Acquire Media is a leader in news aggregation and real-time distribution for financial organizations, corporate enterprises, web portals, and publishers. We specialize in technology-driven solutions designed to deliver real-time news and time-sensitive multimedia content in XML, tagged using a standardized, robust taxonomy with unsurpassed accuracy, reliability, and ultra-low latency. The NewsEdge suite of products provide a range of desktop, server and API-based news solutions all aimed at satisfying the investor relations industry’s need for speed and reliability. Specifically for traders, NewsEdge TIGER delivers a streamlined real-time news feed for proprietary applications with ultra-low latency. Learn more at www.acquiremedia.com.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. With offices in more than 40 countries and territories, the combined company serves corporate and institutional clients in 150 countries worldwide. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Execution Services offers a complete suite of premier equity trading services, including capital commitment and block trading, portfolio trading and analytics and ML X-ACTsm, the firm’s powerful proprietary algorithmic trading platform.

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, employs 20,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.

BlockCross is an independent (large block) dark pool designed to deliver significant liquidity opportunities while buyside traders remain in an uncommitted posture. Leveraging blotter integration with an open platform, BlockCross strives to provide the broadest spectrum of block liquidity possible. The system includes a unique confirmation process that provides a level playing field for all types of traders looking to maximize print sizes and minimize information leakage. BlockCross has been live for over a year and already represents over 2 billion shares of available block opportunities >5k a day. BlockCross is also referred to as the “Enlightened Dark Pool” because it combines both displayed and non-displayed functionality. Institutional traders now have the ability post actionable indications as an ATS (BLKX). This new concept allows all traders to leverage the industry standard IOI networks and say “Meet me in BlockCross” .

BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK LLC is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide providing them with a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments. Founded in 1996, BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® has quickly established itself as a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity. BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® now offers its global customer base trading solutions in over 60 global markets via nine offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on BLOOMBERG 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.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing 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, and wealth management. Major brand names under Citi's trademark red arc include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Citi Smith Barney and Banamex.

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 surveys.

For more information: http://www.credit-suisse.com/ib/en/equities/aes.html or contact the AES sales desk on 212 325-5300.

Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. With 80,456 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. autobahn®Equity is part of autobahn®, Deutsche Bank's award winning electronic distribution platform. Through autobahn®, clients can analyse & execute across Fixed Income, Equities, FX, Futures & Options, Convertibles and Money Markets. autobahn®Equity provides global DMA and algorithmic trading solutions in markets worldwide.

Dow Jones Solutions for Sales & Trading offers cutting-edge real-time information solutions ranging from desktop solutions to direct feeds for sales and trading applications that help institutional professionals create opportunities and act with first-to-know confidence. Whether it’s providing ultra-low-latency news feeds to facilitate trading off the news, better monitoring of news events to detect hidden opportunities, or looking for ways to improve commoditized black-box algorithms, Dow Jones has a solution. Designed for direct integration into quantitative analysis models and computer trading programs, the Dow Jones Elementized News Feed delivers news data in precisely tagged XML-formatted fields, rendering the news machine-readable. Combining real-time and archival news for quantitative analysis, the 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. 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.

Fidelity Capital Markets Services (FCM),is the institutional trading arm of Fidelity Investments providing trading, products and services to a wide array of clients and Fidelity businesses. FCM executes domestic and international equity securities including block and portfolio trading, listed options and foreign exchange. It also offers securities lending, commission management and transition management. FCM trades fixed-income principally in a wide range of taxable and tax-exempt securities and underwrites municipal and government agency debt. The company has its own distribution channel, Fidelity Prime Services®, focused on servicing hedge funds and a full suite of Electronic Brokerage Trading Products, including proprietary algorithms and a crossing network, CrossStream®. FCM offers all of its clients conflict-free* trading, execution excellence and personal service. For more information about Fidelity Capital Markets, please visit FidelityCapitalMarkets.com. *Fidelity Capital Markets may engage in principal trading to facilitate customer order flow.

Fidessa group supplies multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for financial markets participants.

Fidessa’s products are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions, across both the buy-side and sell-side.

Fidessa’s network carries $600billion of flow a month between over 2,300 buy-sides and 400 brokers across 120 markets worldwide.

Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 24,000 users across 730 clients, serving major investment banks and asset managers through to niche brokers and hedge funds.

Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Founded in 1996, FlexTrade is the industry pioneer and global leader in broker-neutral algorithmic trading platforms and execution systems for equities, foreign exchange and listed derivatives. With offices in North America, Europe and Asia, FlexTrade has a worldwide client base spanning more than 120 buy- and sell-side firms, including many of the largest investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors and institutional brokers. FlexTRADER, our award winning, fully customizable EMS, comes with pre-defined trading strategies and tactics for portfolio, sector and single stock trading. The platform provides organically developed pre-trade, real-time and post-trade analytics as well as risk and cost optimized portfolio trade scheduling; advanced integrations with major OMSs; bunching of orders and complex real-time allocations; listed and OTC smart order routing; a sophisticated Dark Pool Router; a fully integrated high performance Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine; commission management; and complete transaction and IOI quality management.

Launched in 2001, Fox River’s platform, Fox Trader, was developed to address the unique needs of the institutional trader. Our suite of execution solutions blends the human logic of a professional trader with the precise mathematical formulas imbedded in Fox River’s proprietary models. Fox Trader executes like an intelligent trader, making short term value judgments throughout the day and aims to achieve the best execution possible, rather than tracking a benchmark. Fox River was ranked #1 algorithmic trading provider in 2007 and 2008 by Institutional Investor. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York and San Francisco, Fox River Execution Technology, LLC is a FINRA registered broker/dealer and a member of the SIPC. For more information, visit www.foxriver.com.

