Instinet is a global agency broker founded in 1969 launching the first electronic
block crossing mechanism purely for institutions. The company has been a market leader in trading
solutions and innovation ever since.
Instinet has advanced trading technology that connects portfolio managers and traders
directly to equity markets around the world including our upstairs liquidity pools. Instinet provides
enhanced trading services, including algorithms, DMA, crossing networks, agency sales trading, global
portfolio trading and commission management for third party research.
Our singular focus is to help investors achieve best execution globally through
advanced technology and pure agency trading. Instinet never competes with its clients.
We work in partnerships finding solutions that are beneficial to both Fund Managers
and traders alike. These solutions are designed to reduce overall trading and transaction costs in a
manner that is open and transparent.
In this way, Instinet aims to help all investor types trade more efficiently by
minimizing market impact, reducing spreads and opportunity costs in local markets wherever possible.
Our clients and their trading partners remain anonymous throughout the transaction,
which acts as the cornerstone to Instinet's integrity in the marketplace.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with
investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers
advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional
clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. In its
Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services
to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 26 countries,
Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and
equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and
correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at
www.credit-suisse.comAdvanced Execution Services - AES® is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of
algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global equity trading, all of which are
accessible from the systems already on your desk. The award-winning automated strategies can help
reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and let the trader focus on the bigger
picture. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free)
+800 222 2334.
Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary tools to manage
their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis. Clients access our
products via REDIPlus®, our top-ranked EMS platform, or via FIX. Customers can seek liquidity using
our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our SIGMA smart router, and
take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through SIGMA-X. Along with providing clients access to
global equity markets, we also offer FX, Futures, and Options across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment
management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified
client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth
individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm
is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other
major financial centers around the world.
TORA® is the premier multi-broker electronic trading platform dedicated to Asia,
integrating OMS/EMS functions and connected to 23 markets in 14 countries.
TORA provides DMA, algorithmic, program and worked order routing via 60+ global and
local Asian brokers to trade equities, futures, index options, single stock options, convertible bonds
and spreads. TORA integrates stock-loan, IOI, alerts, pre-trade analytics and risk-limit functionality
within the trading platform.
Designed by traders for traders, TORA consolidates information from multiple
instruments into one window. Tabs enable toggling between instruments. The detachable Baikai provides
speed and flexibility, allowing traders to manage multiple functions with a single mouse click.
TORA is an ASP requiring no new IT infrastructure. The system can process orders
seven times faster than most brokerage systems with a throughput of less that 5 milliseconds and
exceptional reliability (over 99.98% up-time in the past four years).
TORA also offers outsourced trading services, eliminating the costs and complexities
of managing an internal trading desk for Asia. Compared to more traditional outsourced trading services,
the proprietary TORA® platform offers significant advantages to the trader or portfolio manager and is
central to managing the trade process in real-time.
Powered by the SFTI network and TransactTools software, NYSE TransactTools offers a
fully open, neutral access community (800+) that reaches all global liquidity sources for simplified,
standardized access and the most advanced electronic trading solutions for increased liquidity and
reduced risk. Our community includes 800+ trading firms, the highest volume execution venues and
sophisticated solutions from leading technology providers.
- Trading Firms: One global backbone connects you with real-time information and trading with
securities markets around the world through a single interface of your choosing. The
intelligent network aggregates liquidity, manages data format translations, and provides ultra
low latency access with superior security and reliability
- Financial Markets: A single, secure global backbone gives your customers worldwide access to
your data and execution services regardless of their trading platform or interfaces, as well
as a broad and expanding range of intelligent network-based services such as risk-filtering
for DMA, smart routing, and execution quality reporting
- Networks and Vendors: Minimize the friction associated with connecting multiple networks and
rationalizing interfaces and protocols. Integrate with the enterprise connectivity platform
that is the overwhelming choice of the world's leading securities exchanges and trading firms,
and connect directly to the world's highest-performing and most secure network backbone
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable
private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in
North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With 78,291 employees in 76 countries, Deutsche Bank
offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading
global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its
shareholders and people.
Marco Polo Network Inc. (MPN) is a leading broker neutral multi-asset class
electronic platform for electronic trading, local origination and global distribution of listed and
unlisted securities in the emerging markets. Over the past five years, MPN has built and deployed
the leading electronic platform connecting emerging and developed capital exchanges and is a gateway
for multidirectional flows to brokers and exchanges in more than 50 markets. Over the next five years,
MPN seeks to become a leader in developing local and regional market liquidity and exchange structures.
