Sponsors
PLATINUM SPONSOR
Deutsche Boerse, one of the world’s leading exchange organizations, provides decision makers around the globe with high quality data and technology services. Our offering is constantly enhanced to anticipate and respond to the needs of traders and other capital market participants. The extensive product and service 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 and indicators of MNI (a Deutsche Börse subsidiary), the renowned DAX and STOXX indices, superior exchange infrastructure as well as reliable connectivity services. We also offer services to support our clients when it comes to fulfilling various reporting and risk management requirements. In addition, we operate AlphaFlash, an algo news feed that delivers more than 300 machine-readable global economic indicators. For more information, please go to www.deutsche-boerse.com/mds_e.
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 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.
GOLD SPONSOR
BT is one of the world's leading providers of networked IT services to the global financial community, with more than 30 years’ experience delivering specialised network-centric services designed specifically to meet the demanding requirements of our customers across the financial markets, banking and payments sectors globally. These include our industry award-winning BT Unified Trading and BT Radianz Services that support the largest secure networked financial community in the world.
Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 3,000 employees. The company provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Its client base includes the most significant institutional participants in the financial marketplace.
Thomson Reuters Elektron is a high performance, cross-asset data and trading infrastructure that connects financial institutions and trading venues across the world. It distributes real-time data from over 350 exchange-traded and OTC markets to trading and investment applications, systematic and algorithmic trading engines and desktops such as Thomson Reuters Eikon. With co-location and proximity hosting sites in financial centres globally, Elektron provides low-latency market access and a full range of managed services, including those for key proprietary and third-party data and trading applications
SILVER SPONSOR
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. Interactive Data has over 2,500 employees in offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.interactivedata.com.
S&P Capital IQ, a brand of the McGraw Hill Financial (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.
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/.
SIX Financial Information is a leading global provider of data services and solutions for financial and insurance firms, corporations and the media. Aggregated in real-time from over 1,500 worldwide sources, SIX’s financial is comprised of corporate actions, pricing, reference and market data for over 11 million instruments and is unique in terms of information depth, breadth and structure. With offices in 23 countries, SIX combines the advantages of local expertise with global reach to offer comprehensive data services for investment advisory, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration professionals.
Financial Information is one of four business areas of SIX which offers global premium services in securities trading, clearing and settlement, payment transactions, and financial information. Further information is available at: www.six-financial-information.com
INDEX FORUM SPONSOR
CESC is a joint venture formed and equally owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company is designed to contribute to the development of China's capital markets. Registered and incorporated in Hong Kong, CESC was officially launched in September 2012 and commenced operations on 30 October. CESC’s principal business includes the compilation of cross-border indices based on products traded on the three markets, the development of industry classification for listed companies, and development of information standards and information products. CESC will also develop new financial products to link the Mainland and Hong Kong markets with global investors.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a part of McGraw Hill Financial, is the world’s largest, global resource for index-based concepts, data and research. Home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average™, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC has over 115 years of experience constructing innovative and transparent solutions that fulfill the needs of institutional and retail investors. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other provider in the world. With over 830,000 indices covering a wide range of assets classes across the globe, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC defines the way investors measure and trade the markets. To learn more about our company, please visit www.spdji.com.
TECHNOLOGY FORUM SPONSORS
IPC offers high- and low-touch trading communications solutions to the global financial services community, including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With a 100-percent focus on this sector and 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC’s offerings include the first unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services, enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, day-to-day management of trading communications infrastructures and follow-the-sun service and support. IPC’s global reach extends to nearly 60 countries – including a financial extranet of 4,500 on-net locations in over 700 cities and more than 115,000 turrets deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1,000 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.
Xignite is the leading provider of market data cloud solutions. The Xignite Market Data Cloud fulfills more than 6 billion requests per month and offers more than 40 financial web services APIs providing real-time, historical, and reference data across all asset classes. Xignite APIs power mobile financial applications, websites, and front-, middle- and back-office functions for more than 1000 clients worldwide, including Wells Fargo, GE, Computershare, BNY Mellon, Natixis, Schwab, SeekingAlpha, ExxonMobil, Starbucks, and Barrick Gold.
The company’s award-winning market data cloud platform also powers Market Data Distribution (MDD) solutions for exchanges and data vendors, as well as Enterprise Data Distribution (EDD) solutions for financial institutions.
Companies using the Xignite Market Data Cloud for market data distribution include the CME Group, NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, TMX and Direct Edge. For more information, visit http://www.xignite.com.
GOLF TOURNAMENT SPONSOR
Tullett Prebon Information is a leading provider of independent real-time price information from the global OTC financial and commodity markets. Tullett Prebon Information delivers the highest-quality independent price data using state of the art technologies and data publication standards covering major markets including Rates, Fixed Income, FX and Money, Volatility, Energy, Inflation, Credit and Equities. Tullett Prebon Information’s data is relied upon by customers in over 40 countries. Our independent pricing is unbiased, non-position influenced and we have an unrivalled track record in innovation.
Tullett Prebon is one of the world’s largest inter-dealer brokers and is our principal source of information. Tullett Prebon operates in 21 countries, with over 1600 brokers globally. Its business covers major product groups including Fixed Income Securities and their derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Treasury Products, Equities and Energy & Commodities.
