Tora is the recognized leader in electronic trading platforms and access to liquidity focused on Asia. Tora offers a unique portfolio of products that have been developed to specifically address the trading challenges unique to Asia. Tora’s products include:

TORA Compass – the most comprehensive multi-market, multi-broker, multi-product trading platform with electronic access to more than 75 global and regional brokers, 24 exchanges in 14 countries and over 10 off-exchange liquidity venues as well as over 150 algorithmic trading strategies;

TORA Equity Trading – an agency-only trading desk that combines the strength of the TORA Compass platform and traditional brokerage relationships to provide clients with first-class execution capabilities; and

TORA Clearpool – an automated facilitation product that offers transparent off-exchange liquidity for Asia.

Tora processes over 25% of all electronic trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange each month. Utilizing state-of-the-art infrastructure, Tora provides low latency, 99.99% up time and high reliability across multiple markets. Tora's products are provided in an application service provider (ASP) model, and require no IT infrastructure or staff at the client site. The trading platform integrates with a full complement of third-party and proprietary order management, portfolio management, risk, accounting and other back-office and compliance systems.

Chi-X® - innovators of low cost, high speed alternative execution venues

Chi-X® will soon deliver order-driven alternative execution venues to equity markets around the world, offering low-cost, high-speed alternatives to trading on the traditional stock exchanges.

Chi-X’s innovative and sophisticated proprietary technology– already in operation in Europe and Canada – will offer a low-cost, high-speed trading platform. When combined with several innovative order types, trading often results in tighter bid-ask spreads than the traditional exchanges, which ultimately helps deliver price improvement opportunities to participants and their end clients.

By offering a competitive alternative, Chi-X believes markets will become more attractive to the international investment community.

For further information, please contact:

Joseph Marchal                                  Robert Rooks
Chief Executive Officer APAC           Chief Administration Officer APAC
joseph.marchal@chi-x.com                robert.rooks@chi-x.com

www.chi-x.com

Omgeo creates certainty in post-trade operations through the automation and timely confirmation of the economic details of trades executed between investment managers and broker dealers. Every day Omgeo enables an efficient community of more than 6,000 financial services clients in 45 countries to manage matching and exception handling of trade allocations, confirmations, and settlement instructions. Omgeo has also extended its trade lifecycle coverage to include counterparty risk management, which supports end-to-end collateralization and reconciliation across multiple asset classes. Leading organizations rely on Omgeo to help manage an increasingly complex investment industry by providing operational stability and solutions that complement the focus on profitability in an era of escalating trade volumes. Across borders, asset classes, and trade lifecycles, Omgeo is the global standard for operational efficiency across the investment industry. Formed in 2001, Omgeo is jointly owned by the DTCC and Thomson Reuters.

For more information about Omgeo, please visit www.omgeo.com.

Orc Software (SSE: ORC) is the leading global provider of powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced trading and low latency connectivity. With over 21 years of success, Orc provides solutions and services to its worldwide customers from its offices across Asia Pacific, North America and Europe. Orc Software's customers include leading banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors, hedge funds and software vendors.

Join senior representatives from Orc Software at the Asia Pacific Trading Summit, Hong Kong. Visit us and speak to us about our proven solutions...

• Delivering latest Derivatives and Market Making capabilities
• Rapid deployment of proven algorithmic trading tools with sub- millisecond latency
• Pricing and volatility APIs for multi-asset class trading
• Open API for integration to middle and back office systems
• Real-time execution on 100+ electronic Exchanges
• The latest 4th generation Orc CameronFIX platform

Demos and brochures will be available for the full suite of Orc Solutions.

For more information or to book a meeting, please contact Dennis Chen or Grant Wilson via Email: sales_asia@orcsoftware.com

Orc Software has offices in Hong Kong, Sydney, London, Paris, Milan, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Moscow, Vienna, Zurich, Chicago and New York.

ULLINK provides international financial institutions with low-latency connectivity and trading solutions, offering over 300 ready-to-trade connections to favourite destinations: buy-side clients, brokers, exchanges, MTFs, ECNs, order routing networks, and trading applications – in all formats and for all asset classes.

• Connectivity
ULLINK’s universal connectivity platform, UL BRIDGE, enables customers to build modular and scalable environments that relieve them from technical dependence on a specific vendor, while handling pre-trade risk and best execution requirements. ULLINK also provides a MiFID-compliant Smart Order Router, and turn-key DMA gateways to the world’s most active exchanges.

• Trading and order management
ULLINK solutions include a comprehensive Order Management System with order flow monitoring, exception management, dedicated Sales and Dealer interfaces, and an advanced trading application with automated and algorithmic trading capabilities.

• Electronic trading network
Connect to UL NET and access hundreds of counterparties through a single point, while benefiting from truly innovative services (global order monitoring, online libraries of algorithms, etc.).

• Support & services
ULLINK’s flexible solutions are available in-house, in Facilities Management or through our global hub, UL NET. With offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong, ULLINK supports hundreds of clients, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, across time zones.

