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About Nomura

Nomura’s Electronic Trading Services have the full benefit from the long standing experience, intelligence and technology of the Nomura Group, renowned for providing clients a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform.  Partnering closely with our high volume and latency sensitive clients Nomura has developed a prime brokerage and electronic product offering to meet our high frequency trading clients’ need.  The fully integrated NXT product suite combining ultra low latency direct market access and listed derivatives clearing across all liquid cash and derivatives markets globally, which is supplemented with financing, real-time risk management, market data, co-location hosting and fully redundant fibre optic networking infrastructure. For further information, please contact +44 207 103 5485 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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About Corvil

Corvil is a provider of latency management systems to the world’s leading trading organizations including global banks, exchanges, electronic market makers and service providers to financial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London and Dublin. Customers use Corvil for precision monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting of performance for their trading applications and networks. In addition, Corvil’s products are used to demonstrate latency compliance and transparency of services such as co-location, direct feeds and Direct Market Access (DMA) offered to trading clients. For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.com

About FTEN

FTEN, a NASDAQ OMX company, offers comprehensive risk management, regulatory reporting and high-speed trading solutions to help global broker-dealers increase profits and minimize risk in an increasingly regulated, latency-sensitive, high-volume trading environment.
FTEN’s unique 10 year focus on the global trading community’s regulatory and risk management challenges has resulted in a reliable and extensible platform, proven to deliver visibility into a firm’s real-time risk exposure across markets, asset classes, regions, and accounts via flexible pre- and post-trade controls.
Organizations that leverage FTEN’s patented technology are more able to fully integrate front- and back-office systems and processes, and ultimately
attract and support more clients enabling more efficient use of capital.
Acquired by NASDAQ OMX in 2010, FTEN holds offices in New York, Denver, London and Hong Kong and continues to expand its global presence.
FTEN is a trademark of FTEN, Inc. To learn more, visit: www.ften.com

About Fiberblaze

Fiberblaze develop, manufacture and market FPGA based Network Interface Cards for the telecom and financial community.We sell off-the-shelf hardware platforms and do customized products (hardware customization). The FPGA platforms are sold with different levels of configuration - from unconfigured hardware to complete solutions including FPGA configuration.
Among the IP blocks available are:
• Low latency TCP offload engine (TOE) • Deep packet inspection and filtering on Ethernet • Timestamping with GPS or IEEE 1588 syncronization
• Low latency MAC • 8 lane PCIe and associated DMA
The IP blocks are used for e.g. order execution, filtering, pre-trade risk check, market data solutions etc.
For more information: www.fiberblaze.com

About London Stock Exchange Group

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, offering UK and Russian derivatives trading, pan-European and US lit and dark equity trading. Through its markets, the Group offers international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.
The Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software and also offers its customers around the world access and an extensive range of real-time and reference data products and market-leading post-trade services. The Group is also home to a world leading index provider FTSE, which creates and manages of over 200,000 equity, bond and alternative asset class indices.
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy and Sri Lanka, the Group employs around 1,850 people.
Further information on London Stock Exchange Group can be found at www.londonstockexchangegroup.com

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About Fixnetix

Fixnetix provides outsourced all asset class services for ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting and infrastructure connectivity as well as risk management solutions to leading global banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading groups. The company is in 29 co-location and proximity hosting centres across Europe and the US and offers both raw and ultra low latency normalised market data as well as low latency trading for member firms and sponsored trading access to over 60 + markets.

Recently, Fixnetix announced a real-time low latency filter, iX-eCute, an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array,) to solve the eternal industry conundrum of pre-trade risk, compliance and ultra-low latency execution. iX-eCute opens the marketplace to all participants with no detrimental impact on trading performance with the necessary risk controls. iX-eCute enforces pre-market risks at nano-second time frames whilst preventing impact on latencies that historically have slowed down more traditional trading systems and models. Unlike other solutions, the iX-eCute microchip has zero impact on latency for governing the required checks directed by the recent SEC Rule 15c3-5 and anticipated declarations from other regulatory governing bodies. More information: http://www.fixnetix.com/

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 About Montréal Exchange

The Montréal Exchange (MX) manages two markets: a futures market and an options market. Our futures and options products cover major asset classes, including: interest rates with a time horizon of one day to 30 years, equities, FX, and Canadian stock indices. In July 2011, MX launched the Yield Curve Project, a five-year initiative designed to encourage the development of a full sovereign yield curve.
MX has its own clearinghouse, the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC). CDCC ensures the integrity and stability of the Canadian market by acting as the central counterparty guarantor. CDCC also guarantees all over-the-counter products that are cleared through its Converge clearing services.
MX is the majority shareholder of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX). Through its SOLA® software products, MX also provides IT services to Turquoise, Oslo Børs and IDEM. MX is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, with an international office in London, U.K.
To learn more, visit www.m-x.ca.

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