Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Deutsche Boerse, one of the world’s leading exchange organizations, provides decision makers around the globe with high quality essential data input. The market data offering is constantly enhanced to anticipate and respond to the needs of traders and other capital market participants. The extensive product portfolio comprises real-time, ultra-low latency and historical trading data from the group’s own trading venues Eurex and Xetra, the financial news services of Market News International (a Deutsche Börse subsidiary) as well as the renowned DAX and STOXX indices. We also operate AlphaFlash, the algo news feed that delivers machine-readable global macroeconomic data and German corporate news. insightMED reports, introduced in March 2011, provide trading relevant information for around 100 of the most important international pharmaceutical companies based on the insights of a medical expert network. For more information, please go to www.deutsche-boerse.com/mda
Host Sponsor
Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Combining innovative technology with unmatched analytics, data, news and tools, Bloomberg delivers critical information via the Bloomberg Professional service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions provides leaders in corporations, finance and government with a dynamic network that allows them to access, integrate, distribute and manage information and technology across organizations more efficiently and effectively. For more information, please email wfic2011@bloomberg.net
Gold Sponsors
BT is one of the world's leading providers of networked IT services to the global financial community. With more than 25 years of experience providing products and services developed specifically to the unique requirements of the financial services industry, BT has built a reputation for creating solutions that help financial firms to increase revenues, reduce costs, and improve service to their customers. BT addresses the networking, communications, and IT requirements of firms across the spectrum of the financial services industry. BT's Radianz connectivity and hosting platform, is specifically designed and operated to provide ultra-low latency connectivity, security and availability for the global financial services industry. RadianzNet supports nearly 11,000 sites, providing connectivity to more than 260 of the world's leading exchanges and financial services providers. More than 60,000 traders at 800 firms and exchanges in 51 countries rely on BT's ITS voice trading and collaboration technologies. One of every three traders around the world uses a BT trading turret.
Today, scrutinising the finest details is so vital to gaining a true insight of financial markets. SIX Exfeed distributes SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland real-time market data to financial news agencies around the world. Through its different market feeds – enhanced for low latency usage or for data display products – SIX Exfeed delivers highly precise real-time market data conveniently and efficiently to market data distributors worldwide. SIX Exfeed also provides information on reference data, liquidity and key figures for securitised derivatives (non-standardised) traded on Scoach Switzerland and non-listed investment funds authorized for distribution in Switzerland. SIX Exfeed was founded in May 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Through our worldwide footprint, technology capabilities and content offerings we can help financial firms scale their presence and business agility. Thomson Reuters Elektron is a simple-to-access global network that links the world’s financial institutions. The shared platform provides connectivity to all key markets and liquidity pools via a single access point, reducing complexity, cost and time to market. It delivers access to real-time data from 350+ exchange and OTC markets, 14 million instruments, along with proprietary news, evaluated pricing, reference data, tick history and third party content, at the speed and depth of information a firm requires, as well as providing analytics and other value-added services. For more information www.thomsonreuters.com/
Silver Sponsors
For more than 30 years, financial professionals worldwide have relied on FactSet to deliver the financial data and software solutions they need to drive their analysis. With FactSet, you gain a powerful analytics tool tailored to your workflow, the broadest scope of data available, and the structure needed to manage and distribute data across your firm. Our top priority is ensuring that you always have the most accurate data and the support you need to use it effectively. Learn more at www.factset.com.
Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data’s offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management.
As a leader in its field, SIX Telekurs specializes in procuring, processing and distributing international financial information. Financial market specialists at SIX Telekurs gather information from all the world’s major trading venues – directly and in real-time. The SIX Telekurs database with its structured and encoded securities administration data for 6.2 million financial instruments is unique in terms of its depth of information and data coverage. With offices in 23 countries, SIX Telekurs combines the advantages of global presence and local know-how.
