Citi (NYSE: C), the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customera ccounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, markets and banking, insurance, securities brokerage, and asset management. Major brand names under Citi’s red arc trademark include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Smith Barney,and Banamex. Citi, markets and banking, is a leading force in the world’s capital markets and consists of three businesses: Global Banking, Capital Markets, and Transaction Services. It provides more industry-leading solutions to more clients in more countries than anyone else. No other company serving the capital markets offers Citi’s geographic reach, local presence, product scope, expertise, and high standards. Citi provides clients with the global reach they seek while delivering world-class products locally. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com
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BlocSec is an electronic crossing network created to provide investors with improvedexecution for their Asian block trades, minimizing both transaction costs andmarket impact. As a dark pool of liquidity, BlocSec gives traders the ability toplace orders with complete anonymity, allowing zero information leakage into the market. The BlocSecplatform uses cutting edge technology to provide an electronic marketplace with continuous and highspeed order matching and execution.
Bloomberg is the leading source of data, news and analytics for financial and legal professionals, corporations, media organizations and private individuals around the globe. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and Bloomberg’s media services provide real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, research, estimates, analytics, portfolio management tools, electronic trading and order management systems, multimedia events and electronic communications to Bloomberg customers in more than 150 countries, 24 hours a day
BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide providing them with a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments.
Founded in 1996, BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® has quickly established itself as a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity.
BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® now offers its global customer base trading solutions in over 60 global markets via ten offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK®’s commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.
BNP Paribas (rated AA+/Aa1) is a European leader in global banking and financial services. With over 160,000 employees worldwide, BNP Paribas has offices in 85 countries across six continents. BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives offers a full range of equity and fund-linked products that can be customised to address the various needs of financial institutions and hedge funds as well as corporate and retail clients. BNP Paribas is a market leader in Equities & Derivatives with some of the largest trading positions and market shares worldwide. Product innovation has always differentiated BNP Paribas from our principal competitors because of our unique quantitative skills for advanced product design and the significant resource we dedicate to new product strategies. This established leadership combined with our innovative products, allows us to work in partnership with clients, delivering the most cutting-edge tailor-made solutions to exactly fit the needs of our clients in all market climates.
Chi-X® - innovators of low cost, high speed alternative execution venues 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. For further information, please contact: Mark Howarth (mark.howarth@chi-x.com) or Robert Rooks robert.rooks@chi-x.com). www.chi-x.com
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 work orders on multiple liquidity pools, increase productivity by automating trading and improve execution performance. AES helps more than a thousand institutions and hedge funds reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and add consistency to their trading processes. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. The platform has been consistently ranked as the leader in global industry surveys. For more information: http://www.credit-suisse.com/ib/en/equities/aes.html or contact the AES sales desk on +852 2101 6443. www.credit-suisse.com
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 highperformance, low-cost alternative execution venues. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.
ITG is a specialist, agency-only equities broker and technology firm dedicated to improving trading and cost efficiency. Combining technological expertise with industry knowledge, ITG offers institutional investors across the world a complete set of innovative tools to minimise transaction costs, manage risk, access liquidity and optimise portfolio construction.
ITG’s solutions span the trade cycle from end to end. A leader in electronic trading, ITG has a unique approach that integrates portfolio optimisation, pre-trade analysis, trade execution and post-trade measurement and evaluation.
Established in 1987, ITG is headquartered in New York and has offices in North America and Europe. In the Asia Pacific region, ITG has a presence in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. Lehman Brothers Electronic Trading Services provides electronic access to markets around the globe as well as develops a wide range of sophisticated products to enhance and analyze electronic trading. Leveraging the Firm’s various business and technology resources, the group plays a critical role in delivering electronic execution and equity analytics services to our clients. The group develops electronic trading products, and provides global support, service and advice. For more information about Lehman Brothers Electronic Trading Services, please visit: www.lehman.com/equities/ets or contact: electronic.europe@lehman.com
Liquidnet is one of Asia’s—and the world’s—largest independent dark pools of liquidity. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now offers its buy-side-only Members the ability to trade in 29 global equity markets. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, London, and Toronto. Since its inception, Liquidnet’s main objective has been to bring the buy-side as much liquidity as possible, whilst providing the most secure and efficient environment in which to trade. Liquidnet was recently named ‘Best Crossing Network’ in the Sixth Annual Waters Rankings (2008). For more information call (+852) 3798 6800 or e-mail asiasales@liquidnet.com.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com
