About Our Sponsors

Deutsche Bank Group

Deutsche Bank Group is a major player in the global equity markets, delivering innovative trading solutions across a diverse client base. The platform provides access to a global network of execution and high-touch services, establishing a gateway for idea generation and cross-border expertise.

In a world of increasingly complex and rapidly evolving electronic markets, you need a partner with cutting edge technology and global access to the best pools of liquidity. Your executions need to balance the efficiency of extracting liquidity while controlling market impact and maintaining anonymity. Our trading solutions are engineered by the best in the industry, connecting you to our global depths of liquidity with the expertise of Deutsche Bank Group to help you manage it.

We call this Smarter Liquidity.

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group,Inc. is a leading global financial services fi rm providing investment banking, securities, and investment management to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations,fi nancial institutions, governments and high-networth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is head quartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and other financial centres around the world. Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary execution tools and services to manage the investment process from start to finish, from pre-trade analysis to post-trade consulting. Clients access our global offering via REDIPlus and FIX, available for trading global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange and swaps. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using SIGMA smart order router and take advantage of crossing opportunities in SIGMA X.

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 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com

Fidessa

Fidessa group supplies multiasset trading, portfolio analysis, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for fi nancial markets participants. Fidessa’s products are used by over 85% of tier-one, global fi nancial institutions, across both the buy-side and sell-side. Fidessa’s network carries $800 billion of flow a month between 2,400 buy-sides and 600 brokers across more than 150 markets worldwide. Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 26,000 users across 950 clients, serving major investment banks and asset managers through to niche brokers and hedge funds. Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Charles River Development

Charles River Development provides software, hosting and data services to automate front and middle office investment operations for buy-side fi rms. On-premise software and SaaS solutions support portfolio management, compliance and risk monitoring, access to global liquidity, and trade processing. The company has more than 300 clients in 38 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, alternative investments, wealth management, insurance, banking and pension markets.

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. 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.
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. For more information contact the AES sales desk on +813.4550.7331.

KVH

KVH Co., Ltd.

KVH, established in 1999 by Fidelity Investments, is a facility-based IT / communications service provider serving Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. Through its information delivery platform of optical networks, IT and cloud-based solutions, and data centers close to exchanges, KVH operates the lowest latency network in Japan, and with over 450 financial services customers, is the leading provider of ultra low latency network and proximity hosting solutions to the high frequency trading community in Tokyo and Osaka. KVH also offers low latency connectivity services between major financial markets in the Asia/Pacific region and the US including Tokyo, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong, Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney. KVH is a certified provider of TSE Arrownet, as well as a recommended proximity hosting and access point provider for OSE, TOCOM, TFX, and Chi-X.

More information on KVH can be found at www.kvh.co.jp

KVHは、日本およびアジアにフォーカスした通信/ITサービスプロバイダーとして、1999年に米国フィデリティ・グループにより、東京を本社に設立されました。自社の光ファイバーネットワーク、取引所に近接したデータセンターをベースに、包括的なIT、クラウドソリューションを網羅した情報デリバリー・プラットフォーム戦略を推進。国内最高水準の低遅延ネットワークは、450社以上の金融サービス分野のお客様に利用され、高頻度取引に特化した超低遅延ネットワーク接続、プロキシミティ・ホスティング・ソリューション分野において市場をリードしています。KVHの超低遅延ネットワークは、東京、大阪、シカゴ、ニューヨーク、シンガポール、香港、ソウル、上海、シドニーなど、アジア、北米の主要な金融都市を接続しています。KVHは、東京証券取引所（TSE）売買システムのプロバイダーとして認定されているほか、東京工業品取引所（TOCOM）、東京金融取引所（TFX）、および私設取引大手のチャイエックス・ジャパンからアクセスポイントおよびプロキシミティ・ホスティング・データセンターとして推奨されています。また、大阪証券取引所（OSE）のデリバティブ売買システムのプロキシミティ・ベンダーに指定されています。 詳しくは当社のウェブサイトhttp://www.kvh.co.jp をご覧ください。

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