Highlights from the EMEA Trading Conference 2009

"As sponsors of the cocktail reception, we were very pleased with the event. It was very well attended and we were glad that so many people stayed on to network after the main conference had finished. Excellent venue."
Judi Blackmur, Global Team Leader - Financial Services, Enterprise Ireland

Networking during the post conference drinks reception
"We were very satisfied with the event attendance, given the current market conditions. The content of the conference was very relevant."
Aitor Uria Saporiti, Head of Marketing & Communications, TradingScreen

Networking in the exhibition hall
"The premier FPL event was superb - it boasted a great mix of delegates, exhibitors and a highly topical agenda. The post-event cocktail reception was the perfect forum for informal networking. I would highly recommend it to any sponsor or delegate as a 'must-attend' event for 2010."
Anita Karppi, Managing Director, K & K Global Consulting Ltd

Conference Sponsors

Become part of the 2010 EMEA Trading Conference Experience.

Choosing to exhibit or sponsor at the EMEA Trading Conference will provide your firm with the unrivalled opportunity to meet and showcase your brand to key decision makers within the EMEA trading market. To ensure your firm achieves the desired return on investment, a range of opportunities exist from just £3,000 that will enable your brand to benefit from increased visibility at this event.

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EMEA Trading Conference 2009 - Event Summary

 


Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for their support!

Lead Sponsors

BT Global Services
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, operating in 170 countries and providing network-based solutions to the global financial services sector for over 25 years. BT provides ultra-low-latency network services, proximity hosting solutions, and trader-voice turrets to over 60,000 dealer positions globally. Our BT Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure meets the specific requirements of the financial sector for reliability, security and speed, interconnecting over 14,000 customer locations around the world with over 400 application service providers, making it the largest, secure networked financial community in the world. This infrastructure is relied on by banks, brokers, investment managers, exchanges, MTFs and ECNs, clearing houses, securities depositories and data vendors to support their trade-related activities across the whole STP chain. Thousands of organisations across this community use the FIX Protocol as a basic part of their everyday business. BT is a Premier Member of FIX Protocol Ltd.

Chi-X Europe Limited
Launched in March 2007, Chi-X Europe operates the largest pan- European equity multilateral trading facility offering trading in 14 markets and just over 1000 securities, including stocks from 22 indices, ETFs and ETCs. Chi-X Europe's low cost, streamlined operating model and innovative trading products are designed to help trading participants achieve ultra low execution, clearing and settlement costs while providing significant bps savings opportunities. Benchmark tests have shown Chi-X Europe to be significantly faster than Europe's traditional equity exchanges.

Chi-X Europe Limited is an FSA-authorised securities firm operating a multilateral trading facility (MTF) for the trading of a wide range of European equities in both a visible order book and the Chi-Delta™ non-displayed order book. Chi-X Europe disseminates real-time market data at no cost to trading participants, and off-exchange trade reporting is available for a low monthly fee.

For more information, please visit www.chi-x.com.

Credit Suisse
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 improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the marketplace and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognised consistently as the leader in algorithmic trading.
ICAP Equities
ICAP Equities, the global agency broker, provides independent, non-conflicted research and customised execution methods to suit individual clients. ICAP Equities undertakes agency orders on behalf of institutional and governmental asset managers in the world's equity markets. ICAP Equities has a presence in ten locations in eight countries around the world. ICAP Equities is wholly owned by ICAP plc, a FTSE 100 company and the world's largest inter-dealer broker.

For more information go to www.icap.com
Instinet
With trading desks throughout North America, Europe and Asia, Instinet is a global agency-only broker that seeks to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading products, including smart-routing, algorithms, DMA, dark pools and EMS platforms, and also provide sales trading, commission management services and third-party, independent research. Over the course of its 40 year history, Instinet has been an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world's first major electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognised U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Contacts:
North America: + 1 877 467 8463 / newaccountsales@instinet.com
Europe: +44 (0)20 7154 8844 / uksalesteam@instinet.co.uk
Asia: +852 2585 0600 / asian.sales@instinet.com
www.instinet.com

NASDAQ OMX Europe
NASDAQ OMX Europe (NEURO) is a multilateral trading facility that offers highly competitive pricing and is the first platform to connect European liquidity pools with pan-European routing. NEURO runs on a proven low latency matching engine (INET) which is designed for high performance trading. Approximately 1,200 securities are traded on NEURO including constituents of the main European indices, ETFs and other highly liquid securities.
NEURO provides a range of connectivity options catering for all types of trading participant including co-location services and sponsored access. Alongside a number of other services offerings, NEURO operates NEURO Dark, a non-displayed mid-point crossing system with order size flexibility. Through continued innovation NEURO is expanding its product range and looks forward to offering, amongst other things, access to Central and Eastern European (CEE) Markets in 2010.
NASDAQ OMX Europe Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

For more information about NEURO please visit: www.nasdaqomxeurope.com.
Nomura
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 about 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: retail, global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.

