Advanced Execution Services (AES) is Credit Suisse's awardwinning 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.

Merrill Lynch Execution Services offers a complete suite of premier equity trading services, including capital commitment and block trading, portfolio trading and analytics and ML X-ACTsm, the firm’s powerful proprietary algorithmic trading platform. Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 40 countries and territories. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The firm’s experts deliver smart solutions to clients, capitalizing on its vast global resources, product innovation and leading scale position in the capital markets.

Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America on January 1, 2009.

Dow Jones Solutions for Algorithmic & Electronic Trading offers cuttingedge real-time information solutions that help institutional professionals create opportunities and act with first-to-know confidence. Whether it's providing ultra-low-latency news feeds to facilitate trading off the news, better monitoring of event streams to detect opportunity in event patterns, or looking for ways to improve commoditized black-box algorithms, Dow Jones has a solution. Designed for direct integration into quantitative analysis models and computer trading programs, the Dow Jones Elementized News Feed delivers news data in precisely tagged XML-formatted fields - thus rendering the news machine-readable. Combining real-time and archival news for quantitative analysis, the Dow Jones News & Archives for Algorithmic Applications can be used to create algorithms for a range of applications such as risk management, arbitrage, and pre-trade and post-trade analysis. And Dow Jones News Analytics, co-developed with RavenPack, a leading provider of advanced mathematical and linguistic models for financial markets, transforms news into data for trading strategies with linguistic analytics such as sentiment, relevance, frequency, and more.

Liquidnet is the world’s institutional marketplace, facilitating equities trading for asset management firms in 29 equity markets across five continents. By accessing liquidity from multiple sources, Liquidnet’s unique trading model consolidates and delivers the institutional equities marketplace directly to the desktops of our buy-side trading firms. These firms use Liquidnet to efficiently execute their large orders, realize exceptional trading performance, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall transaction costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore.

UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, serving a discerning, international client base with its wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking.

Offering world-class distribution and execution across investment banking, equities, and fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and metals, UBS Investment Bank is a powerful combination of global strength and local insight.

UBS Direct Execution is the firm’s global institutional electronic trading business. In addition to UBS Fusion, Direct Execution offers Direct Market Access (DMA), a suite of advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, and an execution management system called UBS Pinpoint.

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. 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 tools 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.

Investment Technology Group, Inc.(NYSE:ITG), is a specialized agency brokerage and technology firm that partners with clients globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the entire investment process. A pioneer in electronic trading, ITG has a unique approach that combines pre-trade analysis, order management, trade execution, and post-trade evaluation to provide clients with continuous improvements in trading and cost efficiency. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions. Founded in 1987, ITG was one of the first firms to recognize the potential of electronic trading and continues to help clients trade more efficiently and reduce transaction costs through a combination of technology and client service. ITG has focused on helping clients better navigate an increasingly complex marketplace, starting with the launch of POSIT®, an electronic system for low-cost, confidential crossing. Recognizing a need in the marketplace for integrated solutions, ITG added pre- and post-trade analytics and multi-asset class order management to its product offering. Nearly 20 years later, ITG remains committed to providing clients with the same high standard of service and innovation.

Chi-X Canada is a high-performance, fully anonymous and low-cost continuous alternative trading system (ATS) for TSX-listed senior equities. The platform provides a market-neutral smart order router, support for a wide array of advanced order types and strict price-time execution priority. With the resulting trading efficiencies and cost savings for both Canadian and global investors, Chi-X Canada has
ultimately helped increase the Canadian equity market's volumes, as systems of this nature have done in other markets around the world.

Linedata Services (Bloomberg: LIN:FP) is the global leader for investment software, solutions, and support. Linedata combines technological innovation, financial strength, and a deep understanding of the Asset Management, Leasing & Credit Finance, and Insurance & Savings industries. Linedata Services’ asset management division provides comprehensive, scalable solutions to the buy-side to manage the entire investment process from pre-trade to post-settlement. Linedata is unique in offering a full front- to back-office solution via enterprise installation, or as an Application Service Provider (“software as services” or “service bureau” delivery), and has 20 years experience delivering ASP solutions. Linedata Services’ asset management division was named Buy-Side Technology’s Best Overall Technology Provider in 2008.

Headquartered in France, Linedata Services achieved revenues of EUR 160.7 million in 2008, has offices worldwide, and services more than 700 clients across 50 countries. For more information, visit Linedata Services corporate site at www.linedata.com.

 

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary tools to manage their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis. Clients access our products via REDIPlus®, our top-ranked EMS platform, or via FIX. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our SIGMA smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA and SIGMA X non-displayed liquidity suite. Along with providing clients access to global equity markets, we also offer FX, Futures, and Options across North America, Europe, and Asia.

TMX Group is an integrated, multi-asset class exchange group. TMX Group's businesses operate cash and derivative markets for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. We also provide clearing facilities, data products and other services to the international financial community.
TMX has trading capability in cash equities, fixed income, derivatives and energy. Our trading strategy includes best-in-class technology solutions, innovative new trading products and a competitive pricing model that encourages increased trading and order flow. Wholly-owned Montréal Exchange provides interest rate, index and equity derivatives trading and clearing; it in turn owns a majority interest in Boston Options Exchange* (BOX). Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), a TMX Group subsidiary, is a leading North American exchange for the trading and clearing of natural gas and electricity contracts. TMX Group owns 47% of CanDeal.ca Inc., an institutional fixed income trading system, as well as 100% of Shorcan Brokers Limited, Canada's first fixed income inter-dealer broker. TMX Group is also the leading provider of fixed income indices in Canada.