08 - 09 April, 2014
Excel Centre, Paris, France

About Our Principal Sponsors and Exhibitors

 

ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. is a wholly owned subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., and is uniquely positioned as an independent clearing services provider of listed derivatives and cash securities, OTC products, Warrants, Commodities and FX.

ABN AMRO Clearing has 12 offices across the globe servicing 85+ exchanges. We consistently rank among the top 3 clearers in every time zone based on the amount of turnover and market share thanks to a unique concept. We offer an integrated solution for transaction processing, financial logistics, real-time risk management and assets financing supported by state-of-the-art information technology. We do not run a proprietary trading book and are focused exclusively on agency clearing. Our Clients are serviced by dedicated support teams, composed of industry professionals having relevant experience in financial markets.

    

Accival

Acciones y Valores Banamex (Accival)
Premium Electronic Execution is Important, Smart Order Routing is a Necessity.
With 40 years of experience in the Mexican Market, Accival's commitment to Electronic Trading is to consistently develop with Citi global standards a precise array of applications designed to support our Global and Local Clients to help them achieve their strategies.

Accival& Citi's Algorithmic Trading Platform understands the value of simplicity. These advanced algorithms are designed to minimize market impact in today's highly evolved trading environment. Each strategy has been deeply tested to match any liquidity issue. Our DMA provides high-speed access to the Mexican Market emphasizes in speed, security and stability and real-time execution. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including securities brokerage.

    

NICE Actimize

NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers and investors assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud and providing regulatory compliance. The company provides real-time, cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence and insider trading. Find us at www.nice.com/actimize, @NICE_Actimize or NASDAQ:NICE.

    

ADOREXIS

Imagine a place where everybody knows the secret of joy of work, where you can find anytime a creative way to expand your posibilities. That's ADOREXIS." - László Szentkirály

ADOREXIS is a full-service advertising agency. We take international marketing challenges and we pride with innovative solutions. In an industry where everything evolves rapidly, conventional thinking and conventional tools are not enough. For these reasons we create for you an unique solution, a creative way to expand your posibilities.

    

AdvancedIO Systems

AdvancedIO® Systems is a private, profitable, product company with Fortune 100 customers in finance, defense and telecommunication around the globe. We are a premier provider of programmable FPGA network interface solutions built for real-time ultra low latency performance. We offer solutions at the card, system and application levels. With our unique technology and team responsiveness, our customers can quickly introduce advanced solutions providing them with a competitive advantage to stay at the forefront of their market. To learn more about our products and services, please visit

    

Aquis Exchange

Aquis Exchange was unveiled in October 2012 and has been established to develop exchange software and operate a pan-European equities trading exchange, subject to regulatory approval. Aquis Exchange is set to revolutionize the European trading landscape by its introduction of subscription pricing and innovative order types. Currently, over 90% of European equity trading in each individual country takes place on two exchanges and the aim of Aquis Exchange is to bring fresh competition into the marketplace to lower the trading costs maintained by the existing duopoly. The Company is led by former Chi-X Europe chief executive Alasdair Haynes.

    

ARQA Technologies

Founded in 2000, ARQA Technologies is a well-established provider of software solutions to sell and buy-side players for automation of their front-middle-and-back-office operations in financial markets. The clients of the company include over 300 financial organizations from different countries.
The flagship product QUIK is a versatile front end trading platform used for both proprietary operations and servicing clients. Its sophisticated risk management functionality is used for online pre-trade checks, portfolio evaluation and margin trading.
The company also offers a line of low-latency solutions for direct sponsored access with online fast pre-trade control which are based on FIX protocol or native exchange APIs.
Other solutions for automation of middle-and-back-office operations are based on QORT platform. Middle-office midQORT ensures monitoring and controlling positions and risks with regard to all the markets and groups of market participants. Back-office backQORT provides a basic set of functions to automate operations' accounting and produces required reports for regulators and customers.
Additionally the company provides SaaS on the technical facilities of its own data centers.
Contact details:
Sales & Marketing Department of ARQA Technologies, +7-383-219-16-19, sales@arqa.ru
Company's websites: www.arqa.ru, www.quik.ru, www.qort.ru

    

ATON

ATON Brokerage Company is part of ATON Group, which has a 22-year history in Russian financial markets and an international B2/NP rating with a Stable forecast from Moody’s Investors Service. Aton boasts global operations with its headquarters in Moscow, Russia and representative offices in the UK, Switzerland, Cyprus, and Kazakhstan. The company has implemented high-end technologies and the best quality services to provide STP electronic access to Russian and Global markets for the most demanding foreign investors.

