Sponsors
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Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, BNA and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.
CO-HOST SPONSOR
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) owns and operates the only stock exchange and futures exchange in Hong Kong, and their related clearing houses. It was listed on its own stock exchange in June 2000 following the integration of Hong Kong's securities and derivatives markets. In its role as the operator and frontline regulator of the central securities and derivatives marketplace in Hong Kong, HKEx regulates listed issuers; administers listing, trading and clearing rules; and provides services to customers of the exchanges and clearing houses. These services comprise securities and derivatives trading, clearing and settlement, depository and nominee services, and information services. As of the end of June 2010, HKEx was the second largest listed exchange in the world by market capitalisation of its own shares and ranked the sixth among exchanges in terms of market capitalisation of its securities market.
WELCOME RECEPTION SPONSOR
Established in Hong Kong in 1994, China Investment Information Services Limited (CIIS) was authorized by SSE InfoNet Ltd. (InfoNet), the wholly owned subsidiary of Shanghai Stock Exchange as the exclusive operation organization to manage the securities information of Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) in oversea market. CIIS offers both Level 1 and level 2 market data and the information services of SSE. In addition, CIIS is also the market data sales agent of China Securities Index Co., Ltd. (CSI), Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE). Furthermore, CIIS is the technical agent of CSI and Shenzhen Stock Exchange market data.
PANEL SPONSORS
As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, bringing buyers and sellers together through the CME Globex® electronic trading platform and trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also offers clearing services for both exchange-traded and over-the-counter products.
GoldenSource delivers an integrated 360 EDM™ platform for the securities and investment management industry. GoldenSource makes it easy to manage critical reference and market data with Enterprise Data Management (EDM).
Our innovative products create, maintain and distribute a trusted golden copy starting with the industry leading data model which covers all financial instruments, customers and counterparties, and extends to transactions and positions. The ability to connect, organize and aggregate trusted information helps our customers to achieve their business goals by reducing risk and enabling better decisions making. GoldenSource solutions are used by forward-looking banks, brokers, investment managers, service providers, and exchanges to reconcile tactical departmental goals and strategic enterprise objectives.
A proven supplier of on-premise EDM solutions to the world’s largest financial institutions, GoldenSource also delivers managed data services via the innovative Powered by GoldenSource™ program. For more information, visit: http://www.360edm.com or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/goldensource.
MDSL leads the market in international Market Data Expense Management (MDM) solutions with offices in London, New York, Paris, Gothenburg, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and is one of few providers with ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and Safe Harbor security certification. MDSL’s award-winning solutions assist enterprises world-wide to manage their market data expenses more effectively, and achieve significant cost savings on a global scale. With a range of solutions covering the full market data management life cycle, more than 150 customers in over 34 countries trust us to deliver measurable benefits to their bottom line.
At APFIC this year, MDSL will be demonstrating its RPM Workflow Optimisation module and new MDX suite of Usage Reporting solutions. As the cost of market data services such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Markit and others continues to rise steeply against a still bleak economic background, it has never been more important for financial organisations to ensure they are utilising and managing their market data services as efficiently as possible while still complying with increasing regulation. MDSL’s RPM module and MDX suite of Usage Reporting solutions have been designed specifically to process access requests, consolidate and report on usage information in an easily-accessible format and allow managers to monitor, carry out detailed analysis and reduce costs.
S&P Capital IQ, a brand of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world. We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions such as Capital IQ, Global Credit Portal and MarketScope Advisor desktops; enterprise solutions such as S&P Securities Evaluations, Global Data Solutions, and Compustat; and research offerings, including Leveraged Commentary & Data, Global Market Intelligence, and company and fund research, S&P Capital IQ sharpens financial intelligence into the wisdom today’s investors need.
SIX Financial Information is a leading global provider of first-rate data services and solutions for financial and insurance firms, corporations and the media. SIX Financial Information aggregates data, directly and in real-time, from over 1000 worldwide sources, covering the all the major trading venues. Its financial information comprises reference data, corporate actions, pricing and market data for over 9 million securities and is unique in terms of information depth, breadth and structure. Financial news and customized solutions complement the offering. With offices in 24 countries SIX Financial Information combines the advantages of local presence with global reach to offer a comprehensive data portfolio along with industry knowledge for professionals specialized in investment advisory, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration.
