AQUA aggregates micro, small and mid-cap block liquidity from over 150 regional mid-tier and specialty brokerage firms delivering actionable orders direct to buy-side trading desktops. AQUA’s unique technology eliminates the possibility of pre-trade information leakage for the buy-side, creating the safest, most efficient, and fastest tool available for electronic block trading between the sell-side and the buy-side.
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. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, with the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. At Barclays Capital, we are committed to realizing our clients’ strategic vision at every stage of growth. For further information, please visit our website at www.barclayscapital.com.
BlockCross, a rich and diverse pool of liquidity is the hallmark of a successful crossing venue. With BlockCross your orders interact quietly and anonymously with the entire spectrum of block possibilities. Whether a contra side is resting uncommitted on a blotter or is working through a block seeking algo, BlockCross gives you the greatest possible number of crossing opportunities. BlockCross’s easy to use interface and buyside systems integration promotes a smooth work flow. BlockCross’ low commission rate combined with Pulse Trading’s commission management programs offer traders maximum flexibility in today’s budget constrained environment.
Bloomberg Tradebook is Bloomberg's agency broker that partners with both the buy-side and sell-side to provide high-quality liquidity, market insight, and customized solutions based on innovative technologies. Tradebook now offers clients additional ways to find and implement smart trading ideas by providing direct access to independent research analysts and commission management services. www.bloombergtradebook.com
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.
Credit Suisse AES: 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. AES helps more than a thousand institutions and hedge funds reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and add consistency to their trading processes. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. The platform has been consistently ranked as the leader in global industry survey.
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.
Dow Jones Sales & Trading offers market-moving real-time news to institutional market participants across multiple asset classes and global markets. Whether it’s providing ultra-low-latency news feeds to facilitate trading off the news or helping quantitative analysts create strategies to profit from hidden trading opportunities, Dow Jones has a solution. Designed for direct integration into multi-factor models and computer trading programs, the Dow Jones Elementized News Feeds deliver economic indicators and corporate news data in precisely tagged XML-formatted fields, rendering the news machine-readable in milliseconds. Combining real-time and 30-plus years of archival news for quantitative analysis, Dow Jones News & Archives for Algorithmic Applications can be used to create algorithms for a range of applications such as risk management, arbitrage, and pre- and post-trade analysis. Our derived data solutions allow traders and researchers to go beneath the headlines to uncover hidden patterns and new trading opportunities. And a variety of Dow Jones Newswires products can deliver market-moving news and information seamlessly into market data terminals, turnkey desktop platforms or customized internal applications. To learn more about any of these institutional sales and trading solutions, contact us at sales&trading@dowjones.com. http://www.dowjones.com/role-institutional-traders.asp
Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary tools to manage their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post- trade analysis. Our clients access our products via REDIPlus®, 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 smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA XTM non-displayed liquidity suite. Along with providing clients access to global equity markets, we also offer foreign exchange, futures, and options across the Americas, 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.
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 nearly 50 years. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm provides investors with fundamental research and trade execution in equity, equity-linked, and fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, high yield bonds, US government and agency securities, repo finance, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, municipal bonds, whole loans and emerging markets debt, as well as commodities and derivatives. Jefferies offers companies capital markets, merger and acquisition, restructuring and other financial advisory services. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF: www.jefferies.com). Jefferies International Limited, a UK-incorporated, wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc., is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority.
Knight is a global financial services firm that provides trade execution, research, asset management and capital market services across multiple asset classes. The firm is consistently ranked as a leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities with over five billion shares traded daily. Knight has a growing global presence with offices located throughout North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For additional information about Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) please visit www.knight.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.
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 31 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.
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Mismi is an electronic broker dealer that delivers superior algorithmic trade execution services and innovative quantitative research. Mismi is a fully independent broker that offers unconflicted research and agency-only execution services.Mismi has assembled a team with tremendous trading, research, and quantitative finance expertise that is generating innovative ideas in indexing, market microstructure, short term alpha signals, and associated short term trading ideas.It's state-of-the-art algorithmic trading system offers traders control, flexibility and superior single-name execution capability. Earlier in 2011, The NYSE selected Mismi as a partner in offering its trade execution services to the floor brokers of the exchange. As of 2011, Mismi has over 25 clients trading millions of shares daily, with diverse trading styles and objectives.Mismi has developed an innovative portfolio trading system that offers superior execution quality, leveraging its team's deep expertise in program trading, its unique quantitative strengths, and its relation to Axioma, Inc. -a leading provider of risk analysis, portfolio construction and performance attribution products- from which it was spun off late in Q4 of 2007.
Founded in 2004, Mixit is a broker-neutral, multi-asset trading platform offering an Order/Execution Management system (OEMS) and FIX connectivity to the financial services industry. MIXIT's integrated suite of technology facilitates Institutional, Broker-to-broker and Agency-based trading across Equities and Options. Mixit routes to all major Algorithms, Exchanges, Brokers, Crossing Venues and Dark Pools. The company offers electronic, real-time trading solutions, including Front-, Middle-, and Back-Office products and Compliance reporting. For more information, visit www.mixitusa.com or contact sales@mixitusa.com.
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QSG® is a leading provider of independent global equity research, advanced trading analytics, and investment consulting services and does not manage assets or offer execution services, allowing us to provide clients with unbiased, objective research. QSG's SYNC Trading Analytics Platform synchronizes the industry's most informative post-trade analytics with a new class of pre-trade forecast models. This results in an unrivaled set of decision tools that address the challenges of today's high-speed, technology driven equity trading environment. SYNC provides daily access to a new set of innovative execution quality measures that accurately evaluate the liquidity management and trade timing success of brokers, venues and algorithms. This new application addresses the frustrations with existing TCA tools and their inability to provide actionable insights in an era dominated by high-frequency trading. QSG's SYNC is designed by traders, but is leveraged by Portfolio Managers and Compliance Officers in a firm-wide implementation.
RBC Capital Markets provides a focused set of products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients across the world. Our strengths in providing superior execution and insightful thinking have consistently ranked us as a leading global investment bank. With a team of over 6,300 professionals, RBC Capital Markets delivers capabilities from 75 offices throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, the UK and in every major North American city. We partner with clients in over 100 countries around the world to help them raise capital, access markets, mitigate risk and acquire or dispose of assets. RBC Capital Markets is part of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a leading provider of financial services. Operating since 1869, RBC has more than US$721 billion in assets and one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution, Aa1 and AA- from Moody's and Standard & Poor's, respectively. RBC is one of the strongest, most stable banks globally with a Tier 1 Capital Ratio of 13.2%. By market capitalization, RBC is among the top 15 largest banks globally and the 6th largest in North America.
RBS Global Banking &l; 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.
Weeden & Co. 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.
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.