and comprehensive access to the world’s capital markets. It offers investment banking and capital markets, research, equities, foreign exchange, precious metals and tailored fixed income services in rates and credit through its business units - Corporate Client Solutions and Investor Client Services. The Investment Bank actively participants in capital markets flow, including sales, trading and market-making across a range of securities.
UBS Global Equities distributes, trades, finances and clears cash equity and equity-linked products, and structures, originates and distributes new equity and equity-linked issues. UBS provides research on companies, industry sectors, global markets and macro economic trends. We offer direct market access, prime broking and client relationship management, to give you the speed, flexibility and automation you need.
Contacts
Asia: +852-2971 8334
Australia: +612-9324 2017
Japan: +81-3-5208 7249
Europe: +44-20-7568 2436
Americas: +1-800-563 8018 or +1-203-719 1750
Email: directexecutionasia@ubs.com
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ASX is a multi-asset class, vertically integrated exchange group, and one of the world’s top-10 listed exchange groups measured by market capitalisation.
ASX's activities span primary and secondary market services, central counterparty risk transfer, and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets. It functions as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It monitors and enforces compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps to educate retail investors.
ASX's diverse domestic and international l customer base includes issuers of securities and financial products, investment and trading banks, fund managers, hedge funds, commodity trading advisers, brokers and proprietary traders, market data vendors and retail investors.
By providing its systems, processes and services reliably and fairly, ASX generates confidence in the markets that depend on its infrastructure. This is integral to ASX's long-term commercial success.
Contact Details:
Australian Securities Exchange
David Raper
General Manager, Trading Services
+61 (0) 2 9227 0308
david.raper@asx.com.au
www.asx.com.au |
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First Derivatives is a leading provider of products and consulting services to the capital markets industry. Focused on financial institutions that work cross-asset, often with multi-system and/or high volume trading activities, the Company scopes, designs, develops, implements and supports a broad range of mission critical data and trading systems across front, middle and back-office operations.
Incorporated in 1996, First Derivatives has served the capital markets industry since its incorporation. The Company holds a niche market position in terms of domain knowledge of capital market asset classes (equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, etc), as well as expertise in leading financial services systems (such as Calypso, Murex, Opics, Summit, Principia, Opus, Wall Street, kdb+, etc). The Company continues to work closely with leading global financial institutions to enable client proprietary and 3rd Party systems cope with the demands of high volume, complex trading in an increasingly regulated market. This combination of domain knowledge and technical expertise in leading financial services technologies has motivated the Company to invest in developing its own product suite.
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Software AG helps organisations achieve their business objectives faster. The company’s big data, integration and business process technologies enable customers to drive operational efficiency, modernise their systems and optimise processes for smarter decisions and better service.
Software AG’s Apama is an award-winning Complex Event Processing engine which offers a powerful platform for algorithmic trading, FX eCommerce, risk and compliance monitoring and other high performance, low latency capital markets applications.
Apama for FX e-commerce
- Customizable end-to-end FX e-commerce solution with liquidity management, risk management and pricing distribution and execution
- Rich functionality includes custom pricing models, intelligent auto-hedging, and tools for client and proprietary trade-flow management in highly fragmented fast-paced markets
Apama for Algorithmic Trading
- Market-leading platform for flexible and powerful algorithmic trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side
- Rich catalogue of components includes SOR framework, pre-trade risk firewall and third-party quant plugins for fast development
Apama for Risk & Compliance Monitoring
- Powerful and extensible monitoring solution for market surveillance, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), pre-trade risk and other forms of behavioural monitoring
- Efficiently analyse high-volume, high-velocity data in real-time or historical mode for improved and faster decisions
Learn more at www.softwareag.com |
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Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions that enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications.
To gain that much needed trading advantage requires specialist monitoring care, Emulex’s network visibility products provides a window of visibility to 7.5 nanoseconds accuracy and micro burst detection that shows system and network performance in near real-time. By tracking business flows at this level, through application software and systems, across networks and around the world, any latency affecting business is uncovered.
Emulex provides financial trading organizations with the ability to detect and investigate issues at packetlevel in order to lower the time to resolution, reducing customers’ trading exposure and costs.
Keep up with regulatory technology changes, redefine pre and post trade analysis and improve your performance.
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