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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.





 

Trader Instinct®
Global Trading and Consulting Platform

#1 in Algorithmic Trading – Asian Investors
2015 Greenwich Associates

Break through with unleashed liquidity

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.

Expert knowledge and advice
Gain an information edge for your trading decisions—from award-winning research to proprietary client think tank events to specialized experts who provide unique insights into market microstructure and strategic best practices.

bofaml.com/trader-instinct





 

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.





 

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





 

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.

    Above all, what separates TORA is our focus on what matters to our clients:
  • TORA manages the hardware, software, network, integrations, data feeds, and disaster recovery – so that funds can focus on what matters most.
  • TORA’s flexibility ensures that the system fits your workflow – not the other way around.
  • TORA is an open platform that integrates with the technology or vendors you need.
  • TORA delivers the fastest implementation times in the industry.
  • TORA pricing is transparent and there are no hidden fees.

TORA has over 225 employees with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, and San Francisco. More information is available at www.tora.com.





 

Being a fully owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group and part of LSEG's Technology Services division since 29 May 2015, Exactpro specialises in open access quality assurance services and related software development with focus on test automation for securities data distribution, trading systems, risk management, market surveillance and post-trade infrastructures.

Our team has in-depth understanding of the technologies and business logic behind matching engines, smart order routing, algorithmic trading, order management, market data dissemination, straight-through processing, clearing and settlement for equities, fixed income, FX, listed and OTC derivatives. We have considerable experience working in ultra-low latency systems and FIX-based solutions. In addition to functional and non-functional testing, we also verify that our customers' systems are compliant with regulations.

Exactpro is a young and dynamic company. We have been able to attract and retain a superb technical team of talented engineers. Exactpro staff are technically advanced, responsible, proactive, thorough, flexible and responsive to clients' requests and needs. We promote integrity, partnership, innovation and excellence in anything we do as a company. Clients worldwide, including execution venues, brokers, buy-side, technology vendors, trust us due to our transparency, reliability and track record.

Effective test automation with wide coverage and focus on cost efficiency, maintainability and sustainability is one of the areas where we have seen success in the recent years. We could not have done it without a unique suite of test automation tools, which we have developed over the years to provide the services.

Some of the key contributors to our success as a company include absolute commitment to high quality in everything we do for the customers, adherence to the open access model in our areas of expertise,high profile referenceable projects within both LSEG and the rest of the industry, as well as staying focused on providing the necessary training opportunities for our staff.





 

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 one of the leading telecommunications and technology companies offering a wide range of services globally. We bring innovative technology, capability and talent from around the world to enable our customers to thrive in a connected world. Telstra’s heritage is proudly Australian, but we have a longstanding international business with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Today, we have over 3,500 employees based in 20 countries outside of Australia providing services to thousands of business and government customers.

Our customers are global, our people are local and our assets are anchored in Asia. Over several decades we have established one of the largest subsea cable networks in Asia-Pacific, with a unique and diverse set of infrastructure that offers access to the most intra-Asia lit capacity and largest subsea cable system in Asia Pacific.

The network plays a crucial role underpinning the digital economy in Asia-Pacific, meeting the needs of wholesale and enterprise customers around the world. We also provide sophisticated network application services and have growing interests in software, video delivery, e-commerce and health.

Growing our business globally is a strategic priority for Telstra, and we are focused on being the leading service provider for our customers across Asia-Pacific. We are also seeking to leverage our capabilities and assets to capture connectivity opportunities in industries where technology is creating competitive disruption.





 

IRESS is an innovative, reliable and respected technology partner providing connectivity, trading, wealth management and market data solutions globally. Established across 14 offices worldwide IRESS provides fully managed financial services technology to a complete range of clients including large multinational investment banks, asset managers and brokers. IRESS offers an extensive suite of FIX routing solutions all connected by our open global SmartHub network. Our order management and execution systems (OEMS) paired with our comprehensive real time risk and limits engine gives clients the power and flexibility they need to manage complex order flow with confidence.





 

Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate the front and middle office investment management process across asset classes on a single platform. Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment simplifies client operations, improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.





 

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.





 

Solarflare is the leading provider of 10GbE and 40GbE solutions that accelerate, monitor and secure network data. SolarSecure™, SolarCapture™ and Capture SolarSystem™ applications are deployed on Solarflare’s 10/40GbE Flareon™ server adapters and empower the enterprise with the technical sophistication necessary to effectively capture, identify and block malicious traffic - all before it penetrates the operating system or other applications on network servers. Policies are enforced without requiring any additional hardware.

Solarflare has over 1,500 customers worldwide and the company's solutions are widely used in scale-out server environments such as electronic trading, high performance computing, cloud, CDN, virtualization and big data. Solarflare’s products are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from Dell, HP and Lenovo. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, and operates R&D facilities in Cambridge, UK, New Delhi, India and San Diego, CA.





 

About Stratus:
If "always-on" is a requirement, Stratus has a solution that fits.


In today's always-on world, applications run under increasingly demanding circumstances. With these escalating demands comes greater pressure to prevent even the smallest amount of application downtime. Companies are responding to this need for always-on solutions by searching for technologies that either conform to or enhance their current IT infrastructures.

Stratus' solutions enable rapid deployment of always-on infrastructures, from enterprise servers to clouds, without any changes to your applications. Our products – software and platforms – combined with our people and services enable us to prevent downtime before it occurs and ensure uninterrupted 24 x 7 x 365 performance of essential business operations.





 

China Telecom Global Limited ("CTG") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited ("China Telecom"), ranked 160th in Fortune Global 500 of 2015. China Telecom established branches or subsidiaries in 33 countries and regions, and owned 67 overseas POPs as well as more than 9T capacities in international connectivity bandwidth and intercontinental capacity. By tapping into its network resources of 38 submarine cables and leveraging direct connection to more than 10 neighboring countries and regions via terrestrial cables, CTG has forged its global layout of service network and network capacity.

Founded in 2006, China Telecom (Singapore) Pte Ltd (CTSG) has developed into a regional headquarter to four countries, i.e. Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, and has obtained the Facilities Based Operator (FBO) license in Singapore. Targeting international carriers, multinational corporation clients and overseas Chinese enterprises, CTSG provides customized, diversified and economical integrated communication solutions and services to cater for their global business needs. The services provided include internet direct access, internet transit, broadband, IDC, cloud computing, ICT solutions, operation consultancy, etc.

For more information, please visit: https://www.chinatelecomglobal.com/.





 

Telstra is a leading telecommunications and technology company. We offer a full range of services and compete in all telecommunications markets in Australia, operating the largest mobile and Wi-Fi networks. Globally, we provide end-to-end solutions including managed network services, global connectivity, cloud, voice, colocation, conferencing and satellite solutions. We have licenses in Asia, Europe and the United States and offer access to more than 2,000 points of presence across the globe. For more information visit www.telstraglobal.com.




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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.