Bloomberg is the leading source of data, news and analytics for corporations, news organizations, financial professionals and individuals around the globe.
The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service provides real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, analytics, multimedia events and electronic communications to Bloomberg users in more than 126 countries. Bloomberg users can access this platform 24 hours a day and participate in the markets wherever they are in the world. We meet the individual needs of our 300,000 users while providing an unparalleled depth of data, enabling access to more than 3.6 million financial instruments.
Our vision is clear and constant - to provide our users and viewers with accurate business and financial information whenever, wherever, and however they need it.
All of our media products are fuelled by the power of BLOOMBERG NEWS®, which employs more than 1,950 reporters and editors in 126 bureaus worldwide.
BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® is a global 24-hour business and financial network, BLOOMBERG.COM® provides financial news, tools and data on the Internet,
BLOOMBERG RADIOSM broadcasts up-to-the-minute news on satellite radio, and we produce a wide range of magazines and books for the investment community.
Market professionals around the world recognize the BLOOMBERG service as the definitive tool for achieving their goals.
BT Radianz is a leading provider of secure, reliable and scalable connectivity to the global financial community. The company’s shared market infrastructure is a neutral platform that provides turnkey access to a broad array of pre-trade, trade and post-trade applications from leading content and service providers across the straight-through processing (STP) chain. BT Radianz connects businesses in the financial markets and services to other industries and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world. Our background in financial data delivery and experience in network operations ensures our networks deliver the performance, reliability and security the financial markets demand. Headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Cameron Systems, the only globally proven FIX protocol trading solutions provider, continues to help grow financial markets worldwide by actively supporting and playing a leading role in the expansion of the FIX protocol. The world's leading securities and financial firms have selected the CameronFIX platform including UBS, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, CIBC World Markets, Macquarie Securities, ASX, MarketAxess and Nomura Securities.
The CameronFIX platform provides the engine for all FIX trading to give firms access to global markets, high availability, low latency, integrated compliance, business reporting, market data services, monitoring and exception management.
During the conference Cameron Systems will be demo’ing and discussing the latest CameronFIX platform developments including the new CameronFIX Rules of Engagement tool, FIX History feature, CameronFIX FAST, further enhancements for FIX market data, expanded FIX exchange connectivity, and the upgrade to the new order entry NetTrader solution.
Cameron Systems is a Premier Member of the FIX Protocol organisation and is SWIFTNet Ready accredited.
キャメロン・システムズ社は今年創立９周年を迎え、証券、投資、銀行、その他金融業界全てにわたり、唯一世界的に認められているFIX（Financial Information eXchange）スペシャリストとしてブローカー、ファンドマネージャー、取引所、そしてソフトウエア・ベンダー向けにソリューションを提供している。看板製品であるCameronFIXユニバーサル・サーバーは世界に数千の接続を提供している。
■Hitachi, Ltd.
Information technology is now contributing a lot to realize corporate business strategy and IT enables the creation of new business value as well as enhancement of operational efficiency. In order to ensure success in business process innovation, you will need an appropriate partner who can provide practical and pragmatic solutions and who can also lead to actual system operations. Hitachi provides practical and pragmatic solutions which enables our customers to create new business values using our business knowledge in financial industry and the information technology.
■Hitachi Systems＆Services, Ltd.
Hitachi System＆Services, a member of the Hitachi Group is one of the largest providers of systems integration services in Japan and help business implement growth strategies and leverage technology. Especially, the business knowledge of public organization systems such as stock exchanges has been highly evaluated, and a lot of leading financial institutions have chosen the Hitachi system as a partner. On taking a global state-of-the-art technology by positive alliance development the creation of a more prompt business will evolve in the future.
■■■Hitachi group offer products■■■
FIX Gate Way System
JSDEC Connecting Gate Way System：STPCOM
BOJ Net Connecting Gate Way System
Stock Exchange Connecting Gate Way System：HITCOM【Hitachi Systems＆Services, Ltd.】
Market Information Gate Way System：ROOTS【Hitachi Systems＆Services, Ltd.】&【Hitachi Software Engineering Co.,Ltd.】
MetaBit is the provider of MLH (Market Liquidity Hub), an Asian broker
portal that currently provides buy sides Direct Market Access (DMA) to
fifteen brokers and access to eight exchanges. The MLH is powered by the
world leading CameronFIX platform, and is accessible through MetaBit’s
intuitive buy - side trading tool XiliX, or via open Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs). In Japan, MetaBit is the only provider of pure FIX
enabled exchange line handlers to TSE, OSE, JASDAQ, Nagoya and TOCOM, built
on CameronFIX technology. MetaBit actively promotes FIX throughout Asia, and
assists traditional institutions with the adoption and implementation of the
FIX protocol. Clients are based in Japan, South East Asia, Europe and the
US, and represent leading buy and sell side institutions. Partners include
leading network provider BT Radianz, number one FIX platform provider
Cameron Systems, and innovative FIX certification and testing service
provider Greenline Financial Technologies.