MPN is partially owned by the New York Stock Exchange, the International Finance
Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, Daiwa Securities & Sumitomo Bank.
Marco Polo Securities Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MPN, is a FINRA registered broker dealer.
http://www.marcopolonetwork.com.
MPN is a subsidiary of The Marco Polo Group ("MPG") a financial services group,
founded in 2003, focused on the trading and investment opportunities arising between emerging markets
and G7 economies. MPG through its subsidiaries Marco Polo Network Inc. ("MPN"), Marco Polo Partners
("MPP") and Marco Polo Asset Management ("MPAM") provides capital market trading services, investment
banking and asset management.
ULLINK provides international financial institutions with low-latency connectivity
and trading solutions, offering over 300 ready-to-trade connections to favourite destinations: buy-side
clients, brokers, exchanges, MTFs, ECNs, order routing networks, and trading applications - in all
formats and for all asset classes.
Connectivity
ULLINK's universal connectivity platform, UL BRIDGE, enables customers to build modular and scalable
environments that relieve them from technical dependence on a specific vendor, while properly handling
pre-trade risk and best execution requirements. ULLINK also provides a MiFID-compliant Smart Order
Router, and turn-key DMA gateways to the world's most active exchanges.
Trading and order management
ULLINK solutions include a comprehensive Order Management System with order flow monitoring, exception
management, dedicated Sales and Dealer interfaces, and an advanced trading application with automated
and algorithmic trading capabilities.
Electronic trading network
Connect to UL NET and access hundreds of counterparties through a single point, while benefiting from
truly innovative services (global order monitoring, online libraries of algorithms, etc.).
Support & services
ULLINK's flexible solutions are available in-house, in Facilities Management or through our global hub,
UL NET. With offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong, ULLINK supports hundreds of clients
across time zones, including many of the world's largest financial institutions.
Fidessa group is a world-leading supplier of multi-asset trading,
portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity
solutions for both the buy-side and sell-side globally.
The Fidessa product suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global
equity brokers providing sophisticated trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities
to all tiers of the sell-side.
The Fidessa LatentZero product suite is used by the world's largest
asset managers through to smaller specialist hedge-funds, and provides comprehensive portfolio analysis,
real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade
processing tools, across all asset classes, to all tiers of the buy-side.
Fidessa's FIX network provides connectivity to over 1,300 buy-sides,
230 brokers and 83 exchanges facilitating Member, DMA and Algorithmic trading globally.
Head-quartered in London and with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Paris and Toronto, Fidessa group serves over 16,000 users at 500 clients around the
world.
A pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX continues to transform trading
through innovation. The NYFIX MarketplaceTM is a global community of trading counterparties
utilizing innovative services that optimize the business of trading. NYFIX Millennium® provides
the Marketplace community with new methods of accessing liquidity. NYFIX also provides value-added
informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. A trusted
business partner to buy-side and sell-side alike, NYFIX enables ultra-low touch, low impact market
access and end-to-end transaction processing.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world.
It has around 10,000 offices in 82 countries and territories in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas,
the Middle East and Africa, serves over 125 million customers and has assets of US$1,861 billion as of
31 December 2006.
HSBC's Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) division offers a full range
of services to corporate and institutional clients of all sizes around the world. One of the largest
businesses of its kind, CIBM fosters long-term relationships based on HSBC's unmatched global knowledge
and local expertise.
The division has two customer groups: Global Banking and Global Markets. Global
Banking includes Corporate Banking, Global Sector Management, Investment Banking, Project and Export
Finance, and Asset and Structured Finance. Global Markets manages current trading activities and HSBC's
markets-related financing businesses (debt capital markets, loan syndication, equity capital markets,
equity-linked capital markets and structured/ABS capital markets), handling primary and secondary
markets activities as a single business line.
HSBC offers its clients a full range of banking, treasury and capital markets,
corporate finance and advisory, and stockbroking services.
