About UBS
UBS convenes the global ecosystem for investing, where people and ideas are connected and opportunities brought to life, and provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as to private clients in Switzerland. UBS offers investment solutions, products and impactful thought leadership, is the leading global wealth manager, provides large-scale and diversified asset management, focused investment banking capabilities, and personal and corporate banking services in Switzerland. The firm focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their target markets, are capital efficient and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in more than 50 regions and locations, with about 30% of its employees working in the Americas, 29% in Switzerland, 20% in the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 21% in Asia Pacific. UBS Group AG employs more than 72,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
About Instinet
Instinet provides technologically advanced, agency-model brokerage services to institutional clients worldwide. As the wholly-owned execution services arm of Nomura Group, Instinet seeks to add value across the investment life cycle, providing: Agency Execution Services; Crossing & Liquidity Aggregation; and Workflow Solutions via Instinet Technology Solutions. We help institutional investors create, protect and capture alpha, reduce complexity, and lower overall trading costs to ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of our more than 50-year history, Instinet has been a pioneer in electronic trading, creating of an array of now industry-standard technologies and services. For more information on how Instinet’s commitment to being nimble and innovative helps clients every day, please visit
instinet.com
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 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 percent market share, a daily record of $5.98 billion traded value in equity trading and up to 50 percent 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 ITRS Group
ITRS Group ensures operational resilience for enterprises engaged in transforming their IT estate for a digital future, as well as the ongoing health of their on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid IT estate. By transforming the mass of raw data on performance, resource usage, and cost, ITRS Group’s solutions can detect and actively prevent problems and maximise cost efficiency, reassuring enterprises that their IT estates are running effectively. With experience in legacy technologies as well as the dynamic environment of cloud-delivery, agile development, and service-based architecture, ITRS Group’s people and software serve more than 4500 clients across industry markets. As new disruptors, new technologies, and new regulations continue to shape the marketplace and change the expectations of consumers, ITRS Group offers a best-in-class service and is a source of confidence for the always-on enterprise. For more information, visit www.itrsgroup.com
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 Iress
We’re the global technology crew on a mission to make it easier to love financial services.
Every day we partner with financial services businesses of all sizes to help them grow, lead and deliver more for their customers.
At the heart of our mission is our belief that technology should help people perform better. That’s why we build the best financial services technology connecting everyone who makes the industry go around so that you and your customers can love what you do.
Our high-performance API data feeds and trading infrastructure help hedge funds, investment banks, brokers, market makers, financial technology providers, and trading venues perform at their best with quality data delivered the way they want. All from one trusted source. We're giving our clients an even better way to power their data-driven trading strategies, with API data and trading solutions built for better performance. For more information, please visit www.iress.com or connect with us on Linkedin.
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
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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 NICE Actimize Solutions for Financial Markets Compliance
In today's financial market, regulation requires a view across assets, instruments, communications, markets and regulatory jurisdictions. With the SURVEIL-X Holistic Trade Compliance platform, organizations can analyze and correlate all trade related data, providing comprehensive surveillance coverage for all regulatory needs. By breaking down barriers between data silos, organizations gain deeper analysis and true risk detection.
Market surveillance monitoring is a global challenge and a focal point of regulatory scrutiny. Regulators worldwide have become more aggressive in investigating and bringing enforcement actions, fines, and sanctions against firms with inadequate compliance procedures and systems. SURVEIL-X Holistic Surveillance platform helps financial services institutions, broker/ dealers, and future commission merchants meet their regulatory obligations to detect market abuse, avoid costly fines and preserve reputational damage.
More info can be found at :
Financial Markets Compliance | NICE Actimize
About big ext ecosystems
big xyt ecosystems is a joint venture between big xyt, a leading data analytics provider to the global trading and investment community, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (the JSE), the largest stock exchange in Africa.
The mission of the new company is to provide the innovative Trade Explorer data analytics platform, which was launched in South Africa earlier this year, to other financial centres around the world.
The Trade Explorer provides sophisticated analytics tools that enable users to understand market liquidity and flows, market share, business concentration, and execution performance. It also delivers tools for analysing trading patterns and for pre-trade decision support.
The platform enables trading venues to distribute data analytics solutions to their information services customers, including the trading firms, issuers and investors that comprise a finance ecosystem. The solutions are delivered directly to end users through web hosted services under the branding of a sponsoring venue, meaning rapid time to market and low cost of ownership.
Using unique peer group rankings, trading firms can explore their market share, examine how they interact with the order book, and view their trading performance.
As well as enhancing management oversight, the tools enable client-facing staff to discover highly granular information about their trading flows and identify their competitive advantages.
White-labelling also enables clients to monetise their information services further, creating a new revenue stream for the exchange or trading venue.
big xyt ecosystems is an equal investment by the partners, created to help the world’s exchanges and trading venues deliver data analytics services to their ecosystems of local and international member firms, issuers and investors.
https://big-xyt-ecosystems.com/
About CMC Markets Connect
CMC Connect provides online trading and investment services to a global institutional client base of banks, brokerages, funds and dealing desks. Our continuous innovation and investment in trading technology means that we are able to respond consistently to changing markets. Through a single connection, our clients have access to multiple asset classes worldwide allowing them to seamlessly execute their chosen strategy and increase revenue potential.
CMC Markets is regulated in multiple jurisdictions, under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) in Australia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in Singapore and the Dubai Financial Services Authority in Dubai.
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 percent market share, a daily record of $5.98 billion traded value in equity trading and up to 50 percent 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 Instinet
Instinet provides technologically advanced, agency-model brokerage services to institutional clients worldwide. As the wholly-owned execution services arm of Nomura Group, Instinet seeks to add value across the investment life cycle, providing: Agency Execution Services; Crossing & Liquidity Aggregation; and Workflow Solutions via Instinet Technology Solutions. We help institutional investors create, protect and capture alpha, reduce complexity, and lower overall trading costs to ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of our more than 50-year history, Instinet has been a pioneer in electronic trading, creating of an array of now industry-standard technologies and services. For more information on how Instinet’s commitment to being nimble and innovative helps clients every day, please visit
instinet.com