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) is a leading consulting firm and systems integrator in Japan, serving clients including, private companies in financial, manufacturing, retail and other industries in Japanese and foreign markets, as well as central and local government governments in Japan. As one of Japan's top solution providers, the company offers reliable "navigations" and innovative "solutions" to maximize clients' competencies and business opportunities. NRI puts emphasis on its research and development activities in IT and financial technologies, as well as the Japan's future society. Annual sales are US$252.9billion with 3,426 employees. For more information, visit http://www.nri.co.jp/english/index.html
NYFIX is a leading provider of electronic trading systems, global routing, connectivity, straight-through processing solutions, execution services and transaction cost analysis tools to that serve the financial community.
NYFIX streamlines clients' trade processing through its order management and routing solutions enabling firms to enter, manage, route and execute orders electronically in real-time. The NYFIX Network offers a secure and reliable best-of-breed infrastructure and as one of the financial industry's largest FIX networks, provides global electronic trade routing to buyside institutions, brokerage firms, exchanges, ECNs/ATSs, Independent Brokers and back-office systems, processing hundreds of millions of shares daily. The NYFIX product suite offers a variety of trader workstations including NYFIX FusionTM.
NYFIX Fusion is a next generation trade order management system that offers Listed, OTC, and Third Market trading to sell-side broker dealers. NYFIX Fusion provides access to the full suite of NYFIX NEXASTM algorithms which affords the end user multiple options for them to facilitate and maintain their best execution and order handling obligations.
NYFIX provides execution services through NYFIX Transaction Services and NYFIX Millennium, its Alternative Trading System, providing a real-time, anonymous automated matching system for equities. FIX Technology offerings include the AppiaTM FIX Engine and TradeScope R, a FIX monitoring tool.
Omgeo LLC is the leading provider of complete global trade management services, processing over one million trades per day and serving 6,000 broker-dealers, custodians and investment managers in more than 40 countries. A unique partnership between the securities industry’s Management Solutions SM, Omgeo helps clients move from traditional methods of trade processing to our new unified solutions for trade management. Omgeo provides clients with a managed transition to a new and more efficient way of processing trades and reducing risk and costs while safeguarding existing technology investments. Omgeo is a joint venture company owned equally by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Thomson Financial. For additional information, please visit www.omgeo.com.
As the leading total financial information vendor in Japan, QUICK Corp. has been facilitating the improvement of efficiency in trading operations by furnishing the following solutions in the trading field:
[TradeNet]
◇ To assist trading divisions with systematized order routing, the nation’s largest QUICK-FIX network is utilized with products installed at both institutional investors and securities firms.
◇ This product enables reductions in execution cost and agreed processing time period etc, aiming at an increase in the efficiency in trading operations as well as productivity and so on.
◇ If FIX Protocol-Enabled OMS is used at a securities firm, it can be connected to TradeNet via FIX Protocol at an institutional investor.
[AIMS]
◇ This product utilizes STP, which facilitates the institutional investors’ overall workflow, ranging from preparing and instructing trading orders, confirming investment guidelines and compliance, placing orders to securities firm(s), and monitoring execution, to managing portfolios.
◇ At the time of preparation of trading orders by fund manager as well as placement of order by traders, monitoring will automatically start to confirm if compliance and operational guidelines are observed.
◇ Since FIX Protocol is applied to this product, connections between TradeNet or Fix Protocol-Enabled OMS at a securities firm and AIMS at an institutional investor can be arranged.
URL : http://www.quick.co.jp
For further details, please contact:
Marketing , Trading Systems Business Dept. on 03-6733-9005.