For more information, please contact:
Joel Hurewitz
Head of Electronic Trading Product, Asia-Pacific
T: 852 2822 3038
E:
joelhurewitz@hsbc.com.hk
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and
advisory companies with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately
$2.0 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and
derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations,
governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns approximately half of BlackRock,
one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies with more than $1 trillion
in assets under management. Merrill Lynch is one of the pre-eminent providers of global execution
services including Algorithmic Trading, Direct Market Access, Single Stock and Portfolio Trading,
Transition Services, Commission Sharing Agreements and Transaction Cost Analysis to institutional
and hedge funds clients globally.
For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit
www.ml.comTransaction Network Services (TNS) was one of the first organisations in the world to
deploy a dedicated financial community extranet which is fully resilient, highly secure and supports
VPN¡¦s, e-commerce (including FIX) and straight through processing. Since 1999, when it established its
first base in the Asia Pacific region, TNS has expanded its network coverage extensively around the area.
Today, TNS' Secure Trading Extranet connects over 1300 financial community end-points,
representing more than 450 financial institutions around the world. It has been designed and is managed
to ensure the highest levels of throughput and lowest latency to support Direct Market Access,
Algorithmic Trading and Market Data Distribution amongst other things.
Choose TNS if you want:
- Easy, scalable access to a large community of Exchanges, Data Vendors, Applications and
Trading Counterparts.
- A preferred provider of trade message services.
- A quick response, driven by the need for faster trades and executions.
- Minimum Network latency.
- High availability, as with TNS there is no single point of failure.
To find out how TNS can help you stay ahead of the market in the fast paced financial
world, contact John Pilch on +852 2559 5230 or
jpilch@tnsi.com.
Financial Technologies is a leader in providing STP solutions for the financial
services industry, including digital marketplaces and exchanges, brokerage houses and asset managers.
Financial Technologies is specialized in delivering proven transaction automation solutions for all
stages of a Trade Life Cycle - Pre Trade, Trade and Post Trade operations for single point transaction
fulfillment for Equity, Forex, Commodity and Bonds for Spot and Derivatives markets.
Financial Technologies is the leader in India for electronic exchange solutions and
online brokerage solutions, powering 5 exchanges and over 800 brokerage houses with 80 % market share
operating over 2, 00,000 trading terminals on a daily basis. The wide spectrum of Financial Technologies
product basket is adaptable to multiple financial segments and multiple asset classes.
ODINTM Connect is one of our applications developed to provide a bridge
for any FIX complaint application to communicate with the exchanges in India. With ODINTM
Connect many of the leading Sell-Side Firms are able to offer to their International Execution Desks
and Institutional Clients, an access to Indian Markets.
ODINTM Institutional is a FIX complaint order management and execution
system that can be integrated with any other FIX complaint OMS and Order Routing Networks and is used
by leading Sell-Side Firms in India.
BNP Paribas (rated AA+/Aa1) is a European leader in banking and financial services.
With over 150,000 employees worldwide, BNP Paribas has offices in 85 countries across six continents.
BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives offers a full range of equity and fund-linked products that can be
customized to address the various needs of financial institutions and hedge funds as well as corporate
and retail clients. BNP Paribas is a market leader in Equities & Derivatives with some of the largest
trading positions and market shares worldwide. Product innovation has always differentiated BNP Paribas
from our principal competitors because of our unique quantitative skills for advance product design and
the significant resource we dedicate to new product strategies.
Global Execution Services (GES) is an integrated offering from BNP
Paribas Equities & Derivatives, integrating execution capacities in Europe, America and Asia/Japan.
GES provides clients with advanced and best execution solutions for cash equities and listed derivatives.
GES provides solutions for Global Portfolio Trading, Direct Market Access,
Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routing, Dark Pools, Stealth, Trade Analytics, Quants, Commission
Sharing Agreements and Connectivity Solutions. Geographic coverage in Pan Asia includes Japan,
Australia, China and India.
Tradeweb is a leading over-the-counter, multi-asset class marketplace, and a pioneer
in the development of electronic trading and trade processing. The company provides services in the
fixed income, derivatives and equity markets to clients in more than 50 countries. Since 1998, Tradeweb
has operated a global trading network, which harnesses the distribution of the major investment banks
with over 2,200 institutional clients. With its expansion into the equity markets, Tradeweb is
leveraging AutEx, the industry leader for 40 years in providing indications of interests, and Tradeweb
Routing Network (formerly Thomson Order Routing), a global FIX network with more than 7,000 connections
to over 750 firms.
