2011 Sponsors
Asset Control provides centralized data management solutions for financial institutions worldwide. From business-entity to firm-wide projects, Asset Control offers strategic reference and market data platforms that deliver the accuracy, consistency and relevancy firms need to reduce costs and risk, manage evolving compliance needs, and accelerate the delivery of new products and services. Asset Control has helped some of the world’s most successful financial institutions optimize their data infrastructures, enhance decision making, and reduce data complexity. Asset Control’s award-winning solutions help financial institutions meet their data management needs today with the flexibility to grow and evolve with their businesses.
The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service is the interactive financial information
network that is Bloomberg’s core business. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service
provides real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, research,
estimates, analytics, portfolio management tools, electronic trading and order
management systems, multimedia events and electronic communications to Bloomberg
customers in more than 150 countries, 24 hours a day, in a single integrated
desktop solution that is securely accessible to Bloomberg users on any enabled
PC or workstation as well as on handheld devices. Market participants use the
BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service every day to help them make informed business
decisions and to execute transactions.
Cadis defines enterprise-wide intelligent data management. Its multi-award
winning solutions solve multiple data management issues: front to back office
integration; outsourcing; security and price master management; data governance
and compliance; benchmarking and reporting. Cadis’ fundamental vision has always
been to enable users who understand the data to manage the data. This vision has
been realised via the creation of an easy to use, graphical and flexible product
that is cost effective to implement and maintain.
Dow Jones & Company is a global provider of news and business information and a developer of technology to deliver content to consumers and organizations across multiple platforms. Dow Jones produces newspapers, newswires, Web sites, apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, radio and video. Its premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch, SmartMoney and All Things D. Its information services combine technology with news and data to support business decision making. The company pioneered the first successful paid online news site and its industry leading innovation enables it to serve customers wherever they may be, via the Web, mobile devices and tablets. The Dow Jones Local Media Group publishes community newspapers, Web sites and other products in six U.S. states. Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com).
Fitch Solutions is committed to delivering value beyond the rating by providing a range of fixed-income products and professional development services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary content, the firm also distributes the ratings, research, financial data and analytical tools of Fitch Ratings through a variety of platforms.
With innovation and experience behind every product and service we bring to market, our flexible offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the credit markets. Drawing upon a wealth of expertise, skills, and market insight, we provide financial professionals worldwide with the intelligence they need to make more informed risk management and investment decisions.
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 1.4 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.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices. Intel's global focus and presence in capital markets and banking technologies centers on delivering world class CPUs, software, networking, storage, and graphics technologies all designed for high performance, maximum reliability, and open standards compatibility. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com, developer.intel.com and blogs.intel.com
Morningstar Real-Time Data's streaming feeds provide real-time pricing data directly from more than 160 sources around the world, covering all major equity, futures, and derivatives exchanges and indexes, as well as foreign exchange and treasury markets. Coverage also includes futures, options, commodities, and precious metals. Morningstar Quotes data feeds are simple to integrate with systems ranging from proprietary trading algorithms to risk management and portfolio management systems requiring as little as one day to set up, tailored to your needs with the markets, formats, and time intervals of your choice.
NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products (GFP) is engaged in the design,
development, calculation, licensing, and marketing of NASDAQ OMX indexes. GFP
specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ OMX’s brand themes
of innovation, technology, growth, and globalization. GFP also provides custom
index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected
financial organizations. For more information about NASDAQ OMX indexes, visit
Standard & Poor’s provides solutions that help organizations with
clearance and settlement STP, compliance and risk management, security master
file maintenance, data management, and mutual fund and client statement
evaluations. Services include global securities identification and
cross-referencing, securities pricing, reference data, credit ratings and
research to support securities operations and investment managers worldwide.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Through our worldwide footprint, technology capabilities and content offerings we can help financial firms scale their presence and business agility. Thomson Reuters Elektron is a high performance data and trading infrastructure that links the world's financial institutions. The shared platform provides connectivity to all key markets and liquidity pools via a single access point, reducing complexity, cost and time to market. It delivers access to real-time data from 350+ exchange and OTC markets, 14 million instruments, along with proprietary news, evaluated pricing, reference data, tick history and third party content, at the speed and depth of information a firm requires, as well as providing analytics and other value-added services. For more information www.thomsonreuters.com/
MTS is Europe's premier electronic fixed income trading market. Its state-of-the-art technology delivers efficient and effective solutions, which when combined with expert knowledge and client-focused consultancy benefits all market participants, including issuers, primary dealers, and market makers. MTS supports the full chain of pre-trade, trade execution and post-trade capabilities across cash and repo markets, and also provides independent benchmark market data and comprehensive fixed income indices. Its platforms are used daily by a very wide number of diverse counterparties, ensuring optimum liquidity
Benefits include:
• Access to premium source of liquidity
• Confidence of regulated, orderly and efficient markets
• Stable and robust technology
• Open architecture for seamless integration with ISV solutions and existing internal systems
• Cost-effective and comprehensive solutions
• Global view, local expertise
Capital IQ Platform is a web and Excel-based research product that combines
deep information on companies, markets, and people worldwide with robust tools
for fundamental analysis, financial modeling, idea generation, and workflow
management. Capital IQ profiles over 58,000 public companies, 1,500,000 private
companies, 1,900,000 professionals, 14,000 private capital firms, 899,000 active
securities, 500,000 transactions, and more. The Capital IQ Platform is deployed
at over 2,700 leading investment banks, fund managers, private capital firms,
corporation, and other firms.
