Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 204,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010.
Advent Software, Inc., a global firm, has provided trusted solutions to the world’s financial professionals since 1983. Today firms in more than 60 countries rely on Advent technology to run their mission-critical operations. Advent’s quality software, data, services and tools enable financial professionals to improve service and communication to their clients, allowing them to grow their business while controlling costs. Advent is the only financial services software company to be awarded the Service Capability and Performance certification for being a world-class support and services organization. Advent Software, Inc. Corporate Headquarters: 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA, 94103, 415.543.7696,
www.advent.com
Arista Networks was founded to deliver networking solutions for large data center and high-performance computing environments. Arista delivers a portfolio of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches that redefine network architectures, bring extensibility to networking, and dramatically change the price/performance of data center networks.
At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility.
Arista's team is comprised of experienced management and engineering talent from leading networking companies. Arista designs revolutionary products in California and delivers them worldwide.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Execution Services offers a full suite of premier equity trading solutions enhanced by the firm's vast global resources, access to superior liquidity, world-class technology and leading scale positions in capital markets. The range of offerings includes capital commitment and block trading, portfolio trading, direct market access, sophisticated quantitative analytics and research, and our powerful algorithmic trading platform. U.S. +212.449.6090 Europe: +44.207.996.4521 Asia: +852.2161.7550 Japan: +813.6225.8398
www.baml.com
Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. Through a comprehensive offering of electronic trading solutions, Barclays Capital Equities provides intelligent access to unique liquidity to help our clients achieve best execution. Our Electronic Sales Trading teams work closely with our clients to provide them with execution consultancy and custom solutions to help give them a competitive edge.
For equities electronic trading solutions, please email EST@barcap.com
For further information on Barclays Capital, visit www.barclayscapital.com
Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytics, data, news, and display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the Bloomberg Professional® service and multimedia platforms, including Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazines. Bloomberg's media properties span television, radio, digital and print, making up one of the world's largest news organizations. Headquartered in New York, the company employs more than 12,900 people in 166 locations around the world. For more information go to www.bloomberg.com.
Bloomberg Tradebook® is a leading global agency broker that provides direct market access and a breadth of trading analytics and algorithms to institutional traders that seek maximum alpha on every market transaction. Founded in 1996, Tradebook offers its customer base multi-asset, multi-currency trading solutions to actively manage complex trading strategies in over 60 global markets. www.BloombergTradebook.com
Charles River Development is a front-/middle-office software solutions provider to over 300 investment firms in the institutional, wealth management/trust, alternative, mutual funds, insurance, pension fund and fund administration/custody markets in 30 countries. The Charles River Investment Management System, a comprehensive front-/middle-office software suite for all asset classes, includes Charles River Manager – decision support/portfolio management/modeling; Charles River Compliance - real-time pre-trade/in-trade/postexecution/ end-of-day compliance management; Charles River Trader – order management/electronic trading/execution management; Charles River Post-Trade - centralized management of trade matching/confirmation/settlement workflow; Charles River Performance - daily performance measurement/attribution/performance risk. It is fully integrated with the broker-neutral Charles River FIX Network.
Service, Scale, and Speed: A Powerful Combination.
Citadel Securities has provided outstanding service and execution capabilities to clients since 2004. We are one of the leading equity and options market-makers in the United States, and we are building a growing franchise in Europe. A trusted partner to our 170-plus U.S. broker-dealer and institutional clients, we provide fast and dependable liquidity and execution services regardless of market conditions. Underscoring our service expertise is an unmatched infrastructure and technology platform that meets the needs of our clients.
We are committed to delivering the highest level of execution quality, and we continue to raise the performance bar for the industry.
We offer a powerful combination of service, scale and technology fueled by our entrepreneurial passion and spirit of teamwork.
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With Euro 1,501 billion in assets and 77,053 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. Global Markets’ equity business, Global Markets Equity, is a market leading provider of equity and equity-linked products to institutional, corporate and retail clients globally. The award-winning platform offers scalability and flexibility in its design, providing a global network of execution services and financial engineering expertise.
Direct Markets Group Inc.
DirectMarkets' ground-breaking platform is the next evolutionary step in connecting the C-Suite of existing public companies directly with the capital markets. This is accomplished by electronically linking existing public companies with purchasers of securities. The DirectMarkets platform empowers issuers to efficiently sell primary shares directly into the secondary market, providing investors a new source of supply and liquidity, and the ability to accumulate stock positions in a cost effective manner.
