2022 Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Deutsche Boerse – Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services provides financial market participants around the world with proprietary market data from Deutsche Börse Group’s Xetra and Eurex trading platforms, as well as data from our cooperation partners. Our clients include analysts, algo traders, banks, hedge funds, asset managers, mid- and back-office professionals and vendors who rely on high-quality, reliable information to make investment and trading decisions, manage risk, safeguard assets and meet increasing regulatory requirements.
Our product portfolio includes real-time market data, index data from the DAX and STOXX indices, as well as reference data and historical data. In addition, we use the highly granular market data from Eurex, Xetra, 360T and EEX to develop meaningful analytics that help our clients optimise their trading strategies. Our growing offering includes the cloud-based analytics platform A7 or tools such as Xetra and Eurex Flow Insights, HHI Insights and Eurex Open Interest Insights which can be obtained directly from our Data Shop.
Host Sponsor
Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) Business, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure. With over 40,000 customers and 400,000 end users across 190 countries, Refinitiv is powering participants across the global financial marketplace. We provide information, insights, and technology that enable customers to execute critical investing, trading and risk decisions with confidence. By combining a unique open platform with best-in-class data and expertise, we connect people to choice and opportunity – driving performance, innovation and growth for our customers and partners.
Gold Sponsors
Barchart is a leading provider of market data and services to the global financial, media, and commodity industries. Our diversified client base trusts Barchart’s innovative Solutions across data, software, and technology to power their operation from front to back office, while our Media brands enable financial and commodity professionals to make decisions through web content, news, and publications. For more information, please visit www.barchart.com/solutions.
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 Terminal. 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. For more information, please visit Bloomberg.com/data.
Cboe Global Markets – Cboe’s Data and Access Solutions offer a comprehensive and holistic array of data, analytics and execution services for each stage in the lifecycle of a transaction. From pre-trade, to at-trade, to post-trade, these solutions deliver insights, alpha opportunities, portfolio optimizations and seamless workflows. Learn more about our entire suite of solutions, including our proprietary, global data services designed to meet the needs of data consumers large and small.
CME Group – As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
Fenics Market Data is the exclusive distributor of its flagship Fenics Market Data packages and data for BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP) and its affiliates (“BGC Group Entities”), a leading global brokerage group of companies servicing the financial markets through many brands including, but not limited to: BGC, GFI, RP Martin, Amerex, Aurel BGC, Aurel, CCT-BGC, Sunrise, Remate, BGC Liquidez, Poten & Partners, Ginga and Perimeter Markets. Fenics Market Data is a leading provider and generator of global financial and commodities market data. Our products and services are used by finance professionals for price discovery, analysis, risk management, portfolio monitoring, valuation, research and more.
ICE (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer our customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies. We operate exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. Our comprehensive fixed income data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming and digitizing the U.S. residential mortgage process, from consumer engagement through loan registration. Together, we transform, streamline and automate industries to connect our customers to opportunity.
SIX operates and develops infrastructure services for the Swiss and Spanish Stock Exchanges, for Post-Trade Services, Banking Services and Financial Information with the aim of raising efficiency, quality and innovative capacity across the entire value chain of the Swiss and Spanish financial centers. The company is owned by its users (120 banks). With a workforce of 3,685 employees and a presence in 20 countries, it generated operating income of CHF 1.5 billion and Group net profit of CHF 73.5 million in 2021. www.six-group.com
Silver Sponsors
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) delivers superior content, analytics, and flexible technology to help more than 170,000 users see and seize opportunity sooner. We give investment professionals the edge to outperform with informed insights, workflow solutions across the portfolio lifecycle, and industry-leading support from dedicated specialists. We’re proud to have been recognized with multiple awards for our analytical and data-driven solutions, with the distinction of having been recently added to the S&P 500, and repeatedly scored 100 by the Human Rights Campaign® Corporate Equality Index for our LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and practices. Subscribe to our thought leadership blog to get fresh insight delivered daily at insight.factset.com. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/factset.
IPC Systems, Inc. – As a global leader in technology and services powering financial markets, IPC has the experience, talent, leadership, and expertise to change your business, create opportunity and solve problems. We provide innovative and customizable private cloud delivery, trading communication devices, and competitive speed-to-market network services. We help our customers lower costs and accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing trading requirements for advanced data networks and compliance with all counter-parties across the financial markets.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) provides essential intelligence. We enable governments, businesses and individuals with the right data, expertise and connected technology so that they can make decisions with conviction. From helping our customers assess new investments to guiding them through ESG and energy transition across supply chains, we unlock new opportunities, solve challenges and accelerate progress for the world.
