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Abu Dhabi-based ADS Securities is a financial investment and trade services firm, with an initial capital of $400 million that brings significant new opportunities to participants in the global and regional forex, commodities, futures and options markets. ADS Securities offers a comprehensive set of services and tools designed to help institutional, professional and high-net-worth participants trade with high efficiency, speed and simplicity. The company is led by a multi-national management team with a wide range of international experience. Members of the team have experience in some of the world's leading securities trading companies and banks. ADS Securities offers a deep range of market-leading pricing on bid/offer spreads across all major currency pairs and in all trade sizes. Regulated and licensed by the UAE Central Bank, ADS Securities is building a large network of liquidity providers, including tier 1 banks and financial institutions, ECNs, FX and commodity exchanges and brokers. The company's location in Abu Dhabi allows it to provide extended support to clients in the East and West beyond normal trading hours and days. ADS Securities also provides clients with 24/ 6 trade support through a team of experienced sales traders and chief dealer who work proactively to provide the timely advice and assistance necessary for successful trade execution. A diligent in-house operations and risk teams constantly monitor and manage the post-trade cycle to reduce risk to a minimum.
ICAP’s award-winning electronic EBS platform is the primary independent
source of liquidity in the global spot FX market and of authoritative real-time
and historical FX market data.
EBS delivers impartial and effective access to global markets for more than
2,800 spot FX, precious metals and NDF traders in over 50 countries around the
world, offering optimal price discovery and execution.
TraderTools Inc. delivers the only complete, integrated, FX trading platform
available on the market. Banks and brokerages use the TraderTools platform to
increase FX revenues, reduce FX costs, improve FX spreads and access vital
information to help run their FX businesses more efficiently and effectively. FX
desks traditionally deploy an assortment of vertical tools, developed internally
or externally by different vendors. TraderTools replaces these disparate
products with a single innovative platform that addresses the 4 most pressing FX
challenges: an FX pricing engine, FX liquidity aggregation, global FX order
management and FX white-labelling. It is an end-to-end solution designed to work
seamlessly across all components and provide unparalleled visibility into the
entire FX workflow. The result is an optimized FX Liquidity Management Platform™
– with advanced capabilities, like algorithmic FX trading and FX auto-hedging –
designed to generate profits. The TraderTools FX trading platform is the product
of more than a decade’s worth of experience with some of the world’s largest
financial institutions.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Currencies team is a leading participant in the world's foreign exchange markets. We help clients capitalize on changing currency market opportunities with comprehensive risk analyses, innovative investment and risk management strategies and customized electronic dealing. Consistently recognized for the quality of our FX advisory capabilities, we strive to provide innovative ideas and solutions to help clients achieve their specific investment and risk management goals.
CitiFX, a division of Citi's Institutional Clients Group, is a leader in Foreign Exchange. We offer a comprehensive service to our diverse client base around the world. With a presence in 83 countries, CitiFX’s 1,500+ professionals deliver our unparalleled breadth and depth of knowledge to our clients, helping them to achieve their financial objectives. We also deliver world-class electronic trading solutions that not only address, but also anticipate our clients' needs and help them overcome the ever-increasing challenges of today's market. CitiFX delivers pricing in over 100 major and exotic currencies in plain vanilla and exotic products, providing our clients with the broadest possible access to the global foreign exchange market. By doing all of this, CitiFX helps our clients meet tomorrow’s challenges today.
Trading in dynamic foreign exchange markets demands an institution with the strength, products, and technologies you require. By selecting Credit Suisse as your foreign exchange partner, you will have access to our comprehensive solutions in spot trading, forwards and swaps, options and structuring and global research.
We offer leading technologies, such as PrimeTradeSM FX: multi-asset trading platform featuring streaming rates, Merlin: trading platform for standard options through to complex structures, LOCuS: web-based application comprising extensive research and analyses and AES® for Foreign Exchange: automated algorithms that optimize dealing.
AES® for Foreign Exchange offers a unique set of award-winning trading strategies that provide anonymous access to liquidity through smart order routing technology. AES FX provides you with a powerful tool to optimize your execution, capturing price improvement and minimizing market impact.
DJ FX Trader cuts through market noise to provide foreign exchange currency traders and strategists the real-time global FX news, data and analysis they need to make faster and more-informed trading decisions. Powered by the world's most experienced dedicated FX news team, and backed up by the global resources of Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal and parent company News Corporation, DJ FX Trader gives clients a measurable trading advantage with exclusive, market-moving FX news and insight that's delivered ahead of the broader market through desktop trading environments, via the Web and surfaced on mobile devices like the iPhone or BlackBerry. DJ FX Trader is the only news service that provides truly targeted FX intelligence - including expert commentary on what's really moving the currency markets - to drive trading strategies, inspire new ideas and uncover hidden opportunities and risks.