For further information, please visit www.ullink.com

or contact : sales@ullink.com

Transaction Network Services (TNS) was one of the first organisations in the world to deploy a dedicated financial community extranet which is resilient, highly secure and supports VPN’s, e-commerce (including FIX), straight through processing and the delivery of market data from exchanges or market data vendors. Since its inception, TNS has expanded its network coverage extensively around the globe, including the Asia Pacific region, North America and Europe.

Today, TNS’ Secure Trading Extranet connects over 1500 financial community end-points around the world. It has been designed and is managed 24 x 7 to ensure high levels of throughput and lowest latency to support Direct Market Access, Algorithmic Trading and Market Data Distribution amongst other types of data.

Choose TNS if you want:

• Easy, scalable access to a large community of Exchanges, Data Vendors, Applications and Trading Counterparts.
• A fully secure service.
• A quick response, driven by the need for faster trades and executions.
  Minimum network latency.
• High availability, as with TNS there is no single point of failure

To find out how TNS can help you stay ahead of the market in the fast paced financial world, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or contact John Pilch on +852 3180 9302 or jpilch@tnsi.com

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. 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 26 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 equity trading, all of which are accessible from the systems already on your desk. The award-winning automated strategies can help reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and let the trader focus on the bigger picture. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.

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BNP Paribas (rated AA/Aa1) is a leader in banking and financial services, and is one of the 6 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s. BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives combines the expertise of two different yet complimentary businesses: Equity Derivatives and Securities Asia.

Equity Derivatives provides a full range of equity and fund-linked products that can be customised to address the various needs of financial institutions and hedge funds as well as corporate and retail clients.  BNP Paribas is a market leader in Equity Derivatives. Our unique quantitative skills for advanced product design combined with our established leadership allow us to work in partnership with clients and deliver the most appropriate solutions for any market context.

BNP Paribas Securities Asia offers institutional clients a comprehensive range of research, execution, and distribution services in Asian equity products and their derivatives. Combining its in-depth experience in Asian markets with a modern, high-performance execution platform, BNP Paribas Securities Asia offers a full range of attractive and creative investment products as well as the ability to optimise hedging of a variety of risks inherent to market transactions.

Our execution platform offers Global Portfolio Trading, Direct Market Access, Algorithmic Trading, Dark Pools, Stealth Trading, Trade Analytics, Commission Sharing Agreements and works along side BNP Paribas Research and Sales Trading Services.

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, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare 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 more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.
 

BT is one of the world's leading providers of networked IT services to the global financial community. With more than 25 years of experience providing products and services developed specifically to the unique requirements of the financial services industry, BT has built a reputation for innovative products that enable financial firms to increase revenues, reduce costs, and improve service to their customers.

The Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure from BT is the leading secure, reliable, scalable connectivity and hosting platform for the global financial services community. Connecting more than 10,500 financial sites around the world, the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure is optimized for the time-critical demands unique to financial services. With more than 2,100 client sites utilizing RadianzNet for FIX connectivity to trade counterparties and FIX-enabled applications, it is the world's largest FIX network.

The ITS trading systems suite of multi-media communications products from BT is the leading communications platform for trading rooms worldwide. With more than 60,000 traders in 51 countries across 800 customer sites, the ITS trading platform supports voice, video, IM, email and other applications across a range of devices and communications standards.

About Liquidnet
Liquidnet is the world’s institutional marketplace that facilitates institutional equities trading for institutional investors worldwide. By giving buy-side traders a first look at a global natural liquidity pool of more than 9.2 billion shares (US$67.9 billion in principal) per day of liquidity on average, Liquidnet consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of more than 573 buy-side trading firms (for the quarter ended December 31, 2008.) Institutional investors use the Liquidnet marketplace to enhance the quality and speed of trade execution, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall trading costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in 29 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. Additional company information is available online at www.liquidnet.com.

Liquidnet in Asia
Liquidnet began operations in Asia on 29 November 2007 with a roll out across Japan (off-shore), Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. Japan on-shore trading began on 19 June 2008. By the end of 2008, Liquidnet Asia had 137 live members, providing us with nearly $5.8 Billion USD in average daily liquidity. Over 50% of all Liquidnet’s trades were transacted at the mid price and the average execution size across all 5 markets was $1.2 million. Liquidnet Asia is headed by David Klinger, former head of Asia Pacific Execution at Credit Suisse Hong Kong.

A pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX continues to transform trading through innovation. The NYFIX Marketplace™ is a global community of trading counterparties utilising innovative services that optimise the business of trading, including NYFIX ioinet™, a global service for sending and receiving high quality indications of interest.   NYFIX Millennium®   and Euro Millennium provides the Marketplace community with new methods of accessing liquidity. NYFIX also provides value-added informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. A trusted business partner to buy-side and sell-side alike, NYFIX enables ultra-low touch, low impact market access and end-to-end transaction processing. 

Key Contact:   Denise Farrell on denise.farrell@nyfix.com
Telephone       00 44 207 634 5350

Go to www.nyfix.com for further information.

