Founded in 1996, FlexTrade is the industry pioneer and global leader in broker-neutral algorithmic trading platforms and execution systems for equities, foreign exchange and listed derivatives. With offices in North America, Europe and Asia, FlexTrade has a worldwide client base spanning more than 120 buy- and sell-side firms, including many of the largest investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors and institutional brokers. FlexTRADER, our award winning, fully customizable EMS, comes with pre-defined trading strategies and tactics for portfolio, sector and single stock trading. The platform provides organically developed pre-trade, real-time and post-trade analytics as well as risk and cost optimized portfolio trade scheduling; advanced integrations with major OMSs; bunching of orders and complex real-time allocations; listed and OTC smart order routing; a sophisticated Dark Pool Router; a fully integrated high performance Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine; commission management; and complete transaction and IOI quality management.

Omniscient is a software services company with deep domain and technology experience in the Financial Messaging business. We have been working with leading Financial Institutions globally on some of the most challenging Financial Messaging Solutions in the high-performance Payments & Securities Markets.

Our Consultants have knowledge and experience on most of the dominant Financial Messaging Protocols - FIX, FPML, ISO 15022/20022, SWIFT MT/MX, and ISO-8583 in the global payments as well as securities pre-trade, trade, post-trade, clearing & settlement, and custody & asset servicing businesses.

We have the experience of building high performance, risk managed Straight Through Processing (STP) Solutions across a wide variety of asset classes: Equities, Fixed Income, ET/OTC Derivatives, Mortgage/Asset Backed Securities, FX, and Money Markets for some of the leading Investment Managers, Broker / Dealers, and Exchanges / Securities Market Infrastructures across Asia, Americas and Europe.

In the Indian securities market, Omniscient has been working with some of the leading Broker / Dealers on high performance algorithmic trading solutions (e.g. High Frequency Trading Solution).

Our BlueJay™ Platform is an enterprise solution for Simulation, Performance Benchmarking, Certification and Automated Testing of Financial Messaging Solutions vis-à-vis third party applications (e.g. Order Management Systems), Market Infrastructures (e.g. Exchanges, OMGEO, SWIFT) and multiple Counterparties (e.g. multiple Institutional Investors).

To explore areas of potential business interest where Omniscient could work with your company in the high performance financial messaging STP domain please get in touch with our CEO, Mr. Swapnesh Patel on his email at swapnesh_patel@omniscient.co.in or on his cell +91-98909 56225.

Religare Technova is the IT Products business of a large diversified Indian transnational business group. The group pursues aggressive business interests globally in Financial Services (Religare Enterprises), Health Care (Fortis HealthCare), Wellness (Religare Wellness, formerly Fortis HealthWorld), Diagnostics (Super Religare Laboratories, formerly SRL Ranbaxy) and Aviation and Travel (Religare Voyages).

Religare Technova offers solutions that address an organisation’s key needs and requirements. Each solution has been designed to enable one to increase business’s efficiency levels and concentrate on the core business.

Religare Technova’s domain expertise coupled with the ability to constantly innovate for a changing technology landscape enables it to provide market-leading software, services and solutions to the global financial markets. Currently with over 2000 employees and presence in over 10 countries, Religare Technova is poised to be a leader in the global IT and Software Solutions. For more information, go to www.religaretechnova.com and www.rtgslive.com.

Omnesys is a leading provider of multi-asset, multi venue trading system called Omnesys NEST. The NEST product suite is available as a firm or broker hosted model, and in a Software As a Service (SaS) Model. Omnesys NEST is a platform of choice for leading institutions, exchanges and brokers in India.

Omnesys NEST is a fully integrated eco-system for securities including Order Management System, comprehensive pre-trade risk management systems, supports various types of front ends, automated trading systems, and Algos. Omnesys NEST also provides FIX execution capabilities and APIs for both buy and sell side firms. With exceptional throughput and scalability capabilities, NEST has captured significant market share in the Indian markets within a short period of time. A substantial percentage of the volumes on the markets happen through Omnesys NEST automated trading systems and algos.  The largest single installation handles over 15000 simultaneous dealer logins, and a million orders / trades

Omnesys NEST product suite includes:

• Broker Order Management System (OMS)
• Execution Management System (EMS)
• Comprehensive Rule based Pre Trade Risk Management
• Comprehensive Post Trade Position Management
• Algo Trading Engine
• Simple Interface to write custom Trading strategies
• Order Slicing based on  Time / Market Volume / Price
• Smart Order Routers
• Automated Trading Engines for Spreads, Cash - Fut , Put Call Parity and other arbitrage trades
• Low Latency Fix Engine
• Low Latency Order / Market Data Apis
• Technical Analysis
• Fail over, DR site capability

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through its two operating units, Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary execution tools and services to manage the investment process from start to finish, from pre-trade analysis to post-trade consulting. Clients access our global offering via REDIPlus and FIX, available for trading global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange and swaps. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using the SIGMA smart order router and take advantage crossing opportunities in SIGMA X.

