Sponsors

About Liquidnet

Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Since our founding in 1999, our network has grown to include more than 1,000 institutional investors and spans 57 markets across six continents. We built Liquidnet to make global capital markets more efficient and continue to do so by adding additional participants, enabling trusted access to trading and investment opportunities, and delivering the actionable intelligence and insight that our customers need. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com and follow us on X @Liquidnet.

About Bank of America

Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

Our Businesses

Global Markets

Global Markets provides banking products and services through Bank of America and trading and other broker dealer products and services, including research through BofA Securities. Our institutional clients are across fixed-income credit, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets product coverage includes securities and derivative products in both the primary and secondary markets. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit and commodity derivatives, fixed-income and mortgage-related products.

To support our institutional investor clients globally in their investing and trading activities, the Global Markets team provides financing, securities clearing, settlement and custody services. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide foreign exchange products.

Visit: https://business.bofa.com/international

About ION Markets

ION provides transformative technology and solutions to financial institutions dealing in asset management, cleared derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and secured funding. Our award-winning end-to-end solutions simplify operations by automating the trade lifecycle, providing tools to manage risk, maximizing access to liquidity, and giving real-time access to critical information for operational decisions and global-scale execution.

ION’s Fidessa suite of products unifies trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow. Fidessa empowers your business with everything you need for equities trading in one integrated solution; unifying your operations, simplifying your workflows, and boosting your efficiency. The Fidessa platform can be enhanced with a range of additional solutions, such as:

Fidessa Algorithms, a powerful, customizable solution that simplifies algo trading in global markets, helping you navigate fragmented liquidity, and thereby enhancing your trade performance.
Fidessa ADSA, which enables advanced dynamic order execution for equities trading, allowing you to enrich your client engagement with sophisticated order validation, routing, algo switching, and white labelling.
FIX Connect, our next-generation solution for agile connectivity to ION’s global FIX network, delivering rapid and responsive client connectivity through a new architectural model and an improved user experience.

To find out more about Fidessa, visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!

About Broadridge

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with the trusted expertise and transformative technology to help clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients—driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.

Our technology and operations platforms process and generate over 7 billion communications per year and underpin the daily trading of more than $10 trillion of securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.

About Scila

Scila is a leading provider of innovative risk management and trade surveillance solutions for market participants, marketplaces, and regulators.

Founded in Stockholm in 2008, Scila has a proven track record of delivering high-performance technology that empowers clients to manage risk effectively, ensure market integrity, and maintain a competitive edge.

Scila offers two flagship solutions: Scila Surveillance, a globally renowned market surveillance offering, and Scila Risk, a modern multi-asset risk management platform. Both solutions are built on a foundation of trust, agility, and a commitment to continuous innovation.

Scila partners with clients to deliver solutions tailored to their specific needs, fostering long-lasting relationships built on mutual success. Scila has a strong and growing customer base, counting a wide range of firms, including prominent names, such as Deutsche Börse, Erste Bank, Glencore, the Central Bank of Ireland, EEX, Statkraft, and Capital.com.

Scila is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a global presence and boots on the ground in Chicago, London, Paris, and Singapore.

About Cboe Australia

Cboe Australia is a regulated stock exchange committed to transforming, improving and growing Australia’s securities and derivatives markets. Cboe Australia has experienced strong and sustained growth and has achieved significant milestones including gaining over 20% market share, a daily record of $5.98 billion traded value in equity trading and up to 45% of the Australian ETF market (trading and reporting). The Cboe Australia investment products platform offers a range of unique products exclusively traded on Cboe Australia, including Funds (ETFs & Quoted Managed Funds), and Cboe Warrants. For more information visit: www.cboe.com.au/.

About Iress

Iress provides technology that enables a smarter financial system, helping traders, brokers, and financial institutions make informed decisions with confidence.Trusted by over 12,000 institutional, retail, and online traders worldwide, our trading software facilitates seamless market connectivity, real-time risk management, and multi-asset execution. Iress FIX Hub, our cloud-native financial information exchange platform, delivers speed, cost efficiency, and reliability. Connecting buy-side, sell-side, and trading venues effortlessly.

Discover more at www.iress.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Instinet

Nomura and Instinet’s Global Execution Services (“GES”) is shared strategic approach bringing together two strong, well-established brands together in a joint effort to leverage the best attributes, brand affinity/loyalty, and brand equity of each firm in a purpose-driven strategy. Nomura’s and Instinet’s global execution services serve our clients in a global equity market that is dynamic and continually evolving. Our aim is to offer clients’ seamless access to the harmonized expertise and broad capabilities of our platforms.

GES is designed to further promote the differentiating elements of our execution capabilities, and expand our global franchise, while harmonizing our global execution efforts so that the best strengths of both brands and the full array of Nomura and Instinet offerings may be delivered to clients in a way that adds even more value, and enhances the client experience.

About KX

At KX, we deliver real-time analytics, empowering you to act, scale, and harness data efficiently. Designed for the toughest data environments, our technology delivers performance and reliability. We are also on a mission to make AI a commercial reality for the many by addressing data challenges that impede deployment at scale. By simultaneously ingesting and analyzing high volumes of historical and real-time data, KX’s AI-ready analytical database enables organizations to unlock the full value of their data to accelerate innovation and make faster, more confident decisions.

At its core is kdb+, Our high-performance analytical database powers the most demanding business decisions with connected, contextual, and continuous data-driven intelligence—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge.

Trusted by the global financial markets, we’re also relied on by industries including aerospace and defense, manufacturing, automotive, energy, and utilities. We help all kinds of data-intensive organizations turn insights into competitive advantage across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Read more on www.kx.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kx-systems/

About Jefferies

Jefferies (NYSE: JEF) is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth and asset management services. With more than 47 offices in 21 countries around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies and governments.