Reuters, the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Reuters information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe based on its reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. The company’s core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and collaboration tools needed by financial professionals. Reuters open technology, based on industry standards, enables its customers to search, store and integrate its information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters also provides these users with specially designed tools to help them reduce risk, distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data, and offers bespoke automated trading products for the treasury market. Based on the shared needs and requirements of the communities that Reuters serves, it operates its business through four customer divisions, Sales and Trading, Research and Asset Management, Enterprise and Media. Reuters focuses on its core business among the sales and trading end-users dealing in the foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, commodities and energy and related markets. This segment concentrates on trading on both the buy and sell-side, delivering world class cross-asset trading data, news, analytics and transactions capability.
Fidessa is a world leading solution for multi-asset trading systems, market data and global connectivity. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, Fidessa serves over 9,300 users at over 260 buy- and sell-side clients around the world, and is used by over 85% of tier-one equity brokers globally.
Trading Systems
The Fidessa application suite covers a wide range of features targeted at trading global markets. From a buy-side Execution Management workstation through to a sell-side STP trading platform, Fidessa provides sophisticated solutions incorporating real-time position keeping, exposure and risk monitoring, algorithmic trading and program and basket support.
Market Data
Core to any trading solution is good quality reference data and timely, accurate market data. Fidessa provides integrated real-time coverage of global markets along with supporting information such as news, fundamentals and charts.
Global Connectivity
Fidessa's global, normalised FIX network provides connectivity to receive order-flow from over 750 buy-sides, send IOIs, trade on global Exchanges and route orders to a over 170 brokers offering Care, DMA and algorithmic trading services.
For further information on any aspect of the Fidessa range, please visit www.fidessa.com or contact on +81(0)3 4550 1011 or email us directly at jpenquiry@jp.fidessa.com.
SWIFT, an industry owned co-operative, is a worldwide community which was established in 1973. Nearly 8,000 financial institutions in 200 countries connect to one another through SWIFT. Collectively, these institutions, active in payments, securities, treasury and pre-trade and trade messages, exchange millions of messages valued in trillions of dollars every business day.
SWIFT consistently delivers quantifiable business value and proven technical excellence to its members through its comprehensive messaging standards, the security, reliability and 99.999% availability of its messaging platform and its role in advancing STP. The guiding principles of SWIFT are clear: to offer the financial services industry a common platform of advanced technology and access to shared solutions through which each member can build its competitive edge.
The SWIFTNet FIX service routes, monitors and manages FIX message traffic over a single FIX connection to our central hub. SWIFTNet FIX simplifies the management of FIX sessions by replacing individual point-to-point connectivity with a single connection via the hub to all of your counterparties. SWIFTNet FIX reduces the cost and operational impact of setting up and maintaining multiple FIX connections - an expensive and time-consuming process.
Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. We offer highly secure, real-time, high-availability, integrated financial solutions that will help increase your organization's operational efficiency, customer service, business resiliency, and ROI. We work with more than 1,700 of the world's largest financial institutions, while our technology powers 90 % of the world's securities firms and 60 % of its banks. Especially our solutions meet the requirements of securities and investment firms, ECNs, network providers, and exchange floors - for critical trade lifecycle processing, operational excellence for OTC-Derivatives, municipal bonds compliance, business continuity planning and more.
Thomson Financial, a leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, is committed to providing traders with the network and services which enable them to make the best executions and achieve more efficient trades.
Thomson provides market-neutral, FIX-compliant network infrastructure that grows with your business, eliminating the need for an investment in specialist expertise.
Thomson AutEx IOI provides immediate, accurate information about buying and selling indications. With a single click, the buy or sell-side traders can quickly recap and review a stock's latest indications.
Thomson Order Routing is the world’s largest global hub-and-spoke FIX network, integrated to all major OMSs and linking thousands of trading partners, ECNs and crossing networks.
Thomson NetTrader, our new order entry tool, allows you to access the Thomson Order Routing network and other resources, expediting order flow and generating higher trading volumes. In fact, more than 1.5 billion shares are traded over Thomson Order Routing every day.
Thomson Gold Reports is a secure, web-based application for Institutional clients using Thomson Order Routing. With the new Thomson Gold Reports, traders can measure counterparty performance and increase their value proposition with prospects.
TNS Financial Markets is one of the leading providers of Extranets and Wide Area Network services to the financial community. TNS was one of the first organisations in the world to deploy a dedicated financial community extranet which is fully resilient, secure and supports VPN’s, e-commerce (including FIX) and straight through processing.This gives TNS customers the flexibility to access multiple applications and trading counterparts in a highly secure and fully managed environment.
TNS’ Secure Trading Extranet connects over 1,000 financial community endpoints, representing more than 450 buy and sell-side institutions, market data and software vendors, exchanges and alternative trading venues. TNS now has 96 points of presence in 28 countries in the Americas, Europe and SE Asia.
Since establishing its first bases in the Asia Pacific region in Sydney and Tokyo in 1999, TNS has expanded its network coverage to include Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Taiwan and New Zealand.
For more information, please visit www.tnsfinancial.com or email financial@tnsi.co.jp
TradingScreen is the leading provider of global multi-asset class, multi-broker electronic trading platform, providing unique solutions to Buy-Side Traders. The products and services developed by TradingScreen are deployed by teams out of New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong and are designed to provide the infrastructure that enables institutional investors to truly trade all major financial products, around the clock, on any market, through a wide range of global counter-parties.
TradingScreen products support global order routing of cash equity products, futures and options, foreign exchange and fixed income instruments.
As a fully independent third-party provider, TradingScreen offers a truly unique access to the following services: Indication of Interest (IOI), Trade Execution, Algorithmic Trading, Order Routing, Execution Management, Allocations, Staging, Exchange Connectivity Links, Pre and Post-Trade Analytics, Liquidity Aggregation, Networking, Prime Brokerage Integration, Multi Asset Class Price Discovery and Trading.
TradingScreen’s process flow model provides real time interaction with global exchanges, alternative trading systems (ATS) and over the counter (OTC) market-makers to the Buy-Side firms from a single access point through a single platform
BNP Paribas has been present in Japan for more than 30 years, and now boasts a strong presence in the Japanese market. The Group currently has more than 700 employees engaged in a wide range of products and services through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies.
BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives is a market leader in trading, structuring and sales of equity, flow and fund derivatives for financial institutions, corporates, and retail clients. In the latest AsiaRisk Interbanking survey, dealers and brokers voted BNP Paribas leader in exotic equity products across the Asia-Pacific region, for both Japan and Asia ex-Japan.
BNP Paribas Global Execution Services is part of BNP Paribas' Equities & Derivatives division, a market leader in trading, and marketing of cash equity, structured products, flow and fund derivatives for financial institutions, corporates, and retail clients.
BNP Paribas GES facilitates the activities of all kind of clients in the field of equity execution. Our experienced teams deliver highly sophisticated and flexible solutions from DMA across global markets to program trading, advanced Sales Trading, Algorithms trading and commission recapture based on a state-of-the-art execution platform with a proven track-record.
www.bnpparibas.com (English and French)
www.bnpparibas.co.jp (Japanese)
Citisoft is a highly specialized business and systems consulting firm that focuses exclusively on investment management. We pride ourselves on the breadth and depth of our experience and on the strength of our client base gained over the last 20 years. Our detailed knowledge of every stage of the investment management process has helped our clients achieve cost and process efficiencies in all areas of their business. Our management and consulting teams have been drawn from a variety of industry sources, from software vendors to investment banks where each individual brings a wealth of knowledge that can be shared with our clients. The quality of our people has placed us at the forefront of investment management consulting and we are determined to maintain that quality and position. More than 75% of the world's top 50 investment management institutions have benefited from business solutions delivered in partnership with Citisoft. Citisoft, as part of the leading global consulting and information technology services company Satyam, is able to provide end-to-end solutions to the investment management industry where IT needs are growing at a rapid pace.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CSR), in New York.
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia, and key emerging markets. With assets of 1.35 trillion Euro, and 64,103 employees, Deutsche Bank Group provides a broad range of financial services in 73 countries around the world. Amid the intense competition of world markets, Deutsche Bank Group is dedicated to meeting the needs of its clients in the achievement of their objectives while creating value for its shareholders and the development of its employees.
In Japan, Deutsche Bank Group employs 1,027 people through Deutsche Securities Inc., Deutsche Bank AG Tokyo Branch, and Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) Limited, providing a broad range of corporate finance, investment banking, private banking and asset management operations.
At Deutsche Bank Group, all sales, trading and research operations in equity, debt, and other products are focused in its Global Markets division. Deutsche Bank Group boasts a strong equities platform that maintains memberships in all major global stock and securities futures exchanges, and which possesses highly ranked research and execution capabilities based on leading-edge technology. Global Markets meets the diverse needs of clients through a broad array of products and services from sales and trading in equities and equity derivative products through to a range of investment products, portfolio trading, prime services, transition management and investment information services.
Established in 1987 and headquartered in Paris, GL TRADE employs over 1,100 people in 26 offices worldwide and services more than 3,500 clients, including brokerage houses, banks, internet brokers, institutional investors, hedge funds and exchanges across the globe.
Our vocation is to provide the financial community with a value proposition to automate the entire order flow from front office tools trading screens and multi-market access- to back office solutions clearing and settlement- for any market player dealing with any type of instrument such as equities, bond, commodities, forex, listed derivatives and OTC instruments.
Our unique solutions offers global and open solution dedicated to order capture. It is scalable and can handle high-volume. We provide real-time integrated software solution for the best execution with transparency and full compliance, global cost-effective approach with automated order management and ASP service offering institutions to focus on their core business strategy.
GL NET, our world’s largest proprietary network, offers international order routing and market data services connected to 107 equities and derivative markets and is equipped with FIX and API technologies that enables collection from Buy-side to Sell-side.
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and
investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. The Group has over 9,500 offices in 76 countries and territories, serves over 125 million customers and has assets of US$1,502 billion as of 31 December 2005.
HSBC’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) division offers a full range of services to corporate and institutional clients of all sizes across Asia and around the world. One of the largest businesses of its kind, CIBM fosters long-term relationships based on the Group’s unmatched global knowledge and local expertise.
The division has three customer groups, comprised of Global Banking, Global Markets and Global Transaction Banking. Global Banking includes Corporate Banking, Global Sector Management, Investment Banking, Project and Export Finance, and Asset and Structured Finance. Global Markets manages current trading activities and HSBC’s markets-related financing businesses (debt capital markets, loan syndication, equity capital markets, equity-linked capital markets and structured/ABS capital markets), handling primary and secondary markets activities as a single business line. Global Transaction Banking includes Payments and Cash Management, Securities Services, and Trade Services.
HSBC offers its clients a full range of banking, treasury and capital markets, corporate finance and advisory, and stockbroking services. Online treasury and capital markets operations are integrated onto a single platform, HSBCnet, providing secure online access to trading, research market data and other services.
Instinet is a global agency broker founded in 1969 to launch the first electronic block-crossing capability for institutions. The company has been a leader in trading innovation ever since.
Instinet develops advanced trading technologies that connect portfolio managers and traders directly to equity markets around the world, including our upstairs liquidity pools, where clients can trade without market exposure. We also provide enhanced trading services, including algorithms, crossing networks, agency sales trading, global portfolio trading, commission management and third-party research.
Instinet never competes with its clients. Our singular focus is to help investors pursue best execution globally through advanced technology and true agency trading.
INTERTRADE provides dedicated products and services for domestic securities firms and other financial institutions. INTERTRADE provides front, middle, and back office system packages for securities operations, as well as operational and support services for these products.
Based on our corporate policy “Respect customer’s voice,” INTERTRADE has developed user-friendly systems and an accurate, speedy customer support structure. Our products and services are evaluated highly by our clients, who consider INTERTRADE as a leading company for securities systems.
Based on continual innovations in technology, INTERTRADE provides indispensable solutions for a range of companies in the securities industry. Systems range from FIX gateways-which connect international and national institutional investors with broker-dealers-to dealing/trading systems that enable high-volume processing, online trading systems, Japanese equities analysis models, core systems, and PTS (proprietary trading systems).
Investment Technology Group, Inc. is a specialised agency brokerage and technology firm that partners with clients globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the entire investment process. A pioneer in electronic trading, ITG has a unique approach that combines pre-trade analysis, order management, trade execution, and post-trade evaluation to provide clients with continuous improvements in trading and cost efficiency.
As a result of the knowledge and expertise of the traders, financial market specialists, research and technical departments at ITG, the services available have developed continuously. Since its inception in 1987, ITG has expanded into numerous new products, new global markets and new client bases to meet customer requirements.
ITG has established a strong and growing presence in key financial centres around the world and has offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada.
Japan Crossing is a PTS division of Instinet Japan Limited, a member of both the Tokyo Stock Exchange (’’TSE’’) and Osaka Securities Exchange (’’OSE’’), which runs the only pure DMA “black-box” crossing platform in Asia. Since its introduction in 2001, Japan Crossing’s liquidity pool has grown steadily versus the TSE’s total daily turnover. Japan Crossing provides liquidity in an anonymous and neutral venue for institutional investors to place Japanese equity orders, with the majority of overall cap weighting represented historically by either small or mid-cap stocks. In addition, under the PTS division, Instinet also offers a Continuous Block Crossing network (CBX), a 24-hour, global electronic market where traders can negotiate and trade blocks of stock with natural counterparties at mutually agreed prices. CBX is the only such block crossing system in Asia, and allows institutions to trade any global security regardless of time of day.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.3 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its JPMorgan and Chase brands. Information about the firm is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd., one of the subsidiaries of JPMorgan Chase & Co., provides financial services and products such as M&A and strategic advice, capital raising, market making and risk management to meet critical financial needs of corporations, financial institutions, governments and institutional investors around the world. In Japan, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Tokyo Branch, JPMorgan Trust Bank Limited, and JPMorgan Asset Management (Japan) Ltd. also operate other financial businesses.
Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world.
Launched in April 2001, Liquidnet was built exclusively for institutional trading. After less than five years, we are now ranked as one of the 10th largest NYSE institutional brokers and the 12th largest NASDAQ broker* respectively. Liquidnet's global Membership community of institutional firms today represents $9.2 trillion in equity assets under management.
Liquidnet's unique model brings natural buyers and sellers together and enables them to anonymously negotiate trades among each other without intermediaries or information leaks. Liquidnet's institutional Members trade large blocks of small-, mid-, and large-cap stocks easily, efficiently and with little to no market impact costs. The result is the industry-leading average execution size of more than 42,000 shares since inception, with 55% of all executions done at the mid-point and 93% done within the spread.
Liquidnet, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the NASD. Liquidnet Europe Limited is headquartered in London, regulated by The U.K. Financial Services Authority, and is a member of the London Stock Exchange. Liquidnet Canada Inc. is regulated by the Ontario Securities Commission and Market Regulation Services Inc. and is a member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.
* Based on Plexus Group analysis (Q42004 - Q32005)
リクイドネットインクは、ニューヨークに本社を置き、米国SECの登録証券会社、NASDのメンバーになっております。リクイドネットヨーロッパリミテッドは、ロンドンに拠点を置き、英国FSAの登録証券会社、ロンドン証券取引所の会員になっております。リクイドネットカナダインクはOSC及びMRSの登録証券会社、カナダ投資ディーラー協会のメンバーになっております。
. * Plexus Group analysis (Q42004 - Q32005)によります。
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies with offices in 36 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.8 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals worldwide. Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company is one of the world's largest managers of financial assets. Firmwide, assets under management total $581 billion.
Since its founding in October 2000, Mizuho Securities has linked businesses who need capital with investors who want superior returns. We approach financial services from a long-term perspective, becoming a partner with our clients. We help them identify optimal transactions, ones that create added value and contribute to the formation of a fair and efficient market and that has made us a market leader. As a member of Mizuho Financial Group, we are able to tap wide-ranging expertise and knowledge in the banking and securities fields. This will enable us to be even more proactive in converting information to value, contributing to the formation of a market paradigm befitting a new financial era.
Mizuho Securities’ equity sales & trading business provides a full line of equity-related services to a variety of clients including domestic and overseas institutional investors, business entities, and financial institutions. In the field of Japanese equities sales, Mizuho Securities boasts significant order flow attained on the back of its extensive global network, and offers an array of trading solutions such as DMA, block trading, basket trading, as well as advanced execution services based on innovative and cutting-edge technology.
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, investment management and credit services. Over the last seven decades, Morgan Stanley has adhered to the highest standards of integrity, excellence and client focus as well as demonstrated a long-term commitment to the development of our businesses and financial markets worldwide. Building on these foundations, the Firm’s objective is to be the “first choice” financial services firm for governments, corporations, and both institutional and individual clients. The Firm has more than 53,000 employees in 30 countries around the world. With more than 1,400 people and a 35-year history in Japan, Morgan Stanley is one of the largest and most active foreign securities firms in the Japanese market. Today the Firm is a leading provider of investment banking, sales & trading, research, securitization, real estate and investment management services in Japan.
