ION

ION specializes in software and data to digitize and automate mission-critical workflows, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting. Extensive client collaboration underpins our capital markets technology and data solutions for financial institutions dealing in asset management, cleared derivatives, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and secured funding.
ION Fidessa facilitates equity markets trading, unifying trade execution, order management, and middle office in a single, automated, exception-based workflow across equities, equity swaps, and exchange-traded funds. Our FIX connectivity technologies bind the buy- and sell-side trading desks, providing access to over 6,500 buy-side customers and 600 brokers, and trading on every major equities market.
Our new, innovative FIX Connect Self-provisioning feature equips you to set up the connections between yourself, as the sell-side broker, and the investor on the buy-side (for example, an asset manager, or hedge fund). This allows you to trade sooner and earn more.
ION LatentZero asset management solutions monitor and protect assets approaching $9 trillion. LatentZero OMS simplifies and automates trading workflows, processing hundreds of thousands of transactions daily, quickly and accurately; while LatentZero Post-trade gives fast, accurate, automated trade processing for all asset classes including equities, fixed income, and ETDs.

big xyt ecosystems

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 earlier this year, to other financial centres around the world.
The 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.
The platform enables trading venues to distribute data analytics solutions to their information services customers, including the trading firms, issuers and investors that comprise a finance ecosystem. The solutions are delivered directly to end users through web hosted services under the branding of a sponsoring venue, meaning rapid time to market and low cost of ownership.
Using unique peer group rankings, trading firms can explore their market share, examine how they interact with the order book, and view their trading performance.
As well as enhancing management oversight, the tools enable client-facing staff to discover highly granular information about their trading flows and identify their competitive advantages.
White-labelling also enables clients to monetise their information services further, creating a new revenue stream for the exchange or trading venue.
big xyt ecosystems is an equal investment by the partners, created to help the world’s exchanges and trading venues deliver data analytics services to their ecosystems of local and international member firms, issuers and investors.
https://big-xyt-ecosystems.com/

Virtu Financial

Virtu is a leading provider of financial services and products that leverages cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to its clients. Leveraging its global market making expertise and infrastructure, Virtu provides a robust product suite including offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics and broker-neutral, multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology. Virtu’s product offerings allow clients to trade on hundreds of venues across 50+ countries and in multiple asset classes, including global equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income and a myriad of other commodities. In addition, Virtu’s integrated, multi-asset analytics platform provides a range of pre and post-trade services, data products and compliance tools that clients rely upon to invest, trade and manage risk across global markets.

Cboe Japan Limited

Cboe Japan is part of Cboe Global Markets, which operates a wide range of equity and derivatives markets in developed and developing countries throughout the world, and is the operator of a Japanese equity proprietary trading system.
Cboe Japan is a market operator independent of any brokers and/or trading firms, focusing on fair and transparent market operation. It currently operates several execution markets and systems for trading cash Japanese equities to meet the diverse needs of market participants.
In addition, following the major renewal of the infrastructure system scheduled for November 2023, Kai-X, a broker-neutral dark pool, will change its market name to Cboe BIDS Japan and further improve usability by upgrading functions including support for Conditional orders.

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1925, Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. In Spring 2022, with Instinet, our equity execution arm outside of Japan, we launched a shared strategic approach called “Global Execution Services” (GES), bringing together our worldwide execution services. Our focus is to provide clients with a comprehensive suite of high quality equity execution services, bespoke trading products and unique liquidity solutions across the world. GES offers seamless access to the harmonized expertise and broad capabilities of our unified and innovative platform focused on enhancing trading experiences and delivering improved investment performance.

360 Treasury Systems AG

360T is far more than an award-winning multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform for OTC financial instruments. As the Deutsche Börse Group’s global FX unit, the company offers a full range of streamlined services across the entire trading workflow of FX and short-term Money Market asset classes, adding real value to clients. Above and beyond optimising execution, 360T allows clients to directly reduce their operational costs and risks in all parts of the trading life cycle while enhancing compliance and transparency at the same time.
360T has a global presence with customers in more than 75 countries and offices in Europe, America, Asia Pacific, India and the Middle East.