ATON is represented today by Tatiana Frolova, Head of Electronic & Algo Trading Department.

    

Aviat Networks

Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) is a leading wireless expert in advanced IP network migration, building the foundation for the 4G/LTE broadband future. We offer best-of-breed wireless transmission solutions including LTE-ready microwave backhaul and a complete portfolio of essential service options that enable wireless public and private telecommunications operators to deliver advanced data, voice and video and mobility services.

    

AZUL

Azul Systems delivers high-performance and elastic Java solutions with unsurpassed scalability, manageability and production-time visibility. Azul’s Zing JVM ensures that organizations within the financial services sector can rely on Java-based applications for their business-critical services, grow their revenues and launch new initiatives without worrying about scalability, reliability or infrastructure investments. Designed and optimized for x86 servers and enterprise-class workloads, Zing is the only Java runtime that supports highly consistent and pauseless execution for throughput-intensive and QoS-sensitive Big Data applications. Azul's enhanced Java technologies enables organizations to achieve lower average latencies whilst dramatically improving operating costs.


    

CDNetworks

CDNetworks enables Global Cloud Acceleration. Our mission is to transform the Internet into a secure, reliable, scaleable and high performing Application Delivery Network. CDNetworks’ unique position as the only multinational CDN with expertise and infrastructure in China, Russia and other emerging markets, enables us to be trusted partners in local markets, while serving as foremost experts on extending into global markets. Accelerating more than 17,500 global websites and cloud services over our 140 PoPs, CDNetworks serves our e-business customers across industries like finance, travel, eCommerce, learning management, high tech, manufacturing and media. CDNetworks has been serving our enterprise customers for more than 13 years, and has offices in the U.S., Korea, China, Japan, and the UK.

    

CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group 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 the CME Globex electronic trading platform and 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.

In addition, CME Group has a growing presence in Europe. Launched in May 2011, CME Clearing Europe is a London-based clearing house that clears OTC transactions in a broad range of derivative products in an English law and European regulatory environment. As an FSA-approved Recognised Clearing House, CME Clearing Europe's service combines operational flexibility with a transparent risk management and an account structure that offers a range of protection choices for clients should their clearing broker fail.

CME Group has also announced it is in the process of applying to the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority to create a London-based derivatives exchange. Pending regulatory approval, CME Europe Ltd is expected to launch in mid-2013 and will initially offer FX futures with plans to expand into additional asset classes.

CME Group has a growing London-based team committed to serving the financial risk management needs of customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

    

Custom Connect

Custom Connect is a global reseller of high-performance network solutions. Custom Connect's services offer carrier-neutral, reliable and integrated connectivity while simplifying network management, support and sourcing through a single point-of-contact.

Custom Connect is specialized in the design, delivery, and support of bespoke low-latency networks. Custom Connect provides Dark Fiber, Wavelengths, Ethernet, IP, Microwaves and colocation services in combination with project management and a dedicated 24x7 support organization.

Custom Connect's customer base consists of Fortune 500 companies, High-Frequency Trading Desks, ISPs, Banks and Publishers. Custom Connect is headquartered in The Netherlands.


    

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates.

Your partner for Smarter Liquidity - Autobahn is Deutsche Bank's electronic trading platform, through which Equity clients can manage executions, access intelligence and trade on opportunities through our award-winning Direct Market Access offering and sophisticated algorithm suite.

Our trading solutions are engineered by some of the best in the industry. Stealth, Deutsche Bank's next generation trading strategy, utilises advanced high frequency models to source liquidity in dark and lit markets; while our dark pool, SuperX, was measured by Rosenblatt to be the largest in Europe (December 2011). These are just two of the reasons why we believe Deutsche Bank was voted the best provider of algorithmic trading products in Europe, according to The Trade (March 2012).

And why clients looking for Smarter Liquidity choose Deutsche Bank.

    

Deutsche Borse Xetra

Xetra - Trade the Whole World on one Platform - Xetra provides listing, trading and clearing services to issuers, intermediaries and investors. Xetra provides efficient access to the capital markets, supports the latest trading techniques and provides an ever-growing range of tradable securities such as stocks, exchange traded funds, bonds, warrants and certificates. The trading system of the same name sets the highest standards in terms of reliability, security, speed and innovation. Orders are executed at optimum conditions in a central, fully electronic open order book. Xetra offers the highest liquidity, transparency and cost efficiency to 240 European banks and brokerage firms from 18 countries. Approximately 900,000 securities are currently traded using Xetra technology, more than on any other trading platform.
With its integrated clearing facility provided by Eurex Clearing, it is also one of the most advanced trading platforms in terms of counterparty risk management.

