Bloomberg is the fastest-growing real-time financial information and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data on a single, all-inclusive platform. The Bloomberg Professional Service, Bloomberg's core product, is a powerful and flexible tool for financial professionals - whatever their financial data needs - in cash and derivatives markets as diverse as equities, currencies, commodities, money markets, government and municipal securities, mortgages, indices, insurance and legal information. The Bloomberg Professional Service seamlessly integrates real-time data, news, analytics, multimedia content, extensive electronic trading capabilities, and a superior communications platform. Bloomberg users include the world's central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices, law firms, corporations and news organizations. By offering all of this assistance and functionality to users on a single platform, for a single price, business and financial professionals recognize Bloomberg as the definitive solution provider for achieving their goals. For more info, please visit www.bloomberg.co.jp.

BT manages the largest connected financial community. We support 15,400 client sites across 60 countries, and 450+ service providers of exchange data, FX trading, analytics, order management, execution, routing and settlement, with services from direct market access, ultra low-latency high-performance trading and proximity hosting through to secure post-trade services and messaging. Our community members include the top 10 global exchanges, 48 of the top 50 global asset managers, the top 50 global broker dealers and 44 of top 50 hedge funds. One of every three traders around the world uses a BT turret and there are 68,000 voice trading turret users.

One of the above service is BT Radianz Cloud. Today it supports the largest secure networked financial community in the world. It offers you quick and easy distribution of your applications and services to your clients and counterparties. Distributed to more than 15,000+ member locations around the world, members of the BT Radianz Cloud Community can access a broad range of over 400 providers of services and market information, such as order management, trade execution and clearing, without the investment, effort and time required to establish point-to-point private networks.

Corvil is the market leader and trusted brand to monitor trading systems in global financial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Dublin. The world's leading banks, exchanges, data providers and network service providers use Corvil products to:

• Verify and demonstrate performance and correct operation of trading systems and services
• Identify and eliminate performance or operational problems occurring in either application processing or network transport
• Quickly resolve client experience issues with proactive alerting supported by full transaction record.
• Manage and optimise on-going investment in trading infrastructure
• Reduce costs and improve outcomes by consolidating on a single trade monitoring solution for all asset classes and departments

For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.com

Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world's financial community.
A global business with scale, resilience and expertise, we've delivered around 30% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.

IPC offers high- and low-touch trading communications solutions to the global financial trading community including the top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets. With a 100-percent focus on this sector and nearly 40 years of expertise and an unrivaled record of innovation, IPC provides customers with unified solutions that support collaborative voice trading and real-time electronic trading and market data connectivity. IPC’s offerings include the first unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, electronic connectivity services including enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions, and follow-the-sun service and support. IPC’s global reach extends to nearly 60 countries - including a financial extranet of 4,000 on-net locations in over 700 cities and more than 115,000 turrets deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 1,000 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in over 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs over 27,000 staff worldwide. Nomura’s unique understanding of Asia enables the company to make a difference for clients through three business divisions: retail, wholesale (global markets, investment banking, and other wholesale), and asset management. For further information about Nomura, please visit www.nomura.com

Nomura's Electronic Trading Services benefit from the long standing experience, intelligence and technology of the Nomura Group. Renowned for providing clients with a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform, the fully integrated product suite combines DMA and strategy execution via the ModelEx suite. The suite is supplemented with advanced pre, intra and post trade analytical tool! s such a s ModelEx™ Monitor and TradeSpex™, and provide clients with a full service solution to their low touch execution needs. All execution channels are underpinned by next generation smart order routing logic, providing access to multiple sources of available liquidity with an intelligent placement approach. Client execution experience is further enriched via access to Nomura's NX dark pool.

NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and technology services. A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive transaction, data and infrastructure services and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side and exchange communities that require next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added client services.

Simplex Consulting was founded in 1997 and has been providing world's best of breed front office solutions to large financial institutions.
Simplex's BLAST is a multi-asset trading platform suite for buy-side and sell-side supporting all aspects of front office and middle office business requirements and needs.

