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Sponsored by:
Fidessa group is a leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side globally.
The Fidessa 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.
Fidessa's global network carries over 95 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between 1,500 buy-sides and 255 brokers across 92 exchanges worldwide.
Fidessa group serves around 22,000 users across 520 clients globally.
Sponsored by:
Quod Financial is the leading advanced execution technology provider for the Global Capital Markets. Incorporating solutions for exchanges, liquidity venues, sell-side and buy-side institutions. The Advanced Execution Platform and innovative Application Modules enable our clients to comprehensively address liquidity fragmentation, rapidly changing trading and execution algorithms, and multi-asset and complex cross-asset trading. For more information about Quod Financial, visit www.quodfinancial.com.
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Equiduct Trading, a segment of Börse Berlin (a regulated market operator), is due to launch in mid-2008 a pan-European market enabling investment firms to quickly and cost-effectively meet their MiFID obligations and to provide order by order best execution to their clients.
The main differentiators of Equiduct Trading are:
- VBBO (Volume-weighted Best Bid and Offer), a unique single source of pan-European price data, being a cost-effective alternative to taking multiple, potentially expensive, sources of data,
- PartnerEx, a trading segment enabling tailored business-to-business relationships to provide guaranteed best execution including the flexibility to use multiple clearing and settlement venues,
- Hybrid Book, an ultra low latency platform at competitive costs, where orders and firm, executable two sided prices meet.
Sponsored by:
Smart Trade automates execution across the enterprise through a single-vendor, fast-to-market, sophisticated liquidity management system (LMS) that streamlines single-, multiple- and cross-asset execution processes within ECNs, brokers, banks and hedge funds. smartTrade Transaction Platform (STTP), which is built on four pillars, virtualizes the representation of the markets internally in a single container, controlling the entire lifecycle of incoming and outgoing orders, and enabling multiple possibilities for execution and manipulation of the workflow process of orders. The four STTP pillars include: LiquidityAggregatorTM, which aggregates liquidity from various external and internal sources within one single order book; LiquidityCrosserTM, a fast, scalable matching engine; LiquidityOrchestratorTM, an advanced, multi-functional smart order router; and LiquidityConnectTM, a highly configurable platform with comprehensive connectors to various liquidity sources.
Exhibitors:
Acquire Media is the leading provider of news solutions for Financial and Trading organisations. We are an advanced technology company devoted to delivering text news and multimedia with guaranteed reliability in formats that make content instantly tradable. We serve the financial services community which depend on the speed of our delivery service, our reliability, our 24x7 support, plus our ability to handle multiple formats and delivery options. We deliver more than 500,000 news articles a day, with near-zero latency. We deliver into a desktop interface for Traders/Analysts or via API for platform and/or Algorithmic integration.
We provide news solutions for major players in the financial services market place including JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity, Schwab CyberTrader, Credit Suisse, Mergent, NASDAQ, FactSet, SNL Financial and AlphaTrade.
Media Partners
BANKING TECHNOLOGY
Marketing Partner
Banking Technology is the leading magazine in the banking IT sector. Every issue is thorough and informative, with news and comment from an expert editorial team and high-profile interviews with the key players in the industry PLUS subscribers can now view all instant news and archived issues online at www.bankingtech.com. Edited by David Bannister, Banking Technology is read by the top banks across the globe. For more information, please email laura.brownie@informa.com quoting reference CKEFX59W.
ALBOURNE VILLAGE
Marketing Partner
With over 40,000 active users, Albourne Village is a free community website for anyone interested in alternative investments - providing a pub and library to exchange news and IP, job and conference centres, school and strategy forecasts. Don't just join the Village, be the Village!
AUTOMATED TRADER
Marketing Partner
Automated Trader is the first global magazine dedicated to automated and algorithmic trading, and offers in-depth business and technical coverage through comprehensive news, features, in-depth articles on best practice/techniques and detailed user case studies. In addition to thousands of CTAs, hedge funds, proprietary trading operations and conventional asset managers globally, Automated Trader is also read by all major sellside participants in automated and algorithmic trading.
BOBSGUIDE
Marketing Partner
Bobsguide.com is the world's premier online financial IT community of software, hardware and services related to asset management, corporate treasury, banking, trading, insurance and risk management. We currently list nearly 1700 companies from over 160 countries who promote more than 5600 products and services in the financial arena. All basic entries on the guide are FREE and our enhanced packages include access to RFIs and the visitor details. To receive our daily newsletter, which reaches over 30,000 members or to add your company and products/services to our guide, please visit www.bobsguide.com.
or email us at support@bobsguide.com
CFO-NEWS
Marketing Partner
EUREKAHEDGE
Strategic Marketing Partner
Eurekahedge is world's largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 15,000 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide.
Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived, an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund and real estate fund databases and directories, as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors.
Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore. Eurekahedge also provides hedge fund start-up services, capital introduction and due diligence services.
For more information, please email Alexander Mearns, Managing Director or phone 
+65 6212 0924
US toll free: 1866 578 4852, UK toll free:0800 404 8106
http://www.eurekahedge.com/register.asp?promo_code=GEN-EFN
E-FOREX
Marketing Partner
FINANCIAL-I
Marketing Partner
Low-Latency.com is the only website focused on low latency issues in the financial markets. Powered by the expert editors at A-Team Group, Low-Latency.com is updated throughout the week with news, opinion and analysis you don't find anywhere else. Visitors leave comments, adding to the low latency conversation. Read the latest articles and access a library of free resources at www.Low-Latency.com.
FinTech-Infrastructure.com is the only website focused exclusively on enterprise technologies that provide both the foundation on which financial markets applications are built and the glue that binds them together. Powered by the expert editors at A-Team Group, topics range from servers to storage, from operating software stacks to open source, from Web Services to Web 2.0. FinTech-Infrastructure focuses on the technologies that make infrastructure work. Read the latest articles and access a library of free resources at www.FinTech-Infrastructure.com.
Electronic Trading is a complete online information resource and newsletter focusing exclusively on the business of electronic trading. Powered by the expert editors at A-Team Group, Electronic Trading provides insight into how sell-side firms leverage new technologies and how buy-side firms turn new capabilities into superior financial performance and business processes. Topics include algorithmic trading models, matching systems for the buy- and sell-side and interdealer segments, OMS systems, liquidity aggregators, transaction messaging and protocols and more. Download a free issue and access a library of free resources at www.Electronic-Trading.com.
