About Our Sponsors

Fidessa

Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.

85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. $10 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global connectivity network each year. We offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.

A global business with scale, resilience and expertise, we’ve delivered around 30% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.

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-traded products. 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 S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com.

Chi-X Europe

About Chi-X Europe

Chi-X Europe Limited is an FSA-authorised securities firm operating a multilateral trading facility (MTF) for the trading of more than 1,300 of the most liquid securities across 23 indices and 15 major European markets, as well as ETFs (exchange traded funds), ETCs (exchange traded commodities) and IDRs (international depositary receipts) in both a visible order book and the Chi-Delta™ non-displayed order book. Chi-X Europe’s low-cost, streamlined operating model is designed to help trading participants achieve ultra-low execution and clearing and settlement costs.

For more information, please visit www.chi-xeurope.com.

London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange Group is Europe's leading diversified exchange business, incorporating Borsa Italiana and London Stock Exchange. It operates Europe's largest and most liquid equity market, holds the number one position in the trading of exchange-traded products (ETFs and ETCs) and, through its interest in MTS, is the leading European platform for the trading of fixed income products. Through its IDEM market and EDX London business trading is facilitated in Italian, Scandinavian and Russian equity derivatives and through its Monte Titoli and CC&G businesses it offers post-trade services such as netting, clearing and settlement on an efficient and competitive basis. Now with the recent acquisition of MillenniumIT, the Group also encompasses a leading developer of low cost high performance trading platforms and financial markets software serving both the industry and the Group's own businesses.

European Central Counterparty Limited (EuroCCP) delivers safety and savings to trading firms through its low-cost, robust pan-European clearing services. EuroCCP clears equities from 17 European markets and from the US, as well as exchange-traded currencies and depositary receipts.

EuroCCP launched its pan-European clearing services in August 2008, initially serving Turquoise, and subsequently SmartPool, NYSE Arca Europe, Pipeline and Sigma X MTF. In July 2011, EuroCCP launched interoperable clearing services with BATS Europe and UBS MTF.

EuroCCP also has the mandate to provide clearing for NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchanges, Chi-X and PAVE.

EuroCCP has developed a capability to clear OTC cash equities trades. The service includes clearing trades matched on the Omgeo CTM platform and will expand to include SWIFT, providing clearing for its Accord platform.

For more information, please visit www.EuroCCP.co.uk