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SD is transforming the world of derivatives by introducing transparency to all major traded derivative classes including foreign currency, interest rates, equities, commodities, energy and credit. Providing prices that reflect the interdealer market has led the company’s web-based, market-calibrated solutions to be widely accepted as the benchmark for derivatives pricing.
Trading professionals on both the buy and sell side benefit daily from SD’s unique combination of unbiased, aggregated market data and sophisticated modelling techniques. The company also provides fully-fledged risk management solutions, award winning derivatives data and independent portfolio revaluation services.
CME Group operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Mercantile Exchange. We are the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. CME Group offers innovative futures and options products that cover all major asset classes and provides technologies and services to help manage risk.
BNP Paribas is a European-based leader in global banking and financial services and our AA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s places us among the strongest banks in the world.
BNP Paribas is the bank of choice for 14,000 corporate and institutional clients and 20 million retail customers worldwide. With over 205,000 employees and a global presence in 85 countries, BNP Paribas has an extensive global banking network with a diversified profile based on the three pillars of Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking.
BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking’s Fixed Income division is one of the most acclaimed of its peer group in the international financial markets today. Our global leadership across the interest rate, credit and currency markets allows us to provide among the widest range of solutions to capital-raising, investment and risk-management needs of clients worldwide.
TraderTools is a leading supplier of eFX software. The Company's STPlatform™
streams executable rates from multiple sources, enabling any financial
institution to manage liquidity more effectively. An open system, it provides
STP and APIs for rates, orders, deals and more. STPlatform represents the only
complete FX liquidity management solution, including:
¬ Total integration of liquidity aggregation and global order management
¬ Multiple sources consolidated onto a single screen
– Automatic order execution
– Internal order crossing
– Flexibility passing the book
– Data mining capabilities
Founded in 2000, Traiana operates the industry-standard platform for
electronically processing over-the-counter foreign exchange trades. Traiana’s
flagship offering, the Traiana Harmony Network is the leading platform for
connecting all FX market participants to automate post-trade processes, reducing
risk and cost in trade processing. The network includes all major FX market
participants including prime brokers, executing banks, retail platforms,
buy-side firms and execution venues.
Traiana currently has over 150 employees with offices in New York, Chicago,
London and Tel Aviv. Traiana is owned by ICAP plc. - The world’s largest
interdealer broker.
Wall Street Systems provides trading and settlement solutions for banks of all sizes and structures.
The Wallstreet FX sales trading solution provides banks with the necessary tools to improve the level of service they provide to their corporate customers, including complete advanced sales trading functionality together with an unrivalled eTrading delivery channel. Banks can increase margins, improve competitive edge and streamline STP by giving their FX/MM customers greater control of trading operations over the web, enhancing the user experience and enabling the bank to benefit from increased volumes and lower processing costs.
BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments.
Founded in 1996, Tradebook is a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base with trading solutions in over 60 global markets via eight offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on Tradebook's commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.
CitiFX, a division of Citi's Institutional Clients Group, is a leader in Foreign Exchange. We offer a comprehensive service to our diverse client base around the world. With a presence in 83 countries, CitiFX’s 1,500+ professionals deliver our unparalleled breadth and depth of knowledge to our clients, helping them to achieve their financial objectives. We also deliver world-class electronic trading solutions that not only address, but also anticipate our clients' needs and help them overcome the ever-increasing challenges of today's market. CitiFX delivers pricing in over 100 major and exotic currencies in plain vanilla and exotic products, providing our clients with the broadest possible access to the global foreign exchange market. By doing all of this, CitiFX helps our clients meet tomorrow’s challenges today.
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 77,053 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.
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.
The Foreign Exchange business within the Global Markets Division is a pre-eminent provider of liquidity in the world's foreign exchange markets. As the World's No 1 FX Bank, with a market share of 18%, Deutsche Bank is a recognised leader across all aspects of foreign exchange, from spot markets to the exotics, from vanilla options to complex structures, from electronic trading to prime brokerage.
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.
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.
ICAP, the world’s premier interdealer broker, is the original source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. Derived from ICAP’s global transaction volumes (over USD 2.3 trillion daily average), 40% of which is electronic, ICAP’s unique market data is a key source of information across a wide range of asset classes, time zones and instruments. ICAP Information and Commentary offerings include real-time, end-of-day and historical market data, as well as research and commentary from some of the world’s leading economists and analysts.
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 over 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.
