About Our Sponsors

TS Associates

Trading Systems Associates plc partners with leading financial markets participants to overcome the complex technology integration issues that relate to the deployment and management of middleware based financial markets applications. As a result of its focused technology consulting and through its close partnership with customers, TS-Associates has established itself as the leading developer of appliance based, hardware accelerated, real time latency analysis, network monitoring, middleware monitoring and diagnostic products. The TS-Associates “TipOff” monitoring appliance delivers network, middleware messaging and application monitoring, all with nanosecond precision and zero performance impact. With support for the widest range of standards based and vendor messaging solutions, TipOff offers unequalled integration and extensibility features. The TS-Associates “Application Tap” PCIe card delivers unique software instrumentation capabilities with precision timing and negligible performance impact.

Morningstar, Inc.

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 approximately 360,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 8 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. The company has operations in 21 countries.

IPC

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.

Credit Suisse

As one of the world’s leading banks, Credit Suisse provides it’s clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally as well as retail clients in Switzerland. In it’s Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and fi nancial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations in 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of fi nancial services products including debt and equity underwritting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Advanced Execution Services (AES) is Credit Suisse’s award-winning suite of algorthmic trading strategies, tools and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures and foreign exchange. With AES’s tools traders can improve performance against benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvment and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the market place and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognized constistently as the leader in algorthmic trading. For more information please contact AES Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334

ARQA Technologies

ARQA Technologies was founded in 2000.

The company offers IT solutions and technologies for banks, asset management and investment companies, automating their operations in financial markets.

Headquartered in Novosibirsk (Russia), ARQA Technologies employs more than 120 people. The clientele of the company includes more than 270 financial organizations from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Great Britain and Estonia.

ARQA Technologies offers the complete line of front-to-back office solutions. The key product is QUIK DMA System providing access to exchange trading platforms via the Internet. QUIK is a leader among front-office solutions in Russia and Ukraine.

Another mainstream is in developing the solutions for the automation of middle- and back-office based on the QORT program platform.

The major focus of today’s business is the development of complex solutions for risk management based on online pre-trade control, including those built into low latency and HFT infrastructures.

KVH

KVH was established in Tokyo in 1999 by Fidelity Investments as a Japan focused IT/communications service provider. As an information delivery platform that allows enterprise customers to store, process, protect and deliver their vital business information, KVH offers integrated cloud and network solutions that include infrastructure-as-a-service, managed services, data center services, professional services, data networking, internet access, and voice services. KVH operates the lowest latency network in Japan, and with over 450 financial services customers, is the leading provider of ultra low-latency network and proximity hosting solutions to the high-frequency trading community in Tokyo and Osaka. KVH also offers low-latency connectivity services between major financial markets in the Asia/Pacific region and the US including Tokyo, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney.

More information on KVH can be found at www.kvh.co.jp/en/

OpenLink

OpenLink’s client base of more than 350 customers worldwide includes 12 of the top 25 largest commodity and energy companies by market capitalization, eight of the largest financial institutions and 11 of the largest central banks, as well as major hedge funds, commodities companies and public utilities. Our 1050+ employees are located in 12 regional offices worldwide.

OpenLink

6 Temasek Boulevard
#27-03A Suntec Tower 4
Singapore 038986
Phone: +65 6593 0800
Fax: +65 6341 9020

E-Mail: info@olf.com

Thomson Reuters

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, healthcare and science 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 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.