Instinet is an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world’s first significant electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Instinet operates two distinct business lines: a global network of agency-only brokers that seek to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading products, including smart-routing, algorithms, DMA, dark pools and EMS platforms, and also provide sales trading, commission management services and independent research; and the Chi-X® trading systems, which aim to improve the efficiency of capital markets globally by providing high-performance, low-cost alternative execution venues. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Chi-X® will soon deliver order-driven alternative execution venues to equity markets around the world, offering low-cost, high-speed alternatives to trading on the traditional stock exchanges.

Chi-X's innovative and sophisticated proprietary technology- already in operation in Europe and Canada - will offer a low-cost, high-speed trading platform. When combined with several innovative order types, trading often results in tighter bid-ask spreads than the traditional exchanges, which ultimately helps deliver price improvement opportunities to participants and their end clients.

By offering a competitive alternative, Chi-X believes markets will become more attractive to the international investment community.

IPC is a leading provider of indispensable financial trading communications solutions to the world’s leading financial services firms and global enterprises. With 35 years of expertise and innovation, IPC provides its customers with global systems and solutions, as well as a suite of products and enhanced services that includes advanced Voice-over-IP technology and integrated network and 24x7x365 management services for more than 40 countries. Based in Jersey City, N.J., IPC has approximately 900 employees throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: retail, global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.=

Fidessa

Fidessa group is a leading supplier of multi asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for both buy and sell side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero product suites are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to the financial markets community.
The Fidessa suit is used by 85% of tier one, global equity brokers providing sophisticated multi asset trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities to all tiers of the sell side.
The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms through to smaller specialist managers and hedge funds, and provides comprehensive portfolio analysis, real time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade processing tools, across all asset classes to all tiers of the buy side.
Fidessa’s global network carries over 250 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, Indications of Interest and FIX Allocations between over 2400 buy sides and 530 brokers across 130 markets worldwide.

Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and more than 350 network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest, consisting of global capital markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data and technology providers, and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity with a broad range of market participants within a neutral environment. This enables financial community participants to expand operations within a scalable environment, access global markets, improve reliability and redundancy, significantly reduce connectivity costs, and achieve the fastest possible links to the world’s largest exchanges, execution venues, and trading participants.

For more information, please contact:
David Wilkinson, Senior Director, Business Development, Asia-Pacific
Email: david.wilkinson@ap.equinix.com
Website: www.equinix.com

Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The company offers an extensive line of Internet, software, and print-based products and services for individuals, financial advisors and institutions.
Morningstar provides data on more than 325,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time pricing data on more than 4 million global equities, commodities, derivatives, indexes and foreign currencies. The company has operations in 20 countries and minority ownership positions in companies based in two other countries.

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Linedata

Flextrade

FMO

FMO (www.fmo.asia) is a new generation portfolio management system used by managers of hedge funds and individual accounts in Asia to report on their investments and manage front and back office operations.
FMO provides rich investment data that can be easily customized for quick decision making and for marketing aspects of your fund’s performance. FMO is used by absolute return managers trading multiple asset classes globally using multiple prime brokers/counterparties.
FMO integrates with external trading/risk systems, prime brokers and data providers so information captured and reported in FMO is timely and reliable.
FMO also includes an integrated general ledger so clients can track their fund administrator with regards to accruals, performance fees and capital movements to calculate a complete NAV.
FMO is a simple to use, web-based system that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
For further information please contact:
Paul Lemphers
Director
Phone (+852) 3488-0064
Mobile: (+852) 9728-3127
Email: paull@fmo.asia

Cora Tang, CFA
Head of Client Services
Email: cora@fmo.asia
Direct: (+852) 3488-0084
Mobile: (+852) 9728-4588

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Tora Trading

Tora Holdings is Asia’s leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services. Tora’s unrivalled solutions span the entire trading process, offering traders a full suite of trade execution capabilities in markets across Asia, North America and Europe. Tora’s products include a world class EMS/OMS unique liquidity pools proprietary algorithms and a dedicated Asia trading desk. All of Tora’s products have been developed by buy-side traders for buy-side traders and are supported by unmatched Asia expertise and extensive analytics focused on best execution.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving institutional investors, companies of all sizes, high net worth individuals and consumers with a full range of corporate and investment banking, asset management, treasury management, commercial card and retail products. With offices in more than 40 countries and territories, the combined company serves corporate and institutional clients in 150 countries worldwide.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch operates a network of offices in 12 countries and territories in Asia Pacific. The organization’s regional footprint, covering nine currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, places it among the Top 5 corporate banks in the Asia Pacific region.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s presence in the region dates back to 1947 when the company opened offices in The Philippines and then in Japan. Since 1973 when it opened its office in Singapore, the organization has grown steadily in Southeast Asia, increasing the breadth of its platform throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

The company offers an integrated and comprehensive set of products and services across all businesses, combining the best of local knowledge and international expertise.