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Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving large corporations, small- and middle-market businesses and individual consumers in more than 150 countries with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. The company provides, through various banking and broker-dealer affiliates, M&A advice, equity and debt capital raising solutions, lending, risk management, treasury, liquidity, and payments management. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For additional information regarding Bank of America Merrill Lynch, please see www.bofaml.com.

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https://www.bofaml.com/en-us/content/trading-strategy-performance.html





 

Metamako provides high-performance network solutions to traders, banks, exchanges and brokers which reduce latency, provide increased visibility and simplify the overall network stack.

Metamako’s innovative solutions include capabilities for:

  • Lowest latency market data replication (4 nanoseconds with undetectable jitter)

  • Data aggregation for order entry in as little as 55 nanoseconds

  • Remote reconfiguration and network monitoring

  • Ultra-low latency exchange connectivity, including BGP/PIM for trading

  • Simplified data capture with integrated tapping, high-resolution timestamping and deep buffering

  • Integrated FPGA deployment platform for trading applications

  • Telemetry & time-series data


Metamako has offices in New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney and was named in KPMG’s Global Top 50 FinTech Innovators.

www.metamako.com





 

Autobahn 2.0 is Live!

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.

Within Asia Pacific we are rolling out a new equities trading platform with artificial intelligence ("AI") capabilities, setting a new benchmark for best execution, a key focus for financial institutions particularly under MiFID II. The proprietary platform, Autobahn 2.0, was designed with a self-learning mechanism allowing its systems to predict equities pricing and volume with more accuracy, thereby enhancing the quality of execution. Furthermore, the system is equipped with momentum detection, to allow Autobahn to change behaviour in trending markets or switch quickly at inflection points. This will offer investors a powerful new tool in achieving and demonstrating best execution for their trades.

For further details on Autobahn 2.0 please contact our APAC Autobahn Equity coverage team: autobahnequity.apac@db.com.





 

UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. The operational structure of the Group is comprised of our Corporate Center and five business divisions: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. 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, in order to generate attractive and sustainable returns for its shareholders. All of its businesses are capital-efficient and benefit from a strong competitive position in their targeted markets.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in 52 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 60,000 people. 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.

www.ubs.com





 

Solarflare is pioneering server connectivity for neural-class networks. From silicon to firmware to software, Solarflare provides a comprehensive, integrated set of technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined datacenters.

The Solarflare XtremeScale Architecture is a design framework which includes a comprehensive suite of features for ultra-scale environments: High-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency, ultra-scale connectivity, software defined, secure with hardware firewalls, and instrumented for line-speed telemetry.

Solarflare solutions have earned a sterling reputation in financial services and are used by virtually every major global exchange, commercial bank and hedge fund. This exacting, regulated performance uniquely qualifies our solutions for use in ultra-scale applications in IoT, big data and artificial intelligence where low latency, robust security and insightful telemetrics are critical.

Solarflare solutions are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from major global manufacturers. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, and operates R&D facilities in Cambridge, UK and New Delhi, India.





 

Orolia is the global leader in resilient positioning, navigation and timing (RPNT) solutions that improve the reliability, performance and safety of critical operations. As experts in deploying high precision GPS time through network infrastructures of any size, we equally support Big Data or small data, and provide time-stamps at the accuracy you need. Likewise for high performance computing, data centers, cloud computing applications, or highly synchronized local operations, count on us to deliver secure solutions for packet-based sync or traditional time and frequency distribution. Whether you need high performance NTP servers, PTP grandmasters, Linux software, plug-in timing cards, monitoring, indoor GPS, time and frequency distribution and more, Orolia has your solutions: PCI DDS 10.4 compliance; MiFID II/FINRA compliance; NTP over Anycast; Time as a Service (TaaS).





 

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services Firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 42 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.

morganstanley.com





 

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.





 

BSO is the award-winning Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider of choice for financial institutions and high-frequency trading firms that require superior infrastructure and connectivity to the world’s most liquid trading venues.

Experts in low-latency connectivity and colocation across emerging and established markets, over the past two years BSO has won two consecutive awards as the best low-latency high-performance network provider by members of the international finance community. The organisation continually innovates and invests in its services to empower the progressive trading community.

BSO’s global network reaches 23 countries with 103 data centre locations comprising all the major trading venues. Key connected cities include Chicago, New York, Frankfurt, London, Dubai, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. BSO is redefining connectivity through best-in-class services, global knowledge base and a unique approach to customer experience.





 

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets. Our customers rely on us to deliver the intelligence, technology and expertise they need to find trusted answers. The business has operated in more than 100 countries for more than 100 years. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, visit www.thomsonreuters.com.





 

IHS Markit is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. We deliver next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 key business and government customers, including 85 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world’s leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol INFO and committed to sustainable, profitable growth.




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Orolia is the global leader in resilient positioning, navigation and timing (RPNT) solutions that improve the reliability, performance and safety of critical operations. As experts in deploying high precision GPS time through network infrastructures of any size, we equally support Big Data or small data, and provide time-stamps at the accuracy you need. Likewise for high performance computing, data centers, cloud computing applications, or highly synchronized local operations, count on us to deliver secure solutions for packet-based sync or traditional time and frequency distribution. Whether you need high performance NTP servers, PTP grandmasters, Linux software, plug-in timing cards, monitoring, indoor GPS, time and frequency distribution and more, Orolia has your solutions: PCI DDS 10.4 compliance; MiFID II/FINRA compliance; NTP over Anycast; Time as a Service (TaaS).




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Portware, a FactSet Company is a leading global provider of multi-asset trade automation solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Portware’s thinking execution management system (EMS) helps automate and streamline the buy side’s most complex trading workflows. Spanning more than three dozen offices in 15 countries together with FactSet, Portware works together with its clients to create highly customizable, automated solutions, design bespoke workflows, increase operational efficiencies, and more closely align portfolio strategy with trade execution worldwide. Portware’s award-winning trade automation solutions are redefining the electronic trading landscape by empowering traders and portfolio managers to maximize liquidity access, minimize information leakage, and enhance trade execution quality consistently to outperform in today’s complex global markets.




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uTrade Solutions is a fintech firm, focused on building multi-asset trading technologies, HFT algorithms, risk platform and blockchain solutions for financial markets. Our products are widely used by global financial institutions including brokers, algo firms, stock exchanges and their end customers.

muTrade is a low latency, high frequency trading platform; that is delivered along with various algorithms, including Arbitrage, Market Making, Execution, Quant Based algorithms, as well as FIX and Algo APIs to code proprietary logics.

Blockchain Solutions uTrade partner firm Hashcove is driving new solutions enabled by the latest technologies including Blockchain. Our products include crypto exchanges (centralised and decentralised), crypto wallets, smart contracts and other blockchain solutions.