Dow Jones

Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com) and a leading provider of global news and business information. Its principal products include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Dow Jones Indexes. Its Local Media Group operates community-based newspapers and Web sites. Dow Jones also provides news content to television and radio stations.

More than 438,000 financial professionals in 66 countries turn to Dow Jones for breaking news, commentary and analysis, including market-moving corporate, economic, market, financial and political news. Reporting from nearly 90 bureaus across the globe, Dow Jones publishes up to 18,000 news items each day, in 11 languages, covering all asset classes. Dow Jones products help customers build relationships, create market opportunities and enhance trust in their services.

Sybase

Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as the performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics, mobile messaging and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government.

With Sybase, enterprises can manage the high volumes and variety of data, analyze this vital information and mobilize it so people can conduct business any time, anywhere. For over 25 years, Sybase has powered the most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government.
Twenty-four of the Top 25 global banks, and 46 of the Top 50 global banks and securities firms, rely on Sybase to deliver intra-day risk analysis, while processing hundreds of thousands of financial trades—in real time. The telecommunications industry is using our mobile services to reach over 3 billion subscribers across 700 mobile operators, sending more than 200 billion messages per year; using our data management solutions to process billions of call data records’ transactions. In the government sector, agencies use Sybase solutions to mobilize supply management systems, deliver complex analysis accessing millions of records in seconds, and securely manage critical data assets. When information matters, Sybase is the industry leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing data across all major systems, networks and devices across the globe. More on www.sybase.com

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 financial and risk management products and services. The company's corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses operate under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch brand. Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.

Credit Suisse

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com 

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 improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the marketplace and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognized consistently as the leader in algorithmic trading.  

For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.

DirectFN

DirectFN^TM is a registered trademark owned by National Technology Group (NTG) www.ntg.com.sa.The first online trading engine in the Middle Eastern region, DirectFN provides a complete end-to-end e-trading solution with an advanced e-trading engine that empowers investors to buy and sell securities online anytime anywhere. With Straight-Through-Processing (STP) capabilities, DirectFN aims to minimize customers streamlining inefficiencies in the order execution lifecycle.

DirectFN‘s asset covers a range markets from multi-instruments in Equity, FOREX, Commodity, Fixed Income, & Derivatives. Furthermore, DirectFN supports real-time multi -channel, multi-market price dissemination, online STP trading with sophisticated Technical analytical tools, news, unparalleled content and other value added-services.

DirectFN products have been deployed and operational in over 18 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt, Africa, India, Indonesia and USA. Proven for quality-of-service (QoS), DirectFN provides investment protection with high availability, reliability and scalability.

Fidessa

Fidessa group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world’s financial markets. Fidessa’s products and services are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities.Fidessa’s global network carries $600 billion of flow a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between over 2,300 buy-sides and 400 brokers across 120 markets worldwide.

Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 24,000 users across 730 clients, serving a broad spectrum of customers from major investment banks and asset managers through to specialist niche brokers and hedge funds. Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange, is a FTSE 250 company, has a turnover of around £200million and employs 1,400 people globally.

Flextrade Systems

Founded in 1996, FlexTrade is the industry pioneer and global leader in brokerneutral algorithmic trading platforms and execution systems for equities, foreign exchange and listed derivatives. With offices in Asia, North America and Europe, FlexTrade has a worldwide client base spanning more than 120 buy- and sell-side firms, including many of the largest investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors and institutional brokers. FlexTRADER, our award winning, fully customizable EMS, comes with pre-defined trading strategie s and tactics for portfolio, sector and single stock trading. The platform provides organically developed pre-trade, real-time and post-trade analytics as well as risk and cost optimized portfolio trade scheduling; advanced integrations with major OMSs; bunching of orders and complex real-time allocations; listed and OTC smart order routing; a fully integrated high performance Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine; commission management; and complete transaction and IOI quality management.

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. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs over 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura’s unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through three business divisions: retail, wholesale (global markets, investment banking, and other wholesale), and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com.

Geojit Technologies

Geojit Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (GTL) is a SEI CMMI Level 3 accredited software solutions provider engaged in conceptualizing, designing and implementing end-to-end business solutions. GTL, owned by Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services (65%) and BNP Paribas (35%), is headquartered in Kochi. Geojit BNP Paribas is one of the top financial services companies in India (BNP Paribas is the single largest shareholder with 34%), with 23 years of experience of the Capital Market, member of NSE and BSE, and with a strong presence in the GCC countries.

GTL is experienced in developing software applications for the BFSI sector, especially for banks in the field of Depository Services, Portfolio Investment Services Processing and Portfolio Management Systems. Further, GTL has expertise in providing comprehensive solutions for development of offer, support and services of Mutual Funds via the online route. Company has sound knowledge in Capital Market and Settlement Systems, and has expertise in both FIX sell-side and buy-side implementations which enables the company to develop FIX based DMA systems. Apart from Geojit BNP Paribas, GTL has implementations in UAE, Muscat, Madras Stock Exchange, Inter Connected Stock Exchange and leading Indian banks. GTL is an empanelled vendor of trading solutions of National Stock Exchange and Back Office solution of DGCX. Its Order Management System is also empanelled in Tadawul (Stock Exchange of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and MSM (Muscat Securities Markets).

GTL has strong skills in developing FIX Gateways, OMS and Settlement Systems. Company also has an excellent skill set in developing mobile trading applications.

National Stock Exchange of India

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) operates a nation-wide, electronic market, offering trading in various financial instruments. NSE started its operations in June 1994, in the Wholesale Debt Market segment. This segment provides trading in a wide range of fixed income securities which include government securities, treasury bills, bonds etc. The other market Segments at NSE are the Capital Market, Derivatives Market and Currency Derivatives segments. The Capital Market segment provides trading in equities, preference shares, ETFs, Retail Government Securities etc.

NSE today accounts for nearly 74% of the total trading value of all stock exchanges in India in equities. Derivatives trading commenced in India in June 2000. Currently, NSE provides trading in futures and options on 5 indices and 190 single stocks. NSE has established itself as the market leader in this segment with more than 98% market share. Today NSE network stretches to more than 1,500 locations in the country and supports more than 2, 80,000 terminals.

Cognizant

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With over 50 global delivery centers and more than 78,400 employees as of December 31, 2009, we combine a unique onsite/offshore delivery model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com

Omnesys

Omnesys NEST is a leading multi-asset, multi venue trading system from Omnesys. The NEST product suite is available as a firm or broker hosted model, and in a Software As a Service (SaS) Model. Omnesys NEST is a platform of choice for leading institutions, exchanges and brokers in India.

Omnesys NEST is a fully integrated eco-system for securities including Order Management System, comprehensive pre-trade risk management systems, supports various types of front ends, automated trading systems, and Algos. Omnesys NEST also provides FIX execution capabilities and APIs for both buy and sell side firms. With exceptional throughput and scalability capabilities, NEST has captured significant market share in the Indian markets within a short period of time. A substantial percentage of the volumes on the markets happen through Omnesys NEST automated trading systems and algos.  The largest single installation handles over 20000 concurrent dealer logins, and more than a million orders / trades.

For more information : www.omnesysindia.com

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 and 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 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.