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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 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 Greeksoft Technologies Pvt Ltd

Born in the year 1997, Greeksoft Technologies Pvt Ltd (Hereafter referred as Greeksoft) is a consulting and development firm that specializes in developing low latency, high frequency, algo trading software, and front end solutions. Headquartered in Mumbai, India.

At Greeksoft, we understand how important it is to trade fast and trade smart. Our low latency software range - combined with the most unique and competent algorithms and strategies, are the best execution-management programs to execute trades in the market.

By supporting low latency market data distribution and guaranteed messaging with a single platform and API, Greeksoft’s solutions can help your firm accelerate your trading systems from end-to-end while reducing the complexity and cost of infrastructure. Our Complex Event Processing (CEP) architecture ensures that the micro-second responsiveness remains sturdy even when market data volumes reach a high range of events per second and/or concurrent strategies stack in the thousands.

Besides front end trading solutions, we also specialize in risk management tools that help your firm to get insights on their trading risks in exchange-traded derivative instruments.

Powerful, sturdy, and amazingly user-friendly, our tools are easy to operate and don’t require rigorous training to master. Each of them is multi-exchange compatible and powered by the latest technology in the business.

We have a dedicated team of software experts, offering software solutions with the latest tools available in the IT industry. Our software packages are cost-effective and adhere to strict quality controls. Post implementation, we provide you with backup support and continuously upgrade our packages in accordance to industry needs.

We have been the favored choice of industry biggies like Kotak Securities, Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd., Sharekhan, India Infoline among others. In fact, we were among the first to successfully implement algorithm trading in India.





 

About uTrade

uTrade Solutions is a trading technology company providing enterprise software for financial trading, including multi-asset trading platform, algorithms, risk management solutions, direct market access, to financial institutions and their end-clients.

uTrade algos is its B2C algo platform for HNIs and Traders, for developing and executing strategies, back testing, forward testing and fastest execution into the capital markets. uTrade algos also offers in-built algos for efficient trading and investing.





 

About FIS

FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions and businesses of all sizes and across any industry globally. We enable the movement of commerce by unlocking the financial technology that powers the world’s economy. Our employees are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests through our trusted innovation, system performance and flexible architecture. We help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (@FISGlobal).





 

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 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 HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code: 388) and one of the world’s leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metal Exchange.

As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of the world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets.

HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all.

www.hkexgroup.com





 

About MBOCHIP

MBOCHIP is a solution provider for ultra-low latency systems with more than 10 years of experience in the business. Our team has a large expertise ranging from FPGA development for financial markets, tick-to-trade systems, algorithmic trading and connectivity APIs. We develop cutting-edge technology for trading firms, brokerage houses and large investment banks in more than four countries.





 



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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.

Book a demo.




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About uTrade

uTrade Solutions is a trading technology company providing enterprise software for financial trading, including multi-asset trading platform, algorithms, risk management solutions, direct market access, to financial institutions and their end-clients.

uTrade algos is its B2C algo platform for HNIs and Traders, for developing and executing strategies, back testing, forward testing and fastest execution into the capital markets. uTrade algos also offers in-built algos for efficient trading and investing.




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About HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code: 388) and one of the world’s leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metal Exchange.

As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of the world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets.

HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all.

www.hkexgroup.com