Xetra is part of Deutsche Börse Group which is one of the world's leading service providers for the securities industry with a product and service offering for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire process chain from trading, through clearing, to settlement and securities custody. Furthermore, Deutsche Börse offers market data, indices and analyses and is a service provider for the development and operation of IT systems. Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world's largest stock exchange organizations.

For further information please visit: www.xetra.com

    

EMCF

European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) is Europe's largest cash equities clearing company and one of the top two Central Counterparty (CCP) clearing providers in Europe. Our offering is focused on providing a reliable service against transparent and predictable pricing using robust risk management systems. We deliver CCP Services in 19 European markets through 7 MTF's and exchanges: BATS Chi-X Europe, Burgundy, CATS, NASDAQ OMX Nordics, NASDAQ OMX First North, Quote MTF and TOM.

In 2007, we became the first CCP to serve MTF's in multiple markets. Today we serve over 50 European financial service providers with an offering that includes: novation, gross trade netting, risk management, settlements, and fails and buy-in management.

With its registered offices in Amsterdam, EMCF is regulated and supervised in the Netherlands by Autoriteit Financiele Markten (AFM) and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). EMCF is owned 78% by ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and 22% by NASDAQ OMX AB.

    

Equiduct

Equiduct is a pan-European equity market offing a central limit order book with a premium best execution service. Its unique model provides a cost efficient solution to fragmented European liquidity. It is the only pan-European exchange which provides retail customers with access to the best available price for their orders without the need to route to other markets. Brokers are able to meet their clients Best Execution requirements for both the professional and retail investor through a single connection. Equiduct also provides real-time market data, including the pan-European consolidated order book called Market-by-Limit.

    

EuroCCP

European Central Counterparty Limited (EuroCCP) is a UK-incorporated, FSA-regulated Recognised Clearing House. It is the European subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and is headquartered in London. EuroCCP was formed to provide clearing services for a wide range of trading venues across Europe, offering risk management expertise to European market participants. It currently clears equity trades in 19 markets. EuroCCP provides pan-European central counterparty services for BATS Chi-X Europe, Burgundy, Equiduct, NYSE Arca Europe, SIGMA X MTF, SmartPool, Turquoise and UBS MTF. It has the mandate from NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchanges to provide competitive clearing.*
EuroCCP has developed a capability to clear over-the-counter (OTC) European cash equities trades. It currently clears trades matched on the Omgeo CTM platform and has been mandated by SWIFT to provide a pan-European clearing for its Accord platform.*
Market participants can trade equities on any venue EuroCCP supports and have their transactions netted for settlement and/or margin purposes for the same security traded on the same day, thereby reducing costs and operational risks.

    

Fidessa

Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world's financial community.

85% of the world's premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. $10 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global connectivity network each year. We offer unique access to the world's largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.

A global business with scale, resilience and expertise, we've delivered around 25% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.

    

GBM Grupo Bursatil Mexicano

GBM, Grupo Bursátil Mexicano S.A. de C.V. is a leading company in the Mexican Financial market. Through our subsidiaries in Mexico and the US, we have positioned ourselves as one of the most solid and reliable financial institutions among national and international investors.

With over 25 years of experience in the Mexican Stock Market, our brokerage house has been among the top five most active brokers in the equity market for the last 15 years.

Our goal is to focus on companies that have strong fundamentals and long-term investment potential. A clear distinction in our investment philosophy is to provide timely and valuable analysis on mid-cap companies that are under-covered by the majority of Global firms.

Our willingness to co-invest with our clients and to commit our capital makes us one of the most active block trading firms and our International Sales Desk provides service to Global Brokers, Mutual and Hedge Funds, satisfying the strictest norms of execution and “market approach”.

We also focus on technological development in order to offer DMA and Portfolio Trading to our clients via a wide range of connections such as FIX protocol, web-based applications and trading networks. We have the most powerful FIX engine in the Mexican market which makes us leaders in message transmission to the BMV. We have established a great number of point-to-point connections with our FIX customers around the world, that account for over 80 % of the market share of electronic orders to the stock exchange.

    

Grupo Financiero Interacciones

Interacciones Casa de Bolsa Is a full-range service brokerage firm in Mexico, from custody to asset management, foreign exchange, equity research, derivatives, fixed income products and stock loan.