SEB is a leading Nordic financial services group. As a relationship bank, SEB in Sweden and the Baltic countries offers financial advice and a wide range of financial services. In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Germany the bank's operations have a strong focus on corporate and investment banking based on a full-service offering to corporate and institutional clients. The international nature of SEB's business is reflected in its presence in some 20 countries worldwide. On 30 June 2011, the Group's total assets amounted to SEK 2,201bn while its assets under management totalled SEK 1,356bn. The Group has about 17,500 employees.
Founded in 2000, Traiana operates the industry-standard platform for
electronically processing over-the-counter foreign exchange trades. Traiana’s
flagship offering, the Traiana Harmony Network is the leading platform for
connecting all FX market participants to automate post-trade processes, reducing
risk and cost in trade processing. The network includes all major FX market
participants including prime brokers, executing banks, retail platforms,
buy-side firms and execution venues.
Traiana currently has over 150 employees with offices in New York, Chicago,
London and Tel Aviv. Traiana is owned by ICAP plc. - The world’s largest
interdealer broker.
Jefferies Bache is a global leader with 130 years of experience in exchange traded futures and options, commodities and foreign exchange. The foreign exchange group is built upon years of expertise providing unparalleled pricing and execution in FX spot, forwards and options across deliverable and non-deliverable currency pairs. Our in-depth market analysis and commentary is produced real-time complementing our daily and weekly reports produced by our highly regarded market strategist and staff. The robust prime brokerage group provides market access to a host of ECN's while producing exceptional reporting with around-the-clock support. Backed by Jefferies Group, Inc., our parent and a global investment banking firm with over 30 offices worldwide and over $40 billion in assets, we partner with our clients to understand their unique objectives and develop customized solutions to help them achieve their goals.
As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges
offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset
classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and weather. CME
Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic
trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group
also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing
services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for
exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives
transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that
businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in
both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
Bloomberg L.P. is the leading global provider of data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, and financial and legal professionals around the world.
Bloomberg offers a complete desktop solution for all FX professionals. Our unique electronic trading platform allows banks and customers to execute FX trades, commission-free, via dealable streams and single-bank and multi-bank RFQs in Spot, Forwards, Options and Deposits. Bloomberg FX extends its offerings from price discovery and trade negotiation to electronic trading and back office documentation.
Currenex® and FX Connect® are part of eExchange, State Street Global Markets' suite of fully hosted electronic trading solutions. Both are designed to meet the unique needs of institutional foreign exchange traders. FX Connect's pioneering workflow solutions and Currenex's focus on high frequency trading activity provide one of the broadest ranges of capabilities in the FX market. FX Connect lets users access liquidity from more than 60 providers and execute spot, forward and swap transactions across an unlimited number of accounts. Currenex provides low-latency execution solutions within a multi-bank trading portal as well as one of the largest anonymous FX trading platforms.
Based in London and New York, Option Computers Ltd (DealHub) is the leading global provider of STP and connectivity feed handling software to the FX markets through its flagship DealHub product.
DealHub offers a comprehensive series of modular solutions for front, middle, back-office, and compliance; for STP, manual ticket capture, FX options ticket parsing, deal-splitting, forwarding and archiving, printer replacement, overviews for real-time risk management & MIS, matching and netting, internal secure chat and dealing, dealing-code analysis, real-time control over algorithmic trading models, price distribution, liquidity aggregation and prime brokerage give-ups.
DealHub is the only product on the market that offers true multi-platform merging of data and users include including UBS, JP Morgan, HSBC and Deutsche Bank.
By combining access to the Swiss Foreign Exchange Marketplace with an
enhanced trading platform and strong Forex Brokerage services via its banking
partnerships, Dukascopy Swiss Forex Group continues to set the global
industry-standard for interbank forex trading.
Dukascopy offers direct access to the Swiss Foreign Exchange Marketplace, the
most efficient forex market in the world. This exchange provides the largest
pool of interbank spot forex liquidity available for banks, hedge funds,
institutions and professional traders.
Eurobase is a global, independent provider of banking and insurance IT solutions with customers in over 25 countries across 5 continents. Eurobase Banking Solutions provides a full suite of e-Trading products and Treasury Management solutions.
