24 - 26 April, 2012
Excel Centre, London

 

Lead Sponsor

BT

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of networked IT services for the financial industry, bringing together all of the communications technology and services needed to trade and stay connected to the markets.

The BT Radianz Cloud provides 15,000 financial customer locations around the world with access to over 400 of the world’s leading content and service. The fully-managed BT Radianz service consolidates all of a firm’s connectivity onto a single connection, ensuring secure, reliable access to trading partners and services.

BT Radianz Ultra provides low-latency connectivity with sub-millisecond round-trip delays to select execution venues. BT Radianz Proximity combines connectivity with fully-managed hosting facilities, and BT Radianz Venue Interconnect extends low-latency connectivity to execution venues around the world.

The BT Radianz Cloud also supports post-trade services, where security and reliability are paramount, and BT Radianz Messaging ensures secure, reliable, tamper-proof and non-repudiable message delivery.

BT Unified Trading is a software-based, cloud-compatible trader voice, multi-media platform that enables communication, collaboration and compliance for trading firms. BT Unified Trading is designed to give market professionals the flexibility to interact, collaborate and trade securely and with greater compliance through multiple communication channels, across their enterprise and with their clients and counterparties.

 

    
Principal Sponsors

London Stock Exchange Group

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe’s leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, offering pan-European and US lit and dark equity trading. Through its markets, the Group offers international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.

The Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software and also offers its customers around the world an extensive range of real-time and reference data products and market-leading post-trade services. Headquartered in London,United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy and Sri Lanka, the Group employs around 1,500 people. Further information on London Stock Exchange Group can be found at www.londonstockexchangegroup.com

 

    
Principal Sponsor

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other fi nancial and risk-management products and services. Following the merger with Merrill Lynch on 1 January 2009, Bank of America Merrill Lynch became the largest brokerage in the world and now serves clients and customers in more than 100 countries.

The company is a long-established participant in the European markets,with a presence since 1922. The company employs over 15,000 people in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and has offices in 19 countries. Today, the company offers an integrated and comprehensive set of products and services, serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and government clients across EMEA, combining the best of local knowledge and international expertise.

 

    
Principal Sponsor

Cheuvreux

Part of the Crédit Agricole Group, CA Cheuvreux is the leading pure-agency European equity broker. Its historical multi-local* model positions CA Cheuvreux as a cutting-edge outperformance provider for its 1,200 institutional investor clients. CA Cheuvreux offers extensive, high value-added services in Research, Sales and Execution. With 90 analysts and economists, and unparalleled coverage of 700 stocks, CA Cheuvreux is continuously ranked in the Top 5 for European Country research and a Top 3 European Corporate Access provider.

CA Cheuvreux provides extensive market access to120 execution platforms worldwide including all major MTFs and dark pools. Ranked No. 3 in Sales Trading Client Service & Trading Ideas/Updates, CA Cheuvreux’s execution specialists offer a wide spectrum of first-class products: DMA, Algorithmic Trading, Global Portfolio Trading, Equity Swaps and its own internal crossing engine “Blink”. www.cheuvreux.com*CA Cheuvreux has 14 offices worldwide: Amsterdam, Athens, Boston,Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Stockholm, San Francisco,Tokyo and Zurich.


    
Principal Sponsor

BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the best rated banks in the world*. The Group has a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including more than 160,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending.

BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.*Rated AA- by Standard & Poor’s.

          

    
Principal Sponsor

NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company’s exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures,options,fixed-income and exchange-tradedproducts.With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext’s equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group.

NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world’s second-largest derivatives business by value of trading.The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500.For more info, please visit www.nyx.com.

 

    
Principal Sponsor

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With Euro1,501 billion in assets and 77,053 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 for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

Global Markets’ equity business, Global Markets Equity, is a market leading provider of equity and equity-linked products to institutional, corporate and retail clients globally. The award-winning platform offers scalability and flexibility in its design, providing a global network of execution services and financial engineering expertise.


    
Principal Sponsor

Knight

Knight is a global financial services firm that provided trade execution,research, asset management and capital market services across multiple asset classes. The firm is consistently ranked as a leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities with over five million shares traded daily. Knight has a global presence with offices located throughout North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For additional information about Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) please visit www.knight.com


    
Principal Sponsor

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.

    
Principal Sponsor

Nomura

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Nomura’s Electronic Trading Services benefit from long standing experience and industry leading intelligence and technology, renowned for providing clients a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform.

The fully integrated product suite combining the ultra low latency DMA on the NXT platform and strategy execution via the ModelEx suite, is supplemented with advanced pre, intra and post trade analytics in TradeSpex. All execution channels are underpinned by next generation smart order routing logic, providing access to multiple sources of available liquidity with an intelligent placement approach. Client execution experience is further enriched via access to Nomura’s NX dark MTF.


    
Principal Sponsor

UBS

UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions. Headquartered in Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers. The Group comprises the Corporate Center and four business divisions: Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Wealth Management Americas, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank.

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.


    
Principal Sponsor

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.

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


    
Principal Sponsor

Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs over 24,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. For more information, visit barcap.com


    
Principal Sponsor

Goldman Sachs

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 FIX or our top-ranked EMS platform, REDIPlus®. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our 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.


    
Principal Sponsor

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Through our worldwide footprint, technology capabilities and content offerings we can help financial firms scale their presence and business agility. Thomson Reuters Elektron is a simple-to-access global network that links the world’s financial institutions. The shared platform provides connectivity to all key markets and liquidity pools via a single access point, reducing complexity, cost and time to market.

It delivers access to real-time data from 350+ exchange and OTC markets, 14 million instruments, along with proprietary news, evaluated pricing, reference data, tick history and third party content, at the speed and depth of information a firm requires, as well as providing analytics and other value-added services.


    
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