BLAST solution suite includes:
BLAST Buy-side
- Integrated OMS/EMS solution for buy-side
BLAST OMS/EMS
- Integrated OMS/EMS for sell-side
BLAST Market Access
- Market connectivity across numerous markets for sell-side
BLAST FPGA
- Ultra low latency market connectivity for sell-side
BLAST Risk Manager
- Agency business risk management for sell-side
BLAST ICE
- Darkpool/matching engine for sell-side
BLAST Algo
- Comprehensive Algo trade for sell-side
BLAST Analytics
- Various post-trade analysis tools such as alternative market performance measurement tool and insider trading surveillance

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Financial & Risk provides solutions that connect the global financial community. We deliver critical news, information and analytics, enable transactions and bring together communities that allow trading, investing, financial and corporate professionals to connect. For more information, go to http://thomsonreuters.com.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) is the premier exchange in the Asia-Pacific region and a global leader boasting market capitalization around 258 trillion yen (end-July 2012) and world-class trading value outside US markets. Offering a diverse product lineup including stocks, ETFs, TOPIX futures, and JGB futures, TSE recently lowered options trading fees and refined its market maker scheme to attract a broader investor spectrum and provide new investment opportunities. Its parent company, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc., completed a tender offer for its Osaka counterpart's shares in August 2012 toward establishing Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (tentative name) in January 2013.

TORA is Asia's leading provider of front-office trading technology offering a full suite of trade execution capabilities deployed by buy-side institutions globally to trade Asia, North America and Europe.
The buy-side turn to TORA for trading and liquidity tools which aid the capture of best execution. A heritage in trading brings genuine buy-side expertise to all aspects of product design and delivery.
The TORA Compass™ platform accommodates the varied trading styles and strategies of buy-side firms. The global multi-broker, multi-asset execution and order management system (EMS/OMS) features advanced functionality delivered through a state-of-the-art ASP technology model.
Traders can connect to lit and alternative liquidity venues via TORA Compass and next-generation smart order routing technology to capture price improvement without changes to workflow.

TORA has over 175 employees with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Romania, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com.

TS-Associates
TS-Associates is a leading supplier of Precision Instrumentation solutions for latency sensitive trading systems. With the TipOff® network monitoring appliance and the Application TapR software instrumentation card, TS-Associates provides a complete range of precision instrumentation solutions capable of providing nanometric transparency into the latency dynamics of trading systems.

Terilogy
Established in 1989, Terilogy Co., Ltd provides network infrastructure solutions and technologies in Japan and internationally. The company focuses providing development, customization, and integration services to assist financial and enterprise customers to manage their network operations; and customization network management systems to support SLA/SLM, secured management, and other value-added applications.

ULLINK is a global provider of trading software and services specializing in cost-saving, high touch and low touch trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side market participants. For over eleven years, the ULLINK client experience has been grounded in access to our reliability to deliver the most current and innovative technology available in the industry. Clients benefit from ULLINK's modular, scalable front and middle-office solutions, across all asset classes, encompassing low latency, pre-trade risk, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading.

ULLINK's menu of solutions enables banks and brokers to rapidly achieve compliance with exchanges and regulatory regimes around the globe, with the flexibility of being deployed via the UL NET global routing network, or as a fully-hosted and managed service.

Privately held, ULLINK services its clients, including top-tier global financial institutions, from offices in New York, Sao Paulo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Cluj, and Sydney.

Please contact sales@ullink.com for more information.

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. Bank of America now operates its corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses under the global brand of Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML).

As BofAML’s institutional business arm in Japan, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. provides equity and debt trading, capital market services, investment banking, and advisory services to a broad spectrum of organizations, including corporations, financial institutions, and government organizations.