SIX Financial Information is part of SIX. On a global scale, SIX offers first-rate services in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement, as well as financial market information and payment transactions. Further information is available at: www.six-financial-information.com
SmartStream is a global software and managed services provider that, in challenging markets conditions, has outpaced its rivals in the financial markets sector, to create an impressive base of more than 1,500 customers.
At the heart of this success is the ability to react to client, market and regulatory changes through innovate solutions. The combination of SmartStream’s post-trade processing solutions with its unique Reference Data Utility services creates a real-time and pre-emptive approach to reducing trade failures while also accelerating and automating trade processes.
Tullett Prebon Information (tpInformation) is the leading provider of independent real-time price information from the wholesale interdealer brokered financial and commodity markets. tpInformation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullett Prebon, a fully diversified interdealer broker with leading positions in global fixed income securities, money markets, capital markets, equities, energy, credit and associated derivative products, and a principal source of market information for tpInformation. Tullett Prebon has been voted overall number one interdealer broker of the year by Risk Magazine in its 2010 annual global interdealer survey.
tpInformation delivers the highest-quality independent price data using state of the art technologies and data publication standards.
Information changes performance, performance matters!
EXHIBITORS
Arcontech provides world class real-time market data and trading systems to the global financial community. Arcontech has thrived due to the timely delivery of innovative, dependable, cost-effective products and bespoke solutions to its blue chip user base.
CityVision, Arcontech’s open market data platform supports multi vendor contribution, global data distribution, real-time spreadsheet integration and on-line trading. It is used by government, central banking, data vendors, investment banks, inter dealer brokers and retail service providers. Its enterprise features, including dynamic configuration and superb fault-tolerance make it an excellent choice for high availability, reliability, flexibility and scalability.
ICAP, the world’s premier interdealer broker, is the original source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. As the leading provider of OTC market information, ICAP Information Services (IIS) is at the forefront of delivering independent data solutions to financial market participants. With $1.4 trillion of average daily volume traded by ICAP being fed into our data products, IIS delivers 96,000 instruments generating almost 30 million updates per day. Our data is the intelligence behind algorithmic trading and research models for customers and is a key source of mark-to-market data for the industry. IIS provides data services across all key asset classes and offers innovative solutions for real-time, end-of-day and historical products.
Morningstar Real-Time Data’s streaming feeds provide real-time pricing data directly from more than 160 sources around the world, covering all major equity, futures, and derivatives exchanges and indexes, as well as foreign exchange and treasury markets. Coverage also includes futures, options, commodities, and precious metals. Morningstar Quotes data feeds are simple to integrate with systems ranging from proprietary trading algorithms to risk management and portfolio management systems requiring as little as one day to set up, tailored to your needs with the markets, formats, and time intervals of your choice.
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is the Asian Gateway, connecting investors in search of Asian growth to corporate issuers in search of global capital. SGX represents the premier access point for managing Asian capital and investment exposure, and is Asia’s most internationalised exchange with more than 40% of companies listed on SGX originating outside of Singapore. SGX offers its clients the world’s biggest offshore market for Asian equity futures market, centred on Asia’s three largest economies – China, India and Japan.
In addition to offering a fully integrated value chain from trading and clearing, to settlement and depository services, SGX is also Asia’s pioneering central clearing house. Headquartered in Asia’s most globalised city, and centred within the AAA strength and stability of Singapore’s island nation, SGX is a peerless Asian counterparty for the clearing of financial and commodity products. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information please visit: www.sungard.com/financialsystems
A suite of global market data solutions, SunGard’s MarketMap offers real-time access to price information, news, analysis and financial calculators. The MarketMap terminal and data feed provide decision support for trading, research, risk management, portfolio management and advisory functions within financial institutions. Market Map also provides data integration tools for software vendors, news organizations and third-party aggregators.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc. is the holding company of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE), one of the leading global exchanges and the largest securities market in the Asia-Pacific region. TSE is best known for its equities market of over 2,200 listed companies, valued at USD 3.3 trillion (JPY 258 trillion) as of the end of August 2012. It also boasts a market for Japanese securities derivatives such as Japanese Government Bonds and TOPIX (Tokyo Stock Price Index) futures. Furthermore, TSE offers a wide range of services related to the securities business, including clearing/settlement operations and market information dissemination.