Conference Sponsors

Become part of the 2012 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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Lead Sponsor
£8,000
N/A
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Combined Sponsor/Exhibitor
£6,500
£9,750
Only 2 packages remaining!
Exhibitor
£5,000
£7,500
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Cocktail Sponsorship
£4,000
£6,000
Only 3 packages remaining!

Lanyard Sponsorship(Exclusive)

£4,500
N/A
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Meeting Area Sponsorship (Exclusive)

£3,500
N/A
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Breakfast & Lunch Sponsorship (Exclusive)

£7,000
N/A
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WiFi Business Lounge (Exclusive)
£6,000
N/A
Only 1 package available!
Brand Sponsorship
£3,000
£4,500
Only 5 packages remaining!

Water Bottle Sponsorship (Exclusive)

£3,000
£4,500
Only 1 package available!

Notepad & Pen Sponsorship (Exclusive)

£3,000
£4,500
Only 1 package available!


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To discuss more about the Sponsorship and Exhibitor opportunities available for this event please contact Lucy Wicks if you have any questions on +44 (0)203 440 5957 or

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for their support!

Lead Sponsors

Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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

 

Credit Suisse
As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally.

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 seamlessly work orders on multiple liquidity pools, increase productivity and improve execution performance. For more information contact the AES sales desk on +44 20 7888 0006

Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Investment Technology Group, Inc
ITG is an independent research and execution broker that partners with global portfolio managers and traders to provide unique data-driven insights throughout the investment process. From investment decision through settlement, ITG helps clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk and navigate increasingly complex markets. ITG is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

 

Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services.  The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,300 offices in 42 countries. 

Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) provides a complete spectrum of services from pre-trade analytics and execution to post-trade execution performance analysis and commission management. We offer a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access (DMA) strategies, including our smart order routing technology and our dark liquidity pool aggregator. Whether you are connecting to us via a third-party order management system or using our Morgan Stanley Passport execution management system, our global product offering provides seamless access to trade portfolios, single stocks, ETFs, options, futures, swaps, and foreign exchange. Our team is committed to providing stellar trading solutions for the most demanding specifications.

 

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The Trading segment serves the financial community; allowing all market participants to connect, access rich content and trade in a secure environment. By offering firms a combination of the Eikon desktop, the Elektron network, Content and Transactions we support every aspect of the trade process and enable innovation across all markets and asset classes.
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. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (symbol: TRI). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

 

UBS
UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions and manage CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets.

UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in over 50 countries, with about 37% of its employees working in the Americas, 37% in Switzerland, 16% in the rest of Europe and 10% in Asia Pacific. UBS employs about 65,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

UBS Direct Execution is the firm’s global institutional electronic trading business. Direct Execution offers ultra-low latency Direct Market Access (DMA), a suite of award-winning advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, a state-of-the-art analytics platform - offering Real-Time TCA - called UBS Fusion, and a multi-asset international execution management system called UBS Pinpoint.


Combined Sponsors & Exhibitors

Banca IMI
Banca IMI, the investment bank of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, operates in Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Structured Finance on the main domestic and international markets.

Banca IMI targets banks, companies, institutional investors, governments and public administrations. It has a strong presence in equity and debt placements, extraordinary finance and securities trading; it boasts a long-term leadership in Structured Finance.

It  assists client companies in the raising of venture and debt capital and provides financial consultancy services and structures risk management products for companies, institutional investors and local authorities.
Through Retail Hub it realizes investment products for retail clients, while MiFID compliant Market Hub platform, guarantees the dynamic management of the Best Execution on more than 70 equity, fixed income and derivatives markets.

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Bloomberg
Bloomberg gives key decision makers in business, finance and government a critical edge by providing access to a dynamic, living network of information, people and ideas. Our network offers connections, insight and competitive advantage through our unique data, news, research, technology and customer service capabilities.  Our enterprise solutions allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organisations more efficiently and effectively.  Bloomberg's Execution Management System (EMSX) delivers a global, multi-asset, broker-neutral platform, providing order routing capabilities from one destination to another within the Bloomberg network, including pre-trade, real-time and post trade analytics/TCA.