Across the Asia Pacific, THUNDER is part of BofAML Global Execution Services’ (GES) strategy to fully integrate equity execution services into its prime brokerage business - by providing clients with a seamless and intuitive full-suite of services. Buy-side traders will benefit from a complete, seamless trading experience which delivers efficiencies in order placement, best execution, sourcing of liquidity and execution consulting. THUNDER is the bridge for clients to access BofAML’s sophisticated services that will help achieve their business goals. For more information please contact at +81 3 6225 8398

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ 140,000 people. We are engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management.

As acknowledged leaders in advanced equity products and services, our sales and trading teams provide clients with distinctive trading insight, full-service trade execution and customised solutions across all products. Our Liquid Markets business aligns cash and portfolio trading with electronic trading to address all of the execution needs of our clients. We provide intelligent and efficient access to liquidity globally through an end-to-end suite of electronic trading solutions executed through a variety of order/execution management systems, including RealTick®.

BARX is Barclays award-winning electronic services offering, which provides electronic execution across fixed income, FX, futures, commodities, money markets, emerging markets, structured products and equities.

For equities electronic trading solutions, please contact us at +813 4530 2263 (Japan), +852 2903 2370 (Asia ex Japan), or email AsiaElectronicTrading@barclays.com

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) has a presence in 80 countries with nearly 200,000 employees, including more than 150,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Additional information may be found at
http://www.citigroup.com
Twitter: @Citi
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/citi
Blog: http://new.citi.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/citi
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/citi

As a Tokyo-based global investment bank, Citigroup Global Markets Japan is a leading wholesale investment bank, offering a broad range of financial services, including investment banking, sales & trading and research.

Credit Suisse AG
Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies (referred to here as 'Credit Suisse'). As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The group employs approximately 48,200 people. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com
Advanced Execution Services® (AES) is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures and foreign exchange. With AES’s tools, traders can work orders on multiple liquidity pools, increase productivity by automating trading and improve execution performance. For more information contact the AES sales desk on +81 3 4550 7331. www.credit-suisse.com/aes

The Daiwa Securities Group is a comprehensive financial services firm with a strong domestic base centered on its 120 branch offices nationwide, and a global network of operating offices covering 20 countries and regions. The primary businesses at the core of the Group are Retail, Wholesale, and Asset Management.
Each Group company strives to maximize its expertise in its respective field while leveraging the solidarity and synergies that being part of the Group affords in order to provide a wide range of financial services tailored to customer needs.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank in more than 70 countries, offering unparalleled financial services and expertise throughout the world and operates in Japan through its investment banking, Deutsche Securities Inc. Deutsche Bank Group meets the diverse needs of its clients in the rapidly evolving electronic trading arena through its cutting-edge ‘Autobahn’ electronic distribution service. Its long-time award-winning ‘Autobahn Equity’ platform connects clients with global markets, securing liquidity and high-speed market access by offering smarter execution solutions, including through our sophisticated suite of algorithmic strategies.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary execution tools and services to manage the investment process from start to finish, from pre-trade analysis to post-trade consulting. Clients access our global offering via REDIPlus and FIX, available for trading global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange and swaps. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using the SIGMA smart order router and take advantage crossing opportunities in SIGMA X.

Institutional Investors Division of Ichiyoshi Securities Co., Ltd., serves for both domestic and global institutional investors (“IIs”) whose requirement for services are quite diversified, with characteristic services and products of our own.
We deliver research reports to IIs on mid and small cap. growth companies by Ichiyoshi Research Institute (“IRI”) specialized in these companies.
We arrange telephone conferences or one on one meetings with these companies, or arrange meetings with analysts of IRI, for IIs.
Thus, we give fine tuned supports for IIs' questing information on companies under their investment.
Execution services for Japanese equities, are no doubt well equipped with an advanced trading system exclusively established for IIs' highly sophisticated requirements of trades, are provided by traders capable of English, and include DMA through FIX and Algorithm transactions.

Liquidnet is the global institutional trading network that connects equity investors with the liquidity they need-in size, at any time, from anywhere. We go beyond what the retail market can provide by defending and securing the integrity and the anonymity of the block trade. We do this while continuously looking for ways to bring in new sources of safe, actionable liquidity from asset management firms, exchanges, brokers and corporations. Since we launched in 2001, our ability to anticipate and meet institutional demand has allowed us to extend trading to 40 equity markets across five continents for asset management firms who collectively manage US$12.4 trillion. For more information on the Liquidnet community, its liquidity, block executions, and additional investment capabilities, visit www.liquidnet.com.

Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, as the core securities and investment banking operation of MUFG, provides a broad array of equity and bond underwriting, corporate advisory related to M&A and real estate finance, securitization, bond, equity, and derivative products and services to institutional investors, corporates and retail clients. We are actively developing innovative financial products and solutions，including electronic trading services such as SOR, Dark Pool, algorithm platform and corresponding to high speed exchange trading, providing these through a framework designed to promptly meet a diverse range of customer requirements.

Mizuho Securities is integrating its strengths as a global investment bank backed by a nation-wide client base in Japan and a full-service securities network, and provides best-in-class professional services to its diverse roster of clients, ranging from individuals and households to domestic and overseas institutional investors, financial institutions, non-financial companies, and public corporations and entities.
Among the many financial products and services we market to individuals and households are equities, bonds, investment trusts, and annuities along with such financial services as asset management.
To our corporate and institutional clients, we provide such investment banking services as equity and bond underwriting, support for public share offerings, financial and capital policy advisory, M&A advisory, and structured finance. In addition, we offer equity and bond trading as well as research reports and asset management products that our clients rate highly.
Mizuho Securities is committed to becoming the most-reliable investment bank with a global reach. Our aim is to contribute to the development and expansion of capital markets, and, through our corporate activities, seek to contribute to creating a better society that makes sustainable development a reality.

Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd., a consolidated subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, offers products and services in fixed income and equity sales and trading, global capital markets, and investment research for clients ranging from government institutions, corporations to institutional investors. The company changed its name from Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. on May 1, 2010, following the commencement of Morgan Stanley’s securities joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in Japan. For further information about Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd., please visit www.morganstanleymufg.com

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com

At Omgeo, we are the operations experts, automating trade lifecycle events between investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks. We enable 6,500 clients and 80 technology partners in 52 countries around the world to seamlessly connect and interoperate. By automating and streamlining post-trade operations, we enable clients to accelerate the clearing and settlement of trades, and better manage and reduce their counterparty and credit risk. Our strength lies with our global community and our ability to adapt our solutions to enable clients to realize clear returns on their investment strategies, while responding to changing market and regulatory conditions. Across borders, asset classes, and trade lifecycles, Omgeo is the global standard for operational efficiency across the investment industry. Formed in 2001, Omgeo is jointly owned by the DTCC and Thomson Reuters. For more information, please visit www.omgeo.com.

Japannext PTS operates an electronic trading system with well balanced liquidity (retail, agency, and prop flows) and fair market access to provide investors with better trading opportunities. With the innovation of 1/10 tick size, we reduced the trading cost for our venue participant. Thanks to tremendous support from our members and market participants, we have become the second largest lit liquidity pool in Japan. Various domestic and international clients are accessing our liquidity to benefit from best executions. We are committed to providing great experiences for our venue users and will continue to improve our service offerings and performances.

UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and its universal bank in Switzerland. Together with a client-focused Investment Bank and a strong, well-diversified Global Asset Management business, UBS will expand its premier wealth management franchise and drive further growth across the Group. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 64,000 people.

The Investment Bank provides a broad range of products and services in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities to corporate and institutional clients, sovereign and government bodies, financial intermediaries, alternative asset managers and UBS's wealth management clients. The Investment Bank is an active participant in capital markets flow activities, including sales, trading and market-making across a broad range of securities. It provides financial solutions to a whole range of clients, and offers advisory and analytics services in all major capital markets.

Please visit us at http://www.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank.html for further information.