Sponsors
Sponsors
MTS is Europe’s premier facilitator for the electronic fixed income trading
market, with over 500 unique counterparties and average daily turnover exceeding
EUR 85 billion. MTS markets provide the professional trading environment for the interdealer
marketplace, enabling primary dealers from across the globe to access
unparalleled liquidity, transparency and coverage. MTS further facilitates the dealer-to-client bond market through BondVision,
the most trusted and efficient electronic bond trading market, delivering
exceptional access for institutional investors direct to the market makers. MTS Data is sourced directly from the MTS interdealer market and includes
benchmark real-time data, reference data, reference prices and time series data
providing the benchmark data source on the fixed income market.
FTEN’s high frequency execution and risk control platforms allow brokers to
extend their Sponsored Access and Electronic Execution Services to capture high
frequency trade-flow. High frequency traders use FTEN to deploy and scale their
black box strategies across instruments, markets and regions. The platform
provides consistent and reliable high speed performance that is critical for
managing trading bursts and high cancel rates. The FTEN solution can be extended
with pre- and post-trade risk controls, real-time surveillance, compliance and
book and record reporting services. FTEN will fully manage, integrate and
support the complete trading infrastructure including co-location facilities,
dark fiber networks and high performance servers. This allows clients to quickly
launch new execution services without significant investments in IT staff or
capital resources. FTEN’s proven capability to process millions of transactions
globally, including over a third of the U.S. equities daily volume and over $150
billion in intra-day risk calculation, ensures we meet the most demanding
standards in the ultra-low latency, high frequency trading world.
Fidessa group supplies multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, compliance,
market data and connectivity solutions for financial markets participants. Fidessa’s products are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial
institutions, across both the buy-side and sell-side. Fidessa’s network carries $640billion of flow a month between 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 major investment banks and asset managers through to niche brokers and
hedge funds. Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Hatstand – a niche IT consultancy that provides independent, professional
services to the financial services industry since 1999. Hatstand has a core
focus within the electronic trading environment encompassing design,
development, support and QA/testing and additional valuable disciplines;
regulatory practice, project management, service management and a highly
innovative thriving graduate scheme. Our thought leadership and enviable success
in these practice areas assists our clients to gain measurably improved
performance, latest competitive best practice, reduced risk and a substantially
lower cost base.
Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a leading financial services firm that provides
market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to
buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients. We engage in trading and
market-making in nearly every U.S. equity and offer execution services in
international securities, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures and options.
Our approach to trading combines deep, natural liquidity, superior trading
technology and capital facilitation to deliver consistent, high-quality trade
executions according to regulatory mandates and client-defined measures. In
addition, we provide capital markets services for corporate issuers.
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, Latin 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 NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and has clients in over 20 countries globally.
Founded by trading and IT professionals from Citigroup, Credit Agricole and
Societe Generale, Smart Trade provides the industry's most sophisticated
Liquidity Management System (LMS) to banks, broker-dealers, ECNs, asset managers
and large hedge funds. Smart Trade's single-vendor, STTP platform solution
aggregates liquidity from multiple internal/external sources to create an
internal depth of market for the purpose of performing MiFID-compliant best
execution (including internalization, crossing and smart routing of orders) and
the creation of dark pools and ATSs. smartTrade STTP also enables users to
interact directly with their flow through the use of rules and smart order
routing to execute beyond algos and events.
StreamBase Systems is a leader in providing software
solutions for analyzing and acting on real-time market data. StreamBase's latest
applications allow capital markets institutions to keep pace with growing
transaction volumes and portfolio sophistication through: Smart Order
Routing and Transaction Cost Analysis, Crossing Engines and
Dark Pools, Real-Time Profit & Loss Management, Automated
Liquidity Seeking, Multi-Asset Class Algorithmic
Trading and Signal Generation, Real-Time Risk and Compliance
Monitoring, Pricing and Market Making, and Market Feed Latency Monitoring.
StreamBase customers include 6 of the top 10 global investment banks and 3 of
the top 5 hedge funds in North America.