From the centre of the business world, Bloomberg helps people see things they couldn’t otherwise see, find things they couldn’t otherwise find, and learn things they wouldn’t otherwise know, to profit from smarter, faster and more informed decisions.

Corvil
Corvil is a provider of latency management systems to the world's leading trading organizations including global banks, exchanges, electronic market makers and service providers to financial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London and Dublin. Customers use Corvil for precision monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting of performance for their trading applications and networks. In addition, Corvil's products are used to demonstrate latency compliance and transparency of services such as co-location, direct feeds and Direct Market Access (DMA) offered to trading clients. For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.com


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Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.

With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates.

Deutsche Bank comprises three Group Divisions: Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB); Private Clients and Asset Management (PCAM) and Corporate Investments (CI).

The Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG has as its prime responsibility the Group’s strategic management, resource allocation, financial accounting and controls, capital and risk management, and internal controls.

www.db.com

 

European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF)
European Multilateral Clearing Facility N.V. (EMCF) is Europe's largest cash equities clearing company and one of the top two Central Counterparty (CCP) clearing providers in Europe. Our offering is focused on providing a reliable service against transparent and predictable pricing and using robust risk management systems.

We deliver CCP Services in 19 European markets through 8 Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTF) and exchanges: BATS Europe, Burgundy, CATS, Chi-X Europe, NASDAQ OMX Nordics, NASDAQ OMX First North, Quote MTF and The Order Machine (TOM).

In 2007, we became the first CCP to serve MTF’s in multiple markets. Today we serve over 50 European financial service providers with an offering that includes: novation, gross trade netting, risk management, settlements, and fails and buy-in management.

With our registered offices in Amsterdam, EMCF is regulated and supervised in the Netherlands by Autoriteit Financiele Markten (the Authority Financial Markets; AFM) and De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch Central Bank; DNB) and in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). EMCF is owned 78% by ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and 22% by NASDAQ OMX AB.

 

Fidessa
Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.

85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. $10 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global connectivity network each year. We offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.

A global business with scale, resilience and expertise, we’ve delivered around 30% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.


ICAP Blockcross
BlockCross is a Pan European MTF, and supports trading in securities across 18 markets. Clients are given the ability to access liquidity and anonymously execute block trades with other BlockCross participants.  Average execution size is £250,000 and almost 80% of executions are in small- and mid-cap securities.
BlockCross is available to both the buy- and sell-side, allows direct orders and also utilises blotter-scraping technology.
To simplify the trade process, orders are executed on a time priority basis, using the midpoint of the primary exchange as a reference. Participants can generate trading opportunities by sending non-binding, pre-trade alerts to a targeted audience. By offering total control over information, BlockCross protects participants from information leakage whilst allowing them to maximise execution potential. Order types offered include market and limit orders, and day/ immediate-or-cancel orders.


Infront
Buy and sell-side financial players across Europe rely on trading and real-time market data solutions from Infront. Infront¹s flagship terminal, mobile apps and versatile platform for real-time market data and trading connect over 9,000 users across Europe to international financial markets.

Infront solutions enable sell side players to provide their clients with professional level information terminal functionality and cost efficient electronic trading on over 50 exchanges worldwide ­ with a direct impact on increased trading volumes.

For more information, visit www.goinfront.com

 

Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data's offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,500 employees in offices worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

 

Interxion

Interxion
Interxion is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services to the Financial Services industry. Our proximity hosting and colocation offerings allow capital markets participants to host their servers in close proximity to Europe’s leading liquidity venues.  The Interxion footprint counts 28 data centres located in 13 cities across Europe, including all major financial centers. Interxion hosts an extensive trading and investment community, including exchanges, MTFs, market participants and financial service providers. Interxion’s Financial Hubs are located at the heart of the markets and offer a cost-effective location for your operations, industry-leading reliability & security and a wide choice of (low latency) connectivity providers.