Interacciones is part of Grupo Financiero Interacciones (GFINTERO.MX), a 100% Mexican-owned Financial Group with a market cap of US$ 1.1 BILLION.[1]Interacciones pioneered DMA FIX-based access in Mexico and responding to the 30-fold increase in the Mexican trading market over the past 5 years, Interacciones has made ambitious investments in technology services that combines connectivity to major financial networks and FIX hubs with high-performance DMA and sponsored access to Mexican equities and derivatives markets, in a fully redundant, co-located infrastructure.Asset managers, hedge funds, high-frequency traders and institutional investors consider Interacciones a strategic partner in Mexico and the region.

[1] Based on the closing price of MXP$46.50 as of January 12, 2012

    

Hatstand

Hatstand is a global financial IT consultancy with a focus on trading systems, connectivity, data management and the impact of regulatory change.

    

InfoReach

InfoReach offers global, multi-asset electronic trade/analysis solutions. High-performance tools and access to algorithms, DMA and services from leading brokers offer the utmost in execution efficiency. Solutions include:
Trade Management System (TMS): Highly-advanced, scalable trading platform
Prelude: Hosted trading platform, low monthly pricing
HiFREQ: Low-latency, high-frequency algorithmic engine for creating/back-testing/employing HFT strategies
Second Opinion: Interactive transaction cost analysis (TCA) service providing real-time, pre/at/post-trade analytics to optimize trading strategies and reduce transaction costs
InfoReach FIX Engine
InfoReach FIX Network: Global, multi-broker FIX connectivity and order routing

    

Infront

Infront is a financial information technology company that provides market data and real-time trading solutions to buy and sell side financial players across Europe. Its flagship product ¬- the Infront terminal ¬- was first released in 1998 and has grown to support customers in over 27 countries.

Infront solutions enable sell-side players to provide their buy-side clients with professional level information terminal functionality and cost-efficient electronic trading ¬- with a direct impact on increased trading volumes. Infront solutions offer unmatched performance, comprehensive trading integration, market data flexibility, straightforward user administration and white labeling possibilities.

Established in 1998, Infront is an independent, privately owned company with offices in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm. With more than 80 employees and ownership of News Agency Direkt in Sweden, Infront has an established presence in the Nordic market, and is a growing international player.

    

Instinet

Instinet, as a global agency-only broker*, is the independent equity trading arm of the Nomura Group. Through an advanced suite of electronic trading tools, experienced high-touch trading staff and unparalleled access to insightful content and unique agency-only liquidity, Instinet helps institutions globally lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Instinet's global offering comprises:

High-Touch Trading: Instinet traders across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, as well as its Global Portfolio Trading group, provide sector-specific content and insights, assist in trading strategy formulation and source natural liquidity, all on an agency-only basis.

Algorithmic Trading: Instinet's advanced suite of algorithms, the Execution Experts, provide a core set of strategies to address nearly every trading objective, with extensive controls to refine behaviour.

Front-End Technology: Instinet provides a range of global, broker-neutral and multi-asset front endsincluding the award-winning Newport 3 EMSbuilt on a standardized technology core and designed to address varying user needs, from basic execution to advanced analytics.

Liquidity Sourcing: Instinet's global, multi-asset execution platform provides access to 46 countries and hundreds of destinations, including Instinet's own alternative liquidity pools throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Transaction Analysis: Instinet's powerful suite of transaction cost analytics and visualization toolsInstinet Insightis designed to guide traders and risk managers expertly and consistently through all phases of the trading life-cycle.

Commission Management: Underpinned by the award-winning Plazma® online account management platform, Instinet's commission management offerings deliver flexibility, high-quality service and the ability to aggregate credits.

Independent Research: Instinet provides outsourced marketing support to select providers through the Instinet Access program, while also serving as the preferred payment channel for Nomura's highly-regarded research platform.

* through its regional brokerage subsidiaries.

    

IPC Systems

IPC offers high- and low-touch trading communications solutions to the global financial trading community including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With a 100-percent focus on this sector and nearly 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC provides customers with unified solutions that support collaborative voice trading and real-time electronic trading and market data connectivity. IPC's offerings include the first unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services including enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, and follow-the-sun service and support. IPC's global reach extends to nearly 60 countries - including a financial extranet of 4,000 on-net locations in over 700 cities and more than 115,000 turrets deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1,000 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.

    

IS Investment

With a distinctive role in the development of the capital markets, IS Investment was established in 1996 as the investment banking arm of Isbank Group. IS Investment provides a wide array of financial services to local and foreign investors, including Corporate Finance, Investment Advisory, Asset Management, Brokerage&Trading and Research. Representing approximately 1/3 of the sector with its $ 2 billion asset size, IS Investment represents a large and commanding presence in the Turkish investment market, reflected in its transaction volumes, ranking first not only in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) Stock Market since 2003, but also in the Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TurkDEX), since the foundation of the market in 2005. IS Investment is also the leader in the public offerings market in Turkey with 66 Public Offerings between 1988 and 2012. Since 2000, IS Investment has completed 91 M&A transactions - a number rendering the Company as the leading investment bank as per the M&A league rankings.