For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com

Combined Sponsors & Exhibitors

CameronTec
CameronTec is the newly established subsidiary of Orc Software; its flagship product CameronFIX universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. CameronFIX is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.
CameronFIX is the outcome of 12+ year's continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX requirements.
At London's FIX Protocol Conference CameronTec will preview CameronFIX 7; the outcome of a 3 year development roadmap for improved scalability, enhanced experience and generational renewal resulting from significant improvements to the defining aspects of the software, and leveraging industry standards for Java programming, integration and performance.
With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.
www.camerontec.com

Cheuvreux
CA Cheuvreux is Crédit Agricole Group's European equity broker. As a leading full-service broker, CA Cheuvreux is continuously growing by expanding its geographical coverage and investing in technological development to offer its clients extensive, high value-added services in Equity Research, Sales and Execution. CA Cheuvreux's specialists are located close to clients and offer in-depth expertise out of its 15 offices worldwide. With 110 analysts and economists it proposes one of the largest research product ranges, and is extending its unparalleled stock coverage in Europe, to include Emerging Markets (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Russia). A key player in Execution Services, CA Cheuvreux provides its institutional clients with access to 90 European, North American, Middle Eastern, Asian and South African markets, ATSs and all major dark pools, through first-class client service on a wide spectrum of products: Sales Trading, DMA, Algorithmic Trading, Global Portfolio Trading, Equity Swaps and its own internal crossing engine. www.cheuvreux.com

Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and financial 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.

Citi's Securities and Fund Services business provides integrated solutions to market infrastructures, banks and broker-dealers that simplify and consolidate post-trade activity. With almost $12 trillion in assets under custody and the largest proprietary direct custody and clearing network, spanning 57 markets worldwide, our local experts can provide the access you need in a constantly evolving environment.

Additional information may be found at www.citi.com or www.transactionservices.citi.com.

Fidessa
Fidessa group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world's financial markets.

Fidessa's products and services are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities.

Fidessa's global network carries $640 billion of flow a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between over 2,400 buy-sides and 530 brokers across 130 markets worldwide.

Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 25,000 users across 850 clients, serving a broad spectrum of customers from major investment banks and asset managers through to specialist niche brokers and hedge funds.

Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange, is a FTSE 250 company, has a turnover of around £240 million and employs 1,500 people globally.

Neonet
Neonet is a global agency brokerage firm and technology provider, offering professional market participants neutral, high speed brokerage services and advanced trading software solutions. Neonet's in-house developed platform offers connectivity to the world's leading market places globally across the key regions of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Neonet's cutting-edge technology solutions, Neonet XG, include an integrated product suite. It features high speed market connections, a comprehensive execution management system, market data services and advanced trading tools. Neonet is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and has clients in over 20 countries globally.

For more information, please visit: www.neonet.com

Pipeline Financial Group Limited
Pipeline's block execution system increases control, saves time and empowers the institutional trader to achieve unmatched execution performance on large orders. The Algorithm Switching Engine™ revolutionises access to dark and displayed liquidity, predicting on a minute-by-minute basis the best algorithm to implement the trader's instructions. Its patent-pending predictive technology minimises market impact while accessing significant sources of liquidity.

The Pipeline Block Execution System
The seamless integration of Pipeline's Block Market™ with predictive algorithm switching enables quiet execution in the markets while maximising opportunities for natural fills.

  • Pipeline offers a unique block crossing marketplace employing Contra Targeting™ technology which enables traders to seek large block contras without the gaming risk associated with blotter scraping.
  • Pipeline's model consistently delivers Mega-Blocks at the midpoint; with an average trade size of 50,000 shares.
  • Pipeline offers the power of non-linear predictive switching in order to beat the stat arbs at their own game.

