Optimize your time at TradeTech Derivatives by visiting with your partners in the Solutions Zone. The Solutions Zone features companies providing cutting-edge technologies and services to improve your multi-instrument derivatives trading operations. For your convenience, TradeTech Derivatives networking activities - breakfasts, coffee and refreshment breaks, and receptions - occur in the centrally located Solutions Zone.
The Solutions Zone provides you direct access to the most innovative services in the derivatives industry to maximize the potential of your trading desk.
As TradeTech Derivatives is not a tradeshow, there will be only a limited number of booths available. To secure premium exhibition opportunities, contact Seth Weisleder at sweisleder@wbresearch.com or +1 (646) 200.7493.
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 nine 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.
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, continues to set the bar for options trading through product innovation, trading technology and investor education. CBOE offers equity, index and ETF options, including proprietary products, such as S&P 500 options (SPX), the most active U.S. index option, and options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the world’s barometer for market volatility. Other groundbreaking products engineered by CBOE include equity options, security index options, LEAPS, FLEX options, and benchmark products, such as the CBOE BuyWrite Index (BXM). CBOE’s Hybrid Trading System incorporates electronic and open-outcry trading, enabling customers to choose their trading method. CBOE’s Hybrid is powered by CBOEdirect, a proprietary, state-of-the art electronic platform that also supports the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) and OneChicago. CBOE is home to the world-renowned Options Institute and www.cboe.com, named “Best of the Web” for options information and education.
CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with all trades cleared by the AAA-rated Options Clearing Corporation.
As the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services 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. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
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 two 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.
The Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG) is one of the largest privately held global financial institutions. Combining sophisticated quantitative applications with advanced technology, we make deep, liquid markets in most every major asset class and corresponding derivative product. Through its affiliate, Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP (SFG), the company employs dedicated professionals in the areas of sales, fundamental research, and market intelligence. Building upon SIG’s command of the options marketplace and its quantitative trading capabilities, SFG offers liquidity, industryleading insights, and execution services.
Founded in 1987 with approximately 40 employees, SIG today employs more than 1,500 people located in North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Founded in 2000, Traiana operates the industry- standard platform for electronically processing over-the-counter foreign exchange trades. Traiana's flagship offering, the Traiana Harmony Network, is the leading platform for connecting all FX market participants to automate post-trade processes, reducing the risk and cost of trade processing. Today, Traiana is connected to over 500 firms. The network includes all major FX market participants including prime brokers, executing banks, retail platforms, buy-side firms and execution venues. Traiana has offices in New York, Chicago, London and Tel Aviv. Traiana is owned by ICAP plc. – the world's largest interdealer broker.
UBS is a global firm, providing services to private, corporate and institutional clients through its wealth management and Swiss banking businesses alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS is present in all major financial centers and has offices in over 50 countries. UBS Direct Execution is the firm's global institutional electronic trading business. Direct Execution offers ultra-low latency Direct Market Access (DMA), a suite of award-winning advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, a state-of-the-art analytics platform -- offering Real-Time TCA -- called UBS Fusion, and a multi-asset international execution management system called UBS Pinpoint.
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) operates a leading U.S. options exchange and offers options trading on over 2,000 underlying equity, ETF, index, and FX products. As the first all-electronic options exchange in the U.S., ISE transformed the options industry by creating efficient markets through innovative market structure and technology. Regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member-owner of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), ISE provides investors with a transparent marketplace for price and liquidity discovery on centrally cleared options products.
Get exposure to rate movements in some of the most widely traded global currencies.
Apply the same trading and hedging strategies you use for equity and index options, including spreads with up to four legs. ISE FX Options® ("FX Options") are cash-settled in US dollars, European exercised and can be traded directly from your existing brokerage account.
ISE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurex, a leading global derivatives exchange. Eurex itself is jointly operated by Deutsche Börse AG (Ticker: DB1) and SIX Swiss Exchange AG. Together, Eurex and ISE are the global market leader in individual equity and equity index derivatives. For more information, visit www.ise.com.