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Advantage Futures (www.advantagefutures.com) is a premier futures brokerage firm for professional, institutional, and active individual traders with best-in-class clearing and execution services provided with high-quality client service and technologically efficient solutions. We provide clients with a superior technology infrastructure, redundant exchange connectivity and 24-hour technical support. Our multimillion dollar investment in state-of-the art equipment provides our clients with extremely fast trading response times while ensuring reliability and security through a fully redundant back office and accounting systems. We facilitate trading on almost all domestic and foreign exchanges either through our direct clearing memberships or through various relationships we maintain with carrying brokers. Our management team has extraordinary industry experience and a strong reputation for integrity. Advantage Futures has processed over one billion contracts since its inception in June 2003. |
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BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK LLC and its affiliates serve institutional investors and traders globally with comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearance and settlement solutions across multiple asset classes including Equities, Futures, Options and FX, bringing traders, research analytics, execution strategies and liquidity together to help institutional investors seek better executions. Our innovative liquidity venue leverages the market data, analytics, news and research integrated on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service. BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK users benefit from Bloomberg's POMS, AIM and Execution Management System (EMS) and third party order management systems. Bloomberg users are provided with an extensive network connecting more than 1,200 broker destinations, more than 200 algorithms, direct market access (DMA) to more than fifty Exchanges, ECNs, ATSs and liquidity pools, transaction cost analytics (pre-trade, working order and post-trade evaluation) and commission management services (research accommodation, commission sharing agreements and soft dollars). |
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange, founded in 1973, is the creator of listed options and the nation’s largest options marketplace. CBOE is the industry leader in product innovation, having created equity options, index options, LEAPS, and, more recently, Options on VIX® – CBOE’s widely followed investor “fear gauge.” CBOE’s Hybrid Trading System, the most unique market model in the industry, allows customers to choose the efficiency of the screen or the added customer service benefit found in floor trading. This best-of-both approach, combined with an unparalleled range of products and deep market liquidity, makes CBOE the exchange of choice for options investors of all types.
CBOE’s wholly-owned subsidiary, the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), lists a suite of volatility-based futures contracts, including its flagship product, VIX Futures. |
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Capital Markets Consulting has provided the greatest impact on executing and maximizing their client’s business strategies for over a decade. They work with senior level management in the financial services industry to help align best technologies to business and trading strategies; and tactical initiatives. CMC’s industry and technical expertise extends throughout all asset classes to bring their client’s strategies to life. To learn more about Capital Markets Consulting, please visit their website at www.CMCplace.com |
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Devexperts, founded in 2002, is a 150 people software development company providing upscale on-line financial solutions, professional implementation and 24/7 support for trading, banking, and brokerage institutions operating mostly in options and FOREX markets. Devexperts’ long –term partnership with world-leading financial institutions, such as Global Forex Trading, thinkorswim Inc, CIT Finance (Russia), VITUS Investment Company (Russia), Baltic Finance Agency (Russia) and many others, and numerous awards have proved high-quality, efficiency, and reliability of the Devexperts’ technology. |
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The Options Industry Council (OIC) educates individual investors, financial advisors and institutional investors about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded equity options. OIC is governed by the U.S. options exchanges, member brokerage firms and The Options Clearing Corporation. OIC offers educational programs – software, literature, research, live seminars, online classes, webcasts, podcasts, DVD and Help Desk – that are suitable for a broad range of investment experience. www.OptionsEducation.org and www.OptionsEducation.org/institutional |
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Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. 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. The team traverses all of the Firm’s business and technology departments playing a critical role in ensuring Lehman Brothers remains the industry leader in the electronic execution and equity analytics space. The group initiates the development of products, markets them, and provides continuous electronic trading support, service and advice. Contacts: Tel: 212-526-3001 (US) Tel: 44-20-7103-0013 (Europe) Tel: 852-2252-6607 (Asia) www.lehman.com |
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Founded in 1987, The Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG) comprise one of the largest privately held global financial institutions. SIG differentiates itself by combining sophisticated quantitative applications with advanced technology to make deep, liquid markets in every major asset class and corresponding derivative product. In 2001, SIG, through its affiliate Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP (SFG), expanded its footprint to include dedicated professionals in the areas of sales, fundamental research, market intelligence and investment banking. SIG’s quantitative trading capabilities coupled with specialized research enables SFG’s sales force, research analysts, and investment bankers to provide unparalleled service its clientele. Headquartered in the Philadelphia area, SIG employs more than 1,400 individuals located in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. |
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Sophis provides cross-asset, front-to-back portfolio and risk management to the world’s leading financial institutions. The company has a global presence with nine offices around the world and serves more than 120 market leading institutions, including investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. Sophis offers the award winning products; RISQUE, the sell side product as well as VALUE for the buy side. |
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Servicing the global capital markets for over 20 years, Townsend Analytics offers world class trading and trade order management solutions to the institutional- buyside portfolio management and sellside broker dealer- marketplace. The Chicago-based company created many technology innovations that are now considered standards in the financial services industry. These include the first real-time financial software under Microsoft Windows®; the first product to provide real-time streaming data over the Internet; the first integrated solution for NASDAQ trading rooms; and the first Windows-based direct-access trading solution. Townsend Analytics also developed Archipelago and the Archipelago Exchange, the nation's first all-electronic, fully open exchange. The firm has engineered direct-access solutions for money managers, asset managers, hedge funds and mutual funds worldwide. RealTick® EMS (Execution Management System) is the institutional financial service industry’s leading global, multi-broker, cross-asset trading platform. The firm's main lines of business include: Trading Services, Content Services, Exchange Services, Risk Management Services. |
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Swapstream, a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group, is the first electronic multi-dealer interest rate swaps trading system specifically designed for the sophisticated professional trader. The Swapstream sPro™ platform allows traders to fully leverage the efficiencies of electronic trading without sacrificing the flexibility of traditional voice trading.
Later this year CME Group will launch CME Swaps on Swapstream, the first OTC interest rate swap offering the benefits and financial safeguards of a clearing house. Traded on the sPro platform and centrally cleared by Clearing360™, CME’s OTC clearing solution, CME Swaps on Swapstream combines access to deep OTC swap liquidity pools with efficiencies previously only available to exchange-traded products. Professional traders will have access to cost-effective interest rate swap trading in established, liquid markets, with the benefits of low-overhead straight-through processing. |
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Tradeweb is one of the world’s leading over-the-counter multi-asset class marketplaces, and a pioneer in the development of electronic trading. Since 1998, Tradeweb has operated a global trading network, which harnesses the distribution of the major investment banks with over 2,000 institutional clients. As a true multi-asset class over-the-counter marketplace, we offer premier services across the fixed income, derivatives and equities markets. As these markets continue to evolve and converge, it is our mission to expand e-trading for our clients on one platform -- to be the leading global network where markets meet. |
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UBS provides electronic trading services and expertise in all major and emerging markets around the globe. We give our clients access to advanced technology and global liquidity so they can achieve the best possible performance. Key products include: our suite of next generation, smart algorithms; UBS Price Improvement Network (PIN), our US crossing engine; UBS Direct Market Access, delivering high-speed, high-capacity connections to all major equity and derivative markets; UBS Pinpoint, a sophisticated desktop trading system and a comprehensive array of pre-, at- and post-trade analytical tools.
UBS Investment Bank is one of the world's largest investment banking and securities firms. Our clients include corporations, governments, banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, financial sponsors, and private equity firms worldwide. With over 22,000 employees in 34 countries, we provide expert advice, superb execution, product innovation, and comprehensive access to the world's capital markets. |
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