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

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. 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 SIGMA smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA and SIGMA X 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.

Instinet is an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world’s first significant electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Instinet operates two distinct business lines: a global network of agency-only brokers that seek to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading tools and also provide sales trading, commission management services and independent research; and the Chi-X trading systems, which aim to improve the efficiency of capital markets globally by providing high-performance, low-cost alternative execution venues.

Investment Technology Group, Inc.(NYSE:ITG), is a specialized agency brokerage and technology firm that partners with clients globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the entire investment process. A pioneer in electronic trading, ITG has a unique approach that combines pre-trade analysis, order management, trade execution, and post-trade evaluation to provide clients with continuous improvements in trading and cost efficiency. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions. Founded in 1987, ITG was one of the first firms to recognize the potential of electronic trading and continues to help clients trade more efficiently and reduce transaction costs through a combination of technology and client service. ITG has focused on helping clients better navigate an increasingly complex marketplace, starting with the launch of POSIT®, an electronic system for low-cost, confidential crossing. Recognizing a need in the marketplace for integrated solutions, ITG added pre- and post-trade analytics and multi-asset class order management to its product offering. Nearly 20 years later, ITG remains committed to providing clients with the same high standard of service and innovation.

Jefferies Group, Inc. is a publicly-traded holding company whose subsidiaries comprise a major global securities and investment banking group. Its primary subsidiaries are Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Jefferies International Limited, headquartered in New York and London, respectively. The Firm serves companies and their investors in a range of industries within consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrials/aerospace and defense and technology, media and telecommunications. Our expertise spans capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. Our goal is to deliver one seamless firm to our clients around the globe.

Linedata Services (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 Finance, and Insurance & Savings industries. Linedata Services’ asset management division provides comprehensive, scalable solutions to the buy-side to manage the entire investment process from pre-trade to post-settlement. 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 world’s institutional marketplace, facilitating equities trading for asset management firms in 29 equity markets across five continents. By accessing liquidity from multiple sources, Liquidnet’s unique trading model consolidates and delivers the institutional equities marketplace directly to the desktops of our buy-side trading firms. These firms use Liquidnet to efficiently execute their large orders, realize exceptional trading performance, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall transaction costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore.

Neonet Securities is a leading agency broker providing a complete suite of global execution products and advanced technology solutions to many of the world’s leading financial institutions. Neonet partners with clients to offer tailored execution solutions ranging from access to our high-touch Execution Specialists to low-touch Algorithmic Trading Strategies and proprietary Smart Order Routing capabilities. Neonet’s skilled Execution Specialists are dedicated to providing clients with the best execution possible using sophisticated liquidity seeking tools and in depth market knowledge. Client’s can access all global execution services via third-party OMS/EMS systems as well as Neonet Trader, a powerful EMS built for single and multi stock trading across the globe. For more information, please visit www.neonet.com or contact the U.S. Sales team at 800-390-6515.

NYSE Euronext (NYX)is the world’s most diverse exchange group, offering a broad and growing array of financial products and services in Europe and the United States that include cash equities, futures, options, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. With over 8,000 listed issues globally, NYSE Euronext's equities markets -- the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext, NYSE Arca, and NYSE Amex -- represent nearly 40% of the world's cash equities trading volume, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world’s second largest derivatives business by value of trading. NYSE Euronext offers comprehensive global commercial technology, connectivity, and market data products and services through its innovative trading solutions unit, NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index.

As the only wholly independent execution and order management trading systems provider, Portware supplies traders with true broker-neutral solutions to facilitate best execution. The company’s suite of products includes a trading platform which supports FX, Single Stock, Portfolio, Program, Pairs and Index trading coupled with a powerful black-box Algorithmic Engine. On top of this architecture, Portware offers an extensible feature set tailored for different asset classes and trade styles, as well as tools for TCA, risk management, real time reporting and a combination of pre-packaged and third-party algorithms and analytics. Since the company’s launch in 2000, Portware solutions have been implemented at more than 130 firms worldwide, including quantitative hedge funds, traditional asset management firms and sell-side program trading desks.

Pragma Founded in 2003, Pragma is a New York-based financial services firm recognized for its uncomplicated sophistication. A pioneer of tactical execution tools, Pragma’s innovative suite of products are designed to consistently meet the goals of its diverse client base. An established provider of top quality execution, proven technology, and unparalleled support and service, Pragma is the solution for your trading needs. For additional information, please contact -  David Margulies 203-862-4564 or dmargulies@weednco.com.

Thomas Weisel Partners specializes in the growth sectors of the economy, with deep domain expertise in consumer, energy, healthcare, internet , media & telecom, mining and technology. Weisel Execution Services (WES) has a comprehensive suite of electronic trading solutions. Whether it is smart Direct Market Access (DMA), algorithms, portfolio trading, listed options execution, or custom products, WES offers a full array of services. Coupled with our execution products, WES also offers clients solutions to their Commission Management needs, including Commission Sharing Arrangements (CSA) and Client Commission Arrangements (CCA) supported by web-based access to all account information and Top Tier Customer Service. For more information, please contact us at 888-394-4897 or wes@tweisel.com.

UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, serving a discerning, international client base with its wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking.

Offering world-class distribution and execution across investment banking, equities, and fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and metals, UBS Investment Bank is a powerful combination of global strength and local insight.

UBS Direct Execution is the firm’s global institutional electronic trading business. In addition to UBS Fusion, Direct Execution offers Direct Market Access (DMA), a suite of advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, and an execution management system called UBS Pinpoint.