Sponsorship
Sponsor/exhibitor opportunities are still available!
For further details contact Michala Houlihan at mhoulihan@sifma.org or +44 207 743 9337.
Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors:
Sponsors
- Dinner – ICAP
- Cocktail – BGC
- Lunch – Eurex Bonds
- Break - MTS
- Break - LiquidityHub
- Breakfast - Tullett Prebon
Exhibitors
Media Partners
SPONSORS
ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. Covering a wide range of OTC financial products and services in Interest Rates, Credit, Energy, Foreign Exchange, Equities and Post-Trade Services, we are active in both established and emerging markets. Our electronic networks deliver global connectivity to customers seeking unparalleled liquidity and flow in an orderly marketplace. ICAP’s BrokerTec platform is the leading electronic interdealer platform for trading Repo in Europe, offering unparalleled liquidity in the full range of Repo products, delivering an increased certainty of trade and a level playing field for all participants. ICAP has also recently launched electronic trading for securities lending. i-Sec enables traders to borrow or lend equities via a screen-based electronic platform that combines the leading order matching system with a high-speed, high capacity and fully redundant communications network. www.icap.com
BGC Partners is a leading inter-dealer broker, providing integrated voice and electronic services for wholesale market participants worldwide. Active in the global fixed income, interest rate, foreign exchange and derivative markets, BGC offers telephone and screen-based price discovery, trade execution, straight-through processing and access to electronic trading services from eSpeed Inc. (Nasdaq: ESPD). BGC has over 1600 staff in 14 offices around the world and is committed to providing customers with continuous innovation and best execution. In May, 2007, BGC and eSpeed, a leader in electronic marketplaces and related trading technology for the global capital markets, announced that they would merge. The combined company, BGC Partners, Inc, will be a world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the global marketplace. Tel: +44 (0)20 7894 7700 Fax: +44 (0)20 7894 7669 Email: info@bgcpartners.com Website: www.bgcpartners.com
Eurex Bonds® is one of the leading market platforms for bond trading in Europe. As a pioneer in the field of electronic trading, Eurex® was quick to recognize the need for a modern, high-performance platform which brings transparency to the bond market and reduces both risks and costs for the trading participants. Having networked the Eurex Bonds trading platform with the Xetra® and Eurex trading systems, a unique direct link between the spot and futures markets is available, enabling electronic trading of bonds and the basis via one central quote book. Participants on Eurex Bonds profit via Central Counterparty services from counterparty risk reduction, anonymity of trading, the netting of positions, efficient margin management and enhanced straight-through processing. Liquidity is provided by a flexible, voluntary Market Making scheme where liquidity providers benefit from fee incentives or even negative trading fees. www.eurexbonds.com Tel. +49 69 211 11222
LiquidityHub is a multi-dealer, multi-distributor liquidity and market data aggregator in the fixed income markets. LiquidityHub enables a group of the industry’s leading dealers to provide access to their deep liquidity in a range of fixed income products via the Bloomberg and Reuters platforms. LiquidityHub will launch in interest rate swaps and US treasuries with its owner banks, then plans to offer further asset classes and extend the service to include additional dealers. European government bonds are central to LiquidityHub’s roll-out plans for 2008. LiquidityHub utilises the innovative Request for Stream protocol for a real-time trade negotiation process and will support electronic post-trade processes to provide maximium efficiency throughout the transaction. The shareholders of LiquidityHub are ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, RBS, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and UBS.
The electronic IDB trading platform that is developed around our customers and the way they operate in a range of markets. www.tullettprebon.com
MTS Group is the market leader for electronic fixed-income securities trading in Europe. On average, over €85 billion are traded each day, comprising activity for over 1,000 participants across 25 markets. From its domestic roots in Italy, the MTS Group has become the only genuine pan-European market for fixed-income securities present in all eurozone countries, as well as in other debt markets in Europe. Known as “The European Bond Exchange,” it aids the overall development of the European government bond market and facilitates its integration. MTS endeavours to deliver the full benefits of an electronic trading marketplace while working with both issuers and participants to create a unified European fixed-income market of unparalleled liquidity, transparency and efficiency.
