May 10 - 11, 2010
Park Hyatt, Dubai, UAE

About Our Sponsors

 

    

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, scientific, healthcare 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 in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). 

    

BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional

traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments.

 

Founded in 1996, Tradebook is a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base with trading solutions in over 60 global markets via eight offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on Tradebook’s commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.


    

Nomura's Electronic Trading Services have the full benefit from the long standing experience, intelligence and technology of the Nomura Group, including the acquired Lehman businesses, renowned for providing clients a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform. The fully integrated product suite combining DMA, strategy execution via the award winning* ModelEx suite and electronic guaranteed capital products, supplemented with advanced pre, intra and post trade analytical tools, provide clients with a full service solution to their low touch execution needs. All execution channels are underpinned by next generation smart order routing logic, providing access to multiple sources of available liquidity with an intelligent placement approach. Client execution experience is further enriched via access to Nomura's NX dark pool.

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. For further information please visit www.nomura.com

* TheTrade, 2008; heritage Lehman

Contact: Adam Toms, electronic-eu@nomura.com, +44 20 7102 1000

    

"Mubasher Financial Services is a leading provider of brokerage, trading technology, connectivity, research and other financial services for the Middle East region. Launching in 2002, Mubasher, is both licensed as a category 2 Investment bank and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain.

MFS is unique in providing a single counterparty for Institutional clients to trade, clear and settle across all stock exchanges in the region either electronically using DMA or over the phone with our trading desk. Clients connect to us in FIX via any network of their choice however they sometimes prefer to use our professional real-time trading front end including advanced trading, algorithms and analytical tools.

Mubasher Financial Services soon will be able to facilitate trading for multiple asset classes including Forex, CFD’S and other alternative investment products across the whole Arabic region. Clients can also be able to access real time value added research for the region directly from the Mubasher trading screen or from the Mubasher info website.

With its wide coverage of Financial markets and expertise in technology and operations, Mubasher Financial Services, is the right partner for you if you are looking for a Middle Eastern coverage.

    

    

Linedata Services is a global supplier of financial services software, offering solutions for Asset Management, Savings & Insurance and Leasing & Credit Finance. Founded in 1998 and listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in May 2000, Linedata achieved 2008 revenues of EUR 165 million.

Linedata's Asset Management Division (LDSAM) provides global front-to back-office solutions for buy-side institutions and third party administrators. The Division's client base includes over 800 financial institutions with 13,000 users across five continents. In recent years, Linedata has annually reinvested 10% of group revenues into research & development and product range enhancement. Combined with the experience of our management team and commitment to long term client relationships, Linedata has achieved recognised status as a profitable and high-growth best-of-breed software provider.

Linedata is headquartered in Paris, France and has over 900 employees across 13 offices on 4 continents.