AboveNet is revolutionising the approach to building metropolitan, global and IP Networks and is the leading provider of fibre optic connectivity solutions for businesses and carriers. AboveNet operates metropolitan fibre networks in and between London and 14 cities in the US, as well as a global Tier-1 IP Transit network to deliver high performance Internet to 20 cities in 7 countries. Leveraging these assets, AboveNet provides dark fibre, IP Transit and a range of managed services predominately within the finance, media and carrier sectors.

ACTIV Financial is a full-service market data vendor specializing in the delivery of low-latency, high-availability market data designed to support algorithmic & automated trading systems, trader workstations, auto-quoting market maker applications, and ticker plants. ACTIV has a unique ability to deliver high volumes of full-tick data such as full OPRA feeds and full Equity book detail very cost-effectively with very low systemic latency. ACTIV's current customer base is global including many of the financial industry's Tier 1 institutions, exchange specialists and market makers, as well as innovative hedge-fund and prop-trading shops.

Since 1993 ATS-Advanced Technology Solutions provides ICT solutions for financial markets.

ATS's competence is strongly expressed in the Front Office and Middle Office area. Our offering is based on a sophisticated combination of solutions and products that meet the needs of all financial operators:

EXP (Exchange port) is an advanced technological platform for front-office and middle-office process, fully compliant with the MIFID directive. EXP takes the greatest care to the aspects that characterize and qualify the services of financial intermediation (low latency, high system reliability, dynamic best execution, algo trading).

EXTRA-Connectivity is the gateway/feed handler product suite for market connectivity, order collection and data dissemination through either proprietary protocols or FIX protocol.

EXS (Exchange Services) is the solution for market data acquisition, data normalization, data distribution and order routing systems.

Founded in 2000, ARQA Technologies is the largest trading software vendor in Russia and CIS serving 300+ client base. The company offers integrated 'front-to-back' solutions for automation of trade and post-trade operations, infrastructure optimization and risk management (RISQ).

The front-end trading platform 'QUIK' spans OMS and EMS functionality providing access to 30+ major trading venues.'RISQ solutions' are applied for thorough pre-trade control of client and proprietary order flow. ARQA's solutions are flexibly configured from modules and are also available on 'managed service' basis.

ARQA Technologies has corporate presence in Novosibirsk, Moscow, London, and Kiev.

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 325,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively.

BSO Network Solutions (BSO) is a global Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider specialising in low-latency connectivity for the financial trading industry. The company's global network spans 20 countries and 70 data centre locations. BSO provides its customers with the most direct, fastest and most reliable network paths available to ensure stable, secure connectivity to the world's leading exchanges and marketplaces.

As experts in both emerging and core trading markets, BSO provides connectivity routes between key locations across Europe, North America, the Middle East and APAC. The company continually strives to innovate and invest in its own services to ensure its solutions evolve in parallel with the finance community.

For more information, please visit http://www.bsonetwork.com. Follow BSO on Twitter and LinkedIn.

BT's RadianzNet is the leading secure, reliable, scalable connectivity and hosting platform for the global financial services community. Connecting more than 10,400 financial sites around the world, RadianzNet is optimised for the time-critical demands unique to financial services. BT provides connectivity to Cboe for financial firms across Europe and the UK for market data and order entry through RadianzNet. BT also provides ultra-low latency connectivity to Cboe in metropolitan London through Radianz Ultra Access.

Celoxica's solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main US and European Equities, Options, Futures exchanges and FX.

Celoxica's range of services are designed to deliver unique business advantage through a combination of leading edge software and hardware acceleration using FPGA-based technology to offer ultra-low latency measured in single digit microsecond and ultra-high throughput, together with accelerated Market Data, Market Access and hardware Accelerated In-Line Risk.

Celoxica's clients are typically trading firms who co-locate (or proximity host) their strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading and smart order routing.

Colt provides on-demand network and communications services to information-intensive businesses across Europe, Asia and North America. Founded in 1992, there are over 5000 Colt people in local offices across 21 countries.

Customers include 18 of the top 25 bank and diversified financial groups and 19 out of the top 25 companies in both global media and telecoms industries (Forbes 2000 list, 2014). In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks.

Colt provides businesses with reliable business grade services backed by the right choice of technology, service and commercials. When it matters, customers choose Colt.

