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Trader Instinct®
Global Trading and Consulting Platform
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 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.
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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. |
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ITG is an independent broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement. With our launch of the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, we founded ITG with a strong commitment to empower buyside investors. And over the years, we’ve continued to deepen that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology to offer the unmatched insights that help clients generate and preserve alpha.
With 17 offices in 10 countries and multi-asset capabilities that support the needs of large equity portfolios, we combine the power of global reach with the precision of local vision. Bringing together market-leading tools and unmatched expertise, we have helped clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk, and navigate increasingly complex markets.
We are your trusted, independent partner offering objective insights and guidance through complicated and changing global market structures. |
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About UBS
UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Global Asset Management business and its Investment Bank, with a focus on capital efficiency and businesses that offer a superior structural growth and profitability outlook. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and approximately 60,000 employees. UBS AG is the parent company of the UBS Group (Group). Under Swiss company law, UBS 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, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank. |
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J.P. Morgan is a premier corporate and investment bank with a full suite of global financial services and capabilities. The world’s most important corporations, governments, financial institutions, pensions, sovereign wealth organizations, states and municipalities entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We offer strategic advice, lend money, raise capital, help manage risk, extend liquidity, buy and sell securities and provide many other banking services in markets around the world.
As part of our full-service global equities platform, J.P. Morgan designs, distributes and services leading-edge analytics, execution and liquidity products globally to institutional trading clients.
The complete J.P. Morgan suite of electronic products is designed to source liquidity effectively across an ever-changing landscape of liquidity centers, minimize transaction costs and maintain anonymity for our clients. It includes pre- and post-trade analytics, global direct market access and smart order routing, global algorithmic trading products and differentiated liquidity.
The J.P. Morgan offering is bolstered by our connectivity to the unmatched liquidity of JPMorgan Chase as well as our tradition of superior client service and steadfast commitment to be best in class.
J.P. Morgan strives to be the advisor of choice and a valued, best-in-class global electronic trading solutions provider. We are committed to delivering exceptional client outcomes through a combination of subject matter expertise, value-added products and access to differentiated liquidity, all built upon a foundation of operational excellence. |
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Bloomberg Tradebook is a leading agency broker that partners with both the buy-side and sell-side to provide high-quality liquidity, market insight, and customized solutions based on innovative technologies. Founded in 1996, Tradebook offers its customer base trading solutions for equities, futures, options, and foreign exchange (FX) to actively manage complex trading strategies in more than 100 global exchanges. Our solutions provide direct market access, algorithms, a breadth of trading analytics, and independent research to institutional traders who seek maximum alpha on every market transaction. |
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Local Insight and a Global Network of Information, People and Ideas
Bloomberg, a leader in global business and financial information and news, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional® service, which provides real time financial information to more than 320,000 subscribers globally. www.bloomberg.com |
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IPC is a global provider of mission-critical network services and trading communication technology to the financial markets community. With complete focus on this sector and over 40 years of expertise, IPC provides customers with integrated solutions that support traders and participants across the entire trade lifecycle including sell-side and buy-side financial institutions, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, clearing and settlement firms, independent software vendors, corporate finance departments, financial information exchange providers and market data providers. IPC's offerings include a unified communications/application platform, award-winning trading positions, managed voice and data connectivity solutions, compliance technologies, infrastructure management and a suite of enhanced service offerings. IPC's global reach extends to more than 60 countries - including a network of 5,000 customer sites over 700 cities and an installed base of approximately 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has over 900 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. IPC’s mission is to continually innovate to support collaboration across the global financial community and address our clients’ needs in an ever-changing landscape. For more information, visit www.ipc.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, Toronto, 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. |
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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 |
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Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. With offices in more than 43 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.
Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) offers global electronic access across cash equities, options and futures. Our electronic trading tools include a broad suite of algorithms, smart order routing and direct market access. |
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Telstra – High performance innovation
As one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, Telstra is the infrastructure that underpins every part of the financial services industry. We've built a solid reputation for helping financial services organisations to automate and streamline processes, improve productivity and security, create compelling multichannel customer experiences and expand cost effectively into new markets.