    

ITG

ITG is an independent research and execution broker that partners with global portfolio managers and traders to provide unique data-driven insights throughout the investment process. From investment decision through settlement, ITG helps clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk and navigate increasingly complex markets. ITG is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

    

IT SOFTWARE

IT SOFTWARE -the Technancial Company- is focused on designing and developing cutting-edge solutions to meet the demands of the most sophisticated financial institutions.
The Easy Trade platform, currently installed with great success throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, US and South Africa, supports integrated functionalities for Smart Order Routing, Order Management, Market Making, Trading, Risk Management and Electronic Matching.
One of IT SOFTWARE's leading products - Easy Trade Risk Manager - is used by major banks globally to pre-trade validate orders and post-order/post-trade monitor risks, assessing each portfolio position in real-time, measuring relevant risk limits, margin requirements and regulatory filters. More than 60 risk/compliance checks are available across asset classes, markets and regions.
IT SOFTWARE's product suite is complemented by RADAR, a solution to monitor market abuse both in real-time and in T+1.
IT SOFTWARE is present in Italy, the UK, Hong Kong, France, Spain, and the US.

    

KBC Securities

KBC Securities, a 100% subsidiary of KBC Bank, is the equity house of KBC Group. It is KBC Securities' mission
to offer an outstanding service in the areas of Brokerage, Custody, Equity Research and Corporate Finance with a
geographical focus on the Euronext countries and Central Europe. KBC Securities is the leading broker and
custodian in the CEE region with local presence and direct memberships. A full service on brokerage, DMA
access and custody into the CEE markets via the Brussels hub are available.
The order execution can be combined with custody services."

    

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KIT Finance

KIT Finance Ltd is one of the oldest Russian brokerage houses with extensive experience in trading and DMA. With our subsidiary KIT Finance Europe AS we provide innovative trading access for customers all over the world. We are members of the MICEX, RTS and LSE and are capable of providing DMA to a lot of other exchanges. Our main shareholder is a Russian state-owned enterprise therefor we can be considered as one of the most reliable brokers in Russia. We offer retail clients an easy and fast way to start trading and individual DMA setup for institutional clients including not only DMA but hosting, colocation, sponsored access, white branding, back office outsourcing, settlement and clearing.

    

Linedata

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been dedicated to the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. Linedata's comprehensive offering spans front- to back-office, from pre-trade compliance checks, integrated execution management tools through post-settlement, with reporting and compliance offerings that work across your entire business. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.8 million in 2011.

    

Liquidmetrix

LiquidMetrix is based in London, and are experts in financial market data research and execution quality analysis.

IFS developed the LiquidMetrix suite of services focussed on execution quality assessment, transaction cost analysis and pre-trade cost prediction across increasingly fragmented global equity markets.

The IFS LiquidMetrix Pre and Post-Trade Analysis services provide the sophisticated analytics required for performance measurement, and are made possible through our suite of proprietary tools for optimal storage and retrieval of trades, and full depth order book data from multi-terabyte databases of equity venue data.The TCA methods we’ve developed are uniquely suited to reflect modern multi-venue trading realities and, among other features, include the modelling of venue latency effects allowing for realistic performance analysis on both algorithmic and Smart Order Routed trade flows.

The LiquidMetrix products allow Investment firms to monitor and compare the performance of their order routing technology / algorithms / broker DMAs and to make informed decisions on achieving the best possible prices by taking full advantage of the opportunities available.

    

London Stock Exchange Group

London Stock Exchange Group sits at the heart of world’s financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivative markets as well as offering high performance trading platforms, access to real time and reference data, and market-leading post-trade services.
Monte Titoli is the Group’s depository and the 3rd largest provider of CSD services in Europe. As a leader in the post-trade industry with a AA rating from Thomas Murray, Monte Titoli currently maintains €3.2 trillion AUM. A wide range of services are currently offered to a large and internationally diverse client base constituting over 400 banks and brokers and over 2,200 issuers. Monte Titoli is taking a leading role in a continuously evolving market environment as a global service provider, starting from is evidenced by its long-standing commitment to participate in the first wave of the ECB’s T2S project. LSE with Monte Titoli is about to launch a new service for Eurobonds aiming at offering in this domain a more competitive and efficient service to both issuers and investors. The service will be launched by June 2013.