Over the years Eurobase has built up a strong customer base thanks to a collaborative approach and excellent service for customers, continuing product development and recruitment of the best staff. Our strong balance sheet allows us to continue to plan and deliver regular investment to keep our products at the forefront of their market sectors.
GFI Group provides competitive interdealer brokerage services in a multitude of global, over the counter cash and derivatives markets, including credit, FX, equities, energy and commodities. GFI has been a key player in developing new markets globally and is uniquely placed to deliver state of the art electronic trading technology to its clients.
GFI’S FENICS® analytical software suite offers advanced pricing, charting and risk management solutions in foreign exchange, freight and property. GFI FENICS® FX is globally recognized as the benchmark pricing and analytics software for FX options.
GFI assists the buy- and sell-side by providing hard to find, independent and comprehensive real time and historical market data. Currently available data sets include: FX options, credit derivatives, Asian equity index volatilities, European and North American energy and Eastern European Emerging Markets.
Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a leading financial services firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients. We engage in trading and market-making in nearly every U.S. equity and offer execution services in international securities, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures and options. Our approach to trading combines deep, natural liquidity, superior trading technology and capital facilitation to deliver consistent, high-quality trade executions according to regulatory mandates and client-defined measures. In addition, we provide capital markets services for corporate issuers.
Wholly owned by the Nomura Group and founded in 1873, Nomura Asset Management is one of the largest investment managers in the world with around $250 billion in total assets under management.
We manage portfolios actively using a value-orientated investment philosophy, underpinned by dedicating significant resources to fundamental research. Our regional presence, extensive experience and research capability in Asian equities gives us global recognition as a specialist manager.
We offer regional and country strategies covering Asia Pacific, Japan, India and China. Additionally, we have established a unique Global Emerging Markets equity strategy involving three regional specialist managers: NAM in Singapore manages the Emerging Asia region while two external specialist managers manage EMEA and Latin America regions.
NAM is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
smartTrade provides the industry’s most sophisticated Liquidity Management
System (LMS) to banks, broker-dealers, ECNs, asset managers and large hedge
funds. Cross asset by design, smart Trade’s LMS platform performs best execution
as defined by both the market and your firm. Comprised of five components, used
individually or in a combination allows firms to define how they want their
liquidity to behave and be executed, smartTrade’s LMS includes
LiquidityAggregator™ for aggregation; LiquidityDistributor™ for custom
distribution of market data, price spreading and trading limits management to an
unlimited number of users; LiquidityCrosser™ a fast, scalable matching engine
that can also be used as a crossing engine for use as an exchange, to provide
for internalization or create dark pools; LiquidityOrchestrator™ an advanced
smart order router (SOR) that intelligently and dynamically manages the complex
routing of orders; and LiquidityConnect™, a low-latency connectivity framework
that supports natively FIX, FIX / FAST and bespoke protocols.
TradingScreen, a leading independent provider of electronic trading solutions, makes global markets simple. TradingScreen does this by consolidating execution management of both exchange-traded and OTC instruments on a single multi-asset class, multi-broker platform (EMS). By bringing the buy side and sell side together in a common environment, TradingScreen extends clients' reach across currencies, geography, and services ranging from execution to algorithmic trading, prime brokerage and clearing. This functionality is delivered through a proven, reliable ASP model. TradingScreen also provides local coverage from offices around the globe.
Wall Street Systems provides trading and settlement solutions for banks of all sizes and structures.
The Wallstreet FX sales trading solution provides banks with the necessary tools to improve the level of service they provide to their corporate customers, including complete advanced sales trading functionality together with an unrivalled eTrading delivery channel. Banks can increase margins, improve competitive edge and streamline STP by giving their FX/MM customers greater control of trading operations over the web, enhancing the user experience and enabling the bank to benefit from increased volumes and lower processing costs.
StreamBase Systems, Inc, a leader in high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP), provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making.
StreamBase's Event Processing PlatformTM combines a rapid application development environment, an ultra low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Leading investment banks, hedge funds, and exchanges use StreamBase to power mission-critical applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. Common applications built with StreamBase include FX Aggregation and Pricing, Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routing, and Market Data Management.
StreamBase customers include CME Group, SunGard, ConvergEx Group, CMC Markets, City Index and BlueCrest Capital Management. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices in New York and London.
Baker Technology is a software company based in the City of London that specialises in building applications for the FX markets.
They have vast amounts of experience in designing and building robust, scalable, enterprise level applications.
They are known for their specialist Silverlight experience, although their expertise spans the whole spectrum of development.
