Sponsors & Exhibitors

Bloomberg

BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK LLC and its affiliates serve institutional investors and traders globally with comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearance and settlement solutions across multiple asset classes including Equities, Futures, Options and FX, bringing traders, research analytics, execution strategies and liquidity together to help institutional investors seek better executions.

Our innovative liquidity venue leverages the market data, analytics, news and research integrated on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service. BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK users benefit from having access to Bloomberg L.P's. POMS, AIM and Execution Management System (EMS) and third party order management systems. Users are provided with an extensive network connecting more than 1,200 broker destinations, more than 200 algorithms, direct market access (DMA) to more than fifty Exchanges, ECNs, ATSs and liquidity pools, transaction cost analytics (pre-trade, working order and post-trade evaluation) and commission management services (research accommodation, commission sharing agreements and soft dollars).

The BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Bloomberg L.P.

 
ITG
Catering to more than 300 financial institutions worldwide, First Coverage provides a web-based platform that simplifies the gathering, evaluation and organization of sell-side information. First Coverage is an invaluable tool for portfolio managers looking to standardize, utilize and quantify the value of information being offered by their sell-side coverage. It provides an effective method of creating data streams comprised of sell-side ideas, news, and market sentiment. First Coverage can be used fundamentally or to create new algorithms to incorporate into current trading platforms. An award-winning innovation from the creators of First Call and founders of StreetEvents, First Coverage empowers investment professionals to extract additional ‘Alpha’ from multiple sources of currently unstructured data.

For more information visit www.firstcoverage.com.

 

ITG

ITG is a specialized brokerage firm with a unique holistic approach to trading. We provide clients with innovative technologies that span the entire electronic trading process, from pre-trade analysis to trade execution to post-trade evaluation. We partner with clients to enable them to navigate complex markets and improve their performance.

 



Tethys Technology, Inc.

Tethys is a leading provider of Execution Management system, algorithmic trading and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) solutions.  Our EMS solution, Execta™, facilitates strategy simulation, optimal trade execution, trade opportunity detection and risk management.  Execta™   can be used to trade global equities, futures, options and FX with fixed income being introduced soon.  Tethys clients include long only investment managers, market neutral, arbitrage, event-driven, long-short and macro hedge funds;  and broker dealers.  Execta™ includes Tethys’ pre-packaged algorithms, third party algorithm s and also allows user to develop their own trading strategies.  Our TCA offering, TotalTCA™ allows, comprehensive pre-trade, real-time and post-trade analysis.  Total TCA™ features unique tools that allow traders to make algorithmic trading decisions that reduce costs and risks.

 


Founded in 2000, Boston-based EventMonitor provides its clients advanced solutions to give them a strong competitive advantage in the marketplace. EventMonitor leverages its powerful event-driven parallel computing technology and its advanced data server solution to enable high-performance analysis. Our focus areas include algorithmic trade analysis, next generation research management portal, opportunity detection that provides real-time searching and complex event-detection. Our team has extensive experiences in implementing solutions for fundamental and quantitative investment strategies and have been working with some the most successful firms
 


Smart Trade delivers the industry’s most sophisticated Liquidity Management System (LMS) to assist banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, large hedge funds and exchanges in streamlining their execution process across multiple-asset classes globally.  Through the smartTrade Transaction Platform (STTP), firms gain a powerful, single-vendor, cross-asset liquidity management solution comprised of LiquidityOrchestrator™, an advanced smart order router; LiquidityAggregator™, which combines liquidity from various sources into a single order book; LiquidityCrosser™, a fast, scalable matching engine that creates dark pools; and LiquidityConnect™, to connect to multiple liquidity sources.  
 
 

 
 
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