Event 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 that collectively manage $33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets. Our network spans 46 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. Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries are part of TP ICAP Group plc. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com and follow us on Twitter @Liquidnet.
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 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 Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with over $6 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than $10 trillion of equities, fixed income and other 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 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 facilitates equities trading, unifying trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow. For example:
- Fidessa Platform empowers your business with everything you need for equities trading in one integrated solution. So, you can unify your operations, simplify your workflows, and boost your efficiency.
- Fidessa Algorithms is a powerful, customizable solution for simplified algo trading in global markets, helping you navigate fragmented liquidity, and enhancing trade performance.
- Fidessa ADSA delivers dynamic order execution with sophisticated order validation, order routing and algo switching.
To find out more about Fidessa, visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!
About Iress
We harness the power of technology to enable a smarter financial system that delivers more for everyone.
More than 12,000 institutional, retail and online traders around the world use Iress' trading software to connect across multiple markets, monitor and manage risk, access end-to-end multi-asset trading support, and deliver better performance. Iress recently launched the Iress FIX Hub, a cloud-native financial information exchange platform that excels at the fundamentals - speed, cost, and reliability - to connect buy-side, sell-side and trading venues across global markets. For more information, please visit www.iress.com or connect with us on Linkedin.
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: bofa.com/international for further detail.
About FlexTrade
FlexTrade Systems is a global leader in high-performance multi-asset execution management and order management systems for equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures, and options. A pioneer in the field, FlexTrade is internationally recognized for introducing FlexTRADER®, the world's first broker-neutral execution management trading system. It allows clients to completely control and customize their execution workflows through a comprehensive ability to search/access liquidity while maintaining the confidentiality of their trading strategies.
About AMD
Financial services institutions (FSIs) require high-performance computing solutions to facilitate faster trading and transactions, expedite access to market intelligence and data-driven insights, and enhance overall customer experiences—all while minimizing TCO, streamlining system management, and maintaining robust security.
Low-latency solutions are critical for high-frequency electronic trading, exchanges, and complex trading simulations. Latency needs vary depending on the type of electronic trading. The AMD networking product portfolio addresses various trading categories with a range of solutions purpose-built for financial services. AMD addresses various trading categories with a range of server and network solutions.
AMD Solarflare™ Ethernet adapters, featuring the Onload™ family of kernel bypass software, deliver exceptional performance and low latencies optimized for electronic trading.
About Scila
Scila is a world-leading provider of systems for market/trade surveillance, AML and market risk. Scila serves regulators, exchanges and market participants across the globe covering all asset classes and market models.
Founded in 2008, Scila has been highly successful in a very short time and profitable from the start. The company has never taken in any external capital but has grown very quickly, which shows that it has a truly viable business model in the highly competitive global market of financial technology. Scila has a unique company culture that includes a very strong service commitment to demanding and highly sophisticated clients.
Scila’s mission is to support investor confidence by providing tools to quickly and effectively identify market abuse, risk, money laundry or operational errors.
Company characteristics
- Scila is independent of trading venues, investment banks, brokers and regulators and focuses on product development only.
- Scila is not involved in product development in other areas, allowing the firm to focus entirely on developing the best AML, risk and market/trade surveillance systems in the market.
- Scila is not only delivering systems, but also expert knowledge on how to deliver and implement systems.
For more information, please visit scila.se
About Avelacom
Avelacom is a global leader in ultra-low latency connectivity and IT infrastructure solutions, specializing in meeting the needs of global banks, sophisticated market makers, and arbitrage trading firms. Our solutions are based on our proprietary network, ensuring sub-millisecond performance and maximum network uptime. We interconnect over 80 data centers worldwide, optimizing access to all types of exchanges. Our asset-neutral solutions provide real-time market data feeds and the lowest latency order flow across equities, commodities, FX, crypto, and derivatives.
For clients active in digital asset trading, we offer ultra-low latency access to major global cloud services, including AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, and Azure. Through our points of presence located in close proximity to the matching engines of crypto exchanges, we provide best-in-market latencies.
Our solutions benefit market participants who recognize the importance of robust network infrastructure and low latencies in accessing global capital markets, giving them a competitive edge in volatile markets.
About IPC
A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years. IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise.
Our customer-first approach is bolstered an extensive and diverse global financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects all market participants for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance.
Integrated and interoperable solutions support traders and other regulated users across the entire transaction life cycle, including sell-side firms, buy-side firms, inter-dealer brokers, exchanges and other liquidity venues, clearing and settlement firms, corporate finance departments, market data providers and independent software vendors.
Global solutions and services include SaaS communications and electronic trading infrastructure-as-a-service solutions.
IPC’s global reach extends to more than 60 countries and 750+ cities – with a community of 120,000+ traders worldwide active across 7,000+ customer locations.
IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.
Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1000+ employees in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.
To learn more, visit ipc.com.
About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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 facilitates multi-asset trading, unifying trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow across equities and derivatives. For example:
- Fidessa Platform empowers your business with everything you need for equities and derivatives trading in one integrated solution. So, you can unify your operations, simplify your workflows, and boost your efficiency.
- Fidessa Algorithms is a powerful, customizable solution that simplifies algo trading in global markets, helping you navigate fragmented liquidity, and thereby enhancing your trade performance.
To find out more about Fidessa, visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with over $6 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of more than $10 trillion of equities, fixed income and other 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 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.