    

Marketmind

Marketmind offers a complete solution for investment banks and brokerages providing electronic trading solutions to its customers. Marketmind has world leading mobile applications, an advanced Windows Trader, and a highly customizable web framework - All created with speed and stability in mind.
In addition we offer server-side solutions that interface with any execution platform you have in place, and keeps the clients portfolio, trades and orders perfectly in sync no matter which Marketmind client he utilizes.
Its powerful order validation capabilities are highly configurable and keep your business safe while minimizing impact for the customer.

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Find “Marketmind” in App Store(iOS), or Google Play(Android) today from your phone or tablet and you will instantly be on top of the market with the latest headlines and quotes. Come see us in the exhibition are during the break, and find out how our products can help your company find new business

    

Neonet

Neonet’s mission is to deliver a truly transparent and independent execution service to the trading community, with an optimized balance of quality and cost. The execution service includes advanced smart order routing, trading algorithms, a comprehensive execution management system and a trading and customer service desk operated by qualified execution specialists. Neonet does not engage in proprietary trading or any other financial activity that could result in a potential conflict of interest.

    

OneMarketData

OneMarketData provides market data storage and analytics solutions that enable financial institutions to outmaneuver their competition with faster time to market of new trading strategies and superior data management. Through its flagship product OneTick, the only solution that combines complex event processing (CEP) and tick data management spanning both historical and real-time analysis, quants, analysts and traders can quickly go to market with new strategies that will best the competition. Through its intuitive, performance-driven design, OneTick users benefit from an enterprise system that was built by Wall Street experts to address the needs of the most discerning financial institutions involved with sophisticated data analysis

    

Orc

Orc is a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry. Since 1987, Orc delivers trading and market access solutions used by proprietary trading and market making firms, investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage houses worldwide.

Orc develops and provides the tools needed for running profitable trading or brokerage businesses in today's competitive and ever-changing markets.

Orc Trading solutions are used by leading financial firms worldwide for market making, volatility trading and high-frequency trading. Together with access to the major cash and derivatives markets and a network of brokers, this is truly an unmatched offering.

Orc Access solutions offer brokers and trading firms worldwide; high quality, low-latency stand-alone market access in a cost efficient way. Orc Access enables firms to shift focus from connectivity to core business.

With market presence in all major global financial centers, Orc provides sales and support services from its offices across EMEA, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific regions.


    

Otkritie

Otkritie Securities Limited is London-based FSA authorised and regulated firm.
A leading broker on Moscow Exchange (FX, Equities, Futures & Options) and one of the largest participants (by volume and turnover) on the London Stock Exchange's International Order Book.

Trading on the Russian exchanges differs from other European markets; to allow international clients efficient and cost-effective access, OTKRITIE has developed a range of solutions for a broad spectrum of client type.
In addition to classic brokerage via trading desk electronic access provides an integrated offering to investors for accessing our exchanges with transparent and anonymous Direct Market Access (DMA).


OTKRITIE electronic market coverage includes the major Russian as well as the main European and US exchanges. Connection to electronic trading platform is designed to be technology-neutral. Clients can use their existing systems or internationally recognised alternative technologies e.g FIX to route orders to OTKRITIE. Proximity hosting and co-location services are also available for latency sensitive clients.

We believe that Russia is one of the most exciting opportunities in emerging markets today,
and OTKRITIE is ideally placed to provide the expertise and access to deliver client driven solutions.

    

pdv Financial Software

pdv Financial Software GmbH produces and markets software packages for the securities trading and treasury business. Furthermore, pdv provides consulting services to assist clients with the integration and operation of their respective trading systems.
pdv's business is centred around the DECIDE product family, a powerful and innovative platform for trading, position keeping and risk management. DECIDE covers a wide spectrum of financial instruments – cash instruments, exchange trade and OTC derivatives including complex derivatives and exotics. Structured products are supported by an innovative module that allows for generic and flexible product definitions and pricing.

DECIDE offers Front Office Automation, leveraging all available information into smart trading decisions. Application fields cover algorithmic care order execution, basket trading, pair trading, automated hedging and quoting.

DECIDE is available for in-house installation and for on-demand services, providing a multi-client financial community with trading and risk management services in a SaaS/ASP-like framework.

    

Pictet & Cie

Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, and one of the premier independent asset management specialists in Europe, with over $410 billion in assets under management and custody at 31st December 2012. Pictet & Cie is a partnership owned and managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for the bank's commitments.