SunGard
SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. These solutions meet a multitude of needs, but support a common aim: to help drive our customers' unique business strategies - whether that means increasing efficiency, improving customer service, complying with regulations, or capturing growth opportunities through innovation. www.sungard.com

About SunGard's global trading solutions
SunGard's Global Trading business provides a comprehensive range of advanced trading solutions from the front to the back office across all listed asset classes. We offer global market coverage with access to over 130 liquidity pools, comprehensive FIX connectivity, and a liquidity management suite encompassing order management, advanced execution and smart routing. Our complementary risk management, clearing, settlement and market data solutions combine to deliver an integrated and flexible STP platform. www.sungard.com/globaltrading

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Transaction Network Services (TNS)
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a market leader in providing global, low latency and cost effective network services for electronic trading. It was one of the first organisations in the world to deploy a dedicated financial community extranet which is resilient, highly secure and utilises the latest technology for low latency. Since its inception, TNS has expanded its network coverage extensively around the globe, including North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Today, the TNS Secure Trading Extranet connects over 1600 financial community end-points around the world. It is designed and managed to ensure the highest quality of service and lowest latency to support Direct Market Access, Algorithmic Trading and Market Data Distribution for trading FX, equity and other asset classes.

To find out how TNS can help you stay ahead of the market in the fast paced financial world, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or call  +44 (0) 207 336 1510.

ULLINK
ULLINK is a leading provider of comprehensive low-latency connectivity and trading solutions, enabling buy and sell side financial institutions to build vendor-neutral trading environments for every asset class.

ULLINK provides DMA to 40+ major international markets, and comprehensive care order architectures with OMS, exception management, best execution, and algorithmic trading. These solutions are available in-house, through the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-managed service (UL NET+).
Using fiber-optic connectivity, and co-located with the execution venues whenever possible, UL NET+ offers near-zero latency, while full redundancy and constant monitoring ensure unprecedented levels of availability. UL NET+ includes a pre-trade risk component to filter orders and monitor positions globally.
With offices in New-York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, ULLINK supports customers worldwide, 24/7. A proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned it the trust of the world's largest financial institutions.

Winterflood Securities
Winterflood Securities - one of the leading liquidity providers in London.
Winterflood Securities is an international capital markets firm committed to efficient and responsive liquidity provision with integrity. Classic trading values and sophisticated modern technology combine to deliver a range of highly-flexible execution services custom-designed for each client.

For more information please go to www.wins.co.uk

Exhibitors

Autex
Autex has played an integral part in the trader workflow for four decades. At the heart of this business is the leading Autex platform for equity Indications of Interest (IOIs) and one of the world's largest FIX networks.
Autex's state-of-the-art Smart IOI™ technology analyses real-time and historical order flow to match buy-side institutions with intelligently-routed Natural liquidity from broker-dealers globally. The Smart service supplements a broker-dealer's original list of targeted addressees with buy-side clients actively trading on the contra-side, exposing the buy-side to liquidity they would not normally see.
Autex Trade Route, the global standard for multi-asset class FIX order routing, provides both liquidity and access to over 1,100 of the world's leading institutional and brokerage firms. Over 1.5 billion shares are traded daily over 8,000+ connections between subscribers. Autex is owned and operated by Tradeweb, a leading global provider of online markets, majority owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Corvil
Corvil, leader in electronic trading and market data latency management, was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London and Dublin. The company's global client base spans exchanges, high frequency traders, investment banks and service providers to financial markets.

Recognized as a technology innovator in latency management, Corvil's products offer a complete solution for enhancing electronic trading, execution and market data delivery including SLA (service level agreement) compliance, performance monitoring, event troubleshooting and infrastructure optimisation.

For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.com.

ITG Europe
Investment Technology Group (ITG) is a specialised agency brokerage and technology firm that partners with clients globally to provide innovative solutions to control transaction costs, access liquidity and trade more efficiently.

A pioneer in electronic trading, ITG has a unique approach that spans the investment process, combining pre-trade analysis, order management, trade execution, and post-trade evaluation. ITG has established a strong and growing presence in key financial centres around the world to serve the needs of global institutions. 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 recognise the potential of electronic trading and continues to help clients trade more efficiently through a combination of technology and client service. Over 20 years later, ITG remains committed to providing clients with the same high standard of service and innovation.