SIX Telekurs is a SIX Group company. On a global scale, SIX Group 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-telekurs.com
Standard & Poor's provides data solutions designed to enhance a wide variety of front-middle-and back office functions. Services include global securities identification and cross-referencing, comprehensive reference data matching, securities pricing, credit ratings and research and fundamental company information. Encompassing both Web-based products and direct feeds that integrate Standard & Poor's data into a company's internal systems, these solutions help organizations with STP, clearance and settlement, compliance and risk management and data management. For more information, visit www.globaldatasolutions.com
Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor’s business, provides the most accurate and timely financial information to investment banks, asset management firms, private equity firms and corporations around the world. An in-house team of over 4,000 research specialists collect and analyze data that is delivered in a standardized and auditable format. Capital IQ integrates this data with powerful analytical tools to help clients identify and evaluate opportunities, create and maintain financial models and manage projects and portfolios. For more information, please visit www.capitaliq.com.
Xignite is the leading cloud services provider of on-demand financial market data and award-winning on-demand data distribution solutions. Xignite's market data cloud fulfills more than five billion service requests per month and offers more than 50 financial Web Services providing real-time, historical and reference data for global equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, mutual funds, derivatives and OTC instruments. Xignite solutions power mission-critical applications for front, back and mid-office, investor relations, dashboards, e-commerce, wireless applications and financial websites for more than 900 clients in 47 countries, including Citi, GE, Wells Fargo, Computershare, ING, BNY Mellon, Natixis, Dow Jones, Forbes.com, SeekingAlpha, ExxonMobil, Starbucks, and Barrick Gold. The award-winning XigniteOnDemand cloud platform also powers on-demand market data distribution solutions for stock exchanges, trading venues, OTC brokers and market data originators including the CME Group, NASDAQ OMX, BgCantor and Pearson. For more information, please visit www.xignite.com or call 1-866-XML-SOAP.
Golf Tournament Sponsor
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!
Track Sponsors
IPC Systems offers high and low touch trading communications solutions to the global financial trading community including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With 100% focus on this sector and nearly 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC provides customers with unified solutions that support collaborative voice trading and real-time electronic trading and market data connectivity.
IPC’s market-leading offerings include the first unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services including enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, and follow-the-sun service and support.
RIMES has been servicing the buyside with data and analytics since 1996, by delivering the first Internet-based, highly-customized financial data aggregation platform. Our clients include investment managers, hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign funds and custodians, located in 36 countries. With offices in 7 locations across the globe, we offer proactive 24/7 support.
S&P Indices, the world’s leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index; the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices; the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents; the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index; and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal bonds. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.
Sybase offers highly secure, high-availability software solutions that meet the trading industry’s needs for intensive transaction processing, advanced analytics and modeling. These solutions capitalize on cutting-edge technological advances, such as real-time risk analysis (Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition) and complex-event processing (Sybase CEP), to allow financial services firms to gain a competitive edge in capital markets.
Today, Sybase customers include a number of the world's largest financial institutions. And every day, tens of millions of Wall Street trades run on Sybase technology. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com/fsi
Visibility Sponsor
Alpha Group includes the leading alternative trading system for Canadian listed securities - Alpha ATS LP, and a data distribution service for Alpha ATS market data – Alpha Trading Systems LP. Alpha Group was established in May, 2007 by nine of Canada’s leading financial institutions with the aim of increasing the country’s securities trading efficiencies and making the Canadian marketplace more globally competitive. Established for the Industry, by the Industry, Alpha Group focuses on increasing liquidity, reducing the cost of trading and providing innovative services, leveraging its unique expertise, operating model and technological capabilities. For further information regarding Alpha Group, visit www.alpha-group.ca.
ICAP is the world’s premier interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services. The Group matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, foreign exchange, emerging markets, equities and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006, received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2011 and 2005, and has also received Inside Market Data’s Best Data Provider award from 2007-2010. For more information, please go to www.icap.com. ICAP Information sets the global standard for market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets.
Spigit, the crowd innovation company, creates a new paradigm for realizing untapped business value, connecting employees, customers and business partners for innovation and insight discovery. Using social crowd technology, Spigit’s solutions elicit insight and business intelligence from an organization and transform it into actionable, predictive information. By incorporating game mechanics, social recognition and rewards, idea graduation, and automated workflow, Spigit activates crowds and allows companies to harness the social capital within their internal or external communities.