Our trading department has over 205 years of experience, with more than 100 professionals making it a leading provider of global portfolio trading services, providing clients with superior trading tools and capabilities. We are an agency brokerage, with no proprietary position trading, company research coverage, internal research or investment banking. Our experienced and dedicated sales and trading team has in-depth understanding of global and local markets and is a leader in trading tailor-made products with dedicated resources and specialized expertise in compliance and securities law.

    

Progress Software

Progress Software's award-winning Apama Complex Event Processing engine offers a flexible and powerful platform for algorithmic trading, FX eCommerce, risk and compliance monitoring and other high frequency, low latency capital markets applications.

As well as industry leading solutions, Progress Apama offers a highly scalable technology infrastructure, extensive data connectivity options as well as a rich catalogue of components to enable rapid development of bespoke capital markets applications.

With Progress Apama, capital markets firms can leverage a single highly extensible platform in multiple areas of their business thereby simultaneously reducing the total cost of technology ownership and realising the benefits of both a buy and build IT strategy.

    

Quanthouse

S&P Capital IQ, a business line of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class and real time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities around the world. QuantHouse, a part of S&P Capital IQ, is the global provider of market data and end-to-end systematic trading solutions. Its international offerings include low latency market data (QuantFEED), automated trading platform (QuantFACTORY) and proximity hosting low latency order routing (QuantLINK) to buy- and sell-side and technology companies, as well as exchanges and MTFs. QuantHouse has over 120 clients, 16 global data centres, 45 direct exchange connections and 90 total exchange data feeds. For more information please visit www.quanthouse.com.

    

RainStor

RainStor is the enterprise database company that consistently delivers 90% cost savings to customers facing Big Data and Data Warehousing challenges. RainStor's patented database provides unprecedented levels of data compression combined with high performance on-demand query access, resulting in tremendous cost savings, improved operational efficiency and predictive scalability when dealing with large volumes of data. RainStor's comprehensive data security ensures data privacy, protection against insider threats via role-based access, authorization and authentication. RainStor provides the flexibility for users to choose from a wide variety of storage options, including NAS, SAN, CAS and even runs natively with Hadoop allowing customers to further leverage and extend the life of their existing investment on low cost, commodity hardware tailored toward big data analytics. Customers worldwide use RainStor to improve operational efficiency and meet compliance needs while saving millions in costs. Leading companies including Dell, HP and Teradata partner with RainStor to deliver open, standards-based and enterprise-grade Big Data solutions.

    

Realtick

Eze Software Group is a premier provider of global investment technology for the front, middle, and back office. Eze Software Group partners with more than 1,500 buy-side and sell-side institutions in 30 countries across North and South America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Its clients include broker-dealers, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, institutional asset managers, mutual funds, pension funds, and professional individual investors.

Eze Software employs more than 750 people worldwide. It is headquartered in Boston with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, London, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Singapore, Stamford, and Sydney.

Formed in 2013, Eze Software brings together the proven success of the RealTick EMS®, Eze OMS™, and Tradar PMS teams. Offering award-winning products and unparalleled customer service, Eze Software Group is committed to providing cutting-edge solutions for your investment needs.

For more information, contact sales@ezesoft.com

    

SIX Swiss Exchange

SIX Swiss Exchange is a leading regulated securities exchange in Europe and unrivalled in the life science area. As a key pillar of the Swiss financial sector's infrastructure, it is an ideal listing location and helps create the best possible trading conditions, connecting investors, issuers and participants from across the world. It forms the efficient and transparent reference market for trading in its attractive segments of equities, bonds, ETFs, ETPs and securitised derivatives (via Scoach). SIX Swiss Exchange invests continually in high-performance exchange technology. Its trading platform supports multiple currencies and features an impressive selection of modular connection options as well as low latency and high capacity. As a reliable, well connected and highly engaged partner, SIX Swiss Exchange enables the success of its customers.

    

Societe Generale

At the core of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 12,000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

The Equity Execution Services team proposes liquidity solutions, advanced algorithms and an integrated execution product including all equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and index futures, with a coverage across 65 world markets, including direct electronic access to 38 markets. Quantitative Electronic Services (QES) provides advanced algorithmic trading, Direct Market Access and Direct Capital Access worldwide, as well as liquidity solutions including the bank’s Alpha-x crossing network and Smart Order Routing capabilities.

Contact details: Mark Goodman, mark.goodman@sgcib.com , +44 20 7762 5751

    

SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500.
About SunGard's Solutions for Capital Markets
SunGard's solutions for capital markets help banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and other financial institutions improve the efficiency, transparency and control of their trading and processing. From market connectivity, trade execution and securities financing to accounting, data management and tax reporting, our solutions provide cross-asset support for the entire trade lifecycle. We help our customers increase efficiency, make more informed decisions, improve their use of capital and manage risk more effectively.