For more information on ITG, please visit www.itg.com or contact the London office on: Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 4000

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.0 trillion and operations in over 60 countries. A leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity, it serves millions of consumers and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. 
A premier investment bank, J.P. Morgan offers a world-class platform coupled with straightforward, intelligent advice. Whether it's raising capital to meet growth objectives or identifying strategic business partners, J.P. Morgan offers an M&A advisory, capital markets, prime brokerage, restructuring, risk and research platform of unrivaled strength and scale. Its awards include Bank of the Year and Bond House of the Year from IFR (2008) and Credit Derivatives House of the Year, Derivatives House of the Year and Bank Risk Manager of the Year from Risk (2009).

LSE

London Stock Exchange
With over twenty-five thousand securities, the London Stock Exchange gives you access to some of Europe's most liquid securities markets. Trading is not just in equities but in products such as Exchange Traded Funds, Exchange Traded Commodities and fixed income. In addition to our markets the London Stock Exchange incorporates several businesses including:

  • MillenniumIT - a premier technology solutions provider serving the global capital markets industry
  • EDX London - facilitating trading in Scandinavian and Russian equity derivatives
  • Hosting - the ultimate in low latency connectivity for high frequency firms looking to trade London Stock Exchange Group markets.

Through our FIX Gateway service we offer global connectivity for order routing, IOIs and links to our UnaVista post trade platform for the processing of allocations and trade confirmations. The FIX Gateway has over 150 participants globally, including some of the largest buy side and sell side firms trading 24 hours a day.

NYSE Technologies
A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities that require next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services. This division operates four units: the Global Connectivity unit, offering one of the world's largest, most reliable financial transaction networks connecting firms and exchanges worldwide; the Trading Solutions unit, which creates and implements high performance, end-to-end messaging software and real-time market data distribution and integration products; the Exchange Solutions unit, which provides multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy; and the Global Market Data unit, which offers a broad array of global market information products covering multiple asset classes. With offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, NYSE Technologies' advanced integrated solutions for a wide range of services has earned the ability to power the trading operations of global financial institutions and exchanges.

For additional information visit: www.nyse.com/technologies

Portware Portware
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.

Contact: UK Office: 11 Ironmonger Lane, London EC2V 8EY +44 (0) 207.083.7171 www.portware.com

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The Royal Bank of Scotland
RBS Global Markets division is a leading banking partner to major corporations, financial institutions and public sector clients around the world. Global Markets provides an extensive range of debt markets, treasury and investor products, asset and portfolio management and transaction banking services. The division focuses on long-term customer relationships and excellence in global product execution.


RealTick
RealTick® is the electronic trading industry's premier global, multi-broker, broker neutral, multi-asset class Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick's ease of use, plus unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution. This includes sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers and their products, plus exchanges, ECNs, ATSs and alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers, network redundancy and a comprehensive client service model for ultimate stability, resiliency and reliability.

For more information, visit www.realtick.com.

Contact Us:
Chicago +1 312 621 0141 New York + 1 212 679 9000
London +44 20 (0) 7786 5070

*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

SmartPool logo SmartPool
SmartPool Trading Limited is a UK registered company providing a European dark pool for the execution of institutional order flow. Created by NYSE Euronext in partnership with HSBC, J .P. Morgan and BNP Paribas, SmartPool is a Multi Lateral Trading Facility (MTF) approved and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Headquartered in London, SmartPool has its own management team and an independent board of directors. For more information, please visit: www.tradeonsmartpool.com or contact info@tradeonsmartpool.com.

TradingScreen
TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of electronic trading solutions to the Buy Side. The company offers a suite of execution management and connectivity solutions encompassing all asset classes across global markets. TradingScreen's goal is to simplify the complexity caused by market fragmentation and the proliferation of asset class and broker specific trading tools, 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.  The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, products, geography and services ranging from execution to algorithmic trading services, prime brokerage and clearing. This functionality is delivered through a proven and reliable ASP install-and-support model. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Geneva, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

For further information about TradingScreen visit www.tradingscreen.com

Cocktail Sponsors

BT Global Services
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, operating in 170 countries and providing network-based solutions to the global financial services sector for over 25 years. BT provides ultra-low-latency network services, proximity hosting solutions, and trader-voice turrets to over 60,000 dealer positions globally. Our BT Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure meets the specific requirements of the financial sector for reliability, security and speed, interconnecting over 14,000 customer locations around the world with over 400 application service providers, making it the largest, secure networked financial community in the world. This infrastructure is relied on by banks, brokers, investment managers, exchanges, MTFs and ECNs, clearing houses, securities depositories and data vendors to support their trade-related activities across the whole STP chain. Thousands of organisations across this community use the FIX Protocol as a basic part of their everyday business. BT is a Premier Member of FIX Protocol Ltd.
CapGemini
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 92,000 people worldwide.