Additionally, the DirectMarkets platform enables investors to initiate transactions directly with issuers, redefining the capital-raising paradigm. The result is greater transparency and substantially reduced time and costs associated with capital origination for existing public companies. For more information, visit www.directmkts.com
eFinancialCareers.com is the leading online career site bringing together recruiters and hiring managers with top level financial markets professionals. The site provides financial markets professionals with job market news and analysis, salary surveys and career advice – all related to the financial markets industry. Recruiters and employers can target candidates using 30+ specific industry sectors on both the buy-side and sell-side such as asset management, hedge funds, equity, debt, trading and more. All jobs posted on eFinancialCareers are cross-posted on 27 finance-related partner sites including NYSSA, NASDAQ, DealBreaker, and HedgeFundDaily.
For more than 30 years, financial professionals worldwide have relied on FactSet to deliver the financial data and software solutions they need to drive their analysis. With FactSet, you gain a powerful analytics tool tailored to your workflow, the broadest scope of data available, and the structure needed to manage and distribute data across your firm. Our top priority is ensuring that you always have the most accurate data and the support you need to use it effectively. Learn more at www.factset.com.
Grupo Bursatil Mexicano (GBM) is an independent Mexican investment and brokerage firm with more than 30 years of experience in Mexico’s financial market. Great effort and a keen focus throughout the years have placed us in the lead in terms of equity trading, private banking, investment funds, and e-trading in the Mexican market. Today, our value oriented investment ideas based on the thorough analysis and core input fundamentals from the largest research team in the entire country, together with our three-way execution model with broker dealers in Mexico, the US, and Brazil, have placed us as leaders in the Mexican Market. Finally, in 2002 GBM introduced FIX Protocol to the Mexican market. We were the first ones to offer this service and we proudly continue with great improvements.
Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P, through its GSET offering, provides clients with the necessary tools to manage their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis. Clients access our products via REDIPlus(r), our top-ranked EMS platform, or via FIX. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our SIGMA smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA(tm) and SIGMA X(tm) non-displayed liquidity suite. Along with providing clients access to global equity markets, we also offer FX, futures, and options across North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit http://gset.gs.com. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
Interacciones Casa de Bolsa is a full-range service brokerage firm in Mexico, from custody to asset management, foreign exchange, equity research, derivatives, fixed income products and stock loan. Interaccionesispart of Grupo Financiero Interacciones (GFINTERO.MX), a 100% Mexican-owned Financial Group.
Interacciones pioneered DMA FIX-based access in Mexico and responding to the 30-fold increase in the Mexican trading market over the past 5 years, Interacciones has made ambitious investments in technology servicesthat combines connectivity to major financial networks and FIX hubs with high-performance DMA and sponsored access to Mexican equities and derivatives markets, in a fully redundant, co-located infrastructure.
Asset managers, hedge funds, high-frequency traders and institutional investors consider Interacciones a strategic partner in Mexico and the region.
With a distinctive role in the development of the capital markets, IS Investment was established in 1996 as the investment banking arm of Isbank Group. IS Investment provides a wide array of financial services to local and foreign investors, including Corporate Finance, Investment Advisory, Asset Management, Brokerage&Trading and Research. Representing approximately 1/3 of the sector with its $ 1.9 billion asset size, IS Investment represents a large and commanding presence in the Turkish investment market, reflected in its transaction volumes, ranking first not only in the ISE Stock Market since 2003, but also in the ISE Bonds&Bills Market and Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TurkDEX), since the foundation of the market in 2005. IS Investment is also the leader in the public offerings market in Turkey with 66 Public Offerings between 1988 and 2011. Since 2000, IS Investment has completed 83 M&A transactions – a number rendering the Company as the leading investment bank as per the M&A league rankings.
Investment Technology Group, Inc., is a independent agency research broker that partners with asset managers globally to improve performance throughout the investment process. A leader in electronic trading since launching the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, ITG takes a consultative approach in delivering the highest quality institutional liquidity, execution services, analytical tools, and proprietary research insights grounded in data. Asset managers rely on ITG's independence, experience, and intellectual capital to help mitigate risk, improve performance, and navigate increasingly complex markets. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information on ITG, please visit
www.itg.com.
Jefferies, a global securities and investment banking firm, has served companies and their investors for more than 48 years. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF:
jefferies.com).
