Conference Sponsors

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Arista
Arista Networks was founded to deliver cloud networking solutions for large datacenter and computing environments. Arista Networks ignited the low-latency 10GbE Ethernet revolution with the Arista 7100 and reinvented the modular data center Ethernet switch with the Arista 7500. Arista leads the data center Ethernet switching industry with innovation in switching hardware, silicon based performance, and the EOS platform, a pioneering new software architecture with self-healing and live in-service software upgrade capabilities. Arista markets its products worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success. Information about Arista Networks can be found at www.aristanetworks.com

Bloomberg
Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals.  Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and Multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,300 news and Multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network reaches more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via Sirius XM Radio and 1worldspace™ satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® Web site provide news and insight to business leaders and financial professionals.  For more information, please visit www.bloomberg.com.

BM&FBOVESPA
BM&FBOVESPA is one of the world’s largest exchanges in terms of market value and the largest in Latin America in terms of number of contracts traded. In the global scenario, BM&FBOVESPA positions Brazil as one of the major international financial hub for equities, commodities and other financial instruments.

Being ready to disseminate its expertise and prospect an ever greater number of domestic and foreign participants interested in the enormous potential of the Brazilian market, BM&FBOVESPA is moving forward towards excellence in management, with a focus on becoming a reference brand for the global scenario.

The Exchange provides trading systems for equities, fixed income, financial derivatives, spot foreign exchange, commodities and other instruments. It also acts as a central securities depository, in addition to providing financial institutions with access to its trading systems.

In order to render services to foreign investors, BM&FBOVESPA has set up representative offices in New York, Shanghai and London.

CameronTec
CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions; its flagship product CameronFIX is universally regarded as the standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.
CameronFIX has 12+ years investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on five continents use CameronFIX. They rely on CameronFIX to underpin critical metrics for increase customers, enhance revenue streams, reduce risk, and lower costs associated with pre and post trade services.
www.camerontec.com

Red Kite Americas provides CameronFIX sales, implementation, training and support in Brazil – catering to leading banks, broker-dealers, and hedge funds. Red Kite architects migration programs for updating existing electronic communications and messaging infrastructure, helping firms operating in Brazil to implement state-of-the-art connectivity with global liquidity sources and trading venues.
www.redkiteamericas.com

Charles River Development
Charles River Development is a front- and middle-office investment software solutions provider, serving over 300 investment firms in more than 40 countries representing the institutional, wealth management/trust, alternative, fund management, insurance, pension fund and fund administration/custody markets. Charles River maintains headquarters in Boston, primary offices in Beijing, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo, and has a local presence in all other major financial centers of the world.

The Charles River Investment Management System is a multi-asset, multi-currency software suite consisting of five main modules: Charles River Manager - portfolio management/modeling; Charles River Compliance -  real-time pre-trade/in-trade/ post-execution/end-of-day compliance monitoring; Charles River Trader - order management/electronic trading/execution management; Charles River Post-Trade - centralized management of trade matching/confirmation/settlement workflow; and Charles River Performance - daily performance measurement/attribution/performance risk. The company also offers the Charles River Anywhere Web-based workstation, the fully-integrated Charles River FIX Network and implementation, application management services and hosting solutions.  

CMA
CMA is a Brazilian multinational company, which has been operating since 1973, and specializes in the development of high-tech solutions applied to financial markets and commodities covering Market Data, Trading Systems (OMS, EMS, DMA, Algorithms, Trade Hub) and Global Connectivity aspects of any trading environment (Sell and Buy Side companies).

Since then, we have invested significantly in our team and formulated a new concept of routing, to fit the tropical features, technology and speed available to the national reality. Out of our team’s know-how, skill and a pinch of Samba and Pepper found only in Brazilian culture, the ENGINE FIX by Extol was born, an innovative, accessible, flexible and user-friendly solution.

We believe Extol was a pioneer of this technology in Brazil, and the first Brazilian company to become an associate member of FPL. Currently, Extol is a leader in the national market with its ENGINE FIX router installed at several stockbrokers, where the commitment of our services and the loyalty, credibility, and dedication of our team is evident through of customers.

Sure to always innovate, we will be launching new FIX products for the market at this event, which will leave you amazed.

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 North America, Europe, 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 $380 million and employs 1,500 people globally.

Greenline Financial Technologies
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.

HSBC Bank plc
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.

IBM
Some companies dream about making the world work better, others actually do. At IBM, we believe the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Our business is literally to make the world work better.

For nearly a century, the world’s leading financial services institutions have turned to IBM for help in addressing the industry's most intractable issues. Our research and development investments focus on helping firms drive profitable growth, balance costs with agility, improve their risk management and their own industry differentiation. Seeking to transform their businesses, clients continue to draw on our deep industry experience in integrating the hardware, software and services needed to help them holistically bridge their business and IT strategies.

IBM has helped our clients to simplify and streamline operations, integrate risk management and drive new insights - resulting in sustainable revenue growth. We’re ready to assemble the right components to help you capitalize on innovation and develop smarter solutions.

Multirede
Multirede is a multinational Brazilian Information Technology and Services company with over 19 years of experience on system integration, consulting services and training solutions for IT & Telecom industries. Concentrating business activities in Brazil with offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and Africa – Angola and Cabo Verde, during the past decades Multirede played an extremely relevant role assisting major Telco’s, Financial Industry and Government to deploy IP-Based infrastructure to support business processes. Multirede´s core competencies are concentrated on network infrastructure & management, datacenter, security, collaboration and mobility. Please visit www.multirede.com.br for additional information.

NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. For nearly twenty five years, NetScout has delivered breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius® and Sniffer®solutions are deployed at more than 20,000 of the world’s largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers, to assure the network, applications and service delivery to their users and customers. More information about NetScout Systems is available at www.netscout.com.

OpenLink
OpenLink’s Findur provides multi-asset trading, risk management, and operational software to support today’s leading financial institutions.

Standard out-of-the-box functionality includes:

·   Trade capture and processing of transaction lifecycle events
·   Valuation
·   Portfolio reporting
·   Simulations and stress testing
·   Real time monitoring of market and credit risk and compliance rules
·   P&L reporting and attribution
·   Collateral management
·   Confirmation/settlement processing
·   Accounting including full support for hedge and effectiveness testing
·   Many standard integration options including Bloomberg, Reuters, Markit, MarkitServ,
ICE Link and FIX Protocol

Support to Brazilian market:

• Support to BM&F Bovespa Back Office (alternative to Sinacor)
• Brazilian Fixed Income (Public and Private bonds)
• Swaps CETIP (Plain Vanilla and Complexes)

Headquartered in Long Island New York, OpenLink’s +300 diverse client list includes some of the world’s largest and most prestigious financial institutions.  Our 850 staff members are located in 10 regional offices worldwide.

www.olf.com

Orc Software
Orc Software (SSE: ORC) provides advanced trading solutions for options market makers, volatility traders, futures spread traders, arbitrageurs, and other traders wanting to deploy low-latency, ultra-high frequency trading strategies. Orc’s trading solutions include a high-speed algorithmic trading engine, low-latency market connectivity to over 100 markets around the world, and sophisticated pricing and risk management tools.

Orc allows traders to deploy their trading strategies quickly into the market and continuously update these strategies as market conditions change. Traders are able to quickly expand their trading to new markets and instruments by leveraging Orc’s extensive market connectivity. Together, this allows traders to have the flexibility they need with the scalability they want to grow their business.

Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management.

To learn more about Orc Software, visit us at www.orcsoftware.com.

Progress Software
Progress Software and its award-winning Apama Capital Markets Platform empower the responsive operations of leading financial institutions with Solution Accelerators for algorithmic trading, market surveillance and monitoring, liquidity aggregation, pricing, real-time risk management, and other high frequency trading-related applications.  Additionally, with its recently announced Progress Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite, Progress enables enterprises to gain immediate and actionable insight into clearing and settlement, customer on-boarding, and other middle and back office operations. 

With the Progress RPM suite, heads of operations can (a) gain visibility into critical processes, (b) immediately respond to internal and external events, and (c) continuously improve business performance through strategic process analysis and change. Progress Software solutions complement existing technology infrastructure and applications investments with a best-in-class portfolio that helps firms achieve Operational Responsiveness. With Progress Software solutions, financial service firms can generate greater revenues, reduce operational costs, better manage risk, and more quickly comply with regulatory requirements.

www.progress.com/apama

Rapid Addition
With over 50 clients worldwide, including the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) and the London Stock Exchange, Rapid Addition is the leading provider of FIX and FAST related software solutions to the global financial community. Their Chairman, Kevin Houston, is the designer of the FIX Repository for FIX Protocol Limited (FPL). Mr. Houston co-chairs the FPL Global Technical Committee and is an active member of the FPL Global Steering committee. Rapid Addition is a founder member of the Intel Low Latency Labs and is the only FIX vendor to continuously test their products in the labs. RA-Cheetah, the flagship FIX engine, gives a consistent sub-10 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.

www.rapidaddition.com

StreamBase Systems, Inc.
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 recently awarded StreamBase the title of 2010 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. Applications in Capital Markets include FX Aggregation and Pricing, Smart Order Routing, Market Data Management and Algorithmic Trading.

StreamBase customers include Kairos Asset Management, CME Group, SunGard, ConvergEx Group, RBC Capital Markets, CMC Markets, City Index and BlueCrest Capital Management. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices in New York, Washington D.C. and London. For more information, visit www.streambase.com.

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. We provide financial institutions with tools designed specially to help them distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data, while managing risk and compliance obligations. Our electronic trading services connect financial communities, helping them gain access to the best prices and trade efficiently and effectively.

With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuter’s shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (symbol: TRI). 

For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com Visit us at our booth at this year’s FPL Latin America Electronic Trading Conference to see how you can maximize the competitiveness of your trading systems.

ULLINK
Fueling growth on client satisfaction, 100% independent with no tie to any broker or financial institution, ULLINK is a leading provider of comprehensive low-latency connectivity and trading solutions. ULLINK enables latency-sensitive buy and sell side financial institutions to build vendor-neutral trading environments around modular solutions for every asset class.

ULLINK provides low-latency DMA to over 40 major international markets, and comprehensive care order architectures with OMS, exception management, best execution, and algorithmic trading across the globe. These flexible solutions are available in-house,  through the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-managed service (UL NET+).
ULLINK employs over 180 dedicated professionals with offices in New-York, São Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and growing. They support customers worldwide, around the clock. ULLINK’s proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned it the trust of hundreds of clients, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions.