09 - 10 September, 2013
The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA

We Would Like to Thank Our 2012 Event Exhibitors

 

ATMis one of the leading independent, broker-neutral providers of algorithmic technology to the brokerage and investment management community. ATM maintains a sharp focus on the development, support, customization, research and analysis of algorithms designed to optimize execution

    

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.

    

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
    

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of networked IT services for the financial industry, bringing together all of the communications technology and services needed to trade and stay connected to the markets. BT Unified Trading is a software-based, cloud-compatible trader voice, multi-media platform that enables communication, collaboration and compliance for trading firms. BT Unified Trading is designed to give market professionals the flexibility to interact, collaborate and trade securely and with greater compliance through multiple communication channels, across their enterprise and with their clients and counterparties. The BT Radianz Cloud provides 15,000 financial customer locations around the world with access to over 400 of the world’s leading content and service. The fully-managed BT Radianz service consolidates all of a firm’s connectivity onto a single connection, ensuring secure, reliable access to trading partners and services. BT Radianz Ultra provides low-latency connectivity with sub-millisecond round-trip delays to select execution venues. BT Radianz Proximity combines connectivity with fully-managed hosting facilities, and BT Radianz Venue Interconnect extends low-latency connectivity to execution venues around the world. The BT Radianz Cloud also supports connectivity for post-trade services, where security and reliability are paramount. BT Radianz Messaging ensures secure, reliable, tamper-proof and non-repudiable message delivery.

    

CDWis a leading provider of technology solutions for the investment and financial services industry. Our solution architects offer expertise in designing customized solutions, while our advanced technology engineers assist customers with the implementation and long-term management of those solutions. For more information visit CDW.com/securities.

    

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 crossposted on 27 finance-related partner sites including NYSSA, NASDAQ, DealBreaker, and HedgeFundDaily.

    

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 highperformance DMA and sponsored access to.

    

Interactive Brokers Group is an automated global electronic broker that specializes in catering to financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and sophisticated risk management tools at exceptionally low costs. The brokerage trading platform utilizes the same innovative technology as the Company’s market making business, which executes and processes trades in securities, futures and foreign exchange instruments on more than 100 electronic exchanges and trading venues around the world. As a market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds from a single IB Universal AccountSM. Employing proprietary software on a global communications network, Interactive Brokers Group continuously integrates its software with a growing number of exchanges and trading venues into one automatically functioning, computerized platform that requires minimal human intervention.

    

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.

    

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
    

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.
    

iShares: To construct the dynamic and diverse portfolios needed today, financial professionals are increasingly turning to iShares ETFs. The iShares family of ETFs offers investors transparent and flexible exposure to virtually every corner of the market. Since its inception in 2000, iShares has acted as a partner and advocate for financial professionals and institutional investors, offering a unique combination of products, tools, educational resources and dedicated support. iShares is a line of business of BlackRock, an independent, global investment manager built to provide answers that unlock opportunity and uncover risk by embracing a new standard of analytical rigor and fact-based investing.

    

Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 2,400 employees. The company provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Its client base includes the most significant institutional participants in the financial marketplace

    

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.
    

SunGard’s solutions for capital markets help banks, broker/dealers, futures commission merchants and other financial institutions improve the efficiency, transparency and control of their trading and processing. From market connectivity, trade execution and securities financing to accounting, data management and tax reporting, our solutions provide cross-asset support for the entire trade lifecycle. We help our customers increase efficiency, make more informed decisions, improve their use of capital and manage risk more effectively. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com/capitalmarkets

    

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 clients as a top-ranked equity and fixed income broker serving over 1,500 institutions globally. Our award winning Electronic Products Group develops cutting edge algorithmic products for a diverse set of clients.

    

Headquartered in Chicago, Wolverine Execution Services (WEX) is an independent broker-dealer specializing in the execution of equities, options and futures. WEX offers clients multiple venues for execution including a proprietary electronic trading platform, algorithms, direct floor access, and an agency brokerage desk. Leveraging expertise in trading technology, and risk management, WEX provides clients with anonymity, superior execution and order management in all asset classes, delivering exceptional solutions for both technical and institutional trading styles. For more information visit www.tradeWEX.com

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