For more information, please visit www.interxion.com/financialhub  or contact

 

London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, offering UK and Russian derivatives trading, pan-European and US lit and dark equity trading. Through its markets, the Group offers international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.

The Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software and also offers its customers around the world access and an extensive range of real-time and reference data products and market-leading post-trade services. The Group is also home to a world leading index provider FTSE, which creates and manages of over 200,000 equity, bond and alternative asset class indices.

Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy and Sri Lanka, the Group employs around 1,850 people.

Further information on London Stock Exchange Group can be found at www.londonstockexchangegroup.com

NYSE Technologies
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


SIX Swiss Exchange
SIX Swiss Exchange is a leading regulated securities exchange in Europe and unrivalled in the life science area. As a key pillar of the Swiss financial sector’s infrastructure, it is an ideal listing location and helps create the best possible trading conditions, connecting investors, issuers and participants from across the world. It forms the efficient and transparent reference market for trading in its attractive segments of equities, bonds, ETFs and ETPs. It invests continually in high-performance exchange technology. Its SWXess trading platform supports multiple currencies and features an impressive selection of modular connection options as well as low latency and high capacity. As a reliable, well connected and highly engaged partner, SIX Swiss Exchange enables the success of its customers.

SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd l Selnaustrasse 30 l P.O. Box 1758 l 8021 Zurich
T +41 58 399 5454 l F +41 58 499 5455 l www.six-swiss-exchange.com

 

StreamBase Systems
StreamBase Systems, Inc, a leader in high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP), provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. The World Economic Forum awarded StreamBase the title of Technology Pioneer.

StreamBase’s Event Processing Platform™ combines a rapid application development environment, an ultra low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Leading investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies use StreamBase to power mission-critical applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk.  In Capital Markets, typical applications built with StreamBase include Algorithmic Trading, FX Aggregation and Pricing, Smart Order Routing, and Market Data Management.

StreamBase customers include CME Group, Thomson Reuters, SunGard, BM&FBOVESPA, ConvergEx Group, RBC Capital Markets, CMC Markets, City Index, Linden Lab and BlueCrest Capital Management. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.streambase.com.

 

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



Trading Screen

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

 

Transaction Network Services (TNS)
Transaction Network Services (TNS) was one of the world’s first organizations to offer a low latency extranet dedicated to meeting the unique needs of the financial community. Since those pioneering days, we’ve expanded our hugely resilient, highly secure network’s coverage globally and allow end user to connect in over 45 countries, including in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
We can currently deliver:

  • Access to e-Commerce and FIX connectivity, proprietary trading, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs. 
  • Third party and order routing services
  • On-net connectivity within days of request
  • 24/7/365 network monitoring
  • Customer portals, for ordering and monitoring
  • Connection to over 1700 financial community endpoints around the world
  • Strategic hosting /co-location

Participants include: fund managers, proprietary traders, broker dealers, exchanges, MTFs, ATS and ECNs. 
Asset classes supported include: equities, foreign exchange, derivatives, fixed income and options hosting.
For further information, please e-mail , visit www.tnsfinancial.com or call +44 (0)207 336 1510

 

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TS-Associates
TS-Associates is a leading supplier of precision instrumentation solutions for latency sensitive trading systems.  With the TipOff network monitoring appliance and the Application Tap software instrumentation card, TS-Associates provides a complete range of precision instrumentation solutions capable of providing nanometric transparency into the latency dynamics of trading systems.


TS-Associates precision instrumentation solutions have been integrated with all leading transaction, market data, middleware and HFT systems. With deployments at leading financial institutions throughout North America, Europe and AsiaPac, TS-Associates offers a truly global support capability through its centres in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore.