Knight is a global financial services firm that provides trade execution, research and capital market services across multiple asset classes. The firm is consistently ranked as the leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities with over 10 billion shares traded daily. Knight has a growing global presence with offices located throughout North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. To learn more about Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) go to
www.knight.com
Liquidnet is the premier institutional investment community, bringing together the world’s largest asset managers and public companies on a single network that directly connects traders, portfolio managers, analysts and corporate issuers. Liquidnet enables Members of its community to achieve greater performance by moving from investment idea to implementation faster, ultimately retaining more alpha throughout the entire institutional investment cycle. Launched in 2001, the Liquidnet community extends to 36 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. For more information on the Liquidnet community, its > liquidity, block executions, and additional investment capabilities, visit
www.liquidnet.com.
Linedata (Bloomberg: LIN:FP) is the global leader for investment software, solutions, and support. Linedata combines technological innovation, financial strength, and a deep understanding of the Asset Management, Leasing & Credit inance, and Insurance & Savings industries. Linedata Services’ asset management division provides comprehensive, scalable solutions to the buy-side to manage the entire investment process from pretrade to postsettlement. Linedata is unique in offering a full front- to back-office solution via enterprise installation, or as an Application Service Provider (“software as services” or “service bureau” delivery), and has 20 years experience delivering ASP solutions. Linedata Services’ asset management division was named Buy-Side Technology’s Best Overall Technology Provider in 2008. Headquartered in France, Linedata Services achieved revenues of EUR 160.7 million in 2008, has offices worldwide, and services more than 700 clients across 50 countries. For more information, visit Linedata Services corporate site at www.linedata.com.
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 more than 27,000 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.
RBS Global Banking & Markets (GBM) division is a leading banking partner to major corporations, financial institutions and public sector clients around the world. GBM provides an extensive range of debt, equity and commodity markets, treasury and investor products, and financial advisory services. The division focuses on long-term customer relationships and excellence in global product execution. GBM is active in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. RBS Securities Inc. a member of FINRA/SIPC, is a subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. RBS is the marketing name for the securities business of RBS Securities Inc.
SAVVIS
Savvis, a CenturyLink company, is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2,500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing. For more information, visit www.savvis.com or www.centurylink.com.
SunGard's global trading solutions help buy- and sell-side firms achieve increased performance, low latency and execution across multiple platforms, asset classes and markets. SunGard provides equities, futures, fixed income, options and energy traders with trading, risk management, market data, compliance and surveillance solutions. Linking buy-side firms to brokers, SunGard provides access to liquidity pools as well as order management, advanced execution and smart order routing. For more information, visit www.sungard.com/360trading.
Sybase offers highly secure, high-availability software solutions that meet the trading industry’s needs for intensive transaction processing, advanced analytics and modeling. These solutions capitalize on cutting-edge technological advances, such as real-time risk analysis (Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition) and complex-event processing (Sybase ESP), to allow financial services firms to gain a competitive edge in capital markets.
Today, Sybase customers include a number of the world's largest financial institutions. And every day, tens of millions of Wall Street trades run on Sybase technology. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com/fsi
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 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.
TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via SaaS to the financial community. TradingScreen’s goal is to simplify the complexity of markets, by consolidating execution management of both exchange traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major, global sell-side participants and leading regional brokers to a common environment, delivering market access and order- and liquidity-management to the buy side. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, asset classes, and geography, and a full integration of services back to front. TradingScreen was named best buy-side trading system in the most recent Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading and Technology. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.http://www.tradingscreen.com/
UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions and manage over CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 64,000 people. The Investment Bank provides securities and other financial products and research in equities, fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and precious metals. It also provides advisory services and access to the world's capital markets for corporate and institutional clients, governments, financial intermediaries, asset managers and private investors. UBS Direct Execution is the firm’s global institutional electronic trading business, offering Direct Market Access (DMA), a suite of advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, an execution management system called UBS Pinpoint, and a web-based platform of pre-trade, post-trade, and real-time transaction cost analytics and tools called UBS Fusion.