Our FIX Gateway message routing service provides cost effective connectivity for buy-side firms to connect to sell-side firms and other execution venues from around the world.  A flexible and efficient FIX messaging service provides firms with a single connection to their global counterparties capable of handling multiple asset classes. Built upon a network and vendor neutral platform, we offer a totally confidential and highly cost effective service.

Greenline specializes in providing systemic innovation to the US and international financial services industry. Greenline emerged with the advent of the global electronic marketplace and has since distinguished itself as an industry leader in custom enterprise development for the world's premier financial institutions. Greenline's flagship product, VeriFIX, is recognized throughout the global financial services industry as the most robust and feature-rich FIX testing/simulation tool available on the market. GFT complements VeriFIX with tools to assist companies throughout the certification and client support phases of their FIX initiatives. Greenline Financial Technologies is a Member of FIX Protocol Limited - North Americas.

Portware's flagship product, Portware Enterprise, is a fully customizable, FIX-compliant trade management and execution system for portfolio, basket, single stock, automated and algorithmic trading.  Since its launch in 2002, Portware Enterprise has been implemented at more than 130 financial firms worldwide, including leading investment management firms, sell-side program trading desks, and quantitative hedge funds.

Portware Enterprise provides users the ability to create, implement and modify trading strategies and algorithms on-the-fly. Portware's user interface enables financial professionals to manage real-time market data and perform real-time charting, reporting and transaction cost analysis. The system's open architecture also allows for seamless integration with existing infrastructures and 3rd-party applications such as data feeds and networks.

Portware offers the ability to create proprietary algorithms to control every aspect of trade management or execution, from automated market-making, to hedging, crossing and full orderbook management. These strategies can be executed by traders from within Portware's user interface or in conjunction with Portware Strategy Server, a dedicated, high-speed algorithmic trading engine that combines Complex Event Processing (CEP) with a complete set of trading specific functionality.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With 80,277 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

About Global Markets

Within Deutsche Bank, the Global Markets Division is responsible for the origination, sale, structuring and trading of fixed income, equity, commodity, foreign exchange, derivative and money market products.

Global Markets has established itself as a global leader in these products by combining its unique distribution franchise with its pricing, structuring and execution expertise.

Global Markets is dedicated to delivering exceptional capital raising, risk management and investment solutions that meet the precise needs of its clients.

The Global Markets Division employs more than 6,000 professionals in 39 trading rooms around the world.

Deutsche Bank is one of the only institutions in the world able to address the diverse asset gathering and liability management needs of corporations, governments, institutional investors, hedge funds and financial institutions on a truly global basis.

For more information on Deutsche Bank and autobahn, Deutsche Bank’s award winning electronic distribution platform, please visit the Deutsche Bank exhibition booth at the FIX HK Forum.
 

Since 1995, BNY ConvergEx Group’s Eze Castle Software has been a leading provider of global technology solutions for automating the investment process. Our order management system, the Eze OMS, leverages a real-time open architecture to streamline the investment cycle for all asset classes – from idea generation through execution and settlement. The multi-currency, multi-strategy Eze OMS provides functionality to support portfolio management, compliance, trading and operations. The Eze OMS provides tools to perform comprehensive portfolio modeling and analysis; view real-time exposure and P&L; track and monitor pre- and post-trade portfolio and trade compliance in real-time; create, allocate, and manage orders on a real-time trade blotter; execute with 400+ destinations via FIX or 370+ algos from 47+ brokers; manage, vote, and report on the brokerage allocation process; seamlessly integrate with virtually any third party; as well as view reports, a complete audit trail, and real-time system monitoring. Today, over 380 investment management firms use the Eze OMS to manage their investment process. With more than 350 employees worldwide and offices in Hong Kong, London, Boston, New York, Stamford, CT, and San Francisco, Eze Castle Software is one of the largest global providers of order management systems.

For more information, please contact Andrew Sit at +852 2840 6653 or asit@EzeAsiaPac.com

Charles River Development is an award-winning provider of innovative technology systems and services to over 315 investment firms in the institutional, mutual fund, banking, hedge fund, wealth management, insurance and pension industries in more than 30 countries. The Charles River Investment Management System is a comprehensive front- and middle-office software suite for all asset classes that includes Charles River Manager for decision support, portfolio management and modeling; Charles River Trader for order management and electronic trading; Charles River Compliance for real-time pre-trade, post execution and end-of-day compliance; and Charles River Post-Trade for the centralized management of trade matching, confirmation, and settlement workflow. The system incorporates global real-time electronic trading via FIX (financial information eXchange) through the broker-neutral Charles River Network.

Charles River IMS features a modern, proven, N-Tier service oriented architecture (SOA) that is highly scalable and supports continuous 24x7 operations. Message-based APIs and exposed Web Services facilitate rapid systems integration.

The company also offers implementation and managed services (hosted and remote application management). Founded in 1984, Charles River maintains headquarters in Boston and primary offices in London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo.