2024 Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Deutsche Boerse Group – 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
Lone Star Sponsor
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
Gold Sponsors
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. 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.
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. For more information, visit Bloomberg.com/company or request a demo.
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 (“FMD”) is the exclusive distributor of data, including but not limited to, the flagship FMD packages for BGC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGC) 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, Sunrise, Remate, BGC Liquidez, Poten & Partners, Ginga and Perimeter Markets.
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.
Financial applications, including trading applications, require high-performance, low-latency infrastructure for real time trading analysis, risk management and the execution of complex trading algorithms. Underpinning OCI is an advanced second-generation cloud network infrastructure, providing stable, consistent, comparatively better, and predictable performance with flexibly compute and no network egress feed over OCI’s dedicated connections.
Oracle offers suites of integrated applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com
Rimes provides enterprise data management solutions to the global investment community. Driven by our passion for solving the most complex data problems, we provide our clients with investment intelligence that powers more than 50 trillion in AUM annually. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions using accurate information and industry-leading technology.
SIX provides and operates stable and efficient infrastructure for the Swiss and Spanish financial centers, thus ensuring access to the capital markets and the flow of information and money between financial market players. As a global provider of financial information, SIX delivers high-quality reference, pricing, corporate actions, and ESG data and provides regulatory services and indices to clients around the world. The company is owned by its users (more than 120 banks) with a workforce of 4,160 employees and a presence in 19 countries. For more information, please visit www.six-group.com.
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 2,500 clients in more than 70 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1.5 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters. For more information, please go to www.tradeweb.com.
Silver 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.
Exegy is a global provider of industry-leading solutions for your entire trading infrastructure: Real-time and historical market data, predictive trading signals and strategies, automated trading, and execution. Exegy serves as a strategic partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy side, sell side, exchanges, and ISV/technology firms.
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to nearly 8,000 global clients, including almost 190,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have repeatedly scored 100 on the Human Rights Campaign® Corporate Equality Index. We have been recognized amongst the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/factset.
OTC Markets – Our Market Data provides price transparency, assists regulated entities in meeting their compliance obligations and enables better informed investment decisions. Investors have access to data on securities through multiple channels including the full suite of real-time data products. Market Data products deliver information and insight on securities that trade on OTC Link ATS. As the primary market operator, we deliver the most comprehensive, contextual, real-time data on all securities that trade on our markets.
Moody’s 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.
What’s the most valuable thing you will learn at WFIC 2024? That not all data is created equal.
At TraditionData, our solutions have the added value of deep, local market knowledge. So, if you’re looking to optimize your data cost of ownership model, visit stand 19 in the Austin Grand Ballroom and embark on a partnership that will help drive real results for your business.
With over 1 trillion data points across 200+ products and 200k+ instruments going back 15+ years, as well as a global presence with 40+ offices in 30 countries, we provide consistent, high-quality OTC financial market data that reflects real price interest in global OTC swaps markets. Our versatile data solutions cover all asset classes; FX & Money Markets, Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit & Fixed Income, and Energy & Commodities. 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 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 us to access prices in many of the world’s most dynamic and traditionally opaque markets.
Don’t settle for acceptable. Settle for more value from your OTC market data partnership.
Program Sponsors
baha – the information company | baha is a leading provider of real-time market data, financial news and innovative solutions for the financial industry for more than 25 years.
Based in Vienna, Austria, we offer both a modern, web-based market data terminal called baha wealth as well as easy-to-use, yet powerful APIs so our customers can easily integrate all available data sources within their own systems, apps and websites.
baha wealth is used by banks, insurance companies, wealth and asset managers, pension funds and family offices around the world.
With our dedicated team of software engineers, data scientists and AI experts we make sure to deliver cutting edge solutions across all major asset classes, covering global financial market data with over 12 million financial instruments on more than 180 exchanges
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated, and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
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.
Nasdaq’s Investment Intelligence unit is focused on enabling economic growth through access to capital and transparency. We are specifically anchored in the ability to provide clients with the insights they need to make the most informed investment decisions in an increasingly complex and fast-moving capital markets environment.
From asset managers investing on behalf of the largest global institutions, to financial advisors investing individual investors’ hard earned retirement funds, we empower intelligent investment decisions with the best possible data and insights. Our solutions help our clients strengthen economies for the benefit of individuals around the globe.
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.
Transaction Network Services – Founded in 1990 and with headquarters in the USA and offices across Europe and Asia, TNS is a leading provider of mission-critical infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services for the Financial Markets community. Delivered as a fully managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, TNS provides an unrivalled, global, mission-critical footprint that can significantly help reduce the burdens, complexities and costs attributed to firms ‘going direct’. Through its ultra-low latency connectivity, its global market data offerings and its dedicated 24x7x365 local support, TNS remains the trusted solution provider to more than 750 counterparties globally.
