Sponsors

BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable, and modular solutions to complex IT problems. Bringing both unmatched experience in optimization and limitless passion for innovation to technologies from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond, BMC helps more than 10,000 customers worldwide reinvent, grow, and build for the future success of their enterprises, including 92 of the Forbes Global 100.

CUSIP Global Services

CUSIP® is the universally accepted standard for uniquely classifying financial instruments across institutions and exchanges worldwide. The CUSIP system provides identification and descriptive information for over 10 million financial instruments supporting all phases of securities processing and analysis. From the front-office to the back-office, financial professionals rely on the origin and accuracy of CUSIP information to run their businesses smoothly and reliably. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.

AIM Software is the leading provider of data management business applications to the buy-side. Across the world, leading buy-side institutions depend on AIM Software’s GAIN platform to power their systems and operations with high quality data. 

We deliver productized solutions for market and reference data management, financial instrument pricing and analytics, corporate actions data, legal entity data, and data consumption monitoring.

Our product-based approach to data management ensures that custom developments are kept to a minimum, resulting in faster projects, rapid ROI, and increased agility for managing business change.

To learn more, visit www.aimsoftware.com.

FactSet delivers content, analytics and flexible technology to help more than 160,000 users see and seize opportunities as soon as possible. It offers investment professionals informed insights and workflow solutions across the portfolio lifecycle, and industry-leading support from dedicated specialists.

PeerNova’s mission is to enable financial firms to quickly optimize their data, processes, and business. PeerNova’s Cuneiform Platform provides operational business management through data and process integrity. The Platform enables financial firms to gain insights through timely recognition and optimization of exceptions and opportunities. These valuable insights lead to automated actions and better performance, which can help exceed client and stakeholder expectations. By dashboarding business operations from existing processes, the Platform helps identify the most promising digital transformation opportunities.  Founded by entrepreneurs with deep expertise in big data and financial infrastructure, PeerNova is a Silicon Valley technology company with additional sales offices in New York and London. For more information about PeerNova, please visit https://peernova.com.  

Six Financial Information operates and develops infrastructure services for the Swiss and Spanish Stock Exchanges for securities services, banking services and financial information with the aim of raising efficiency, quality and capacity across the entire value chain of the Swiss and Spanish financial centres. Six aggregates financial information directly and in real time from 1,500 sources worldwide, covering all key international stock exchanges. Its database includes data and pricing information for more than 27 million instruments. Six helps compliance professionals meet the challenge of observing global economic sanctions by simplifying the process of identifying securities and keeping them up-to-date as political and regulatory situations evolve.

About SmartStream

SmartStream provides Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions and Managed Services to dramatically transform the middle and back-office operations for financial institutions. Over 1,500 clients, including more than 70 of the World's top 100 banks, 8 of the top 10 asset managers, and 8 of the top 10 custodians rely on SmartStream’s solutions.

SmartStream delivers greater efficiency, automation and control to critical post trade operations including: Reference Data Operations, Trade Process Management, Confirmations and Reconciliation Management, Corporate Actions Processing, Fees and Invoice Management, Cash & Liquidity Management and Compliance Solutions. Used independently or as a suite of solutions and services, clients’ gain a lower cost-per-transaction while reducing operational risk, aiding compliance while improving customer service levels.

For more information about SmartStream visit: www.smartstream-stp.com

Recognized as the data cornerstone enabling the growth of FinTech, Xignite, Inc. makes market data easy. Xignite pioneered the shift of market data to the cloud and is leading the disruption of the market data industry. The Xignite Market Data Cloud platform, hosted in the AWS cloud, allows companies to simplify infrastructure, scale quickly, and innovate faster. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and software companies including BMO, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, and TIAA, as well as leading FinTech disruptors Betterment, Envestnet|Yodlee, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, SoFi, StockTwits, and Wealthfront. Visit www.xignite.com or follow on Twitter @xignite.

3Forge was founded in 2010 to deliver enterprise-class software powerful and flexible enough to meet the needs of large financial institutions. Their product, AMI, is a consolidated platform that lowers operational and reputational risk for leaders in the electronic space through complex data analysis and workflow management. Today, nearly 20% of US equities flows through their software every day. Clients include multiple Tier 1 Banks, mobile application firms, hedge funds, investment advisors and broker dealers. www.3forge.com

n-Tier is a leader in large scale – high volume data validation and reconciliation processing in the finance industry. The firm offers a uniquely configurable platform for performing all types of data lineage, data completeness, and data accuracy validations across complex infrastructures. Used by some of the most well-known firms in the industry, the platform provides clients with sustainable automated processes which monitor the accuracy and completeness of data flowing across a firm’s infrastructure in near real-time. With specialized experience in the finance industry covering some of the most sensitive regulatory data and reporting and a scalable model with integrated data validations across cloud and in-house systems, n-Tier is the ideal partner for firms that want to implement company wide data management programs

Owlin's news analytics platform provides finance professionals with intelligence on all events relevant to their business, peer environment or portfolio — enabling them to monitor risk, ESG, opportunities and trends from 3 million sources across multiple languages in near real-time. Owlin's news analytics platform is accessible through a customizable user-friendly Dashboard, our API and custom-made widgets which can be integrated in your own platform. Our clients include FitchRatings, ING, KPMG, Philips and Adyen among others. Learn more at www.owlin.com.