Spigit’s technology is used by the largest and most innovative companies in the world including, Overstock.com, AAA, US Bank, City of New York, Estee Lauder and Capgemini. For more information, visit www.spigit.com, email info@spigit.com or call 1-855-SPIGIT1.
SunGard’s MarketMap suite of front-to-back global, multi-asset class market data solutions help customers gain efficiencies and support growth, while managing costs associated with market data. MarketMap provides lightweight market data applications, customizable web components and data feeds, and historical database solution for storing and managing high-volume time-series data and analytic modeling. In addition, MarketMap provides tools for application and data hosting as well as cross symbology services.
Bronze Sponsors
3d innovations limited is a new breed of services organisation, compiling the best practices of Management Consultancy, Software Development and IT Professional Services.
We provide consultancy and product services to the Financial Markets based on our core competencies in Market and Reference Data and related operations and technologies.
Our unique professional profile is built on an amalgam of domain expertise at the minutiae, together with intimate business practice competency. Our approach to solving business problems is based on Value Proposition and ROI which is strongly reflected in our core product suite comprised of Profiler and Data Compliance and Dependency Manager (DCDM).
CUSIP Global Services is dedicated to driving efficient trading, clearing and settlement in capital markets throughout the world by providing a unique common language for identifying financial instruments across institutions, exchanges and nations. With more than 40 years of experience in the securities identification business, CUSIP Global Services is the world leader in developing innovative solutions to reference data challenges. CUSIP Global Services is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association by Standard & Poor's with a Board of Trustees comprised of representatives from leading financial institutions. For more information, please visit www.cusip.com
Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of a joint venture company owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. (www.cmegroup.com) and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (www.dowjones.com), a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
A division of the Fitch Group, Fitch Solutions brings to market a wide range of fixed-income data, analytical tools and related services. The division is also the distribution channel for Fitch Ratings content. Fitch Solutions’ product offerings include research services, risk and performance analytics, surveillance tools, structured finance solutions, and pricing and valuation services. The division’s service offering includes Fitch Training, a specialist training firm for financial professionals.
The Fitch Group also includes Fitch Ratings, a global rating agency committed to providing independent, timely and objective credit opinions, and Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions.
Global Financial Data is unique in that it complies and transcribes original data sources from print materials into electronic, chain-linked, research-quality data sets. GFD appends current data to the historical data we transcribe to deliver continuous data series to our customers. These series are not available from the traditional vendors as so supplied from the standard electronic feeds. This provides you with truly unique Databases. Once you begin using complete data, resorting back to twenty or thirty years of data will appear substandard in comparison.
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with approximately 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies, and trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. Our Global Data Products division provides world-class transparency and superior speed to investors worldwide. Our diverse product portfolio includes NASDAQ TotalView and NASDAQ Basic. Learn more at www.nasdaqomxtrader.com.
Netik is a global provider to the securities industry of information management and distribution services and products with operations in North America, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Asia. As a growing and expanding company, Netik seeks to increase the sophistication and calibre of what it produces, as well as provide limitless services that bring together people, product, well-honed process and proven technology in the delivery of leading financial data management.
A unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services, and managed solutions for financial services firms requiring next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services.
NYSE Technologies provides a diverse range of products, services and solutions to: the Buy Side, including FIX order routing, liquidity discovery and access to a community of over 630 Broker-Dealers and execution destinations globally; the Sell Side, including high performance, end-to-end messaging software and innovative market data products delivered on the world’s largest, most reliable financial transaction network; and Market Venues and Exchanges, including multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy.
Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is a leading global provider of energy and commodities information. With a century of business experience, Platts serves customers across more than 150 countries. An independent provider, Platts serves the oil, natural gas, electricity, emissions, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, shipping, and metals markets from 17 offices worldwide. Platts' real-time news, pricing, analytical services and conferences help markets operate with transparency and efficiency. Traders, risk managers, an
alysts, and industry leaders depend upon Platts to help them make better trading and investment decisions. Additional information is available at http://www.platts.com.
Savvis, a CenturyLink company, is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2,500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing. For more information, visit www.savvis.com or http://www.centurylink.com/.