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Asia Pacific Electronic Trading Conferences 

 
 
Mumbai 05 March 2013
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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.

 
 
 
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.
 
 
 

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

 
 
 

Eurex Exchange
Eurex Exchange is one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges.
1,650 products across 11 asset classes on one single platform provide customers with new business opportunities. Our innovative and reliable technology gives 430 members and 8,300 traders in 30 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
Markus Georgi
T +65 6304 5257
Email: markus.georgi@eurexchange.com
For more information please visit www.eurexchange.asia

 
 
 
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 41 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.
 
 
 

Arista Networks was founded to deliver networking solutions for large data center and high-performance computing environments. Arista delivers a portfolio of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet 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 the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility. Arista's team is comprised of experienced management and engineering talent from leading networking companies. Arista designs revolutionary products in California and delivers them worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success.

 
 
 
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 and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property 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 approximately 60,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, go to: http://thomsonreuters.com
 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

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.

 
 
 

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

 
 
 

Financial Technologies (India) Ltd. (FTIL) is the flagship company of the Financial Technologies Group, a global leader in creating and operating technology-centric, next-generation financial markets that are transparent, efficient and liquid, across multi asset classes. It’s highly robust and scalable exchange and trading technology, coupled with deep domain expertise, enables it to create cost-effective and accessible financial markets that facilitate seamless price discovery and democratize growth opportunities.

FTIL is also the leading trading technology solutions provider in India. ODINTM, FTIL’s flagship product, has been the ‘Trading Platform of Choice’ for more than a decade in the Indian financial markets arena catering to top financial institutions ,brokerage houses and leading Indian banks.

The Financial Technologies Group operates a network of financial exchanges connecting fast growing economies of Africa, Middle East and South-East Asia as well as India. These Exchanges are complemented by the Group’s ecosystem ventures which address upstream and downstream opportunities in areas such as clearing and depository, information dissemination, warehousing and collateral management, payments processing and financial market education.

 
 
 

MCX Stock Exchange Limited (MCX-SX), India's new stock exchange, is recognised by Securities & Exchange Board of India under Section 4 of Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. The Exchange was granted the status of a "recognized stock exchange" by the Govt of India on December 21, 2012. In line with global best practices and regulatory requirements, clearing and settlement of trades is conducted through a separate clearing corporation - MCX-SX Clearing Corporation Ltd. (MCX-SX CCL).

MCX-SX commenced operations in Currency Futures in the Currency Derivatives (CD) segment on October 7, 2008 under the regulatory framework of SEBI and Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The Exchange commenced trading in Currency Options on August 10, 2012. The Exchange received permissions to deal in Interest Rate Derivatives, Equity, Futures & Options on Equity and Wholesale Debt Segment, vide SEBI's letter dated July 10, 2012. The Exchange further received permission to commence trading in these new Segments vide SEBI's letter dated December 19, 2012.

MCX-SX believes in the unique philosophy of systematic development of markets based on 'Information, Innovation, Education and Research,' and Financial-literacyfor-Financial Inclusion™, as is envisaged by the Government of India. As part of this mission, MCX-SX conducts at least one education and investor awareness programme per day.

 
 
 
Established in 1875, BSE Ltd. (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.), is Asia’s first Stock Exchange and one of India’s leading exchange groups. Over the past 137 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it an efficient capital-raising platform. Popularly known as BSE, the bourse was established as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association" in 1875. BSE is a corporatized and demutualised entity, with a broad shareholder-base which includes two leading global exchanges, Deutsche Bourse and Singapore Exchange as strategic partners. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, derivatives, mutual funds. It also has a platform for trading in equities of small-and-medium enterprises (SME).

More than 5000 companies are listed on BSE making it world's No. 1 exchange in terms of listed members. The companies listed on BSE Ltd. command a total market capitalization of USD Trillion 1.32 as of Jan 2013. BSE Ltd. is world's fifth most active exchange in terms of number of transactions handled through its electronic trading system. It is also one of the world’s leading exchanges (3rd largest in August 2012) for Index options trading (Source: World Federation of Exchanges).
 
 
 
With over 170 clients worldwide, including UBS, Barclays, Berenberg Bank, GBM, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan, FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi–asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies. FIX Flyer provides low latency Direct Market Access Gateways with Risk Checks; a reliable FIX Engine with custom high performance Exchange Adapters; Managed FIX services; the Daytona trade monitor; the Ignition testing, certification and trade and algorithm validation tool; Flyer Online OMS; and tools for commission management for global trading. The Flyer Engine is the first FIX server designed to manage high volume, ultra low latency trading networks and ECNs, easily scaling to thousands of connections. FIX Flyer hosts and partners with Equinix, the leading global provider of network–neutral data center and interconnection services. FIX Flyer is an IBM Business Partner with real world experience on IBM systems hardware, MQ Series, WebSphere Application Server and Pure Systems. FIX Flyer has headquarters in New York City with offices in Boston and Hyderabad, India. FIX Flyer trading software tools are additional distributed and supported in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg by FIX Solutions (fixsolutions.de) in Frankfurt. Visit fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer.
 
 
 
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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