Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $2.0 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns approximately half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies with more than $1 trillion in assets under management.

Merrill Lynch is one of the pre-eminent providers of global execution services including Algorithmic Trading, Direct Market Access, Single Stock and Portfolio Trading, Transition Services, Commission Sharing Agreements and Transaction Cost Analysis to institutional and hedge funds clients globally.

DSP Merrill Lynch Limited is one of the leading capital markets and advisory companies in India. Merrill Lynch holds a 90% stake in DSP Merrill Lynch Limited. DSP Merrill Lynch has consistently won leading awards from international publications including Euromoney, FinanceAsia and The Asset.

For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit www.ml.com.

Fidessa Group is a leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analyses, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side globally.

The Fidessa suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global equity brokers providing sophisticated trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities to all tiers of the sell-side.

The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms, smaller specialist managers and hedge funds, providing comprehensive portfolio analysis, real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade processing tools, across all asset classes.

Fidessa’s global network carries over 95 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between 1,500 buy-sides and 255 brokers across all asset classes.

Fidessa group serves around 22,000 users across 520 clients globally.

Contact email- info@fidessa.com Telephone- +44(0)207929 9200 Website address- www.fidessa.com

Financial Technologies (India) Limited (NSE: FINANTECH, BSE: FINTECH), the flagship company of the Financial Technologies Group, US$3.04 billion (market capitalization as on December 31, 2007), is among the global leaders in offering technology IP (Intellectual Property) and domain expertise to create and trade on next generation financial markets, that are transparent, efficient and liquid, across all asset class including - equities, commodities, currency and bond.

Our highly robust and scalable exchange and trading technology platform, coupled with deep domain expertise, gives us a decisive edge in driving mass disruptive innovation at speed and cost of execution that are unmatched in the financial markets industry and address market opportunities, for new asset class that are either under-served or economically unviable to serve by traditional players.

Our markets transform the lives of people by democratizing global trade, economy and growth and propagating the benefits of ‘price transparency’, ‘risk hedging’ and ‘structured public finance’ to the masses - driving inclusive and equitable growth and unlocking exponential value from the middle and bottom of the pyramid.
DOME, the market leading product suite for Exchange Solution is the engine powering exchanges set-up by FT Group including - .

1. MCX (www.mcxindia.com), India’s No. 1 multi-commodity futures exchange
2. DGCX Dubai (www.dgcx.ae), The first international commodity and currency derivatives market in the Middle East
3. IBS Forex (www.ibsfx.com), Inter-bank foreign exchange platform.
4. NSEL (www.nseap.com) Pan India electronic Spot Market
5. IEX (www.iexindia.com) India’s first national-level power exchange for trading electricity
6. SNX (www.snxindia.com) A nation-wide platform for trading in horticulture, floriculture, dairy and allied products
7. GBOT Mauritius. Pan African global exchange in Mauritius

Credit Suisse - Advanced Execution Services® (AES) is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures, and foreign exchange. With AES's tools, traders can work orders on multiple liquidity pools, increase productivity by automating trading and improve execution performance. AES helps more than a thousand institutions and hedge funds reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and add consistency to their trading processes. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. The platform has been consistently ranked as the leader in global industry surveys. For more information: http://www.credit-suisse.com/ib/en/equities/aes.html or contact the AES sales desk on +852 2101 6443. www.credit-suisse.com

MF Global Ltd (NYSE: MF) is a world leading broker for exchange-traded futures and options. With a history dating back to the 18th century, the firm is present in all major and fast growing markets, and provides access to over 70 exchanges. It also a valued-added intermediary across equities, currencies, commodities, and interest rates.

MF Global has the tools and experience to provide the industry’s most comprehensive DMA solutions. Demonstrating it’s commitment as a world leader in electronic connectivity, MF Global’s Indian subsidiary was the country’s first broker to secure permission from both the NSE and BSE to provide fully-developed DMA to the Indian marketplace across all exchange traded products. High quality, low latency, redundant IT infrastructure combined with customized solutions enable customers to trade exactly as they want without compromise.

MF Global also provides a rich depth of fundamental, quantitative, and alternative research for all the markets it services. MF Global does not engage in proprietary trading, investment banking, nor any other activity with potential conflict of interest with the client.

For further information regarding electronic connectivity to India, contact kumar.goradia@mfglobal.in

Religare Technova Limited is the holding company for the IT business of a large diversified Indian transnational promoter group. The group pursues aggressive business interests globally in Financial Services, Health Care and Wellness, Aviation and Travel. Other group entities include Religare Enterprises, Fortis HealthCare, Fortis HealthWorld, SRL Ranbaxy and Regius Aviation. The Religare Technova umbrella includes Religare Technova IT Services Limited, which provides Enterprise IT Solutions; Religare Technova Business Intellect Ltd, which provides Knowledge Management Solutions; Asian CERC Information Technology Ltd and Capital Market Solutions Pty Ltd, leaders in providing Enterprise Software Solutions to the Capital and Financial markets. More than 80% of the Indian corporate content on the internet is owned by Asian CERC which currently caters to 110+ Internet Trading Platforms in the country.

Currently with over 1500 employees and presence in over 10 countries, Religare Technova is poised to be a leader in the global IT space. The group entities have partnered with IT majors, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Internet companies to provide a broad spectrum of IT services, products and solutions to their customers. Religare Technova focuses on clients in key verticals such as Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Capital Markets, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Automotive and Steel amongst others. For more information, please log on to www.religaretechnova.com or write into us at connect@religaretechnova.com