World Exchange Congress 2010

Meet our sponsors...

Platinum sponsor

A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies is a leader in providing innovative software, market data products and data management applications, connectivity solutions, exchange technology, and transaction solutions for trading firms, vendors and financial markets around the world. NYSE Technologies offers one of the most comprehensive suites of high quality commercial technology products that includes advanced messaging platforms, co-location services, ultra-low latency order routing and a one-of-a-kind hosted network community, all designed to enable the free flow of liquidity for the global marketplace. This division operates four units: SFTI, 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 Data Solutions unit, which offers a broad array of global market information products covering multiple asset classes. With offices across the U.S., Europe, Singapore and Japan, 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: http://www.nyse.com/technologies

Gold sponsor

As the technology services unit of Chi-X Global Inc., Chi-X Global Technology, LLC (“Chi-Tech”) provides high performance trading technologies and services for financial markets and participants. For exchanges and market centers, the company provides comprehensive trading infrastructure solutions, based on a scalable platform of advanced marketplace technology and tools. For banks, funds and other market participants, the company’s MarketPrizm business line offers a fully-managed trading network and ecosystem comprised of multi-venue connectivity, colocation and hosting, low latency market data, and applications from leading third-party providers. Chi-Tech’s focus is delivering solutions that help the world’s marketplaces and their participants to lower costs, reduce risk and maximize competitive advantage. For more information on the company, visit www.chi-tech.com

Cinnober is the leading independent provider of innovative exchange and clearing technology. Based on the proven TRADExpress Platform, Cinnober delivers solutions tailored to handle high transaction volumes with low latency and sophisticated functionality.

Among Cinnober’s customers are leading exchanges such as Borsa Italiana, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, EDX London, the London Metal Exchange and NYSE Liffe as well as new, successful initiatives such as Alpha Trading Systems, Burgundy, Markit BOAT and Turquoise.

Cinnober is passionate about one thing: applying its platform-independent technology to help the most competitive trading and clearing venues seize new opportunities in times of change, quickly and cost-effectively. For more information visit www.cinnober.com

SIX Swiss Exchange is the nexus of interaction between participants, issuers and investors in an efficient and transparent securities market. It is the home exchange and trading market for the shares of leading international companies.

SIX Swiss Exchange is an integral part of SIX Group Ltd, which was created in 2008, with the amalgamation of the SWX Group, SIS Group and Telekurs Group. This holding entity provides infrastructure services to the Swiss financial centre's national and international participants. Its businesses span securities trading and settlement, financial information and payment transfers.

SIX Swiss Exchange's international services encompass the following business areas: the cash market, information products, the development and operation of trading platforms and the admission of securities to trading. Its broad product range is crucial in this regard, as is its fully integrated and automated trading, clearing and settlement system. SIX Swiss Exchange performs a further important function by laying down a regulatory framework, and monitoring and enforcing compliance. SIX Swiss Exchange is subject to Swiss law.

In collaboration with its subsidiary SIX Exfeed, as well as its Eurex, Scoach Switzerland and STOXX joint ventures, SIX Swiss Exchange provides first-rate securities exchange services. For more information visit www.six-swiss-exchange.com

Session sponsor

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, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in more than 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com

Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information to businesses and professionals via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms: BLOOMBERG NEWS® service, BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® network, BLOOMBERG RADIO® services, BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® Web site. For more information visit www.bloomberg.com

Silver sponsors

Based in Milan (Italy), EuroTLX SIM S.p.A. is the company running the first fixed income market in Europe focused on retail investors. Its mission is to offer the banking networks a secondary market for financial instruments targeted to the non-professional investors’ needs.

On EuroTLX (multilateral trading facility) it is possible to trade more than 3,000 securities, mainly govies and bonds (corporate, supranational, financial, emerging markets, structured, etc.), plus a selection of equities and certificates. The microstructure of the market is hybrid (quote and order driven), and the presence of at least one Liquidity Provider on each instrument guarantees a high liquidity.