We are widely sought after by many of the world’s leading organizations to provide credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help the world’s leading organizations plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.
Our divisions include:
- S&P Global Market Intelligence partners with customers to broaden their perspective and operate with confidence by bringing them leading data sources and technologies that embed insight in their daily work.
- S&P Global Ratings offers critical insights for credit, risk and sustainable finance solutions that are essential to translating complexity into clarity, so market participants can uncover opportunities.
- S&P Global Commodity Insights enables organizations to create long-term, sustainable value with data and insights for a complete view on the global energy and commodities markets.
- S&P Global Mobility turns invaluable insights captured from automotive data to help our clients understand today’s market, reach more customers, and shape the future of automotive mobility.
- S&P Dow Jones Indices provides iconic and innovative index solutions, bringing transparency to global capital markets.
- S&P Global Engineering Solutions solves for tomorrow’s challenges today by transforming workflows and end-user experiences with data, insights and technology.
With over 1 trillion data points across 200+ products and 186k+ instruments going back 15+ years, as well as 43 offices in 30 countries, TraditionDATA provides clients across the globe the data and information they need to power their trading and business decisions.
TraditionDATA is part of Tradition (Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. (SWX: CFT)), one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products. Tradition’s long history of managing pricing liquidity and trade execution across multiple asset classes in vanilla and complex products in primary and emerging markets enables TraditionDATA to source prices in many of the world’s fastest-moving markets that others can’t.
To find out more visit www.traditiondata.com
Visible Alpha – Through partnerships with the world’s premier investment research organizations, Visible Alpha enhances the investment research process by extracting meaningful value from key sell-side assets, including analyst models, research reports and corporate access events. Our deep consensus data provides a quick understanding of the sell-side view on companies and industries at a level of granularity, timeliness and interactivity that has never before been possible.
Program Sponsors
CUSIP® Global Services – The financial services industry relies on CGS’ unrivaled experience in uniquely identifying instruments and entities to support efficient global capital markets. Its extensive focus on standardization over the past 50 years has helped CGS earn its reputation as a trusted originator of quality identifiers and descriptive data, ensuring that essential front- and back-office functions run smoothly. CGS is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by FactSet Research Systems Inc., with a Board of Trustees that represents the voices of leading financial institutions. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is one of the world’s major exchange groups, and operates a range of equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets. HKEX is the world’s leading IPO market and as Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange and sole operator of its clearing houses, it is uniquely placed to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets.
HKEX is also the global leader in metals trading, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, The London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear Limited. This commodity franchise was further enhanced with the launch of Qianhai Mercantile Exchange (QME) in China, in 2018.
The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s non-ferrous metals business is conducted on our three trading platforms: LMEselect (electronic), the Ring (open outcry) and the 24-hour telephone market.
The global metals community uses the LME to trade futures and options to hedge against adverse price movements – prices which are discovered on our markets and used as global references.
In 2021, 145 million lots were traded, equating to $15.6 trillion and 3.3 billion tons notional with a market open interest high of 2.1million lots.
In December 2021, approximately 1.4 million tons of material were held on LME warrant in more than 570 storage facilities in 14 countries across 32 global locations.
Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminum, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, cobalt, steel scrap, rebar and hot-rolled coil, aluminum premiums and alloys, as well as our suite of gold and silver contracts, LMEprecious. All LME trades are cleared by LME Clear, which provides clearing and settlement services for users of the LME on all Ring, electronic and telephone trades.
An HKEX Group Company, the LME also provides benchmark administration services to the platinum-group metals community.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research, investment management tools, and data across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Morningstar collects and delivers fund (global operational, performance and portfolio data) and equity data (global fundamental company and share class level data and related data sets), in addition to redistributing exchange aggregated pricing, reference and tick data across equities, commodities, derivatives, foreign exchange, indices, exchange traded structured products, and futures and options.
Nasdaq’s Investment Intelligence business is a leading source of market data, global indexes, and investment data and analytics. Powering price discovery and decisions around the globe, our market data is distributed to millions of people daily; more than $450 billion in assets track our indexes; $100+ trillion in assets benefit from our investment insights and we are the leading alternative data provider.
