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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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.

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.

Fidessa group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world’s financial markets. Fidessa’s products and services are built on the simple vision of making it easier to buy, sell and own financial assets of all types on a global basis.

Fidessa’s products and services are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities.

Fidessa’s global network carries $640 billion of flow a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, IOIs and FIX Allocations between over 2,400 buy-sides and 530 brokers across 130 markets worldwide.

Headquartered in London and with operations across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East, Fidessa supports over 25,000 users across 850 clients, serving a broad spectrum of customers from major investment banks and asset managers through to specialist niche brokers and hedge funds.

Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FDSA) and is a FTSE 250 company. Fidessa has a turnover of around £240m, has delivered 30% compound growth since its 1997 listing and now employs 1,500 people globally.

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Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. Nomura's unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through five business divisions: retail, global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com

First Derivatives is a leading provider of consulting and software solutions to the global capital markets industry. Focused on financial institutions that work cross asset, often with multi-system and/or high volume trading activities First Derivatives scopes, designs, develops, implements and supports a broad range of mission critical data and trading systems across front, middle and back office operations.

First Derivatives is headquartered in the United Kingdom and operates from purpose built premises, where it has established its training and on-shore/near support facilities. The company has continued to expand its service and product offering and has established a regional office in Australia.

Our flagship Delta product suite offers high performance Trading, Risk Management, Market Data, Complex Event Processing and Analysis applications including full end to end Low Latency Algorithmic Trading platform.

First Derivatives has continued to enhance its product offerings and global presence through the acquisitions of Reference Data Factory (RDF) and the assets of Cognotec. RDF is a global leader in the field of financial data management, including data architecture, reference data, data models and security master software. Cognotec is a leading global supplier of systems for FX pricing, execution and through the "next generation" RealStream product, direct access to the world's top 15 FX liquidity providers.

For further information on First Derivatives please visit www.firstderivatives.com.

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.

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.
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About Global Trading

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 130 liquidity pools, comprehensive FIX connectivity, and a liquidity management suite encompassing order management, advanced execution and smart routing. Our complementary risk management, clearing, settlement and market data solutions combine to deliver an integrated and flexible STP platform.
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For more information, contact Richard Zhu at +65 68270703 or email info.globaltrading@sungard.com

RHB Investment Bank is a fully integrated investment bank, part of the RHB Banking Group. The Corporate Investment Banking Strategic Business Unit offers the full range of corporate and investment banking products and services, serving mostly the middle market and large enterprises across selected industries. The services include merchant banking business, trading on securities, stock, debt and derivatives as well as stock and future and option contracts broking business.

We are always striving for excellence to be amongst the most innovative financial services providers, not only in Malaysia but in the Asian region as well.

This is evident from numerous key awards and accolades received over the years:

• Best Local Brokerage House (consecutively since 1990), Asiamoney Brokers Poll of Polls 2009
• Best Overall Macroeconomics Asiamoney Awards 2009
• Best Equity House Alpha Southeast Asia 2009
• Best Strategist, Broker Ranking Awards, Analyst Awards The Edge 2009: RHB Research Institute
• Top Industry Stock Pickers Consumer, Transport Sectors The Edge StarMine Awards 2009: RHB Research Institute

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