Our latest innovations are disrupting capital markets with high performance voice and electronic trading solutions that include connectivity, storage, recording, retrieval and regulatory services for firms including, exchanges, investment banks, hedge funds and asset management.
Telstra can support your Global expansion by growing your presence and helping you gain access to new pools of liquidity and trading partners in a flexible, scalable and secure manner.
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About CameronTec Group
CameronTec Group is the global standard in financial messaging infrastructure and tools for the Capital Markets industry that today powers the largest user base among financial institutions.
Uniquely positioned as a software and service provider for enterprise, hosted and managed platforms, our dedicated professional services team ensures optimal integration and deployment performance.
CameronTec's flagship offering Catalys is underpinned by market-leading connectivity technology and engineered on the widely acknowledged standard in FIX engines, CameronFIX. Catalys Market Access offers FIX-powered gateways to more than 60 equity, derivative and FX markets across the globe, as a locally deployed or managed / hosted service. Complementary FIX integration, testing, on boarding and management solutions including VeriFIX, FIX Conductor and FIX Technician CTS, build out an end-to-end global connectivity offering for any electronic trading environment, using or migrating to FIX and proprietary protocols.
CameronTec's solutions are tested and trusted by the world’s best firms in over 50 countries, on all five continents, representing the broadest cross section of tier 1 and 2 investment banks, brokers, fund managers, exchanges, regulators, and members of the ISV community.
CameronTec Group is owned by Nordic Capital Fund VII.
www.camerontecgroup.com |
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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 7258 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.
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. |
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ABOUT LIQUIDNET
Liquidnet is the global institutional trading network where more than 780 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. |
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Traiana, Inc. (www.traiana.com) provides global banks, broker/dealers, buyside 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. We take the complex problems of both the markets and individual organizations and solve them in a creative way, so firms can implement the most cost-effective solution. 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 City with offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. |
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The Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) automates front-/middle-office investment management functions for over 350 Buy-Side firms in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking and pension markets across 44 countries. The solution supports the entire investment lifecycle on a single platform, 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/execution management capabilities. A built-in Investment Book of Record (IBOR) improves efficiency/accuracy for front office users by removing dependence on back-office data feeds. Up-to-date performance measurement/attribution analysis and integrated risk management/scenario analysis enrich the portfolio management process.
Charles River provides a fully-managed Software as a Service (SaaS) model in a private cloud that ensures successful operation and system support, such as day-to-day management, regular periodic upgrades, continuous workflow improvements, expanded functional rollout and end user support.
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S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions provides innovative exchange and value-added market data services, as well as advanced trading and infrastructure solutions. These solutions are at the forefront of today’s rapidly evolving technology, which underpins the global financial services industry.
Innovative data delivery options ConsolidatedFEED and SnapFEED are designed to support both buy and sell-side institutions, in addition to vendors, with consolidated normalized global content from over 120 exchanges.
QuantFEED, QuantFACTORY and QuantLINK are a suite of cutting edge, end-to-end algorithmic-trading solutions designed to empower hedge funds, proprietary trading groups and MTFs/ECNs. For more information, visit http://www.spcapitaliq-realtime.com/solutions |
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FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi–asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies.
Since 2005, as an agile technology provider we have partnered with our 170+ clients worldwide, including UBS, Barclays, TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, Berenberg, Unicredit, GBM, Interacciones, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and more to build high quality, feature-rich software.
Flyer has built a team of operational experts who manage and provide Managed FIX software-as-a-service. Our subject matter experts create and operate FIX servers for you to realize the full potential of our software to deliver the highest level of service and return on investment.
The FIX Flyer Engine is the first FIX server designed to manage high volume, ultra low latency trading networks and ECNs, easily scaling to thousands of connections.
FIX Flyer also provides the Daytona trade surveillance monitor, the F1 Risk Control Gateway, the Ignition regression test and certification tool; the Flyer Online hosted OMS, and the Flyer Trading Network.
FIX Flyer has headquarters in New York City with offices in Boston and Hyderabad India.
