November 4th & 5th, 2009 New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, New York, NY
Sponsorship Information
Thank you to our 2009 sponsors for making this event possible. Please visit our sponsors' websites below to learn more about their products and services.
Our 2009 Sponsors
Day 2 Morning Networking Break Sponsor
Chi-Tech delivers technology and services that enable exchanges, market centers and their participants to lower costs, reduce risk and maximize competitive advantage. For exchanges and other trading venues globally, Chi-Tech provides a complete trading technology platform, with the proven performance and flexibility to support the high frequency and algo trading communities, while also reducing long term costs. The company also operates MarketPrizm, a comprehensive trading infrastructure and connectivity “ecosystem”, comprising a high-speed mesh network for neutral connectivity to European markets and a range of integrated third-party services.Contact Details:............Chi-Tech.................................................................................Laura Perdue
.........................................3 Times Square ....................................................................VP, Marketing and Communications
.........................................New York, NY 10036 ............................................................+1 972 385 9658
.........................................www.chi-tech.com................................................................laura.perdu@chi-tech.com
Day 2 Breakfast Sponsor
CME Group ( http://cmegroup.com ) is the world's largest and most diverse exchange. Formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol “CME”.Contact Details:............CME Group .............................................................................Matt Simpson
.........................................20 S. Wacker Drive.................................................................Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture
.........................................Chicago, IL 60606..................................................................+1 312 930 1000
.........................................www.cmegroup.com..............................................................matt.simpson@cmegroup.com
Day 2 Afternoon Networking Break Sponsor
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 encompasses exchanges; alternative trading venues; investment banks and financial market service providers.
Recognized as a technology innovator in latency management, Corvil’s products offer a complete solution for enhancing electronic trading and market data including latency compliance management, latency monitoring & troubleshooting, and infrastructure sizing for low-latency SLAs.
Latency Management SolutionsCorvilNet - latency management system – CorvilNet provides always-on monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization analysis for electronic trading and market data latency management. CorvilNet’s key capabilities include latency compliance management, latency monitoring & troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization for low latency.
CorvilClear – Inter-party Latency Management for Electronic Trading & Market Data - CorvilClear utilizes unique peer-to-peer latency sharing technology to exchange precision performance data in a secure and scalable manner. Peering parties mutually agree to the level of transparency, and enforce the latency sharing policy without exposing any privileged information.
Day 1 Breakfast Sponsor
FTEN enables firms to expand their global electronic execution business by providing a high-frequency execution and risk control platform to support high speed trade flow. Integrated with a co-location infrastructure and fresh market data, the platform offers ‘plug and play' connectivity for fully automated trading strategies, giving hedge funds, prop trading groups, and prime brokers time-to-market and total cost of ownership advantages. Together with unprecedented execution speeds across multiple venues, sponsoring brokers and their clients receive real-time pre-trade and post-trade risk controls along with surveillance reports to continuously monitor positions and limits – without compromising speed. FTEN technology processes millions of transactions globally, including over 20% of the entire US equities daily volume and over $100 billion in intra-day risk calculations.
Cocktail Party Sponsor
Greenline provides superior FIX Protocol and electronic trading technology solutions and services across all asset classes for leading global financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship product suite, VeriFIX, CertiFIX, MagniFIX, MetriFIX and Latency Monitor delivers end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX Protocol. In addition, its premier Professional Services consultancy can evaluate and improve clients’ business strategy and trading technology operations, leveraging its expertise across all connectivity and messaging protocols. With global reach and client experience, Greenline is ideally positioned meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a member of FIX Protocol Limited – North Americas, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com.Contact Details:............Greenline Financial Technologies.....................................Julie Quick
.........................................30 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 1650...........................................Office Manager
.........................................Chicago, IL 60606..................................................................+1 312 235 5600
.........................................www.greenlinetech.com.......................................................jquick@greenlinetech.com
Delegate Bag Sponsor
Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. Its international network comprises around 9,500 offices in 86 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. The Group's total assets at 30 June 2008 were US& 2,547 billion, an increase of US$ 192 billion, or 8%, since 31 December 2007. With listing on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by around 200,000 shareholders in over 100 countries and territories. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depository Shares. HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services to more than 100 million customers worldwide, of which approximately a total of 45 million customs registered for internet banking, through four customer groups and global businesses: Personal Financial Services (including Consumer Finance); Commercial Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets; and Private Banking. HSBC's Global Banking and Markets business provides tailored financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients. The business was restructured into four product lines: Global Markets, Global Banking, Global Transaction Banking and Group Investment Businesses. HSBC's world-class global presence and local accessibility ensure that the Group is well placed to offer a premier service around the world to all its clients, whether corporate, institutional, government or supranational with all their financing, risk and investment needs. HSBC's vision is to be the world's leading financial services company. To achieve this, we aim to make HSBC the "best place to bank" for our customers. We have identified seven principal areas - that we call "global pillars" - to help us improve our operations, and the products and services offered to customers. Through these pillars, we aim to become more "joined up", and to demonstrate the real benefits our size and international network bring our customers.