    

Tata Communications

In an era of economic downturn, the world is continuing to realise the tremendous opportunity of emerging markets and the need to do more with less.


    

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, 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 more than 55,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI).

    

TradingScreen

TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS to the financial community. TradingScreen's goal is to simplify the complexity of markets, by consolidating all investment workflows for exchange-traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major, global sell-side participants, leading regional brokers and the largest Buy side firms to a common environment, delivering market access, order- and liquidity-management and Investment services. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, asset classes, and geography, and a full integration of services front to back. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

    

Truphone

Truphone is an international mobile operator delivering high quality, reliable mobile communications for global businesses. Unlike other operators, Truphone has never been restricted by national borders and focuses on solving the injustice of exorbitant international mobile costs with an elegant solution that removes all barriers to working internationally.

Truphone also provides mobile recording on a network level for some of the largest financial organisations, allowing them to be compliant with call recording regulations across the globe. Our solution has no noticeable call connection delays and no change in user behaviour is needed. Recordings are easily managed and retrieved, making it indispensable for financial organisations.

Truphone offers the full GSM experience you would expect from any top class provider - just recorded, and with features that benefit the international traveller.

    

Ullink

ULLINK is a global provider of trading software and services specializing in cost-saving, high touch and low touch trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side market participants. For over eleven years, the ULLINK client experience has been grounded in access to our reliability to deliver the most current and innovative technology available in the industry. Clients benefit from ULLINK's modular, scalable front and middle-office solutions, across all asset classes, encompassing low latency, pre-trade risk, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading.
ULLINK's menu of solutions enables banks and brokers to rapidly achieve compliance with exchanges and regulatory regimes around the globe, with the flexibility of being deployed via the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-hosted and managed service.
Privately held, ULLINK services its clients, including top-tier global financial institutions, from offices in New York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Cluj, and Sydney.

    

URALSIB

URALSIB Financial Corporation is one of the oldest and most reputable financial institutions in Russia. With the launch of its DMA product, URALSIB aims to provide Buy side and Sell side institutions with unparalleled low latency, low cost and low risk access to the Russian securities market. In addition, we believe that account management and support are key to the success of our product.

URALSIB provides DMA service via its brokerage arms in Moscow and London: URALSIB Capital-Financial Services LLC is a licensed brokerage company authorised and regulated by the Federal Financial Markets Service in the Russian Federation, and is an official participant on Russian exchanges; URALSIB Securities Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom and is a member firm of the London Stock Exchange, Turqoise Derivatives and Euronext.

URALSIB is committed to offer tailored solutions to clients wishing to access Russia via DMA but with a more Westernised operational scheme.

    

Volta

Volta is a specialist developer and operator of purpose-designed data centres. The company's first high specification new facility is located at Great Sutton Street in immediate proximity to the City of London and is well known as the former Reuters facility and more recently operated by BT.
The site benefits from two diverse 33kV power supplies of 9.6MW from two independent grid substations giving it a level of resilience that no other Central London data centre can match. The facility will offer single or multiple racks of 4KW or more, and for an added level of security private cages from 50KW offer an environment that can be designed specifically to meet your requirements.
The site has some of the world's leading carriers all with their own fibre to ensure ultra-fast, resilient connectivity. As a carrier neutral facility, our customers have the freedom to select their own carriers or choose from those on site including Zayo, BT, Cable & Wireless, Colt, euNetworks, Verizon and Geo UK. This range provides diversity and resilience, and allows the facility to offer sub-millisecond latency making it ideally placed for financial services, high-frequency trading firms, hedge funds, brokers and banks in the City, as well as new media and content providers in Shoreditch and the West End
Volta Great Sutton is a highly secure stand alone facility offering 24 hour security. Previously operating as a data centre for twenty-five years, the 91,000 sq ft site has been completely redesigned and will be refitted, featuring containment with in-aisle cooling systems which will make Volta Great Sutton Street one of the most energy efficient data centres in London.
This new facility is scheduled to open early in 2013

    

VTLWaveNet

VTLWaveNet, part of the Viatel group, combines an advanced fibre optic backbone network with metro reach into the key financial centres, carrier houses and data centres. This enables the company to offer customers wavelengths, Ethernet, dark fibre services, co-location and leased lines. Because VTLWaveNet owns the underlying infrastructure and has equipped the network with the latest high capacity optical DWDM technology and multi service platforms, it can offer these services quickly, very cost effectively, at all speeds and with all the routing and low latency information required.

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