For more information, please visit www.colt.net

Custom Connect is a global reseller of high-performance network solutions. Custom Connect‘s services offer carrier-neutral, reliable and integrated connectivity while simplifying network management, support and sourcing through a single point of contact. We design, deliver and support high-performance networks with a strong focus on the Financial Industry, since we operate carrier neutral we're able to develop bespoke services for our clients that are always tailor-made to fulfill any type of connectivity-need. We‘re not bound to any network, carrier or technology resulting in real objective advice, design and delivery of connectivity services. Our services can be summarized in the following categories:

• Dark-fibre
• Wavelengths
• Ethernet
• IP
• Colocation
• 24x7 Support
• Consultancy

All our services are delivered and 24 x 7 supported on a global scale. For more information visit www.custom-connect.net or email to
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Devexperts, was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry. Having achieved rapid global success due to its domain expertise, excellence in development methods, special emphasis in quality assurance and superior client service, Devexperts now delivers a broad range of products and services to some of the world's largest and most prestigious financial companies. Our technology now serves over millions of customers in the United States and abroad. Our data solutions offering includes direct low-latency normalized data feeds and value added services like VR, deep learning, market analysis, surveillance, historical data and market replay.

Actionable Insight to the Nth Degree.

We are the independent, trusted source of insights to our customers, who are dedicated to feeding, fueling and protecting our world. We are proud to empower you with intelligent and actionable insights that exceed your expectations and enable your success daily. You rely on us to make sense of the data, look at it differently and deliver it through innovative, real-time solutions. Whether it is weather, commodity market information, or process improvements, you can trust that we always deliver with precision and accuracy to the Nth Degree. When you prosper, we all win.

EliData offers complete and modular multi-market and multi-asset class STP solutions to banks, investment firms, asset management and insurance companies. The suite offers access to international markets, circuits and brokers for trading, order collection and transmission for all asset classes including functionality for Order Management, Algorithmic Trading, Smart Order Routing, Market Making, Internal Matching, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Middle Office and through other products from CAD IT group also Back Office, Market Abuse, Money Laundry, Trading Online etc.

euNetworks delivers Europe's lowest latency networking solutions, which are contractually guaranteed. They own a €1bn all-optical network, and therefore have total control of performance and high availability. Services can be delivered on-demand, to over 100 leading European datacentres, and customers can have freedom to move datacentres within the contract. Ideally suited to trading, euNetworks‘ mission-critical services are fully transparent, highly scalable, and extremely cost effective.

Exegy provides best-of-breed technology and managed services for real-time market data and trading access to firms in the financial services industry. Exegy has expanded its market data offerings to historical on-demand recordings sourced from direct and Securities Information Processor (SIP) data feeds to further serve the industry's needs for analytics, compliance, and strategy testing. Exegy serves as a strategic partner to exchanges, market makers, sell-side banks, buy-side asset managers, and proprietary traders. At the heart of Exegy's product line are purpose-built, hardware-accelerated appliances derived from an extensive portfolio of patented and patent-pending technology. Exegy promotes the design of robust electronic markets through its MarketDataPeaks service that reports real-time market data feed rates.

Exponential-e's trading data solution gives you access to multiple sources of liquidity over one pipe. You can connect to ECNs, MTFs, other financial exchange feeds, financial applications as well as data applications (eg, VoIP & Internet) all over a single low-latency Ethernet connection. Thereby, you can simplify, consolidate and lower the cost of data distribution and trade execution. Benefits include; uninterrupted uptime, trading capabilities with tight service levels, cost-efficiency, high security and end-to-end fault management.

Fixnetix is the leading provider of ultra low latency data and trading connectivity to many of the worlds leading Investment Bank Proprietary trading desks, Stat Arb Hedge Funds, Market Makers and Exchanges (including Cboe Europe). Fixnetix provide connectivity within Exchange Colo‘s coupled with access to every other major alternative trading venue over our dedicated point to point 10Gb+ DWDM network. We deliver data in multiple formats with sub-millisecond transformation if required, with services provided on the wire for reduced support costs, delivery times and ease of integration.

FTEN, a NASDAQ OMX company, offers real-time, cross-market risk management solutions that provide market participants with transparency and control over their global trading activity. Our mission is to help firms build and grow their electronic trading businesses - allowing for more efficient use of capital while maintaining full regulatory compliance.

FTEN's patented technology allows users to monitor their aggregate intraday risk profile on a global basis. We have a highly scalable and reliable market access platform that connects to all major pools of liquidity and supports multiple asset classes. Our systems provide pre-, at- and post-trade risk, compliance and reporting solutions that satisfy even the most latency sensitive users.

FTEN has established itself as a catalyst for our clients continued growth. We are committed to providing unmatched customer service and flexible deployment options to prime brokerage, clearing firms, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and exchanges.

WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets is a fully-integrated, vendor-neutral front office platform that offers not only security, interoperability and scalability but also high-performance, high capacity and ultra-low latency with end-to-end latency across the whole platform of less than 150 microseconds for a typical market data feed. WebSphere Front Office also offers the ability to combine multiple order book feeds, such as ARCA, ITCH, OpenBook, DirectEdge, and Cboe, into a single consolidated view of the market.

ICF Systems AG is a full-service provider specialized in high-availability IT services for the financial industry:

• Individual hosting for mission critical trading and information systems
• High-speed market access and market information systems
• Full lifecycle for all IT systems (plan, build, operate)
• Reporting solutions and risk compliance systems
• One-stop full IT service with own employees and HA data centre locations

The Yado Suite from IF Informatica offers an ESMA compliant, low latency, multi-venue, multi-asset class modular system. It delivers pricing, position keeping, algo trading and risk monitoring functionalities. Highlights include:

• Distributed architecture
• Server side strategies
• High performance open source scripting language
• Tradable position keeping with on-line portfolios evaluation
• Real-time limits management (position, risk, P&L, VaR)
• System behavior control (resources usage, TPS, stock exchange fees monitoring)
• Ease of integration with legacy and third parties solutions

IFS LiquidMetrix are based in London, and are experts in financial market data research and execution quality analysis.

The IFS LiquidMetrix Pre and Post-Trade Analysis services provide the sophisticated analytics required for performance measurement, and are made possible through its suite of proprietary tools for optimal storage and retrieval of trades, and full depth order book data from multi-terabyte databases of equity venue data. The TCA methods that IFS developed are uniquely suited to reflect modern multi-venue trading realities.

The LiquidMetrix products allow brokers as well as trading firms to monitor and compare the performance of their order routing technology / algorithms / broker DMAs and to make informed decisions on achieving the best possible prices by taking full advantage of the opportunities available.

Buy and sell-side financial players across Europe rely on trading and real-time market data solutions from Infront. Infront's flagship terminal, mobile apps and versatile platform for real-time market data and trading connect over 9,000 users across Europe to international financial markets.

Infront solutions enable sell side players to provide their clients with professional level information, terminal functionality and cost efficient electronic trading on over 50 exchanges worldwide with a direct impact on increased trading volumes.

Interoute are a pan-European provider of network services. Our 56,000km of wholly owned fibre network connects 93 cities in 22 countries spanning from New York to Moscow and from the Nordics down to North Africa. Interoute can provide connectivity in to Cboe from E1 to STM64 SDH and from 10Mb to 10Gigabit Ethernet. Our service also includes the last mile to your location in any country on our network.

ITG is an independent research broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement. With our launch of the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, we founded ITG with a strong commitment to empower buyside investors. And over the years, we've continued to deepen that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology to offer the unmatched insights that seek to help clients generate and preserve alpha.

Itiviti is a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry. Trading firms, banks, brokers and institutional clients rely on Itiviti technology, solutions and expertise for streamlining their daily operations, while gaining a sustainable competitive edge in global markets.

With 13 offices and serving more than 400 clients worldwide, Itiviti has a track record of delivering innovative financial infrastructure solutions covering all asset classes, across geographies and regulatory landscapes. We offer highly adaptable platforms and solutions, enabling clients to stay ahead of competitive and regulatory challenges.

LIST is a leader in the design and development of software for capital markets. The company has been producing innovative solutions for the financial industry for more than 25 years.

LIST offers projects and solutions for:

• Electronic markets (regulated, MTF, internal) real time settlement systems (pre settlement, gross and net settlement, registry and custody) that are completed integrated into e-markets;
• Advanced trading systems for financial markets, algorithmic trading, risk management, risk monitoring, assisted trading and automatic quoting, order management systems, position keeping, and integrated analytical tools for pricing;
• Operational risk, audit & compliance for the integrated management for: Operational Risk, General Compliance, Internal Audits and Business Continuity, in compliance with Basel III and supervisory regulations.

Millistream is a leading Nordic provider of real-time market data and content services.

Through its modern and unique architecture, the Millistream platform produces excellent services in terms of speed, accuracy and flexibility. Customers of Millistream's services are banks, brokers, media and other companies in the financial sector.

Morningstar delivers fast, reliable market data and extensive histories from over 260 global exchanges, index providers, banks, and inter-dealer brokers, covering more than 20 million instruments. We operate a high-capacity, resilient global network based in key financial centers worldwide. Data is delivered through a choice of flexible delivery mechanisms, including streaming feeds, request/response & streaming web services, and snapshot files. Global banks, brokerages, asset managers, media outlets and software providers rely on Morningstar Global Market Data Solutions to power their business-critical applications.