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.

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

The RBS group (Royal Bank of Scotland Group) is a large international banking and financial services company. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the Group operates in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas and Asia, serving more than 40 million customers.

Our heritage in Asia Pacific dates back to the 1820s. Since then, we have developed alongside some of the world’s fastest growing economies and experienced every economic cycle. And, as business has become truly global, so have we.

We continue to serve corporations and financial institutions across the region through a dedicated presence in 11 countries. Four of RBS’s six global trading hubs are located in the Asia Pacific region.

We make it our business to better understand your business. Only then can we design financing, risk management and transaction banking solutions to meet your organisation’s priorities.

Regional hubs across Asia Pacific form part of a much wider, well connected network linking issuers and investors around the world. This means we are always in touch with the latest market developments and how they might work to your advantage.

Local on the ground relationships help us to effectively address your challenges and work with you to maximise opportunities. All of our staff share the same common commitment, to achieve success for you, our clients.

Greenline provides superior FIX Protocol and electronic trading technology solutions and services across all asset classes for leading global financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship product suite, VeriFIX, CertiFIX, MagniFIX, and MetriFIX delivers end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX Protocol. In addition, its premier Professional Services consultancy can evaluate and improve clients’ business strategy and trading technology operations, leveraging its expertise across all connectivity and messaging protocols. With global reach and client experience, Greenline is ideally positioned meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com.

First Futures Software (FFS) is a leading technology solution provider, offering professional market participants advanced and high-end trading software solutions. Being a technology expert in making the trading business FIX Protocol compliant, we offer the industry's leading high-speed and highly scalable FIX Engine product.

FFS caters to the needs of trading firms in terms of ultra low latency Direct Market Access (DMA), Straight Through Processing (STP), Execution Management Systems (EMS), smart order routing, high-end visual strategy modeling and optimizations using various Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, high performance automated strategy execution and customized algorithmic trading solutions in different trading scenarios.

The products and solutions of FFS give seamless end-to-end connectivity to different trading exchanges and brokers with the help of market data feed handlers, efficient FIX and non-FIX enabled connectivity and order routing.

The organization delivers consultation and support in smooth transformation of technological needs for rapidly changing market conditions by making the solutions modular and easily customizable. Our Research and Development adds the art to the science of trading and helps customers to gain an edge in the today's competitive trading environment.

To know more about us, visit our website: www.firstfuturessoftware.com or contact Mr. Satish Kumar at +91-9860578416 / info@firstfuturessoftware.com.

MetaBit is provider of the MLH (Market Liquidity Hub), an Asian broker portal that offers Direct Market Access (DMA) to 29 brokers and access to ten exchanges, including India’s BSE and NSE, through its intuitive DMA buy side trading platform XiliX.  The MLH is also accessible through the FIX Protocol, and provides access to more than 1,800 execution destinations worldwide in conjunction with MetaBit’s FIX partner networks.  MetaBit is also provider of low-latency, pure FIX to native exchange connectivity for Japan, that focus on high performance and sustained latency below 0.3 milliseconds.  Other products include Exchange Message Simulators to Japan’s major stock exchanges, and FIX testing and certification products.  MetaBit actively promotes FIX throughout Asia.

Kotak Securities, one of the largest broking houses in India, is the stock-broking and distribution arm of the Kotak Mahindra Group. Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE), a division of Kotak Securities, is among the leading institutional brokers in India. The division covers secondary market broking and markets Indian equity offerings, including IPOs, to domestic and foreign institutional investors (FIIs).

Trading – Full financial service capability
Kotak Institutional Equities has full financial service capability, which includes derivatives, facilitating market access through affiliates and the distinctive offering of corporate access to investors. The division services over 250 clients including FIIs, domestic institutions and mutual funds. The division has offices in Mumbai, Singapore, Dubai, London and New York, with the India desk also servicing clients in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia.

Research – Comprehensive and committed
Kotak Institutional Equities has a full-fledged research division engaged in macro-economic studies, industry- and company-specific equity research. The research team has 26 analysts covering 140 companies across 18 sectors, with a focus on providing sustainable, selective and scalable stories to its clients. KIE research is known for its in-depth modeling, width of coverage and investment insights. A comprehensive research bouquet includes the India Daily morning bulletin, company updates, sectoral reports, macro economy and strategy reports, stock ownership updates, thematic reports and customized solutions for clients.