EXHIBITORS
The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service is a powerful and flexible tool for financial professionals — whatever their financial data needs — in cash and derivatives markets as diverse as equities, currencies, commodities, money markets, government and municipal securities, mortgages, indices, insurance, as well as legal information. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service seamlessly integrates the very best in real-time data, news and analytics. In addition, Bloomberg users benefit from on-demand multimedia content, extensive electronic trading capabilities, and a superior communications platform. Bloomberg users include the world’s central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices and agencies, law firms, corporations and news organizations. By offering all of this assistance and functionality to users on a single platform, for a single price, business and financial professionals recognize the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service as the definitive tool for achieving their goals. Website: www.bloomberg.com Contact: +44 20 7330 5000
Euroclear is the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity and fund transactions. Euroclear currently services more than 50% of the European domestic fixed-income market and over 60% of the worldwide eurobond market. User owned and user governed, the Euroclear group includes the international central securities depository (CSD) Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as the national CSDs Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland and Euroclear UK & Ireland. The total value of securities transactions settled by the Euroclear group is in excess of EUR 450 trillion per annum, while assets held for clients are valued at more than EUR 18 trillion. Euroclear Bank is rated AA+ by Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings. www.euroclear.com
GL Trade is a market leader in advanced systems delivery for trading, risk and operations management, our group provides cutting-edge cash and derivatives technology for the capital market industry. GL Trade has developed a software package that addresses in a large scale the risk management specific requirements. Marketed under the brand TRADIX, the system provides front to back-office and risk management functions for a wide range of financial products including fixed income, money market, FX, equities, interest rate and credit derivatives. The TRADIX system is a true STP and modular solution that answers the needs of traders, treasurers, and debt managers. Website : www.gltrade.com
Contacts : François THAURY – Tel : +33 1 53 40 51 25 – Mail: francois.thaury@gltrade.com
Jean-Baptiste CHALLE – Tel : +33 1 53 40 51 28 – Mail: jean-baptiste.challe@gltrade.com
ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. Covering a wide range of OTC financial products and services in Interest Rates, Credit, Energy, Foreign Exchange, Equities and Post-Trade Services, we are active in both established and emerging markets. Our electronic networks deliver global connectivity to customers seeking unparalleled liquidity and flow in an orderly marketplace. ICAP’s BrokerTec platform is the leading electronic interdealer platform for trading Repo in Europe, offering unparalleled liquidity in the full range of Repo products, delivering an increased certainty of trade and a level playing field for all participants. ICAP has also recently launched electronic trading for securities lending. i-Sec enables traders to borrow or lend equities via a screen-based electronic platform that combines the leading order matching system with a high-speed, high capacity and fully redundant communications network. www.icap.com
Established in 1999, icubic delivers specialist IT solutions for the financial sector. Leading financial institutions are using icubic products to streamline and automate the e-trading workflow from pricing, and trading through to straight through processing. iQuote allows them to achieve faster execution times, with rapid quoting over a wide range of products including fixed income, repos, swaps and derivatives. By using icubic’s product iMarket, financial institutions effectively deliver quality customer service due to an individually and speedy RFQ and RFO handling across dealer-to-customer markets like TradeWeb, Bloomberg, MarketAxess and FXall. Seamless connectivity to these markets as well as to inter-dealer markets such as MTS, Eurex, and BrokerTec and booking systems provides workflow and control features for traders and sales people. Contact: Ina Bittkau, Mittelstr. 10, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany, +49–391–598090, fax – +49–391–5980999, info@icubic.com, www.icubic.com, ina.bittkau@icubic.com
LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent central counterparty (CCP) group in Europe, serving major international exchanges and platforms, equity, exchange-traded derivatives, energy, interbank interest rate swaps markets and the majority of the Euro-denominated and sterling bond and repo markets. LCH.Clearnet is currently owned 67.6% by users, 17.8% by exchanges with the balance of 14.6% being held by Euroclear. Upon completion of the Euronext share buy-back programme by 2009, the Group will be owned 73.3% by users, 10.9% by exchanges and 15.8% by Euroclear.
Progress® Apama® is the market’s leading algorithmic trading platform. With Apama, both sell-side and buy-side firms empower trading desks with tools to create, test and deploy unique algorithmic strategies. Apama’s intuitive graphical development environment, visual dashboards, sophisticated event processing language and highly scalable event processing architecture will deliver unique, differentiated strategies in days or mere hours, rather than the weeks or months that typify other offerings. Apama tools allow a trade strategist to backtest prospective strategies and analyze the performance of those in production. It also includes packaged adapters - and an integration framework - to connect with any market data feed, order management system, and database. Apama customers, among the most prominent names in the industry, use its platform for equities, futures and options, FX and fixed income. They often trade multiple asset classes within the same strategy as part of algorithmic trading, auto-hedging and complementary applications. www.progress.com/apama
TradeWeb is the leading electronic fixed-income and derivatives trading network covering the complete trade cycle. The Company’s multi-dealer auction model links 35 of the leading dealers with over 2,200 buy-side institutions across Europe, North America and Asia. On average, over $200 billion in trading volume is executed over TradeWeb each day in 17 products across four main categories including rates, derivatives, credit and money markets. A total transaction value in excess $175 trillion has been executed over TradeWeb Since its inception nearly 10 years ago.
The TradeWeb experience begins with highly accurate, low-latency Market Data. To trade, users request quotes from up to five dealers at once. Live prices, tradable with a double click, are returned within seconds. Once the transaction is complete, TradeWeb’s leading STP solution, TradeXpressSTP, provides both counterparties with paperless trade allocation and confirmation. For more information please visit www.tradeweb.com
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