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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 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.
About ION Markets
ION provides transformative technology and solutions to financial institutions dealing in asset management, cleared derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and secured funding. Our award-winning end-to-end solutions simplify operations by automating the trade lifecycle, providing tools to manage risk, maximizing access to liquidity, and giving real-time access to critical information for operational decisions and global-scale execution.
ION’s Fidessa suite of products unifies trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow. Fidessa empowers your business with everything you need for equities trading in one integrated solution; unifying your operations, simplifying your workflows, and boosting your efficiency. The Fidessa platform can be enhanced with a range of additional solutions, such as:
- Fidessa Algorithms, a powerful, customizable solution that simplifies algo trading in global markets, helping you navigate fragmented liquidity, and thereby enhancing your trade performance.
- Fidessa ADSA, which enables advanced dynamic order execution for equities trading, allowing you to enrich your client engagement with sophisticated order validation, routing, algo switching, and white labelling.
- FIX Connect, our next-generation solution for agile connectivity to ION’s global FIX network, delivering rapid and responsive client connectivity through a new architectural model and an improved user experience.
To find out more about Fidessa, visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!
About Foconis
Foconis provides for more than 30 years solutions in major areas for the financial industry: Analytics, Payment and Trading. Banks, brokers, stock exchanges and other Financial Market actors are using DECIDE, our modular and comprehensive cross-asset End-to-End solution. DECIDE is geared for On-Exchange and OTC Trading, including powerful Risk Management and Back-Office functionality.
A scalable, highly adaptive, integrative and robust platform with flexible connectivity is the base for advanced functions like Algos, SOR, automation and an Internal Market. Together with our deep expertise and constant innovation, DECIDE ensures a high degree of satisfaction amongst our users and long-standing clients.
About Instinet
Nomura and Instinet’s Global Execution Services (“GES”) is shared strategic approach bringing together two strong, well-established brands together in a joint effort to leverage the best attributes, brand affinity/loyalty, and brand equity of each firm in a purpose-driven strategy. Nomura’s and Instinet’s global execution services serve our clients in a global equity market that is dynamic and continually evolving. Our aim is to offer clients’ seamless access to the harmonized expertise and broad capabilities of our platforms.
GES is designed to further promote the differentiating elements of our execution capabilities, and expand our global franchise, while harmonizing our global execution efforts so that the best strengths of both brands and the full array of Nomura and Instinet offerings may be delivered to clients in a way that adds even more value, and enhances the client experience.
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About ION Markets
ION provides transformative technology and solutions to financial institutions dealing in asset management, cleared derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and secured funding. Our award-winning end-to-end solutions simplify operations by automating the trade lifecycle, providing tools to manage risk, maximizing access to liquidity, and giving real-time access to critical information for operational decisions and global-scale execution.
ION’s Fidessa suite of products unifies trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow. Fidessa empowers your business with everything you need for equities trading in one integrated solution; unifying your operations, simplifying your workflows, and boosting your efficiency. The Fidessa platform can be enhanced with a range of additional solutions, such as:
- Fidessa Algorithms, a powerful, customizable solution that simplifies algo trading in global markets, helping you navigate fragmented liquidity, and thereby enhancing your trade performance.
- Fidessa ADSA, which enables advanced dynamic order execution for equities trading, allowing you to enrich your client engagement with sophisticated order validation, routing, algo switching, and white labelling.
- FIX Connect, our next-generation solution for agile connectivity to ION’s global FIX network, delivering rapid and responsive client connectivity through a new architectural model and an improved user experience.
To find out more about Fidessa, visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!