Visit fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer.
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About BSE:
Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.) is Asia’s first Stock Exchange & also now the fastest exchange in India with a speed of 200 microseconds. BSE is one of India’s leading exchange groups and has played a prominent role in developing the Indian capital market. BSE is a corporatized and demutualised entity, with a broad shareholder-base which includes two leading global exchanges, Deutsche Bourse and Singapore Exchange as strategic partners. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, mutual funds and stock lending and borrowing. BSE also has a dedicated platform for trading in equities of small-and-medium enterprises (SME). BSE provides a host of other services to capital market participants including risk management, clearing, settlement, market data services and education. It has a global reach with customers around the world and a nation-wide presence. BSE systems and processes are designed to safeguard market integrity, drive the growth of the Indian capital market and stimulate innovation and competition across all market segments. Indian Clearing Corporation Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, acts as the central counterparty to all trades executed on BSE platform and provides full innovation guaranteeing the settlement of all bonafide trades executed on the BSE Platform. BSE Institute Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of BSE, runs one of the most respected capital market educational institutes in the country. Central Depository Services Ltd. (CDSL), a subsidiary of BSE is one of the two central depository services in India. |
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About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading client-centric global universal bank serving 28 million clients worldwide. 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 operates an alternative liquidity venue aggregator called SuperX Plus providing access to deep, diverse liquidity whilst limiting information leakage.
Smarter Liquidity – Innovation with Integrity.
www.db.com
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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. |
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About Fidessa group
Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.
New technology, new regulation, new challenges: making money in today’s financial markets is all about staying ahead of the curve. Having the capability to spot new trends and act fast turns change into opportunity. That’s why 85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. It's also why over $20 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global network each year. Because we’re the market leader, we can also offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.
Fidessa is a global business with scale, resilience, ambition and expertise. We’ve delivered around 25% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge, integrated solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.
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iShares is the world's leading exchange traded fund (ETF) provider with over 700 funds trading on 20 exchanges worldwide.
iShares ETFs are brought to you by BlackRock, trusted to manage more money than any other asset manager in the world. BlackRock provides investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. Beginning with its founding in 1988 by eight people who believed they could build a better asset management firm, BlackRock is about a commitment to putting clients first, innovative and clear thinking, passion for performance, understanding and managing risk and collaboration. Five of the firm's founders are still actively involved with BlackRock, and their ethos underpins the firm and the 12,400 plus employees today. We take pride in being a fiduciary and work only for our clients, managing US$4.721 trillion on their behalf.
The firm has a major presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Not only are there some 120 investment teams in 30 countries who connect daily to share their best thinking, but there are dedicated sales teams across the globe to serve the firm’s worldwide clients.
For more information go to iShares.com.au.
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Vocus Communications provides core connectivity and co-location solutions to the enterprise, government and wholesale markets in Australia and New Zealand.
Founded in 2008, we have grown rapidly to become an ASX200 company (ASX:VOC). We have become a truly integrated telecoms company.
A dense fibre optic network in Australia’s major capital cities supports the Vocus core connectivity offering. We pride ourselves on a truly redundant, high bandwidth capability interstate and international Ethernet network. We own and operate over 22 data centres through Australia and New Zealand. Vocus is also a certified AWS Direct Connect partner and is servicing 19,500 buildings nationally.
The main solution base for the Vocus focuses around three major business requirements:
• Isolating your core network from your WAN provider
• Relocating your IT infrastructure away from your people
• Connecting to the Cloud
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us
1300 88 99 88 or email sales@vocus.com.au |
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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 is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in more than 170 countries. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt |
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Refreshment Sponsor |
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Chi-X Australia is an established securities exchange providing a low latency, high performance market for trading in Australia’s leading securities. As an innovative alternative trading exchange, Chi-X Australia has introduced versatile new order types, lowered costs and supports the market with more efficient ways to trade. Participants of Chi-X Australia are diverse and consist of domestic brokerage houses, large foreign investment banks and online brokerage firms catering for the retail sector.
For more information, visit www.chi-x.com.au |
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