West Highland Support Services (WHSS) is a vendor agnostic global FinTech service provider, recognized as an industry authority and thought partner for market data, information, referential data, technology and professional services for over 20 years.

We integrate and manage market data distribution platforms for clients working in the financial services industry. Our suite of Managed Services offerings enables firms to reduce market data expenditures while enhancing system performance and guarding against latency related trading losses.

As a company focused solely on helping its customers maximize ROI, clients benefit from our comprehensive industry wide experience. Pioneers of low cost remote monitoring solutions, WHSS also offers customized solutions through its Professional Services organization, tailored to address unique market data integration and usage challenges.

APN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive workforce solutions company. We deliver talent solutions that help businesses run with greater dexterity and efficiency.

Our three main service offerings are Placement Services, SOWs, & Payroll Services.  As a minority owned company, we foster a culture of inclusion and diversity that helps us generate the best ideas and achieve breakthrough innovation for our clients.

We support Fortune 1000 corporations in different verticals and cross-pollinate best practices.  Our services are optimized to bring balance to cost, quality, speed, efficiency & effectiveness.  A robust technology platform, mature processes, competent & well-trained staff and a high-performance culture are components of our service delivery execution excellence.  Our vision is to build long term value for our clients and our company and benchmark a world-class partnership.

We’ve moved firmly into a data driven world. Companies that can get their hands on more data quickly and efficiently have an edge. Crux helps companies achieve this edge. 

Today, data delivery and operations is expensive, time consuming and frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be.

Crux helps companies reliably process and onboard the data they need, when they need it, and where they need it. Our cloud platform and expert services connect data users and suppliers so data can flow. This allows our customers to focus on driving productivity and creating better business outcomes.

DBRS Morningstar is a leading provider of independent rating services and opinions for corporate and sovereign entities, financial institutions, and structured finance instruments globally. Rating more than 4,000 issuers and 60,000 securities, we are the fourth-largest credit rating agency in the world.  

DBRS Morningstar empowers investor success by bringing more transparency and a much-needed diversity of opinion in the credit rating industry. Market innovators choose to work with us because of our agility, tech-forward approach, and exceptional customer service. 

DBRS Morningstar is the next generation of credit ratings. 

To learn more, visit dbrsmorningstar.com. 

Fitch Solutions provides credit and macro intelligence solutions, helping clients excel at managing their credit risk, gain deeper insights into the debt and fixed income markets and get comprehensive intelligence about the macroeconomic environment. Fitch's solutions, powered by Fitch Connect, are built on our history of credit, macro and industry expertise to help clients make more informed business decisions.

Automated efficiency, tailored to you

Founded in 1971, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions.

Since our inception we’ve been committed to proactively understanding our client's needs to maximize their investments with ease, ultimately providing choice of solutions, innovative software and services, and simplicity.

We’re proud to be an independent, publicly traded entity headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, listed on NASDAQ Copenhagen. With clients including 300+ of the world’s leading asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, pension and insurance funds, wealth managers, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and treasury, as well as over 25+ offices around the world with more than 2,300+ employees, we are a truly expert led, global team that connects every continent and industry, seamlessly.

https://www.simcorp.com/

If you wish to contact a member of the SimCorp team, please contact Alan Copping (Alan.copping@simcorp.com)

TP ICAP is a global firm of professional intermediaries that plays a pivotal role in the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets.

Operating through our core businesses, Tullett Prebon, ICAP, PVM, Mirexa Capital, Tullett Prebon Information, ICAP Information Services and PVM Data Services, we create strong networks in person and through technology. We provide comprehensive analysis and insight into market conditions and long-term trends. We combine data, knowledge and intelligence into contextual insight and commercial guidance. By engaging with our clients, and providing innovative products and services, we enable our clients to transact with confidence, facilitating the flow of capital and commodities around the world, enhancing investment and contributing to economic growth.

Our values of honesty, integrity, respect and excellence underpin everything we do.

Established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is a not-for-profit organization created to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). GLEIF is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. GLEIF services ensure the operational integrity of the Global LEI System. GLEIF also makes available the technical infrastructure to provide, via an open data license, access to the full global LEI repository free of charge to users. GLEIF is overseen by the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee, which is made up of representatives of public authorities from across the globe. 

The EDM Council is a non-profit global association created to advance Data Management best practices, standards and education. The 200+ global member firms and more than 10,000 professionals of the EDM Council represent its expanding list of industries including financial services, automotive, manufacturing along with data vendors, technology companies, consultants, academia and regulators supporting those industries