Sponsors And Exhibitors
The 3rd Annual TradersLIVE Block Trading has been specifically designed to attract professional buy side and sell side traders, heads of trading, managing directors, VPs, Presidents and CEOs. If your firm needs to connect with these decision-makers, then this event represents an unequalled marketing opportunity. By participating in this event as an event sponsor you will receive:
- Company Branding
- Exposure to a targeted audience of buyside and sellside traders
- Ability to contact participants in advance of the event to fuel onsite interaction
- The opportunity to invite clients and prospects to product demonstrations
- Face-to-face interactions with sales mangers that can use your product
- Interactive/multimedia ad placement within our all new e-brochure
- Ad placement within our highly targeted email campaign
- Podcast of event sponsorship
To find out how to customize a sponsorship/exhibit package which is most appropriate for your institution please contact Michael Moran at 212-803-8327 or via email at michael.moran@sourcemedia.com or Jeff Kohl at 212-803-8211 or jeff.kohl@sourcemedia.com.
Conference Sponsors
BIDS Trading, L.P. is a registered broker-dealer and the operator of the BIDS Alternative Trading System, designed to bring counterparties together to anonymously trade large blocks of shares. Developed by a consortium of leading financial services firms, the BIDS Trading ATS resolves the classic paradox of the block trader – the need to find legitimate trading counterparties without prematurely revealing trading intentions.
BlockCross is an independent dark pool designed to streamline the ATS space. BlockCross not only leverages OMS blotter integrations but also integrates both sellside and Dark Algo liquidity in order to provide the broadest spectrum of block liquidity in the industry. BlockCross also gives institutional traders the ability to post buyside only IOI’s to alert other traders to “Meet me in BlockCross."
Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE:ITG), is a specialized 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. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions.
For more information on ITG, please visit www.itg.com.
JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC is one of the oldest and largest pure execution-only equity trading firms in the U.S., and a worldwide leader in U.S. equity block trading. Since 1975, the sole focus of JonesTrading has been creating liquidity for institutions on an agency basis. The ability to provide a secure, trusted platform connecting a diverse group of market players enables the firm to unlock liquidity, providing best-quality execution for larger and more complex trades. In 2007, the company received a $50M investment from Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.
LeveL ATS is a dark book trading platform that provides for multi-tiered crossing opportunities. LeveL's innovative structure maximizes liquidity and provides best execution while minimizing information leakage and market impact. LeveL has emerged as a leading liquidity source with notable price improvement, low latency and nominal fees.
Linedata Services is a global leader for investment software, solutions, and support. Linedata Services Asset Management (www.ldsam.com) provides comprehensive, scalable solutions to the buy-side, managing the entire investment process from pre-trade to settlement and reporting. Linedata offers full front- to back-office solutions via enterprise installation, hosting, or as an ASP.
Liquidnet is an electronic marketplace that facilitates institutional equities trading for asset management firms worldwide. By giving buy-side traders a first look at a global natural liquidity pool of more than 7.98 billion shares per day of liquidity on average, Liquidnet consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of 535 buy-side trading firms. Institutional investors use the Liquidnet marketplace to enhance the quality and speed of trade execution, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall trading costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in 30 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney. Additional company information is available online at www.liquidnet.com.
A pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX transforms trading through innovation. The NYFIX Marketplace™ is a global community of trading counterparties utilizing innovative services that optimize the business of trading. Millennium provides the Marketplace community with new methods of accessing liquidity while Appia and Tradescope software provide the foundation for FIX messaging and infrastructure. NYFIX also provides real-time information and analytics for liquidity discovery. A trusted business partner, NYFIX enables low touch, low impact market access and end-to-end transaction processing.
Pipeline’s block execution system increases control, saves time and empowers the institutional trader to move large orders in and out of the market with the least chance of being detected and the greatest chance for measurably outstanding execution performance. Pipeline’s model maximizes a trader’s probability of capturing genuine block liquidity and consistently delivers Mega-Blocks at the midpoint; with an average trade size of almost 50,000 shares.
Now, with Pipeline’s Algorithm Switching Engine, traders access dark pools and small order markets. Its patent-pending predictive technology minimizes market impact while accessing significant sources of liquidity. The seamless integration of Pipeline’s Block Market™ with predictive algorithm switching enables quiet execution in the markets while maximizing opportunities for natural fills. Because the Switching Engine provides access to small orders while trading in the Block Market, opportunities for giant natural liquidity will increase for all.