Established in 1999, Nikko Citigroup combines 100 years of experience and expertise drawn from the strong heritage of Nikko Cordial Corporation and Citigroup, Inc. in Japan. Formerly known as International Banking Corporation, Citigroup opened their first office in Japan in 1902 and have since expanded their global network to over 100 countries. Nikko Cordial Corporation was first established under the name Kawashima-ya in 1918 and experienced remarkable growth, extending their domestic presence to 108 branches throughout Japan. Nikko Citigroup is a combination of these two companies’ networks, human resources, systems, experience and achievements. The first of its kind in Japan, Nikko Citigroup is a global wholesale investment bank offering customers the highest quality in financial services. Nikko Citigroup’s leading experts in Equities, Fixed income, Investment Banking, and Equity Research fulfill the diverse needs of our clients in Japan and overseas.. In short, Nikko Citigroup is the ideal one-stop solution for investors, large and small.
Global Markets consists of three business lines: Global Fixed Income, Global
Equity and Asset Finance. We are mainly involved in the global sale and trading of bonds, equities and foreign exchange. We are strengthening our trading capabilities and product supply expertise to provide the derivative and hybrid products needed to respond to the increasing complexity and diversity of financial instruments. Moreover, with regard to electronic trading of equities we are implementing strategic marketing efforts in the US, Japan, Asia and Europe.
With more than US$10.7 trillion* in assets under custody and US$1.5 trillion* under management, State Street is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors. Our broad and integrated range of services spans the entire investment spectrum including research, investment management, trading services and investment servicing.
Our customers are among the world’s largest asset managers and owners. They include governments, corporations, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds and collective investments, investment managers, central banks and monetary authorities, nonprofit organizations, endowments and foundations.
State Street’s extensive expertise has made us a global financial services leader across our capabilities, as well as in the geographic markets where we serve customers. We have earned our leadership status by successfully serving our customers’ changing needs for more than 200 years. Today we operate in 26 countries and maintain an investment network in more than 100 markets. Our global presence is backed by the local knowledge and experience of more than 21,000 employees.
For more information on our services, visit our Web site. www.statestreet.com
UBS Investment Bank- one of the world's leading investment banking and securities businesses, serving a wide range of clients including corporates, governments, hedge funds, financial sponsors, private equity firms, banks, brokers and asset managers worldwide We offer them expert advice, superb execution, product innovation and comprehensive access to the world’s capital markets.
Top-tier capabilities across investment banking, equities, fixed income and foreign exchange, UBS offers clients expert advice and innovative solutions across every major product and region. Over 18,000 professionals in 34 countries provide clients with access to a global franchise that’s genuinely multi-local.
A leading global investment banking franchise. By using innovative structures and creating best-fit solutions, we have led some of the most challenging and complex M&A, debt equity and equity-linked offerings in the market.
UBS offers world-class distribution and execution. We trade more securities through the equity markets than any other firm1, are one of the leading fixed income traders and recognized as a leader in the global foreign exchange markets2.
With more Institutional Investor ranked analysts than any other firm and ranked top 5 for equity and fixed income research across the globe3, UBS offers unrivalled content, investment insight and advice.
At Nomura Asset Management, we are committed to maximizing value for and earning the confidence of all our clients.Our primary mission as an asset management firm is to provide products that meet the diverse and exacting needs of our clients, achieve superior investment results, and give an exceptional level of client service.
Nomura Asset Management endeavors to maximize added value for its clients, through global expansion of our business and by offering products and services of the highest quality.
Nomura Asset Management believes that people are a company's most vital asset. By nurturing professional career development and encouraging employees to specialize within our various business areas, we aim to secure the continued creativity and vitality of our asset management operations.
Nomura Asset Management fully understands the importance of high ethical values in an entity entrusted with investment assets. Through sound business management, the company aims to earn the confidence of its clients, while also contributing to the benefit
of society in general.
These are the principles that guide our firm. Nomura Asset Management seeks to develop products to meet the needs of sophisticated clients by using the most advanced investment technology available. We continually augment and strengthen the research and investment capabilities of our global business. Our risk management and compliance systems are thorough, and we excel in providing a comprehensive range of client services that respond effectively to rapidly changing circumstances.With our Value Chain approach to operations, we believe in our ability to provide client services that exceeds expectations.