ULLINK
ULLINK is a leading provider of end-to-end multi-asset connectivity and trading solutions. With an extensive library of plug-and-trade connections to favourite destinations (brokers, exchanges, order routing networks and trading applications, in all formats and all asset classes), ULLINK enables financial institutions to build vendor-neutral environments: they simply connect their existing applications to the platform (UL BRIDGE), select their destinations and start trading. ULLINK provides turn-key DMA to over 35 major international markets, and comprehensive care order architectures with full order management, exception management, best execution, and algorithmic trading. These flexible solutions are available in-house, in Facilities Management or through the UL NET global routing network. With offices in New-York, London, Paris and Hong Kong, ULLINK provides 24/7 worldwide customer support. Its proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned ULLINK the trust of the world’s largest financial institutions. Please visit www.ullink.com or contact sales@ullink.com.

 

Exhibitors

BATS Chi-X Europe
BATS Chi-X Europe is the largest pan-European equities exchange by value traded, consisting of the BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe MTFs. BATS Chi-X Europe offers trading in more than 1,300 of the most liquid equities across 25 indices and 15 major European markets, as well as ETFs (exchange traded funds), ETCs (exchange traded commodities) and IDRs (international depositary receipts).
The group’s innovative and proprietary technology was developed by a dedicated team of professionals and, combined with a low-cost, streamlined operating model, caters to the needs of the broker-dealer and trading community.
BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe are indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of BATS Global Markets, a leading operator of stock and options markets around the globe. BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe are authorised and regulated by the FSA.
For more information please visit www.batstrading.co.uk and www.chi-xeurope.com.

 

Baymarkets
Baymarkets delivers the next generation trading system for the OTC markets called EDGE. Their clients, located in Europe, Asia and the US, are brokers, banks and SEFs/MTFs, who want to increase their revenues, adapt to the market regulations and maximize the business with each of their clients, by streamlining and standardizing the trading processes.
The Baymarkets EDGE OTC suite consists of; Marketplace, Credit Filter, and Clearing House Gateway.  It is designed to be a highly configurable trading and negotiation platform providing the flexibility clients need to succeed in their market niche.
EDGE is a multi-asset class system for Fixed Income products such as rates and Credit, Commodities and Equity Derivatives.
Baymarkets EDGE can be delivered as “SEF in box” or as Software as a Service.

 

CameronTec
CameronTec is the global financial industry’s long-standing provider of Financial Information eXchange (FIX) infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Its market innovation Catalys is the industry’s first, inclusive, FIX-based ecosystem, engineered on the industry acknowledged standard in FIX technology, CameronFIX. 

Wholly open, standards based and centrally managed, Catalys provides for unprecedented levels of performance, data interoperability, convergence and business insight. Developed specifically to address the cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISVs, Catalys empowers brokers and banks and the buy-side community to aggregate, view and manage related trade data. This means FIX transactional data and latency, risk and operational data, from a multitude of disparate third party systems, gateways and applications.

In April 2012 CameronTec will release Catalys 2.0.

CameronTec is an Orc Group Company and 10+ Year Premier Global Member of the FIX Protocol organization.

www.camerontec.com

 

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EPAM Systems
EPAM Systems provide a broad range of solutions and consulting services to clients in the Capital Markets through its Capital Markets Competency Center.

Our FIX products suite features mature feature-rich, thoroughly tested, fully supported applications pre-configured to work with a large number of the major exchanges.  We also develop and integrate order management systems, matching engines, and market data feed adaptors, utilized by many trading firms, banks, brokerages, clearing houses, and exchanges. Delivered with complete online documentation, 24x7 worldwide support, and risk-free software escrow services, our solution portfolio includes FIXopaedia, FIX Antennas, FIXEdge, FIX log analyzers, FIX Automated Certification and Testing Service, trade capture, trade reporting and pre-trade risk solutions. 