Eagle
Investment Systems LLC is a global provider of financial services
technology, serving the world's leading financial institutions. Eagle's
Web-based systems support the complex requirements of firms of any size
including institutional investment managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, brokers,
public funds, plan sponsors, and insurance companies. Eagle is committed to
providing enterprise-wide, leading-edge technology and professional services for
investment accounting, data management, performance measurement and information
delivery. Eagle’s product suite is offered as an installed application or can be
hosted via Eagle ACCESS, Eagle’s application service provider. Eagle Investment
Systems LLC is a division of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. To learn
more about Eagle's solutions, contact
sales@eagleinvsys.com
or visit
www.eagleinvsys.com
Kingland Systems is a full-service technology outsourcing firm, providing
reference data management, software engineering, and consulting to many large,
international financial services firms for more than 15 years. We operate one of
the largest data cleansing operations in the industry, on-shore in the US. Using
our outsourced data services, data management software, and teams of
professionals, firms rely on Kingland to provide highly accurate and custom data
as well plan enterprise data and technology strategies. Our data expertise
includes entity/client/counterparty data, corporate hierarchies, and securities
reference data, and other forms of global financial reference data.
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of
financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial
institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses
supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference
data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value
instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software
companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading,
analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Interactive Data,
headquartered in Bedford, Mass., has approximately 2,400 employees in offices
located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc (NYSE:
PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the
Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive
Data Corporation's majority stockholder. For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses,
please visit www.interactivedata.com
Since 1930, SIX Telekurs has been a leading source of global securities pricing and reference data. Today, we offer uniquely structured and encoded securities reference and corporate actions/events data, real-time market data and flexible portfolio-based pricing.
With nearly 7 million global securities, our database is distinguished for depth as well as coverage. SIX Telekurs directly sources data for control, and we rely on our analysts stationed in 23 countries for local expertise to ensure quality as well as world-class service.
Netik is a global leading provider of financial data management services and
products to the Securities industry. Netik’s data management products, include
Netik Global Securities Master, Netik GSM℠, a reference data managed service,
Netik InterView™ a data warehouse for the storage of holistic financial data and
Netik Information Portal℠, to visualize and report on data, sit at the heart of
Investment Operations at many of the world’s leading Asset Managers, Hedge
Funds, Wealth Managers, Private Bankers, Prime Brokers, Fund Administrators,
Custodians, Investment Operational Outsourcing providers and Investment Banks.
Fidelity ActionsXchange is the most trusted provider of flexible,
technology-driven global corporate actions solutions for many of the world’s
financial industry leaders. Leveraging more than 10 years of unparalleled
analytical expertise, technology and service, we offer solutions that source,
enhance, compare and validate corporate action announcements, turning even the
most complex data into valuable intelligence. Our strategic value allows clients
to reduce costs, mitigate risk, gain efficiencies and enhance transparency
giving them the highest degree of control over their global event information.
SmartCo provides Smart Financial Data Hub, a leading global data management solution covering all the data area, including market data, corporate actions, indexes and benchmarks, third parties, funds and mandates, financial analysis, etc., as well as operational data for positions and transactions. Its innovative and scalable technology accelerate design and deployment of durable, upgradeable solutions, and allows financial institutions to model and centralise data, to distribute or give access to the whole data universe, to optimize data quality, data administration workflow and data governance, and to urbanise their information system. With its cutting-edge solution and technology, SmartCo has been selected and recognized by large financial institutions as a strategic solution to reduce their risks, optimize their processes, meet regulatory expectations, accelerate the delivery of new products, and better serve their clients.
First Derivatives plc is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions, high performance trading applications and consulting services to the capital markets industry. In addition to a robust and comprehensive end-to-end data management platform, First Derivatives' Reference Data Solutions (FD RDS) offers a distinct advantage such as Data Virtualization (specific to the financial industry), enabling clients to vary the "data fabric" to provide different information to multiple consuming systems-per their requirements. FD RDS includes both agile SOA technology for use as a toolkit and a Software as Service (SaaS) model in order to complement or augment other in-house or third party systems. This enables clients to fill a gap, meet needs quickly...and do so strategically as not to hinder future direction. With Operations in UK, Ireland, USA, Canada and Asia-Pacific, the Company's competitive advantage derives from its unique combination of knowledge of financial markets, software and services solutions, and expertise in industry technologies.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with more than 181,000 people serving clients in more than
120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities
across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the
world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated
net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.
Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Combining innovative technology with unmatched analytics, data, news and tools, Bloomberg delivers critical information via the Bloomberg Professional® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions provides leaders in corporations, finance and government with a dynamic network that allows them to access, integrate, distribute and manage information and technology across organizations more efficiently and effectively.