Since 1922, Weeden & Co. has focused on providing institutional equity and fixed income clients with premier investment advice and services. Our commitment to our clients remains the core of our franchise. Weeden & Co. is proud to have been chosen by our cliets as a top-ranked equity and fixed income broker serviing over 1,500 institutions globally. Our award winning Electronic Products Group develops cutting edge algorithmic products for a diverse set of clients
Wells Fargo Securities delivers a comprehensive set of capital markets products and services to customers, including originating and distributing public debt and equity, hedging interest rates, commodity and equity risks, advising on mergers and acquisitions, and originating structured lending facilities and municipal bonds. The institutional broker dealer is comprised of more than 3400 team members in 40+ offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. Wells Fargo Securities consists of the following business lines: Asset-Backed Finance, Eastdil Secured, Equities Sales & Trading, Fixed Income Sales & Trading, Investment Banking & Capital Markets, Investment Solutions, Municipal Products, Principal Investments, Research & Economics, Credit/Risk & Funding and Business Management.
RBC Capital Markets is a full service investment bank that provides a focused set of products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients around the world. With over 6,300 professionals, we maintain 75 offices across 15 countries. RBC Capital Markets is part of The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Operating since 1869, RBC has more than USD760 billion in assets and is one of the strongest, most stable banks globally and has a Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 13.2%. By market capitalization, RBC is among the top 20 largest banks globally and the 6th largest in North America.
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
With over 11,000 employees in more than 33 countries, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking is present in all major markets, tailoring solutions for clients by capitalizing on our worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.
• For corporate, financial Institution and public sector clients: we provide a global advisory approach as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum
• For investors: we offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through our integrated global markets platform (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives)
www.sgcib.com
A unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services, and managed solutions for financial services firms requiring next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services.
NYSE Technologies provides a diverse range of products, services and solutions to: the Buy Side, including FIX order routing, liquidity discovery and access to a community of over 630 Broker-Dealers and execution destinations globally; the Sell Side, including high performance, end-to-end messaging software and innovative market data products delivered on the world’s largest, most reliable financial transaction network; and Market Venues and Exchanges, including multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy.
With offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, NYSE Technologies offers advanced integrated solutions for the global capital markets community, earning the ability to power trading operations for many of the world’s best financial institutions and exchanges. For additional information visit: www.nyse.com/technologies.
Audit Analytics
Audit Analytics delivers audit, regulatory and disclosure intelligence to the investment, accounting and legal communities. Audit Analytics is a unique research tool used for benchmarking and analyzing the quality of financial reporting for public companies as well as performing quick and thorough due diligence on your portfolio. Our detailed audit and compliance profiles are easily accessible via an online subscription and our data sets are available as data feeds for integration with your information systems and modeling tools. For additional information on our services or to request a demonstration, please call 508-476-7007 or e-mail info@auditanalytics.com.
ADVA Optical Networking
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is at the forefront of providing Optical+Ethernet solutions that advance next-generation networks for data, storage, voice and video services.
Portware
Portware is the financial industry's leading developer of broker-neutral trading systems for global equities, futures, options and FX. Portware Enterprise, the company’s flagship trading platform, is a fully customizable execution management system for single stock, portfolio, index and algorithmic trading. Portware provides access to over 450 global trading destinations from a single trading environment, while the system’s flexibility and open architecture allows users to easily customize Portware Enterprise to meet their specific trading and workflow integration requirements. Portware Enterprise has been implemented at more than 130 firms worldwide, including tier one investment managers, hedge funds, and sell-side program trading desks.
Otkritie Capital is a subsidiary of the Otkritie Financial Corporation, specializing in investment banking.
Otkritie Capital consists of the following entities: Otkritie Trading LLC, Otkritie Brokerage House Open Joint Stock Company, Otkritie Securities Limited, Otkritie Finance (Cyprus) Limited, and Otkritie Inc. (USA).
Otkritie Capital currently offers private investors, institutional clients and corporate clients a complete range of investment banking services on global and Russian markets. These include DMA trading, services related to M&A deals, equity and debt financing, and services connected with structured products and derivatives.
The business lines of Otkritie Capital have achieved leadership positions on their respective European markets over the past three years. Otkritie is now ranked among the top ten brokers trading on the London Stock Exchange, with a 2% market share. Otkritie is ranked Top 1 Leading broker on LSE IOB electronically traded section, Top 1 Leading derivative broker on FORTS with the market share of more than 27%, Top 1 Leading broker
on MICEX, equity section.
Otkritie Capital’s competitive advantage is its combination of in-depth local expertise and rigorous adherence to international standards in the services that it provides.