With over 130 years of commodity and financial derivatives experience, Prudential Bache provides skillful global execution and clearing, customized reporting and real-time risk management solutions to a broad range of clients -- from financial institutions to corporate end users, hedge funds, family offices and high net worth individuals. We offer expertise in over-the-counter and exchange-traded futures and options, structured products, base and precious metals, foreign exchange, carbon and emissions, equities, cash fixed income and asset management services. Backed by the financial strength of our parent company, Prudential Financial, Inc., we provide the flexibility of a boutique with the strength and resources of a leading financial organization. We partner with our clients to understand their unique objectives and develop customized solutions to help them achieve their goals. To learn more about the benefits of partnering with Prudential Bache, please email globalsales@bache.com or visit www.prudentialbache.com
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services, with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 155,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for over 48 million customers and clients worldwide.
Trading in dynamic foreign exchange markets demands an institution with the strength, products, and technologies you require to manage risk and generate returns. By selecting Credit Suisse as your foreign exchange partner, you will choose an organization with experienced people you can trust, products you require to trade, and systems you need to deal easily and expertly. People, products and technology: with Credit Suisse, everything is in perfect balance.
Currenex and FX Connect are separate electronic trading platforms, each offering a unique set of features servicing institutional Foreign Exchange traders. FX Connect’s pioneering workflow solutions and Currenex’s focus on high frequency trading activity represent the broadest range of capabilities in the foreign exchange market. With FX Connect users can access liquidity from more than 60 providers and execute spot, forward, and swap transactions across an unlimited number of accounts. Currenex provides low latency execution solutions within a multi-bank trading portal and provides one of the largest anonymous trading platforms available in Foreign Exchange.
Option Computers Ltd is the leading global provider of STP and connectivity software to the foreign exchange markets through its flagship DealHub product.
DealHub offers a comprehensive solution that addresses overviews of real-time
trading activity, ticket capture, forwarding and archiving, internal secure chat
and dealing, printer replacement, dealing code analysis, real-time control over
algorithmic trading models, price contribution, price aggregation, position
aggregation, deal splitting, PB give-ups, FX options parsing, matching and
netting.
External sources supported by DealHub include Reuters, EBS, Bloomberg, ICAP,
DDN, multi-bank and single-bank platforms. DealHub is used globally by top FX
dealing banks, including UBS, JP Morgan, HSBC and Deutsche Bank
FXall gives institutional clients an edge in foreign exchange trading as the leading independent electronic platform. We deliver the expertise, resources and commitment of a neutral platform with the broadest suite of FX trading solutions that combine execution tools with end-to-end workflow management and straight through processing. Our flexible tool set delivers the right execution strategies and liquidity in all market conditions for over 800 institutions globally. FXall's offices in New York, Boston, London, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney serve the needs of active traders, asset managers, corporate treasurers, banks, broker-dealers and prime brokers.
As the only wholly independent execution and order management trading systems provider, Portware supplies traders with true broker-neutral solutions to facilitate best execution. The company’s suite of products includes a trading platform which supports FX, Single Stock, Portfolio, Program, Pairs and Index trading coupled with a powerful black-box Algorithmic Engine. On top of this architecture, Portware offers an extensible feature set tailored for different asset classes and trade styles, as well as tools for TCA, risk management, real-time reporting and a combination of pre-packaged and third-party algorithms and analytics. Since the company’s launch in 2000, Portware solutions have been implemented at more than 130 firms worldwide, including quantitative hedge funds, traditional asset management firms and sell-side program trading desks.
StreamBase Systems Inc. a leader in high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP), provides software for rapidly building trading systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming market data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase's latest framework for FX allows global investment banks and leading hedge funds to keep pace with growing market data volumes and increasing FX market fragmentation by allowing you to:
- Create an aggregated FX price book
- Find arbitrage opportunities
- Send orders to the venues offering the best executable price
- Apply principles of algorithmic trading to FX
Founded in 1999 by former IT and trading professionals from Citigroup, Smart Trade is the leader in liquidity management systems (LMS). Automating execution across the enterprise, we provide the financial markets with the industry’s most sophisticated single-, cross- and multi-asset liquidity management system, enabling investment banks, brokers, trading firms, asset managers and exchanges to streamline their execution process across asset classes – including FX - around the globe. Market-proven by HSBC, Calyon, CA Cheuvreux and CNCE, Smart Trade, which is based in Paris, London and New York with R&D facilities in Aix-en-Provence, France, was named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2007.
TradingScreen is a global provider of electronic trading solutions. Through the innovative use of technology, TradingScreen delivers a proven execution management platform and a global network to access any market, any counterparty and trade any financial instrument, anywhere.
360T is a leading provider of web-based trading technologies for FX, Money Market and Interest Rate Derivative instruments, capable of trading multiple asset classes amongst an unlimited number of buy- and sell-side participants in “streaming price” and “quote-request” mode. Based on its flexible and proven core technology, 360T acts as the operator of highly liquid execution services and as a provider of state-of-the-art white label technology for individual organisations.
