Colt Technology Services Co., Ltd.

We provide world-class network to businesses in Europe, Asia and the US. Colt provides services and solutions along the trade life cycle. The Colt IQ Network for financial markets provides fast and secure connectivity between major financial trading centres and exchanges worldwide. We connect more than 50 financial exchanges, ensuring we reach everywhere you do business. As an end-to-end solution provider, Colt offers all components for a smooth and fast deployment of vital trading infrastructure. Colt PrizmNet provides fast and cost-effective access to the capital markets ecosystem of exchanges, market data providers and over 10,000 financial institutions.

CUSIP Global Service

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a Board of Trustees that represents the voices of leading financial institutions. With 50+ years of information on corporate capital changes in the U.S. and Canada, CGS is a central figure within the global securities marketplace, delivering more than 50 million identifiers for securities around the world. For more details, please visit https://www.cusip.com/about/index.html.

QUICK Corp.

About QUICK Corp.

Since its founding in 1971, QUICK has become Japan's largest financial information vendor, and has developed an information infrastructure that supports Japan’s securities and financial markets. It delivers high-value global market information from a fair and impartial perspective to a wide range of customers, from securities firms and financial institutions to institutional investors, corporations and individual investors. QUICK is a subsidiary of Nikkei, Japan's largest business media group.

https://corporate.quick.co.jp/en/

Torstone Technology

Torstone Technology is a leading SaaS platform for post-trade securities and derivatives processing. We simplify the complexities of post-trade, by connecting global financial industry expertise with post-trade technology innovation. Combining many decades of investment banking expertise with in-depth global financial market and technology industry knowledge, we offer agile, secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. Torstone’s Cloud-based, award-winning Inferno technology enables global financial firms to reduce costs, achieve greater operational efficiency, drive revenue growth and minimise risk. We are a fast-growing company headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.

BNP Paribas Securities (Japan) Limited

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 68 countries and has more than 193,000 employees, including nearly 148,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Retail Banking, 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.

Chi-X Japan Limited.

Chi-X Japan is operating trading venues for Japanese equities. We are a market operator independent of any brokers and/or trading firms, focusing on fair and transparent market operation. Currently, we operate multiple markets; all are for trading Japanese equities but each is serving to different needs of market participants.

In July 2021, Chi-X Japan became a company of Cboe Global Markets (Cboe). Cboe, a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, offers cutting-edge trading and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company’s diverse range of products includes equities, options, futures, exchange-traded products (ETPs), global foreign exchange (FX) and volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX Index).

Citadel Securities

Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products. Our unique set of capabilities and tools are designed to drive down the cost of transactions, helping to meet the liquidity needs of asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs. We strive to provide the most efficient execution and the highest caliber of services, making markets more fair and accessible for all.

Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.

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 www.citigroup.jp | www.citigroup.com |
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CS Securities (Japan) Ltd

Credit Suisse is one of the world's leading fi nancial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse off ers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. 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 improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process.
For more information contact the AES® sales desk on +81 3 4550 7331. www.credit-suisse.com

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.

Exactpro Systems Limited

Exactpro provides independent software testing services for mission critical technology that underpins global financial markets. We collaborate with investment banks, brokers, buy-side, technology vendors and execution venues worldwide, working with ultra-low latency systems and FIX-based solutions.

Exactpro operates in the UK and US, with delivery capabilities in Georgia, Russia, Lithuania and Sri Lanka. It currently employs over 650 staff.

The Exactpro test approach relies on the ‘Processes, Platforms, People’ concept: our Processes are tailored to reveal information about software defects and deliver it in a clear and transparent manner, and our People work in close cooperation with client teams to help plan, build, deliver and release mission critical solutions for global financial markets into live service. The core Platform leveraged by the Exactpro team is th2.

For any enquiry, please contact Matsu
(E-mail: hiroshi.matsubara@exactprosystems.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.

IPC Network Services (Japan) K.K.

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With a customer first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global finanical ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enable of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to ineract, transact, and react to market changes and challenges.

Itiviti, A Broadridge Business

Itiviti, A Broadridge Business

Itiviti provides nearly 2,000 financial institutions worldwide with flexible, cross-asset trading solutions that cover the full trade lifecycle. Through its commitment to technology innovation, relentless pursuit of workflow efficiency, and an entrepreneurial culture, Itiviti is disrupting the industry with highly-scalable solutions that deliver unprecedented cost savings for clients.

For more information, please visit www.itiviti.com.

Jefferies (Japan) Limited

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

JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm headquartered in New York with operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
In Japan, J.P. Morgan provides financial services through JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd., JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Tokyo Branch, JPMorgan Asset Management (Japan) Limited, and J.P. Morgan Mansart Management Japan Co., Ltd.

Liquidnet Japan Inc.

Liquidnet is a technology-driven, global institutional investment network 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 and seamlessly connects institutional brokers, investment banks, exchanges, alternative trading venues, and a growing list of data and research providers. 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. Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries are part of TP ICAP Group plc.

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 41 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.

NRI (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.), founded in 1965, delivers innovative solutions to your problems by providing insight-driven research, consulting and managed services. Leveraging our expertise, NRI caters to a wide range of operational needs of the international financial services community to establish new industry standard service. NRI Financial Solutions, a core business of NRI, provides consulting and managed services to meet our clients' needs and move the market forward. Our state-of-the-art and research-driven insights provide a deep understanding of the operational issues facing financial services firms, helping us provide the best solutions to ensure our clients are able to make more insightful decisions every day.

Phillip Securities Japan. Ltd

Phillip Securities Japan, Ltd. is a member of the PhillipCapital Group of Companies centered in Singapore, providing financial services to a wide spectrum of customers in Asia.
The company began brokerage of Japanese equities 100 years ago to individual investors and high wealth clients, before introducing electronic trading services 10 years ago. The company has also been an active member of TOCOM in commodity futures for the past 10 years. Currently, the Japan office offers electronic trading services including algorithmic trading strategies to proprietary trading firms, fund managers and institutions globally for Japanese Equities and Futures. In the ETF space, the company offers creation/redemption and block/cross service via JPX’s new RFQ platform CONNEQTOR and a phone order service for institutional clients. At this time, the company is also working to expand customized solutions for high wealth and institutional customers including consulting for private placement funds.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) is a licensed financial instruments exchange, publication of stock prices and quotations, ensuring fair trading, and other matters related to the operation of exchange financial instruments markets. In addition to providing market infrastructure and market data, Japan Exchange Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries also provide clearing and settlement services through a central counterparty and conducts trading oversight to maintain the integrity of the markets. In the course of working together as an exchange group to offer a comprehensive range of services, we continue to make every effort to ensure reliable markets and create greater convenience for all market users.

UBS Securities Japan Ltd.

UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. UBS' strategy is centered on our leading global wealth management business and our premier universal bank in Switzerland, enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in more than 50 regions and locations, with about 30% of its employees working in the Americas, 31% in Switzerland, 19% in the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 20% in Asia Pacific. UBS Group AG employs over 68,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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.

SMBC Nikko Securities Inc