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NBTrader provide total flexibility for Order Management Systems, and market data solutions as both Software As A Service and Enterprise Systems. Fully integrated order and market data flow coupled with multiple levels of workflow management provides unparalleled levels of execution measurement and automation in real-time.

NBTrader's highly configurable automatic order routing and extensible work-flow schemes ensure that the order flow and order-routing decision process from Wealth Manager to Settlement is completely automated. Execution quality is measured in real-time, ensuring that poor quality trades are not just quantified in real-time, but actively avoided.

The unique one-platform architecture of NBTrader permits multiple layers of automation, auditing, market replay and departmental sign-off, provides a comprehensive suite of market examination tools and total order-flow oversight to compliance in real-time as well as creation and inclusion of the Best Execution Analysis in with the Contract Note.

Orbis Systems provides innovative software applications and technological services. Our mission is to bring reliable and secure electronic trading systems that operate at the fastest speeds possible. We're the provider of choice for a growing number of prominent financial institutions, independent registered advisors, and our clients range from fintech and small brokerages to international multi-desk trading corporations.

Orbis gives you direct online access to the global markets, complete with real-time market information, rapid execution times, and valuable tools to help you manage your portfolio and evaluate market trends. We know your business isn't the same as everyone else's, and so we customize our products to suit your individual requirements. We build the features you need, give your software the look and the feel you want, then make it work with the systems you already have. Unlike many providers, we develop and maintain the products we sell, so we can quickly deliver updates when you need them, along with service from the experts who created your software.

In addition, Orbis offers a wide-range of supplementary services to keep you ahead of the game. Do you find yourself burdened by increasingly complicated audit and compliance requirements? Do you worry about how to protect your clients against identity theft? We stay on top of changing regulations so you don't have to, and our experienced security advisers can show you how to avoid becoming a victim of fraud.

At Orbis, our success is driven by our commitment to incorporating the latest technology into everything we do. We provide trading tools and market connectivity you can count on — fast, safe, and dependable.

Reaktor is a Finnish software company founded in 2000. We help our customers to succeed by delivering high-quality software solutions, fast.

Reaktor offers reliable and robust technology that allows investments firms to establish DMA connectivity to various trading venues such as MTFs, primary exchanges, and dark pools. Investment firms employing Reaktor's technology can also access a consolidated view of the market for a better picture of available liquidity. We also offer technology and implementation expertise for demanding exchange connectivity projects.

Redline Trading Solutions empowers your trading with the fastest and most reliable market data and order execution solutions globally. Our solutions support over 150 equities, options, futures, FX and fixed income markets. We accelerate the full trading life cycle, tick-to-trade, delivering improved fill rates, lower operational costs and exceptional reliability. With offices in Boston, New York, London, Hong Kong and Belfast, Redline's customers include leading investment banks, brokers, exchanges, capital management firms, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms. Our solutions are offered as self-managed applications or may be deployed with Redline Managed Service expertise.

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial & Risk division of the Thomson Reuters, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. It provides leading data and insights, trading platforms, and open data and technology platforms that connect a thriving global financial markets community - driving performance in trading, investment, wealth management, regulatory compliance, market data management, enterprise risk and fighting financial crime.

RTS (www.rtsgroup.net) delivers high-performance, end-to-end technology products and services across asset classes and continents to elite financial institutions and commodity trading houses. The firm is a global leader in robust electronic trading software, connectivity, hosting, matching and risk management solutions. With standardized low latency connectivity gateways to 135+ exchanges and execution venues worldwide, the firm provides proximity hosting and co-location services to 80+ venues via its global data center network. The RTS infrastructure enables clients to deploy sophisticated trading strategies quickly, securely and cost-effectively throughout multiple trading desks and sites. RTS has offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York, Pune, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.

SIA is European leader in the design, creation and management of technology infrastructures and services for Financial and Central Institutions, Corporates and Public Administration bodies, in the areas of payments, e-money, network services and capital markets. SIAnet Financial Ring is the connectivity solution enabling financial brokers to access European and international financial marketplaces and their trading partners in the simplest and most flexible manner. A one-stop solution designed for the financial community that consolidates all connectivity accesses to international markets into one reliable, secure and fast connection, allowing for reductions in the costs attributable to complexity. For more information: www.sia.eu

Proven in the world's fastest and largest markets, SMARTS Broker is a managed service designed for brokers, FCMs and other market participants to ensure they can easily comply with market rules, regulations and internal market surveillance policies. Delivered via a browser based application, SMARTS Broker is fast to implement, requires no on-site installation or maintenance, and comes with little or no hardware costs. More than 60 market participants across 55 markets depend on SMARTS Broker to meet their global compliance requirements.

