About Our Sponsors

BMV Group is a fully integrated Exchange Group which operates cash, listed derivatives and OTC markets for multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income and Exchange traded funds as well as providing custody, clearing and settlement facilities and data products to the local and international financial community. Over the last years, the Group has evolved and offered high-speed electronic platforms for equity, derivatives and fixed income products through its entities, including the “Bolsa”, “MexDer” and “SIF ICAP” respectively.

BMV Group, is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America with a total market capitalization of over US $ 443 billion. Post-trade activity also takes place with the highest standards. Investments and trades carried out through our platforms are cleared and settled through our Central Counterparties “CCV” for equities, and “Asigna” for derivatives. All positions are under the custody of “Indeval” which has agreements with all major custodians around the world.

Through different distribution channels, data vendors and information systems such as “Sibolsa”, BMV Group offers real time, historical and index data as well as issuers corporate information to help investment decisions. Additionally, through “Valmer”, the Groups Price Vendor, participants are daily provided with prices and risks management services for financial instruments.

All these companies are backed by highly sophisticated technology of “Bursatec”, our technological company that provides communication networks and systems to support our trading, post – trading and data services to our worldwide range of customers.

Main Services:
Services for Institutional clients: Electronic Trading, Algo-Trading and DMA Channels.

Markets:
Mexico.

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 and unquestionable leadership, The Accival’s commitment in the Electronic Trading is to develop consistently with the Citi global targets a precise array of applications designed to support our Global and Local Clients to achieve their strategies.

Their DMA provides high-speed access to the Mexican Stock Exchange. Its design emphasizes in speed, security and stability, while enhancing its power through its constant real-time execution, on the other hand their Algorithmic Trading Platform understands the value of simplicity. They designed their algorithms to minimize market impact in today’s highly evolved trading environment. Each strategy has been deeply tested to match any liquidity issue.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com

Services:
Equities, Research, Electronic Trading, Co-location

Markets:
Mexico, US, Brazil, Chile

Grupo Bursatil Mexicano (GBM) is a Mexican independent investment and brokerage firm with more than 30 years of experience in Mexico’s financial market. Great effort and keen focus throughout the years have placed them in the lead in terms of equity trading, private banking, investment funds and e-trading, in the Mexican market; this without leaving aside one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry.

As a value oriented company, GBM´s competitive advantage has come as product of our methods towards investing; that is: all investment ideas and decisions are based on the thorough analysis of their research department. It’s worth mentioning that GBM, counts with the most extent research team in the entire country, providing core input fundamentals that help them guide clients towards good investment ideas.

Additional to profund fundamental analysis, their execution service is no less eminent. GBM counts with a four-way execution model, with broker dealers in Mexico, US, Brazil and Chile, under which, the strategic advantage is on their side before the eyes of the competition.

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$ 808M.[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.

Services:
Electronic and traditional Cash Equity Execution in multiple markets including Latin America. BBVA prides itself in offering flexible connectivity solutions, advanced technology and global custody wrapped around strong client service mentality.

Markets:
- Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania
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BBVA Bancomer is the largest financial institution in Mexico and a fully owned subsidiary of BBVA SA which has more than 47 million clients in 32 countries

BBVA offers flexible connectivity and low latency solutions through its efficient and secure trading platform. In addition to automation, clients can count on an experienced team of Sales, Sales Traders and Execution executives to take care of their specific requirements supported by the best Equity Research teams locally. BBVA Bancomer, through BBVA, can offer efficient access to multiple markets globally through 3 hubs (Hong Kong, Madrid and Mexico) and Global Custody services. This is what makes Casa de Bolsa BBVA Bancomer your best partner in Mexico and Latam.

Warsaw Stock Exchange is the largest national stock exchange in the CEE and one of the fastest-growing exchanges in Europe. WSE Group offers a wide range of products and services within its trading markets of equity, derivative, fixed income and structured products; it also distributes market data. WSE is one of the most recognizable Polish financial institutions worldwide.

The parent entity and the subsidiaries making up the Capital Group have three main business lines:

• listing, encompassing mainly introduction, admission to trading and listing of securities on markets organized and operated by the Group,
• trading, encompassing the trading in all financial instruments admitted and introduced to trading on markets organized and operated by the Group,
• information services (market data), encompassing the provision of stock exchange data to users and licenses for indices.

In its business in all these three segments, the Group organizes and operates trading on the following markets:

• Main Market (trade in equities, other equity-related securities and cash markets instruments as well as derivatives),
• NewConnect (trade in equities and other equity-related securities of small and medium-sized enterprises),
• Catalyst (trade in corporate, municipal, co-operative, Treasury and mortgage bonds operated by WSE and BondSpot),
• Treasury BondSpot Poland (wholesale trade in Treasury bonds operated by BondSpot), poee WSE Energy Market (trade in electric power).

