A subsidiary of electronic trading pioneer Instinet, Chi-X Global is a global provider of market infrastructure technologies and trading venues. Through regional Chi-X trading platforms, Chi-X Global aims to provide investors around the world with the most efficient markets possible through their high-speed, low-cost, intelligent trading models, while its separately operated Chi-Tech services unit, whose data management and trading technologies have been deployed by some of the world’s leading exchanges and financial firms, provides a range of end-to-end trading and market data technologies. Chi-X Global believes that truly competitive, technology-driven markets benefit all participants in the trading process – investors, brokers and the primary exchanges – by making the market more attractive to the global trading community, which ultimately helps to increase overall market volumes and improve investor performance.

The name Chi-X is derived from the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, “χ” (Chi), symbolizing the “crossing,” or matching, of the two sides of a trade. Along with the “X” from the English alphabet, the name signifies a combination of the old world and modern world, or traditional securities trading techniques married with cutting-edge technology.

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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.

Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd. (renamed from Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. effective on January 1st, 2010) 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 a state-of-the-art execution platform that connects traders directly to global equities and derivatives markets. Daiwa has leveraged on its historical strengths in 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 the DSET suite of tools through their own proprietary systems or third-party systems.

DATAROAD is a leading provider of electronic trading and settlement solutions for the leading financial institutions in Korea. DATAROAD has been a strong advocate for the use of the FIX Protocol in the Korean securities industry, and has made focused efforts to promote the use of the FIX Protocol by Korean financial institutions.

DATAROAD's front office solutions, FORMULA FIX Engine, FORMULA Hub and Miracle Trader OMS deliver excellent electronic trading connectivity solutions for many trading partners using the FIX Protocol.

In addition, DATAROAD's professional FIX Protocol and STP (Straight Through Processing) consulting services can improve institutional business processes and securities trading operations.

For more information about DATAROAD, please visit www.dataroad.co.kr.

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com

Advanced Execution Services® (AES) is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures and foreign exchange. With AES’s tools, traders can improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the marketplace and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognized consistently as the leader in algorithmic trading. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.

HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services to more than 125 million customers through four customer groups and global businesses: Personal Financial Services (including Consumer Finance); Commercial Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets; and Private Banking.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. With offices in more than 60 countries and territories, Global Banking and Markets offers clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge.

In HSBC’s Global Markets, the FIX Protocol has been implemented across the four primary asset classes; Equities, Futures, FX and Fixed Income.

HSBC’s cross asset FIX implementation helps customers enjoy the benefits of having a single cost effective connection to HSBC Global Markets enabling them to trade a comprehensive mix of products across a large 102 execution destination footprint.

HSBC is a major user of advanced technology. Its e-business channels include the internet, PC banking and telephone banking via both fixed and mobile phones.

HSBC’s world-class global presence and local accessibility ensure that the Group is well placed to offer a premier service around the world to all its clients, whether corporate, institutional, government or supranationals with all their financing, risk and investment needs.

Citi Electronic Execution

The right choice will get you there.
When it comes to choosing electronic execution solutions, you need a global provider that can manage all of your trading needs. You want premium execution tools, unique liquidity and innovative technology that meet the challenges of today's complex global markets. Citi Electronic Execution will get you there.

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Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing 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. Citi's major brands include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Smith Barney and Banamex. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.

With access to one of the largest liquidity pools in Global Equities (including #1 market share on Euronext), Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking's Global Execution Services team offers global coverage across 65 markets, comprehensive liquidity solutions, advanced algorithms and an integrated execution product, which includes all equities & ETFs.

At the core of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 11, 000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.

For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes.

www.sgcib.com

About SunGard

SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. These solutions meet a multitude of needs, but support a common aim: to help drive our customers’ unique business strategies— whether that means increasing efficiency, improving customer service, complying with regulations, or capturing growth opportunities through innovation.

www.sungard.com

About Global Trading

Expand your business thanks to SunGard’s global trading multi-asset front to back solutions

SunGard’s global trading business (formerly GL Trade) provides a comprehensive range of advanced trading solutions from the front to the back office across all listed asset classes. We offer global market coverage with access to over 120 liquidity pools worldwide, and a liquidity management suite encompassing order management, advanced execution and smart order routing. Our complementary risk management, clearing, settlement and market data solutions combine to bring you an integrated and flexible STP platform to handle today’s trading challenges.

www.sungard.com/globaltrading

About Greenline Financial Technologies

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®, MetriFIX®, and Latency Monitor 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 to meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a member of FIX Protocol Limited – North Americas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc. For more information, please visit www.greenlinetech.com.

Arista Networks ignited the cloud networking solutions for large-scale data center and low-latency Ethernet networks. Arista offers a portfolio of best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches that set the standard for scalability, robustness, and dramatically changes the price/performance of data center networks.

At the core of Arista's 7000 Family is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility.

Arista's team is comprised of experienced management and engineering talent from leading networking companies. Arista designs revolutionary products in California and delivers them worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success.

For more information about Arista Networks, please visit: www.aristanetworks.com or contact info@aristanetworks.com

As the first IT service provider in Korea, established in 1967, KCC Information & Communication (KCC I&C) has made every effort to enhance the information infrastructure of its clients for the last 40 years.

KCC I&C provides a broad portfolio of Information Technology (IT) solutions to help its clients improve their business performance.

For the future, KCC I&C, as a pioneer in the digital world, will lead the digital economy with creative knowledge and competitive power. Also, KCC I&C will make a constant effort to become the world’s best IT service company.

To increase clients’ competitive power, KCC I&C provides System Integration to clients in the public sector, defense, finance and communication media. We also provide IT Outsourcing, Infra Solutions, Package Solutions, IT consulting, as well as developing new businesses, such as IT-based Convergence.

For more information about KCC I&C, please visit www.kcc.co.kr.

As the world’s largest 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, weather and real estate. 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.

CME Group
20 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
312-930-1000 – Telephone
312-930-8219 – Fax
info@cmegroup.com
www.cmegroup.com

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 Asia, North America and Europe, 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 fully integrated high performance Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine; commission management; and complete transaction and IOI quality management.

For more information about FlexTrade, please visit our website at www.flextrade.com.