UBS is committed to providing private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland, with superior financial advice and solutions while generating attractive and sustainable returns for shareholders. Its strategy centers on its Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Asset Management business and its Investment Bank. These businesses share three key characteristics: they benefit from a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital-efficient, and offer a superior structural growth and profitability outlook. UBS's strategy builds on the strengths of all of its businesses and focuses its efforts on areas in which it excels, while seeking to capitalize on the compelling growth prospects in the businesses and regions in which it operates. Capital strength is the foundation of its success.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and approximately 60,000 employees. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Center and five business divisions: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Retail & Corporate, Asset Management and the Investment Bank.
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In fragmented markets, you need to continually adapt and maximize your trading strategies. Trader Instinct® gives you access to the unique liquidity of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. It helps you achieve high-quality trade execution by drawing on our experienced trading professionals, customizable electronic solutions or both, all through one expanding global trading and consulting platform.
Diverse liquidity pools
Sourcing liquidity is about making connections. Trader Instinct® connects you to one of the world's largest and most diverse networks—giving you a broader view and more trading opportunities across multiple asset classes.
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As the equity execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated’s subsidiaries provide independent, agency-only brokerage services to clients throughout the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading tools, experienced high-touch trading group and unparalleled access to insightful content and unique agency-only liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of its 40+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies as well as the world’s first major electronic trading venue, one of the first U.S. ECNs and, most recently, the Chi-X businesses.
About Itiviti
Itiviti is a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry. Trading firms, banks, brokers and institutional clients rely on Itiviti technology, solutions and expertise for streamlining daily operations, while gaining a sustainable competitive edge in global markets.
With 13 offices and serving more than 400 customers worldwide, Itiviti was formed by uniting Orc Group, a leader in trading and electronic execution, and CameronTec Group, the global standard in financial messaging infrastructure and connectivity.
Itiviti is committed to continuous innovation to deliver trading infrastructure built for today’s dynamic markets, offering highly adaptable platforms and solutions, enabling clients to stay ahead of competitive and regulatory challenges.
Itiviti is owned by Nordic Capital Fund VII.
www.itiviti.com
About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). For more information, visit: www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
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 Boston, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. For more information on TradingScreen, go to http://www.tradingscreen.com.
About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.
About Autobahn
Autobahn Equity is part of Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform, providing you with access to execution solutions in all major equities markets including 12 within Asia Pacific. Autobahn trading is available in both lit and alternative venues via our flexible suite of algorithms or direct market access (DMA) and both are supported by robust risk controls. Detailed Asia Pacific market knowledge and algorithmic trading expertise are provided by our dedicated coverage team located in Hong Kong, India, Japan and Australia.
About SuperX
Deutsche Bank's own alternative liquidity venues are branded as SuperX and within the Asia Pacific region they are currently in operation in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. Deutsche Bank also operate an alternative liquidity venue aggregator called SuperX Plus providing access to deep, diverse liquidity whilst limiting information leakage.
Smarter Liquidity – Innovation with Integrity.
https://autobahn.db.com/equity
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 7266 / (toll free) +877 241 0495.
Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
At REDI, we are working to bring a new level of efficiency, transparency and openness to the trading process by building a collaborative community of investors, brokers, technology firms and content providers.
Through our modular, end-to-end trade management platform, users can execute everything from simple single stock trades to complex strategies across markets and time zones and manage your risk throughout the trade lifecycle. Access our growing network of over 175 execution brokers to route Equities, Futures or Options orders globally, as well as dozens of integrated prime and clearing brokers through our expanding suite of middle office tools. Collaborate with our broker and vendor partners, who are able to efficiently plug into our platform to reach our community of more than 5,000 active users.
REDI was among the industry's first providers of trading technology and has pushed the state-of-the-art forward for more than 20 years. Today, with the backing of our investors – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citadel, Goldman Sachs and Lightyear Capital – we're building on our history of innovation to become an open, industry-backed ecosystem for the entire trading community.
ITG is an independent execution broker and financial technology provider that partners with global traders and portfolio managers throughout the investment process, from investment decision through settlement. With 15 offices in 9 countries and multi-asset capabilities that support the needs of institutional investors and hedge funds, we combine the power of global reach with the precision of local vision.
We founded ITG in 1987 with the launch of the POSIT® crossing network, along with an unwavering commitment to provide actionable investment insights and improved outcomes for our clients. Over the years, we’ve deepened that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology. We bring together award-winning tools and high-touch expertise to help clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk, and navigate increasingly complex markets.
We are your trusted, strategic partner, offering objective insights and guidance through complicated and changing global market structures. Our clients know they can count on us to put their interests first.
Our liquidity offerings deliver quality matches before others know they exist. Our platforms provide fast, open access to a broad universe of global brokers and providers. Our research and analytics access data is derived from exclusive proprietary sources, delivering in-depth insights other research sources can’t provide. And our trading desk offers deep local knowledge around the globe.