The National Depository for Securities (KDPW) is a central infrastructure institution responsible for the management and supervision of the depository, clearing and settlement system to enable the trading of financial instruments in Poland.

As of 1 July 2011 KDPW has transferred its clearing functions for transactions executed in the regulated market and alternative trading system, as well as the management of clearing liquidity guarantee system to KDPW_CCP.

KDPW_CCP performs the functions of a central counterparty (CCP) clearing house on the Polish market. Concurrently with the start of operations of KDPW_CCP, a new clearing guarantee system has been implemented.

KDPW remains responsible for functions including the settlement of transactions (operations in depository accounts) and the operation of the central securities depository.

Currently KDPW_CCP is working on new project – clearing of OTC derivatives. The project was consulted with the biggest Polish banks operating on the local capital market.

SOCOPA - CORRETORA PAULISTA, member of BM&FBOVESPA S.A. - Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange, is one of the most traditional Brazilian brokerage houses. SOCOPA offers specialized services such as execution of orders on the stock and commodities markets, investment consulting, managed portfolios, mutual funds, investment clubs, foreign exchange and structured operations.
SOCOPA - CORRETORA PAULISTA plays a leading role in Brazilian exchanges' new technology. It was the first Brazilian brokerage to allow on-line trading through Internet in Brazil.
Socopa is a full subsidiary of Banco Paulista, and along with it ,can be a one stop shop to trade Brazil as Banco Paulista is authorized by CVM (Brazilian SEC) to offer custodian and representative services

Otkritie Securities Limited (OSL) is the UK-based subsidiary of OTKRITIE Financial Corporation Ltd. Established in 1995, OTKRITIE Financial Corporation (OTKRITIE) is one of the leading financial groups in Russia which offers its clients and partners the full array of commercial and investment banking services, asset management and brokerage. OSL is authorized and regulated by FSA and focuses on providing agency execution. Accredited by the major exchanges where Russian instruments are traded, we offer global market connectivity and order routing from our offices in London, Moscow, Frankfurt & Cyprus. Trading on the Russian exchanges is somewhat different from most other European markets; practical experience and a deep understanding of Russian markets help us advise our clients solutions to trade equities, depository receipts and derivatives on MICEX, FORTS, RTS, LSE, NYSE, Deutsche Boerse and EDX London. Our prime brokerage services (custody, financing, securities lending, depository receipts issuance/cancellation, clearing service & forex) are offered globally to a broad range of professional clients. OTKRITIE electronic market coverage includes all major Russian exchanges – MICEX, RTS and FORTS and a broad range of international markets, including all those where Russian related instruments are traded. Connection to the Electronic trading desk is technology-neutral as the platform is compliant with major trading system and networks, along with FIX. In addition to accessing Otkritie’s high-speed and secure Moscow-London network, proximity hosting and co-location services in both London and Moscow are also available for latency sensitive clients.

URALSIB Financial Corporation is one of the oldest and most reputable financial institutions in Russia. With the launch of its DMA product earlier this year, 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. As the Russian financial landscape is in full transformation with the merger of the RTS and MICEX, URALSIB is committed to offer a bespoke service to clients wishing to access Russia via DMA.
URALSIB provides DMA service via its brokerage arms in Moscow and London: URALSIB Capital-Financial Services LLC is a licensed brokerage company authorized and regulated by the Federal Financial Markets Service in the Russian Federation and an official participant on Russian exchanges and
URALSIB Securities Limited, authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom and is a member firm of the London Stock Exchange, EDX London and Euronext.

Renaissance Capital is a global investment bank focused on the emerging markets of Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. The Firm also offers its clients access to these markets through financial centres such as London, New York and Hong Kong.
Renaissance Capital has market-leading positions in each of its core businesses - M&A, equity and debt capital markets, securities sales and trading, research, and derivatives. Renaissance Capital’s Electronic Trading Group offers prime brokerage and execution-only services, including low latency access.
Renaissance Capital’s deep-rooted presence and unparalleled experience in Russia, coupled with a profound understanding of electronic trading, emerging markets, market structure, trading strategies and the technologies associated with those strategies, provides customers with a market-access product that is robust and resilient. Renaissance Capital is part of the Renaissance Group.

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.

WOOD & Company is a dedicated Emerging European Investment Bank focused on the capital markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Core services include equity capital markets, investment banking and asset management. WOOD & Company is a member of nine exchanges across the region and offers clients the ability to trade on all these markets. The company’s aim is to be the best financial services provider in the region by offering its clients the firm’s breadth of regional experience and capabilities.

WOOD & Company was founded in 1991 as a specialist equity brokerage and investment banking boutique for Central & Eastern Europe and has been the pioneer for electronic access across the region. It has since developed into one of the leading players in Emerging Europe with over 150 employees, offices across the region as well as an international distribution hub in London