For more information, please visit http://institutional.kotaksecurities.com/AKSESS/jsp/Login.jsp or contact
sales.aksess@kotak.com.

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses operate under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch brand.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.

In India, DSP Merrill Lynch is one of the country's leading private sector Investment Banks and Partners of Merrill Lynch, engaged in providing a complete range of investment banking services.

Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. has built up an impressive track record since its formation in April 1999 in Japan, we are resolved to taking the leadership position in the market, thereby serving the needs of clients, both at home and abroad. Since its foundation, Daiwa has been engaged in a broad range of investment banking operations involved in capital raising, IPOs, Merger & Acquisitions and principal finance amongst others, while expanding conventional sales and trading operations.

Daiwa Securities Electronic Trading - DSET provides clients with state-of-the-execution platform that connects traders directly to global equities and derivatives markets. Daiwa has leveraged on its historical strengths of equity trading to provide clients with DART (Daiwa AlgoRithmic Trading) and access to liquidity that helps in generating trading alpha by reducing market impact & trading costs. Clients can access DSET suite of tools through its own proprietary systems or third-party systems.

Financial Technologies (India) Ltd (www.ftindia.com) is a global leader in creating and operating next generation financial markets that are transparent, efficient, and liquid across multi-asset classes. Our markets transform lives by democratizing global trade and propagating price discovery, trade efficiency & risk hedging.

Flagship products include:
ODIN - Trading Platform of Choice' powering over 880 Indian brokerage houses with over 80% market share.
DOME - 'Exchange Platform of choice' for next generation financial markets

Exchange Ventures

• MCX : India’s leading multi-commodity futures exchange
• MCX Stock Exchange: MCX's currency futures exchange
• IBS-Forex: India's No. 3 forex exchange.
• NSEL: Pan-India electronic spot market for agri-commodities
• IEX: India’s first power exchange
• GBOT, Mauritius: Electronic exchange to serve Africa.
• SMX, Singapore: Pan-Asian Commodity & Derivatives Exchange
• Bourse Africa, Botswana: Multi-asset pan-African exchange and ecosystem
• BFX, Bahrain: International multi-asset exchange
• DGCX, Dubai: Middle East’s first international commodity & currency derivatives exchange

Ecosystem Ventures

• NBHC: Pan-India warehouse platform
• TickerPlant: Retail financial information distribution platform
• atom technologies: Platform enabling 'any transaction on mobile'.
• Riskraft: Leading knowledge partner to Banks & Financial Institutions for Risk Management, Data Warehousing & Analytical Research.
• FTKMC: Financial Technologies' knowledge hub.
• MCX-SX Clearing corporation
  

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 80,277 employees in 72 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.

About Global Markets

Within Deutsche Bank, the Global Markets Division is responsible for the origination, sale, structuring and trading of fixed income, equity, commodity, foreign exchange, derivative and money market products.

Global Markets has established itself as a global leader in these products by combining its unique distribution franchise with its pricing, structuring and execution expertise.

Global Markets is dedicated to delivering exceptional capital raising, risk management and investment solutions that meet the precise needs of its clients.

The Global Markets Division employs more than 6,000 professionals in 39 trading rooms around the world.

Deutsche Bank is one of the only institutions in the world able to address the diverse asset gathering and liability management needs of corporations, governments, institutional investors, hedge funds and financial institutions on a truly global basis.

Avaya GlobalConnect Limited is the leading enterprise converged communication solutions provider in India, providing a comprehensive suite of converged solutions, contact center solutions and customer services. Avaya GlobalConnect is a subsidiary of Avaya Inc, with Avaya holding 59% equity in the Company.

With over 6000 customers, Avaya GlobalConnect is the market leader in India in IP telephony, Contact Centers, Enterprise Voice Solutions and Video conferencing. 

In order to provide best-in-class converged communications products and solutions, Avaya GlobalConnect has partnered global technology leaders---Polycom, the world’s leading videoconferencing solutions provider; NICE Systems, the Israel-based customer experience management specialist and LG, a global leader in EPABX and KTS products, to name a few.

Avaya GlobalConnect has strategic alliances with systems integrators such as IBM, HP, Servion, Cable & Wireless, CMC and Tata Infotech. It has an extensive distribution network of business partners comprising systems integrators, value added resellers and channel partners.

Offering technologically advanced, end-to-end converged business solutions for enterprises, Avaya GlobalConnect is aiming to become the most Customer Responsive organisation. It is enabling Indian corporates leapfrog into a new era of communications. 75 per cent of India’s top business houses utilise Avaya GlobalConnect’s converged communications solutions— Accenture, American Express, Aviva, Citibank, Daksh, Dell, IBM, Indian School of Business, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, Standard Chartered Bank, Tata-AIG, Wipro-Spectramind, among others.