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About Credit Suisse

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.





 

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 ION

ION specializes in software and data to digitize and automate mission-critical workflows, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting. Extensive client collaboration underpins our capital markets technology and data solutions for financial institutions dealing in asset management, cleared derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and secured funding.

ION Fidessa facilitates equity markets trading, unifying trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow across equities, equity swaps, and exchange-traded funds. Our FIX connectivity technologies bind the buy- and sell-side trading desks, providing access to over 6,500 buy-side customers and 600 brokers, and trading on every major equities market.

Our new, innovative FIX Connect Self-provisioning feature equips you to set up the connections between yourself, as the sell-side broker, and the investor on the buy-side (for example, an asset manager, or hedge fund). This allows you to trade sooner and earn more.

ION LatentZero asset management solutions monitor and protect assets approaching $9 trillion. LatentZero OMS simplifies and automates trading workflows, processing hundreds of thousands of transactions daily, quickly and accurately; while LatentZero Post-trade gives fast, accurate, automated trade processing for all asset classes including equities, fixed income, and ETDs.

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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 Eventus

Eventus is a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance, market risk and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customise and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets.

Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume and real-time environments of tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centres, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. The company’s rapidly growing client base relies on Validus and Eventus’ responsive support and product development teams to overcome its most pressing regulatory challenges. For more, visit www.eventus.com.





 

About Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 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 U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. Acquired by Broadridge in May 2021, Itiviti is now Broadridge Trading and Connectivity solutions. Our combined offering enables simplification and streamlining of front and middle office functions, powering connectivity and multi-asset trading across global markets.





 

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 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 CMC Markets Connect

CMC Markets Connect provides sculpted liquidity 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 and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in Singapore.





 

About TS Imagine

TS Imagine delivers a best-in-class SaaS platform for integrated front-office trading, portfolio management, and risk management. Formed following the merger of Trading Screen and Imagine Software in 2021, TS Imagine innovates by drawing on nearly thirty years’ experience serving the world’s most sophisticated investors through changing markets and shifting regulatory landscapes.

The TS Imagine team is focused on developing technology that empowers its clients to succeed every day, across asset classes. TS Imagine employs technology experts, alongside former senior traders, who understand client's pressure points and how to address them. This complementary expertise, unique to the industry, enables TS Imagine to lead in data science, automation, and development, while clients focus on generating and protecting alpha.

By offering a range of purpose-built solutions, TS Imagine technology has become an essential tool for modern investors. With greater transparency, better efficiency, and infinite scalability, TS Imagine clients are empowered to avoid unnecessary tasks and maintain their focus on driving returns.





 

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 MarketAxess

MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker-dealers across the global fixed-income markets.

Over 1,900 firms leverage MarketAxess’ patented technology to efficiently trade fixed-income securities. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading® marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets.

Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through the full trading lifecycle, including automated trading solutions, intelligent data products and a range of post-trade services.





 

About Blackwired

Blackwired is an intelligence firm trusted by governments, law enforcement, global corporations, and systemic institutions. We deliver advanced cyber capabilities through a combination of innovative technology and human expertise, perfected by over three decades on the cyber battlefield.

Our flagship platform, Zero Day Live, focuses on adversary intentionality, delivering businesses proactive prevention against cyberattacks. Intelligence is orchestrated real-time into enterprise security architecture, delivering superior protection with speed and at scale.

Blackwired operates a diverse group of talent and applies a strong emphasis on cutting edge cyber intelligence research. We are passionate about advancing the state-of-the-art in burgeoning areas such as blockchain, crypto, zero trust, cyber security, surveillance, advanced intelligence, defensive and offensive capabilities.

Blackwired aims to be a force of good in the world. We provide foundations and charitable organizations with infrastructure that enables them to assist the most vulnerable and at-risk. Our platforms, technologies and experience is shared amongst Law Enforcement agencies to help bring bad actors to justice.

Blackwired is headquartered in Singapore with offices in North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific.





 

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.




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About Eventus

Eventus is a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance, market risk and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customise and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets.

Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume and real-time environments of tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centres, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. The company’s rapidly growing client base relies on Validus and Eventus’ responsive support and product development teams to overcome its most pressing regulatory challenges. For more, visit www.eventus.com.




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About Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 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 U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. Acquired by Broadridge in May 2021, Itiviti is now Broadridge Trading and Connectivity solutions. Our combined offering enables simplification and streamlining of front and middle office functions, powering connectivity and multi-asset trading across global markets.




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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




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About MarketAxess

MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker-dealers across the global fixed-income markets.

Over 1,900 firms leverage MarketAxess’ patented technology to efficiently trade fixed-income securities. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading® marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets.

Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through the full trading lifecycle, including automated trading solutions, intelligent data products and a range of post-trade services.