OTC Markets Group’s Market Data provides mission-critical insights to broker-dealers, compliance, and risk management teams on over 12,000 global and U.S. securities. As the primary market operator, we deliver comprehensive real-time, reference and analytical data on OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities.
TRG Screen is the leading provider of software used to monitor and manage subscription spend and usage across the entire enterprise. Our enterprise subscription management solutions help global enterprises to manage the full end-to-end life cycle of their market data, research, software licensing, and other corporate expenses.
Our global client base consists of 750+ financial institutions, law firms, professional services firms and other blue-chip enterprises. Our clients realize immediate ROI and significant long term cost savings (10-30%), transparency into their purchased subscriptions, improvements of their workflows and a higher degree of compliance with their vendor contracts.
Bronze Sponsors
Alkymi transforms enterprise workflows with intelligent document processing (IDP), placing machine learning and no-code automation technology into the hands of business users, turning operational data headaches into a source of efficiency. Alkymi’s core products—Data Inbox and Patterns—allow businesses to extract, analyze, and take action on critical business data in emails and documents. Leading organizations deploy Alkymi to accelerate decision-making, improve customer satisfaction, and empower employees to focus on high-value, rewarding work. For additional information, visit www.alkymi.io.
Amazon Web Services – For over 15 years, AWS has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones (AZs) within 26 geographic regions. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
BMLL Technologies is the leading, independent provider of harmonized, Level 3 historical data and analytics to the world’s most sophisticated capital market participants. BMLL offers banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds and global exchange groups immediate and flexible access to the most granular Level 3, T+1 order book data and advanced analytics, enabling them to accelerate research, optimize trading strategies and generate alpha at unparalleled speed and scale.
Colt is a trusted partner to meet your most latency-sensitive requirements when every millisecond counts. Our Capital Markets portfolio includes: PrizmNet, Colt’s Financial Extranet; Dedicated connectivity and ultra – low latency bandwidth services; Co-location and Proximity hosting to major global exchanges; Market data services. The Colt IQ Network connects more than 1.000+ data centres and over 29,000 on net buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Colt services are trusted by more than 650 capital markets customers, including 18 of the top 25 banks and diversified financial groups, 50+ exchange venues and 10.000+ market participants.
Crux is a cloud-based data integration and operations platform that accelerates the value realization between external and internal data. Crux partners with our customers to ensure they get the data they need, how they need it and where they need it. Its team builds data pipelines at scale and operates over 25K pre-engineered pipelines, delivering public and third-party datasets to the destination of choice. Crux pipelines come with embedded data monitoring, validations, and transformations, and are supported 24/7 by our global operations team. Crux works with enterprise clients and is backed by Two Sigma, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citi, among others.
Exegy is the only firm offering a diverse product suite that leverages high-performance FPGA technology at all stages of the trading life cycle from processing intelligent market data driven by AI and Machine Learning to automated trading and execution to building out future-proof infrastructure.
Exegy boasts the deepest bench of FPGA experts in the industry with the knowledge and experience to provide flexible, simplified integrations and faster-than-ever time-to-market.
Headquartered in St. Louis with offices in the US, UK, and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base.
Glue42 enables organizations to build smart desktops that support configurable workflows between web and desktop applications. Moreover, Glue42 pioneered the game-changing zero-install option for web interoperability. Its integration platform seamlessly and securely orchestrates UI and data and leverages open-source initiatives to reduce application delivery times and accelerate time to value. The company is based in London, New York and Sofia. Its solutions are deployed at tier one financial institutions across the world.
MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker‐dealers across the global fixed‐income markets. Over 1,900 firms leverage MarketAxess’ patented technology to efficiently trade fixed‐income securities. MarketAxess’ award‐winning Open Trading® marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all‐to‐all trading solution in the global credit markets. Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through the full trading lifecycle, including automated trading solutions, intelligent data products and a range of post‐trade services. Learn more at www.marketaxess.com and on Twitter @MarketAxess.
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs.
S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets. S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spdji.com.
VendEx Solutions is the centralized hub for the financial services market data industry. Our VendEx Ecosystem is built on a foundation of industry standard identifiers and a dynamic digital directory of vendor products and services, powering a suite of sophisticated integrated tools and workflows that eliminate industry frictions for both market data management and financial technology vendors.
Leveraging deep industry knowledge, VendEx works with the world’s largest market participants to create, design, and ultimately deploy the only centralized utility with tools built by the industry, for the industry. For more information, visit vendexsolutions.com.
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