The company provides an integrated service that is both a trading and a compliance solution for brokers in the European post-MiFID arena. For more information visit www.eurotlx.com

Deutsche Börse Group is far more than a mere marketplace organizer for the trading in shares and other securities. It is a transaction services provider. With advanced technology it affords companies and investors access to global capital markets.

Xetra is Deutsche Börse’s high capacity electronic trading system for the cash market that allows fast, liquid, and low-cost trading. Today Xetra is one of the most reliable, fastest and safest fully electronic trading systems world-wide with more than 350,000 tradable securities. More than any other system. For more information visit: http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbag/dispatch/en/kir/gdb_navigation/home

Associate sponsors

Trayport Exchange Systems is a leading provider of specialist software and services to the global exchange market.

Supporting both cleared and bilateral trading, Trayport Exchange Systems high-performance software offers solutions to exchanges across all trading markets, asset classes and contract types and also supports market operations and data distribution requirements. Partnerships with leading technology suppliers enable Trayport Exchange Systems to offer our clients end-to-end solutions catering for the full transaction lifecycle.

Trayport Exchange Systems seeks to build long-term relationships with our clients. Our dedicated team of specialists is involved from the outset enabling us to fully understand your business and technology priorities and to assist with the launch, support and growth of your markets. Our continued investment in the development of high quality trading software and in depth research of the global exchange market allows us to continually ensure our product fits your current and future requirements.

Trayport Exchange Systems is acknowledged for the quality of its products and services. This reputation has been gained through the provision of software that provides 99.999% up time, the delivery of on time, on budget projects and our world class support service. Operating out of offices in London, New York and Hong Kong we provide our global clients with a full pre and post sales service in their time zones. Trayport was established in 1993 and is a subsidiary of GFI Group Inc. (‘GFIG’ on Nasdaq).

More information is available at www.trayport.com

Exhibitors:

Quod Financial delivers multi-asset and cross-asset adaptive execution technology into the financial trading community. Existing sell-side implementations of its non-disruptive technology are testament to its responsiveness to the rapidly changing trading landscape. The ability to deliver high ROI and low TCO while retaining a passion for people is enabling institutions to leverage existing investments, enable innovation and acquire and maintain more customers. Quod Financials’ AEP can be deployed on a modular basis and scale to address future needs whilst embracing an organisations existing infrastructure – its applications support a best approach to discrete trading environments. Quod Financial’s vision is to help drive organisations to change the way they execute trades electronically by using adaptive trading technologies across the whole trade lifecycle.

Quod Financial is headquartered in London with offices in Paris and New York. For more information, please visit http://www.quodfinancial.com

LIST Group is a leader in the design and development of software for electronic markets, and has been providing innovative solutions for the financial industry for 25 years.

LIST Group works on projects and solutions specifically in the areas of:

Electronic Markets (official, regulated, MTF, ECN) and real time settlement systems
Professional Trading systems
Governance Risk and Compliance
MiFID, with guaranteed best execution and transparency obligation conformance
Quantatitive finance and numerical analysis - supplied by FMR Consulting, which is the company in the group that is specialized in technical and financial consultancy services, in data warehousing, and in advanced solutions for statistical calculus

For more information visit www.list-group.com

Greenline specializes in providing systemic innovation to the US and international financial services industry. Greenline emerged with the advent of the global electronic marketplace and has since distinguished itself as an industry leader in custom enterprise development for the world's premier financial institutions. Greenline's flagship product, VeriFIX, is recognized throughout the global financial services industry as the most robust and feature-rich FIX testing/simulation tool available on the market. GFT complements VeriFIX with tools to assist companies throughout the certification and client support phases of their FIX initiatives. Greenline Financial Technologies is a Member of FIX Protocol Limited — North Americas. For more information visit http://www.greenlinetech.com/

Progress Apama is the Capital Markets’ leading platform for building low latency, high throughput trading and trading-related applications.

Leveraging the power and flexibility of Apama’s complex event processing (CEP) platform and broad market connectivity, trading firms and venues now have access to tools for business users and IT to create, test and deploy unique strategies for algorithmic trading, market aggregation, smart order routing, pricing, market surveillance and risk management. For information on the Progress Apama platform, see www.progress.com/apama.