IPC Systems, Inc.

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise.
IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure- as-a-service solutions.
IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.
To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

Japan Exchange Group, Inc.

Japan Exchange Group, Inc. operates financial instruments exchange markets to provide market users with reliable venues for trading as a whole exchange group. The subsidiary, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. is engaged in the provision of market facilities for trading of securities, publication of stock prices and quotations, ensuring fair trading of securities and other financial instruments, and other matters related to the operation of exchange financial instruments markets. JPX Market Innovation & Research, Inc. started operations in 2022 as a subsidiary which integrates group's index, data, and digital businesses and unifies provision of various market-related services, with the aim of pursuing the creation of market services that contribute to better functionality and efficiency across the board.

LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, playing a vital social and economic role in the world’s financial system. With our open approach, trusted expertise and global scale, we enable the sustainable growth and stability of our customers and their communities. We are dedicated partners with extensive experience, deep knowledge and a worldwide presence in data and analytics; indices; capital formation; and trade execution, clearing and risk management across multiple asset classes. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 23,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

BNP Paribas Securities (Japan) Limited

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 64 countries and has 184, 000 employees. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services, Investment & Protection Services, and Corporate & Institutional Banking. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps its clients to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

BofA Securities

Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.

Citi is a preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-border needs, a global leader in wealth management and a valued personal bank in its home market of the United States. Citi does business in nearly 160 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions, and individuals with a broad range of financial products and services.

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.

Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.

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.

Eventus Systems Inc.

Eventus provides state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customize and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets. Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume and real-time environments of tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centers, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. The company’s rapidly growing client base relies on its Validus platform, coupled with Eventus’ responsive support and product development, to overcome their most pressing trade surveillance regulatory challenges. For more, visit www.eventus.com.

Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading "GSET" 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 trading services and solutions via variety of EMS and FIX system, available for trading global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange and swaps. Clients can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms "GSAT", route to optimal destinations using the SIGMA Smart Order Router and take advantage of crossing opportunities in the alternative venues in including SIGMA X and PTS.

Jefferies (Japan) Limited

Jefferies offers a full range of investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management products and services

Liquidnet Japan Inc.

Liquidnet is a leading technology-driven, agency execution specialist that intelligently connects the world’s investors to the world’s investments. Since our founding in 1999, our network has grown to include more than 1,000 institutional investors that collectively manage $33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets. Our network spans 46 markets across six continents. We built Liquidnet to make global capital markets more efficient and continue to do so by adding additional participants, enabling trusted access to trading and investment opportunities, and delivering the actionable intelligence and insight that our customers need.

Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd

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. For further information about Morgan Stanley in Japan, please visit www.morganstanley.co.jp. Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 42 countries, the Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

SmartBridge Advance (SBA) provides the same platform for fund managers, traders, and middle office staff to work seamlessly together. Each person can view the status of transactions on the platform and monitor the progress of their operations in real time.
For data connection at the time of system integration, SBA will automatically connect to NRI's back systems (T-STAR/TX, RX) based on the characteristics of open interest management and other data. Furthermore, it can automate cash management of funds by connecting to the setup and cancellation information network and automatically executing mother baby transactions. As a result, total system implementation costs can be minimized, and the system can improve operational efficiency and robustness.
In addition, in order to expand trading opportunities in various markets and to adapt to global regulations such as shorter settlement periods, SBA flexibly supports interconnections with vendors around the world, providing strong support for our clients' global operations.
For more information on recent SBA initiatives, see the following press release.
https://www.nri.com/jp/news/info/cc/lst/2023/0512_1
https://www.nri.com/en/news/info/cc/lst/2022/0905_1

UBS Securities Japan Ltd.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices over 50 regions and locations, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 72,000 people. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
In Japan, the firm offers corporate, institutional, and high net worth private clients a full array of financial products and services through five business entities: UBS Japan Securities Co., Ltd., UBS AG Tokyo Branch, UBS SuMi TRUST Wealth Management Co., Ltd., UBS Asset Management (Japan) Ltd., and UBS Japan Advisors Inc..