Liquidnet is the global institutional trading network where more than 800 of the world’s top asset managers and other like-minded investors come to execute their large trades with maximum anonymity and minimum market impact. As the global leader in large block trading, Liquidnet provides access to unique trading opportunities in 43 markets across five continents. Liquidnet approaches every market with the same bold vision to provide a better, more efficient way to trade on a massive scale. It is this focus on size, combined with the strength of its network, disruptive technology, and commitment to transparency, that is revolutionizing the way equities and corporate bonds are traded, and the way public and private companies raise capital. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com and follow us on Twitter @Liquidnet.
IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets.
www.ipc.com
Traiana, Inc. (www.traiana.com) provides global banks, broker/dealers, buy-side firms and trading platforms with services to monitor pre-trade risk and automate post-trade processing of financial transactions in listed and over-the-counter trading markets. Traiana's solutions and the Harmony Network have become the market standard for post-trade processing of foreign exchange, exchange traded derivatives, fixed income, CDS and synthetic and cash equity transactions. Traiana, an ICAP company, is headquartered in New York and has offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tel Aviv.
Colt provides network, voice, and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure. Customers include 18 of the top 25 bank and diversified financial groups and 19 out of the top 25 companies in both global media and telecoms industries (Forbes 2000 list, 2014). In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks.
Colt operates across Europe, Asia and North America with connections into over 200 cities globally. It recently completed the acquisition of KVH – which now operates under the Colt brand - an integrated data centre and communications services business, with headquarters in Tokyo and operations in Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a leading operator of exchanges and clearing houses, and one the world’s largest exchange groups by market capitalisation. It includes the exchanges that operate Hong Kong’s securities and derivatives markets as well as the London Metal Exchange, the world’s premier base metals market. HKEX and the Shanghai Stock Exchange are partners in Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, a groundbreaking programme that links the stock markets of the two cities, and HKEX is seeking to expand the Connect programme and extend it to other asset classes.
HKEX’s refreshed corporate identity highlights its ambition to be the pioneer that connects the world’s financial markets. HKEX’s aim is to be the global exchange of choice across asset classes, from equities to fixed income, currency and commodities, both for its Chinese clients and its international clients seeking China exposure.
Connecting China with the World, we are Reshaping the Global Market Landscape.
TORA is a cloud-based front-to-back office technology provider for the buy-side. TORA provides everything you need to run a fund: Portfolio, Risk, Order and Execution Management Systems, as well as Compliance and Analytics modules – all available individually, or as an integrated, unified platform.
Other software vendors talk about “the complete solution”, but simply offer separate products patched together from acquisitions. With TORA, every product is built in-house: one development team, under one roof, building great products that are fully integrated from the start.
Transaction Network Services’ (TNS) robust secure trading network is relied on by the global financial markets for mission-critical connectivity where speed, security and resilience are paramount.
TNS brings together an extensive global financial community of interest, including many of the world’s most prominent and influential buy and sell-side institutions, market data and software vendors, exchanges and alternative trading venues. Through one highly secure low latency connection to TNS, financial organizations can connect to multiple diverse trading partners, including those in emerging markets across the Americas, Asia and Europe.
TNS customers enjoy:
Community participants include: fund managers, proprietary traders, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATS, ECNs and application service providers.
Asset classes supported include: equities, foreign exchange, commodities, fixed income and derivatives instruments.
For further information, please email financial@tnsi.com, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or call +852 3103 1095.
Societe Generale Prime Services part of the Global Markets’ division of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking is the bank’s prime brokerage business, offering a unique combination of execution, clearing, custody and financing services. It is truly multi-asset and multi-instrument across Listed Derivatives, Equities (Cash/synthetic), FX, Fixed Income and OTC Cleared. As a firm offering world leading derivatives brokerage services, unrivalled access to 125+ markets and exchange venues, Societe Generale Prime Services provides its clients an extensive pool of liquidity and tailored value added services.
Telstra is a leading Australia-based tier one telecommunications and information services company offering a full range of communications services.
Our international operations are headquartered in Hong Kong where we provide wholesale and enterprise customers with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions across data, voice, satellite and managed network services.
We understand our customers want technology and content solutions that are simple and easy to use – that’s why we’ve built Australia’s largest fully integrated IP network and the nation’s largest and most reliable mobile network.
Through our strategic investments over the years and the 2015 acquisition of Pacnet in Asia, we now have the largest subsea cable network in Asia Pacific, licences throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas and we facilitate access to more than 2,000 Points of Presence (PoPs) in 230 countries and territories.
Telstra’s international operations focus on growth opportunities outside Australia through onward investments, ventures, deploying disruptive technologies and growing international and local customer relationships.
Our success story comes from our deep understanding and experience in the Asian market for more than 30 years. We consider Asia to be a key growth market – both for Telstra as well as our customers – due to the region’s vast economic potential.
Telstra has the flexibility, agility and expertise to serve customers as they look to expand their business into and out of the region.
Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in 44 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking and pension markets. The Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) automates front- and middle-office investment management functions across all asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk, and lowers technology costs. Charles River IMS supports the entire investment lifecycle, from decision support activities through trading and post-trade settlement, with broad asset class support and integrated compliance management throughout. Charles River IMS combines full order management and execution management capabilities (OEMS). A built-in Investment Book of Record (IBOR) improves efficiency and accuracy for front office users by removing dependence on back-office data feeds. Up-to-date performance measurement and attribution analysis, and integrated risk management and scenario analysis enrich the portfolio management process.