Bronze Sponsors
3di is a global Enterprise Market Data Management firm specializing in helping financial and commodity services companies to gain control over their market, reference and derived data – and optimize processes to unleash data innovation and value across the enterprise.
Since our inception in 2002 our combination of software & services has resulted in solutions that have helped reduce market data costs, raise standards in data governance and facilitate advanced levels of licensing and vendor management.
AMD Solarflare: Financial Services Industry (FSI) institutions need high-performance computing solutions that enable faster trading and transactions, and faster access to market intelligence. Sophisticated, automated algorithms are used in high-frequency trading to execute large numbers of transactions concurrently.
AMD Solarflare X-Series Ethernet adapters, coupled with the Onload™ family of protocol acceleration software, have been deployed in leading banks, trading firms, stock exchanges, hedge funds, and market makers worldwide for over 15 years. They offer field-proven low-latency performance, are built on optimized architecture for reliable operation and trade execution, and support 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) link speeds.
Discover more at www.amd.com/x2.
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.
big xyt ecosystems is a joint venture between big xyt, a leading data analytics provider to the global trading and investment community, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (the JSE), the largest stock exchange in Africa.
The mission of the new company is to provide the innovative Trade Explorer data analytics platform, which was launched in South Africa last year, to other financial centres around the world.
Trade Explorer provides sophisticated analytics tools that enable users to understand market liquidity and flows, market share, business concentration, and execution performance. It also delivers tools for analysing trading patterns and for pre-trade decision support.
CJC is the leading market data technology consultancy and service provider for global financial markets. CJC provides multi-award-winning consultancy, managed services, cloud solutions, alert monitoring and observability, and commercial management services for mission-critical market data systems. CJC is vendor-neutral and ISO 27001 certified, enabling CJC’s partners the freedom to focus on their core business.
Colt is a trusted partner to meet your most latency-sensitive and market data requirements requirements. We provide one-stop-shop solutions from market data, hosting, managed services, ultra-low latency network to our dedicated connectivity. Our solutions are designed to reduce risk and complexity and accelerate your time to market with rapid implementation, end-to-end SLAs, flexible contracts and service-based pricing. To find out more about Colt’s Capital Market solutions, visit https://www.colt.net/solutions/capital-markets/
Crizit is a team of finance experts and data engineering enthusiasts focused on innovation and service in the Market Data industry. Crizit’s platforms, Periscope and Submarine, financial institutions manage access, distribution, and costs of major Market Data vendors. Our software provides automated monitoring, analysis and data-caching to ensure efficient data usage and broad enterprise wide accessibility to data pools. Our diverse team collaborates to deliver customized solutions for each client, and we pride ourselves on strong relationships with leading financial institutions worldwide.
ITRS Geneos empowers financial institutions with industry-leading IT monitoring and alerting. It reduces the business impact of outages and application issues in production with genuine-real-time insights. ITRS Geneos gives financial institutions full control over the most diverse IT ecosystems at scale, accounting for on-premise, cloud and highly dynamic containerized environments.
KX is the time series and vector data management pioneer that ignites your organization at the intersection of data and decision. We power business decisions with connected, contextual, and continuous data-driven intelligence in order to harness the power of generative AI. www.kx.com
The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms totalling $15 trillion, 149 million lots and 3.5 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2023. All trades are cleared and settled by LME Clear.
Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, cobalt, lithium, steel scrap, rebar and hot-rolled coil as well as aluminium premiums and alloys.
In December 2023, 1,163,830 tonnes of material were held on LME warrant in more than 450 storage facilities in 14 countries across 32 global locations.
The LME is a member of HKEX Group. www.lme.com
NSE Data & Analytics Limited (NDAL), is an 100% subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE). It provides NSE’s market quotes and data for Capital Market Segment (CM), Futures and Options Segment (F&O), Currency Derivative Market Segment (CDS), Wholesale Debt Market Segment (WDM), Corporate Data, Corporate Bond Market data and Securities Lending & Borrowing Market (SLBM). The company also provides bond valuations, fixed income analytical tool named FixedIn and various real time market data analytical products. Additionally, NDAL also provides data for NSE International Exchange (NSE IX) for L1, L2 and Tick by Tick (TBT)
VendEx Solutions provides a data and vendor management ecosystem built on a foundation of industry standard identifiers and a digital directory of vendor products and services, powering a suite of sophisticated integrated tools and workflows for both data management and data vendors. VendEx began in financial services and has expanded its solutions for data provenance and usage rights to other data-rich industries as the need for governance around generative AI and LLM explodes.
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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