Stellar Trading Systems specializes in producing fast and powerful trading systems for the high frequency, high volume trader. Stellar provides a complete trading system solution with an intuitive front end, comprehensive order and risk management, combined with industry leading performance. All this is achieved without compromise. Stellar is easy to use, robust and scalable. Whether deployed in a 20 or 200+ trader operation, Stellar delivers excellent performance through even the busiest of market conditions.

Stellar also acts as a consolidator, removing the need for multiple legacy systems by delivering a broad, scalable architecture that meets the needs of the whole trading organization, from risk manager, to IT, to the individual and specialist needs of each trader. Stellar recognize that trading system technology continues to evolve and are committed to remaining at the forefront of this process by embracing new techniques and challenging conventional solutions.

Tele-Trend Konson (Hong Kong) Limited is one of the leading integrated securities trading platform service providers, mainly serving Hong Kong securities companies and their customers. Our Hong Kong brokerage clients are all Class B and C exchange participants. Our integrated securities trading platform services mainly include front desk trading system services, market data services and value-added services. With proprietary software that we have independently developed, improved, and enhanced over the years, we believe that we are an early adopter of an integrated model that provides Hong Kong securities companies with front-end transaction system services and market data services. Among Hong Kong brokers, we have a huge market share among domestic securities brokers in Hong Kong. Our main services are divided into three categories: (i) front desk trading system services; (ii) market data services; and (iii) value-added services (such as simulated trading platform services, online booking opening services, and cloud infrastructure services). Our services are mainly delivered through the securities trading platform software we have developed, which is the customer software and delivery channels that we mainly serve, such as the TradeGo public version.

Transaction Network Services (TNS) provides financial institutions with flexible, robust and secure CONNECTIVITY FOR MARKET DATA & electronic trading solutions. Our low latency private network provides access to a global FINANCIAL community which includes a large number of MARKETS, buy-side AND SELL SIDE FIRMS, as well as APPLICATION AND market data providers. The quality of the managed TNS service is second to none, ensuring our customers get everything they need for electronic trading. Connections to other on-net trading partners can be up and running in three days or less. Global connectivity at a local price. Please visit our website www.tnsfinancial.com or email [email protected] for further information

Ullink is revolutionizing electronic trading across all asset classes globally, through low latency, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading; connectivity and order routing; order management and trading ultra low latency risk management solutions.

Ullink offers a menu of solutions deployable in-house, via the UL Net global routing network, or as a fully-managed service (UL Net+). Fiber-optic connectivity and co-location with select execution venues gives UL Net+ a low latency performance record, while the system's full redundancy and ongoing monitoring by Ullink ensures high availability. UL Net+ also includes an advanced pre-trade risk component to filter orders, and monitor positions globally across all asset classes. For more information, please contact: [email protected] or visit www.ullink.com.

Vela is a leading independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading. Our software enables clients to successfully execute on their trading strategies and manage risk across multiple fragmented markets, liquidity pools, and data sources. We help firms successfully differentiate and innovate in an ever-changing, increasingly-regulated and fiercely-competitive landscape, while also reducing total cost of ownership.

Vela's ticker plant, execution gateways, trading platform, and risk and analytics software deliver a unique, ultra-low latency technology stack for electronic low-touch and Direct Market Access (DMA) execution and pricing. We leverage the latest innovations in technology to deliver cutting-edge performance, features and reliability. Our modular stack is accessed through a single set of trading, data and risk APIs and can be delivered as-a-Service from multiple co-location data centers globally.

With access to more than 200 venues, Vela provides global coverage across all major asset classes. Clients are supported by an award-winning team of technical and business experts available 24x7 from our multiple offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Vela's clients include traders, market makers, brokers, banks, investment firms, exchanges, and other market participants.

Visit us at www.tradevela.com. Follow us on Twitter @TradeVela.

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X2M, part of London Stock Exchange Group, is a growing service providing access to a community of interconnected trading firms, venues and financial networks. X2M aims to develop innovative tools and service models, integrating the value chains and expertise of its partners. Through data centres located in London, Milan, Rome and Frankfurt, X2M is connected to the markets of Borsa Italiana, LMAX Exchange, London Stock Exchange, MTS, Cboe Chi-X Europe, CME Group, e-MID, Eurex, Hi-mtf, ICE Futures Europe, LMAX Exchange, Euronext, EuroTLX and Xetra. For more information: www.lseg.com/markets-products-and-services/technology/x2m