Day 1 Luncheon Sponsor
Jordan & Jordan offers practical, insightful business and technology services and solutions to address the challenges and opportunities facing the securities industry. Our team has the practical experience to enact real change. We leverage our financial industry domain expertise to offer management consulting and project management, technology management and delivery, market data services, and industry association management and facilitation. Our employees apply their first-hand knowledge and practical industry experience to meet our clients’ business challenges, whether evaluating cost savings opportunities, planning for technology upgrades, or responding to regulatory changes. Our areas of expertise include cross market securities processing, electronic trading systems, real-time market data feed integration, identifying revenue growth opportunities, data distribution, options symbology, exchange compliance and more.Contact Details:............Jordan & Jordan ....................................................................Kathy Boylan
.........................................5 Hanover Square..................................................................Consultant
.........................................New York, NY 10004 ............................................................+1 212 422 8567
.........................................www.jandj.com.......................................................................boylan@jandj.com
Lanyard Sponsor
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 organizations existing infrastructure – our applications support a ‘best of breed' approach to discrete trading applications. Quod Financial's vision is to help drive organizations to change the way they execute trades electronically by using adaptive trading technologies across the whole trade lifecycle.Contact Details:............Quod Financial.................................. .....................................Sebnem Demiray
.........................................130 West 42nd Street , Suite 970........................................Office Manager
.........................................New York, NY 10036..............................................................+1 646 233 1666
.........................................www.quodfinancial.com........................................................sebnem.demiray@quodfinancial.com
Program Guide Sponsor
Mission-critical connectivity is essential for global financial market participants operating in a dynamic economic climate. Transaction Network Services (TNS) has been a leading provider of fast and dependable connectivity and data services to financial communities since FIX began in the mid 1990s. TNS’ network boasts an extensive financial community of interest, including buy and sell-side institutions, market data and software vendors, exchanges and alternative trading venues. TNS’ robust and reliable Secure Trading Extranet is one of the industry’s leading electronic trading data solutions. It is used by some of the world’s largest and most prominent financial organizations, enabling them to connect to multiple trading partners and access market information in a low latency environment. A dedicated strategy has allowed TNS to expand its coverage globally for its clients. TNS has added connectivity in countries such as Korea, India, Australia and Canada in recent years, and also opened up offices in Singapore and Hong Kong. TNS recently added a suite of low latency services to its offerings, giving financial market participants greater control over the latency of their connectivity services, allowing them to choose the system efficiency which meets their specific needs.
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 +1 516 944 0890.
Contact Details:............Transaction Network Services (TNS)..................................Alan Schwartz
.........................................11480 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 600...........................President, North America
.........................................Reston, VA 20191 .................................................................+1 516 944 0890
.........................................www.tnsfinancial.com...........................................................financial@tnsi.com
Exhibit Guide Sponsor
UNX blends market structure expertise with open and innovative technology to provide sophisticated electronic trading tools and agency brokerage services for institutional investors, hedge funds and brokerage firms. Our advanced tactical execution services provide a conflict-free way to find liquidity for difficult orders while managing benchmark risk and market impact costs. UNX's new institutional EMS, Catalyst, provides state-of-the-art portfolio and active trading capabilities. The platform is broker neutral, high performance, fully extensible and customizable, leveraging open standards to achieve a truly flexible desktop environment.