To date over 300 customers have deployed EPAM’s FIX solutions globally.
www.b2bits.com

 

equiduct

Equiduct
Equiduct Systems Limited is a technology and transactions services provider specialising in offering low latency market data and trading platform solutions.
Equiduct offers a pan-European trading platform with two execution facilities. The HybridBook is a lit electronic order book that offers quotes for each available instrument. PartnerEx is a unique innovative segment designed to deliver the highest likelihood of cost effective execution at the best available price. Uniquely, Equiduct brings together retail brokers with dedicated market makers to provide retail investors with best execution on a pan European Regulated Market.

Contact
+44 (0)20 3102 4080

 

EuroTLX
Based in Milan, EuroTLX is a leading European MTF for the e-trading of fixed income securities in retail-size and investment products distributed to retail clients: more than 4,300 securities are currently listed on EuroTLX, mainly govies and bonds (corporate, supranational, financial, emerging markets, etc.), plus a selection of equities and certificates.
The daily average is of 13,200 trades for a turnover of 350 million €.
The market microstructure is mixed, order and quote-driven. Liquidity is guaranteed by the presence of at least one market maker during the trading hours from 9 am to 6 pm for each financial instrument. As of March 2012, Liquidity Providers are 19, such as Banca Akros, Banca IMI, Banca Sella, BNL-BNP Paribas Group, Deutsche Bank, Exane, UniCredit, Macquarie, Mediobanca, Method Investments, Morgan Stanley and MPS Capital Services.
EuroTLX also provides services that support financial institutions in adapting to the requirements imposed by MiFID II.


Greenline
Greenline provides superior FIX Protocol and electronic trading technology solutions and services across all asset classes for leading global financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship product suite, VeriFIX®, CertiFIX®, MagniFIX®, MetriFIX® and Latency Monitor, delivers end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX Protocol. In addition, its premier Professional Services consultancy can evaluate and improve clients’ business strategy and trading technology operations, leveraging its expertise across all connectivity and messaging protocols. With global reach and client experience, Greenline is ideally positioned to meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a member of FIX Protocol Limited – North Americas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com.

 

Knight
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 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

Portware
Portware is a leading provider of broker-neutral, automated trading systems for global equities, futures, options and FX.  Portware provides integrated access to over 450 global trading destinations, while the system’s flexibility and open architecture allows users to easily customize Portware to meet their specific trading and workflow integration requirements.

  • Portware Enterprise, Portware's flagship trading system, is a fully customizable, multi-asset execution management system for single stock, portfolio, index and algorithmic trading. 
  • Portware Pro is a hosted, multi-asset trading platform developed for firms that need a highly advanced, turnkey trading solution.  Portware Pro supports equities, futures, options and FX globally, and includes the same industry-leading portfolio trading functionality found in Portware Enterprise.
  • Portware FX provides a streamlined interface to bank, ECN and interdealer platform FX liquidity, an advanced front-end trading platform, and a customizable framework for development of rules-based and algorithmic trading strategies. 
  • Portware Strategy Server is a powerful algorithmic engine designed specifically for ultra high-frequency trading. Orders can be routed to any global market destination via integrated, pre-certified FIX connections.

For more information, please visit our website - www.portware.com, sales@portware.com
Contact: Jim Feingold, Global Head of Sales, , +1-212-425-5233

 

Rapid Addition
Rapid Addition is the leading provider of FIX and FAST related software solutions to the global financial community. Mr Houstoun co-chairs the FPL Global Technical Committee and is an active member of the FPL Global Steering committee.
Rapid Addition is a technology partner of Microsoft and founding member of Intel Low Latency Labs. Rapid Addition is the only FIX vendor to continuously test their products in the labs. RA-Cheetah™, the flagship FIX engine, gives a consistent sub-9 microsecond performance and is the only FIX engine to provide this level of consistent measurement. RA-Cheetah™ and GRHub™ run on our advanced low latency GenerationZero™ technology that ensures no garbage collection. 
Products include low-latency .NET and Java FIX engines, FIX hubs, browser-based Execution and Order Management Systems, and monitoring tools. Clients include stock exchanges, banks, brokers, hedge funds, network providers, and asset managers. To find out more call +44 (0)20 7993 9906, e-mailenquiries@rapidaddition.com or visit www.rapidaddition.com

 

RealTick
RealTick’s ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability. This includes advanced execution tools, unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers and their products plus lit and dark liquidity pools, real-time market and derived data, news, pre- and post-trade analytics and proven risk management capabilities.