We bring deep industry experience, enhanced service offerings and next generation global delivery to serve the financial services industry. With a network of 12,000 professionals serving over 900 clients worldwide, we move businesses forward with leading services and best practices in banking, insurance, capital markets and investments. For more information please visit www.capgemini.com/financialservices.

Informatica
Informatica is the world's number one independent leader in data integration software. Organisations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives whether using traditional IT computing systems or the internet cloud.
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Rapid Addition
Rapid Addition is the leading software solutions provider to the global electronic markets. Our founders comprise some of the best known names in the FIX industry. A fully global company, headquartered in the UK with a presence in Europe, Asia, and North America, Rapid Addition provide FIX engines, FAST engines, FIX tools, and Professional Services to many of the world's leading financial institutions including banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, MTFs, and Investment Managers.

Sponsors

Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank <NYSE: DB> 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 78,530 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.

Within Deutsche Bank, the Global Markets Division is responsible for the origination, sale, structuring and trading of fixed income, equity, commodity, foreign exchange, derivative and money market products.

autobahn Equity is Deutsche Bank's global electronic trading platform, providing DMA and algorithmic trading solutions in markets worldwide. For further information contact autobahn Equity Sales: +44 20 7547 2587

ITC InfoTech
ITC Infotech is amongst the fastest growing IT and IT-enabled services companies, providing outsourced IT services and solutions globally.
ITC Infotech offers a range of services across the Banking and Financial Services ranging from Process/Architecture Consulting to Infrastructure Services to Testing to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing to Application Development & Deployment and others. In the Capital Markets area, we offer specialist FIX based services:
FIX Transformation Services:

  • FIX adoption, migration or upgrade projects.
  • FIX transformation strategy & business case development,
  • Custom solution development,
  • Specialist testing and deployment activities
  • Post-deployment maintenance & support.

iTrade Monitor is a new generation FIX message monitoring solution catering Brokers & DMA.

  • Fast yet comprehensive monitoring of message traffic
  • Monitor multiple message routers and nodes without no message latency impact
  • Scalable and modular architecture
  • Effective information display for faster issue identification and resolution.

www.itcinfotech.com

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TRADING VENUE OF THE YEAR 2009 -  Funds Europe
BEST BUYSIDE EXECUTION VENUE 2009 - BuySide Technology Awards
BEST DARK POOL SYSTEM 2009 - Financial News Awards

Liquidnet is the global institutional marketplace that facilitates equities trading for institutional investors worldwide. By giving buy-side traders a first look at a global natural liquidity pool averaging approximately 7.5 billion shares per day, including 11.9 billion euros of average daily liquidity in EMEA (quarter ended 30 September 2009), Liquidnet consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of 592 buy-side trading firms (as of 30 September 2009). Institutional investors use the Liquidnet marketplace to enhance the quality of trade executions, gain price improvement for their trades, and lower overall trading costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in over 30 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London and locations around the world. www.liquidnet.com.

Small Firm Sponsors

The LaSalle Technology Group
The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC is a leading provider of connectivity services for exchanges, investment banks, fund managers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms.  Lasalletech offers an integrated suite of FIX productivity tools that provide complete life cycle support from inception through deployment.  FIX Explorer is used to automate the specification of a FIX service offering.  FIX Technician is then used to test the service and automated regression testing environments for ongoing support of your FIX service offering.  You can start with predefined test suites to reduce costs and time to market.  Once your service is ready to launch, FIX Conductor is used to create a complete on-boarding and certification process for counterparties via a user friendly and simple configuration web interface building upon test scenarios created with FIX Technician.  FIX Detective is Lasalletech's operation and management application used to manage your service offering in production.

Lasalletech also provides custom integration and connectivity services for trading firms, including custom market data feed handlers, adapters to proprietary market interfaces, and FAST connectivity.  Lasalletech has considerable expertise with the major FIX engine products and services.  Lasalletech has proven leaders that can assist you in the areas of application, architecture, system architecture, reliability, scalability, latency reduction, performance tuning, as well as in the software process area of build management, continuous integration, and automated regression testing.

The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC
PO Box 218
Houghton, MI 49931

Jacob Northey, Partner, +1 906 483 3800