Award Winning
Tullett Prebon Information was awarded best data provider (Broker) at Inside Market Data Awards for the third consecutive year running in 2013.
Tullett Prebon was voted overall number one broker in 2012 in the Risk Interdealer Rankings.
BRONZE SPONSOR
Asset Control offers a combination of proven technology and expert knowledge to ensure that financial organizations have the accurate, accessible and actionable data that is necessary to drive their business. Asset Control has been providing data management solutions to leading financial institutions for more than 21 years. It helps companies define their data management processes and then provides flexible, easily-integrated solutions that feed accurate, accessible and actionable data to its customers’ downstream systems, including risk management, compliance, trading, modeling, order management, accounting and audit. Asset Control’s solutions are completely data neutral, and aggregate data from all of a customer’s chosen sources. Its tailored products serve leading companies across the financial services industry, and the company is strongly focused on delivering solutions that meet customer expectations. For more information visit www.asset-control.com
With a heritage dating back to 1934, Barchart.com, Inc. has substantial experience in meeting the information needs of the financial, media, agriculture and energy industries. As a full-service provider of equity, index, mutual fund, futures and foreign exchange market data, Barchart provides a wide range of market data products and solutions for customers ranging from institutional to retail. Barchart’s services include streaming market data feeds, on-demand market data, hosted website content and desktop trading applications. As an established leader in an industry that demands accuracy and innovation, Barchart’s goal is to form partnerships that deliver comprehensive solutions for success. For more information, please visit www.barchartmarketdata.com.
Borsa İstanbul, through its subsidiaries (Takasbank and Central Registry Agency), is the sole provider in Turkey, of trading, settlement, custody and registry services for a wide range of products such as equities, debt securities, repo, warrants, option and futures contracts, certificates and ETFs.
Via a major reform in 2012 consummated by the new Capital Markets Law enacted in December 2012, Borsa Istanbul successfully completed its de-mutualization and privatization.
The vision of the company includes contributing to the Turkish economy by operating as a dependable, transparent, stable, and fair market in line with efficiency and competitive principles; increasing the number of publicly traded companies and Borsa İstanbul market capitalization to a level reflecting the potential of the Turkish economy, diversifying the capital markets instruments traded on Borsa İstanbul, making Borsa İstanbul the leading market of its region offering trading of domestic and foreign capital markets instruments, and thereby making İstanbul a major international financial center.
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) is dedicated to driving efficient trading, clearing and settlement in capital markets globally by providing a unique, common language for identifying financial instruments, their issuers, and obligors. With over 40 years of experience dedicated to standards development, including securities identification and related descriptive data, CGS is the world leader in developing innovative solutions to reference data challenges. Reporting to a Board of Trustees comprised of senior representatives from leading financial institutions, CGS is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association by S&P Capital IQ. For more information, please visit www.cusip.com.
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.
Fitch Solutions provides a range of industry-leading products and professional development services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary market-based content, we distribute the ratings, research and financial data of Fitch Ratings through a variety of flexible platforms. With innovation and experience behind every solution we bring to market, our offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the fixed-income markets.
Drawing upon a wealth of expertise, skills, and market insight, Fitch Solutions provides financial professionals worldwide with the intelligence they need to make more informed risk management and investment decisions.
Fitch Solutions is part of the Fitch Group, a jointly owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A. and Hearst Corporation. For additional information, please visit www.fitchsolutions.com.
NASDAQ OMX Global Indexes has been creating innovative, market-leading, transparent indexes since 1971. Today, our index offering spans geographies and asset classes and includes diverse families such as the Global, Dividend and Income Investments, Fixed Income, Nordic, Green Economy, Sharia and Commodity Indexes. We continuously offer new opportunities for financial product sponsors across a wide-spectrum of investable products and for asset managers to measure risk and performance. NASDAQ OMX Global Indexes also provides custom index services and design solutions to selected financial organizations. For more information, visit www.nasdaqomx.com/indexes.
The NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products (GDP) division is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products that provide unparalleled market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors around the world. Our cutting-edge global market data products deliver superior speed, unrivaled market depth and are designed to meet new industry challenges. For more information about NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products, visit www.nasdaqomxtrader.com/GDP.
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 SGX website: www.sgx.com
BRAND SPONSOR
Morningstar, Inc. offers an extensive line of products and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutions. Morningstar provides data on approximately 433,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 10 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its registered investment advisor subsidiaries and has approximately $166 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2013. The company has operations in 27 countries.
Russell‘s indexes business, which began in 1984, accurately measures U.S. market segments and tracks investment manager behaviour for Russell‘s investment management and consulting businesses. Today, our series of U.S. and global equity indexes reflect distinct investment universes – asset class, geographic region, capitalisation and style – with no gaps or overlaps. Russell Indexes offers more than three dozen product families and calculates more than 700,000 benchmarks daily covering 98% of the investable market globally, 83 countries and more than 10,000 securities. Approximately $4.1 trillion in assets are benchmarked to the Russell Indexes, as of December 2012.