RealTick is available through its flagship execution management system (EMS), comprehensive data and trading APIs, RealTick for Microsoft Excel®plug-in, FIX and RealTick Mobile™. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick’s software-as-a-service model is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers, network redundancy and world class client service. RealTick LLC is a member company of ConvergEx Group. RealTick is a registered trademark of RealTick LLC. For more information, visit www.realtick.com.

 

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Volante Technologies
Volante Technologies has accelerated data integration for financial firms and utilities around the world since 2001. With built-in expertise in FIX/FIXml and FAST, market/reference data feeds and FpML based connectivity, Volante eliminates hand-coding, while delivering low-latency data flow to and from trading/execution systems, CCPs, SEFs and affirmation services.

Volante customers include exchanges, industry utilities, brokers, hedge funds, and providers of software and services. Volante software runs on any platform – hardware, software or network -- to cut costs and time from a development project, or serve as the foundation for a global integration strategy. Metadata-based technology enables broad benefits from re-use of integration codes to supporting canonical data standards.

Robust, reliable Volante has been proven at one of the world’s largest exchanges, where it handles more than 750 million messages daily. To learn more about our customers and our product scope, visit us at www.volantetech.com or contact us atinfo@volantetech.com.

 

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Winterflood Securities
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.

As one of the leading European liquidity providers, Winterflood makes markets in more UK stocks than any other firm (source: London Stock Exchange). It has a team of over 70 traders who bring a wealth of experience and commitment to market making, offering brokers, asset managers and institutional investors over 13,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American equities together with investment trusts, ETPs, Gilts and bonds.

Winterflood also provides low latency integrated electronic trading platforms that allow:

Immediate access to Winterflood’s internal liquidity in all sectors
FIX order routing directly to Exchange order books and MTFs
Dedicated sales trading services for managed orders
Visit www.winterflood.com

 

Breakfast & Lunch Sponsor

Traiana
Traiana Inc. (www.traiana.com) provides global banks, broker/dealers, buy-side firms and e-trading platforms with solutions to automate post trade processing of financial transactions. Traiana's post-trade solutions and the Harmony Network are used by over 500 of the world's leading financial market participants and have become the market standard for post-trade processing of foreign exchange, exchange traded derivative, synthetic and cash equity transactions.  With one connection to the Harmony Network, firms are connected to all of their trading relationships - significantly reducing the risk and complexity of these relationships, increasing operational efficiency and improving client service.   Built to minimize the number of touches required to fully process post-trade workflow end-to-end, Harmony provides complete real-time automation of the processing workflow. This ensures that any trade breaks between counterparties can be identified and corrected immediately, significantly reducing operational risk.   Traiana, an ICAP company, is headquartered in New York City with offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Lanyard Sponsor

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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.
The company is a long-established participant in the European markets, with a presence since 1922. Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) footprint comprise of 32 cities across 23 countries on three continents. Globally, Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients and customers in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500, nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and 33 percent of the FTSE 100.

For more information, go to: www.baml.com

 

Meeting Area Sponsor

 

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Volante Technologies
Volante Technologies has accelerated data integration for financial firms and utilities around the world since 2001. With built-in expertise in FIX/FIXml and FAST, market/reference data feeds and FpML based connectivity, Volante eliminates hand-coding, while delivering low-latency data flow to and from trading/execution systems, CCPs, SEFs and affirmation services.