FIS is a global leader in financial services technology, with a focus on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, consulting and outsourcing solutions. Through the depth and breadth of our solutions portfolio, global capabilities and domain expertise, FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Providing software, services and outsourcing of the technology that empowers the financial world, FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.
FIS’ solutions for capital markets help banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and other financial institutions improve the efficiency, transparency and control of their trading and processing. From market connectivity, trade execution, risk management to accounting, data management and tax reporting, our solutions provide cross-asset support for the entire trade life cycle.
FIS has acquired SunGard. Pushing the pace of financial technology, together we’ll help our clients solve technology challenges for their business.
Stop by the FIS stand to learn more about our trading suite of solutions, or visit www.fisglobal.com.
China Telecom Global Limited (“CTG”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited. Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTG bridges Asia Pacific and connects the world, and extended its presence in Africa and Middle East in 2015.
With years of experience serving global clients, CTG has coverage and presence around the globe, particularly in developing countries and emerging markets. Leveraging on its absolute China advantage in resources and ubiquity and firmly stemmed from its motto “Customer First Service Foremost", CTG offers world-class integrated and diversified services including Cloud, Big Data, Industrial and ICT solutions, such as Global Financial Solution, Retail Industry Solution and Smart Community etc.
OUR BUSINESS
Esprow is a leading provider of testing and compliance automation solutions for the financial industry. The Esprow Enterprise Testing Platform (Esprow ETP) delivers an integrated suite of applications to automate testing of multi-protocol financial systems, on-boarding and certification of counterparties and native exchange & broker simulation.
ABOUT US
Continuously building upon our foundations and exploring how to create more value for our clients. Delivering more to the people who have trusted us with their most challenging requirements. This is what drives us.
Our rapid growth is fostered by technological innovation, listening to our users and steering our ship towards where they need to go. Not only today but over the long term. Above all our strategy for continuous success is investing in our people and creating a place where the best and brightest can find the tools and support to achieve their full potential.
About BT in Financial Services
BT’s users include the world’s largest banks, brokers, insurance companies, mutual societies, investment managers and exchanges. It delivers communications-based services that address the needs of organisations across the wholesale, corporate and retail banking, financial markets and payments sectors to increase their operational efficiency and agility and to help to improve customer service. BT enables the largest, secure networked financial community in the world to carry out its business reliably and fast, using integrated voice, data and video to communicate within and between thousands of institutions and access applications from hundreds of providers internationally.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/financialservices
About BT
BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. It is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. With effect from 1 April 2016, the group has been reorganised and the customer-facing lines of business are now: Global Services, Business and Public Sector, Consumer, EE, Wholesale and Ventures, and Openreach.
J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $19.7 trillion of assets under custody and $372.1 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
The Equities business at J.P. Morgan provides a full complement of equity and equity-linked solutions to institutional investor clients — from ideas and insights from top-ranked analysts, to high-touch sales and trading services, to world-class algorithmic and electronic trading capabilities. Our sales and trading professionals work in coordination with our capital markets professionals to help issuers access the equity markets as a top-tier equity underwriter.
The Equities Execution Services Team is part of J.P. Morgan's full-service global equities platform. We design, distribute and service leading-edge analytics, execution and liquidity products globally. The complete suite of electronic products is designed to source liquidity effectively across an ever-changing landscape of liquidity centres, minimize transaction costs and maintain anonymity.
Ullink is a global provider of market leading multi-asset trading technology and infrastructure for buy-side and sell-side market participants. Trusted by over 150 of the world’s top-tier banks and brokers, the company provides consistent, reliable access to the most current and innovative trading solutions available. Since 2001, Ullink has established itself as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the industry.
In 2014 Ullink acquired NYFIX and Metabit from the New York Stock Exchange, further expanding its product offering by creating one of the industry’s largest FIX based trading communities.
The combined company manages over 450 trading platforms daily, is connected to more than 100 of the world’s leading liquidity and exchange venues and offers over 700 different FIX and API adapters. Ullink has offices in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Manila, São Paulo, Cluj and Sydney.
For more information, please contact connect@ullink.com or visit www.ullink.com.
At REDI, we are working to bring a new level of efficiency, transparency and openness to the trading process by building a collaborative community of investors, brokers, technology firms and content providers.
Through our modular, end-to-end trade management platform, users can execute everything from simple single stock trades to complex strategies across markets and time zones and manage your risk throughout the trade lifecycle. Access our growing network of over 175 execution brokers to route Equities, Futures or Options orders globally, as well as dozens of integrated prime and clearing brokers through our expanding suite of middle office tools. Collaborate with our broker and vendor partners, who are able to efficiently plug into our platform to reach our community of more than 5,000 active users.
REDI was among the industry's first providers of trading technology and has pushed the state-of-the-art forward for more than 20 years. Today, with the backing of our investors – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citadel, Goldman Sachs and Lightyear Capital – we're building on our history of innovation to become an open, industry-backed ecosystem for the entire trading community.