Volante customers include exchanges, industry utilities, brokers, hedge funds, and providers of software and services. Volante software runs on any platform – hardware, software or network -- to cut costs and time from a development project, or serve as the foundation for a global integration strategy. Metadata-based technology enables broad benefits from re-use of integration codes to supporting canonical data standards.

Robust, reliable Volante has been proven at one of the world’s largest exchanges, where it handles more than 750 million messages daily. To learn more about our customers and our product scope, visit us at www.volantetech.com or contact us at info@volantetech.com.

Cocktail Sponsor

BT
The BT Radianz Cloud is the leading connectivity service for financial firms. Supporting 15,000 customer locations globally, the BT Radianz platform provides access to 400 of the world’s leading financial content and service providers including exchanges, banks, broker-dealers, central counterparties, and central securities depositories.

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 connectivity is fully-redundant and carries a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that ensures 100% availability.

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 post-trade services, where security and reliability are paramount, and BT Radianz Messaging ensures secure, reliable, tamper-proof and non-repudiable message delivery.

BT is a Premier Member of FPL. 

 

CME Group
As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Clearing, an industry-leading central counterparty clearing provider, offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives. Overall, CME Group’s products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both on-exchange and over-the-counter derivatives markets. 

Brand Sponsor

ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V
ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. is a world leading third-party independent clearer. Our focus is on the clearing and settlement of our clients’ trades – not our own. We do not conduct proprietary trading in our own name.
Via our low latency high capacity global network we are able to offer bandwidth for clients to route orders across the globe, via ABN AMRO Clearing’s FIX product ‘AMG’ (ABN AMRO Market Gateway) or by using any one of around 15 ISV's it deploys globally.

ABN AMRO Clearing;

  • offers direct or indirect connectivity to around 45 of the worlds Equity and Derivative exchanges,
  • provides proximity and colocation hosting services
  • is a registered Application Service Provider (ASP) where possible (or the equivalent) at many exchanges around the globe.

 

Our strategy of freedom of choice with our Market Access services has allowed us to grow into one of the largest service providers in the world for Algo, Automated and proprietary and institutional traders

www.abnamroclearing.com

 

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Goldman Sachs
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 analysis. Clients access our products via FIX or our top-ranked EMS platform, REDIPlus®. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our SIGMA Z non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA and SIMA 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.







HSBC Global Banking and Markets
HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. With offices in more than 60 countries and territories, Global Banking and Markets offers clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge. In HSBC's Global Markets business, the FIX Protocol has been implemented across the four primary asset classes; Equities, Futures, FX and Fixed Income.

HSBC's global cross asset FIX implementation helps customers enjoy the benefits of having a single cost effective connection into HSBC Global Markets enabling them to trade a comprehensive mix of products across a large global footprint with over 102 execution destinations.

HSBC is a major user of advanced technology, with an array of e-business channels that include the internet, PC banking and telephone banking via both fixed and mobile phones.

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LaSalle

 

The LaSalle Technology Group
We don't make FIX engines. We make them better. In 2009 Lasalletech introduced FIX PRODUCT SUITE. Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Quality Controllers and Trader Operators are discovering how to save time, connect faster and improve the overall quality of the their current FIX service. The suite offers users solutions from conception to onboarding and maintenance. Lasalletech products are helping traders uncover issues before counterparties do and keeps documentation in sync with implementation.

 

RBC Capital Markets
RBC Capital Markets (RBC CM) is a premier 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 professional and support staff, we operate out of 75 offices in 15 countries and deliver our products and services through operations in Asia, Australia, the U.K. and Europe, and in every major North American city. RBC CM work with clients in over 100 countries around the world to help them raise capital, access markets, mitigate risk, and acquire or dispose of assets. According to Bloomberg, RBC CM is consistently ranked among the top 20 global investment banks.

RBC Capital Markets is a division of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Operating since 1869, RBC has more than USD760 billion in assets and one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution. RBC 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.