Current Sponsors

ADS Securities

Abu Dhabi-based ADS Securities is a financial investment and trade services firm, with an initial capital of $400 million that brings significant new opportunities to participants in the global and regional forex, commodities, futures and options markets. ADS Securities offers a comprehensive set of services and tools designed to help institutional, professional and high-net-worth participants trade with high efficiency, speed and simplicity. The company is led by a multi-national management team with a wide range of international experience. Members of the team have experience in some of the world's leading securities trading companies and banks. ADS Securities offers a deep range of market-leading pricing on bid/offer spreads across all major currency pairs and in all trade sizes. Regulated and licensed by the UAE Central Bank, ADS Securities is building a large network of liquidity providers, including tier 1 banks and financial institutions, ECNs, FX and commodity exchanges and brokers. The company's location in Abu Dhabi allows it to provide extended support to clients in the East and West beyond normal trading hours and days. ADS Securities also provides clients with 24/ 6 trade support through a team of experienced sales traders and chief dealer who work proactively to provide the timely advice and assistance necessary for successful trade execution. A diligent in-house operations and risk teams constantly monitor and manage the post-trade cycle to reduce risk to a minimum.

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BGC Partners

BGC Partners (Nasdaq: BGCP) is a leading global brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products, including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, structured products and other instruments. BGC also provides a full range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. BGC's integrated platform is designed to provide flexibility to customers with regard to price discovery, execution and processing of transactions, and enables them to use voice, hybrid, or where available, fully electronic brokerage services in connection with transactions executed either OTC or through an exchange. Through its eSpeed, BGC Trader, and BGC Market Data brands, the Company offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to select financial instruments and markets. BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and investment firms. Named after fixed income trading innovator B. Gerald Cantor, BGC has offices in 24 cities, located in New York and London, as well as in Aspen, Beijing, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Garden City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Nyon, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Sarasota, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, and West Palm Beach.

For more information, please visit: www.bgcpartners.com

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ICAP

ICAP's award-winning electronic EBS platform is the original and largest independent source of liquidity in the global spot foreign exchange market and of authoritative real-time and historical FX market data.

EBS provides impartial and effective access to global markets for more than 2,800 professional spot FX, precious metals and Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs) traders in over 50 countries around the world, offering optimal price discovery and execution.

The EBS platform delivers orderly, transparent, efficient and highly liquid trading opportunities and supports a wide range of FX trading strategies. It facilitates both manual and API trading for banks and non-bank professional trading organisations.

Customers access the EBS platform through the EBS Spot, EBS Spot Ai (API), EBS Prime and EBS Global Access (browser-based) services. www.icap.com/ebs

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UBS

UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 65,000 people. Under Swiss company law, UBS is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. UBS AG is the parent company of the UBS Group (Group). The operational structure of the Group comprises the Corporate Center and four business divisions: Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Wealth Management Americas, Global Asset Management and the Investment Bank.

Investment Bank
The Investment Bank provides securities and other financial products and research in equities, fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and commodities. It also provides advisory services and access to the world's capital markets for corporate and institutional clients, sovereign and governmental bodies, financial intermediaries, alternative asset managers and private investors.

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CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.

FX PRODUCTS
With over $100 billion in daily liquidity, CME Group is the world's largest regulated FX marketplace and one of the top two FX platforms. We offer transparent pricing in a regulated centralized marketplace that provides all participants equal access to 54 futures contracts and 31 options contracts based on 20 global currencies. Trading FX at CME Group gives you effective and efficient investment and risk management opportunities and access to a global array of market participants - including banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and active individual traders.

Additionally, we will offer comprehensive and flexible clearing services for OTC FX trades through CME ClearPort - an open-access, platform agnostic, post-execution clearing solution.

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Credit Suisse

Trading in dynamic foreign exchange markets demands an institution with the strength, products, and technologies you require. By selecting Credit Suisse as your foreign exchange partner, you will have access to our comprehensive solutions in spot trading, forwards and swaps, options and structuring and global research.

We offer leading technologies, such as PrimeTradeSM FX: multi-asset trading platform featuring streaming rates, Merlin: trading platform for standard options through to complex structures, LOCuS: web-based application comprising extensive research and analyses and AES® for Foreign Exchange: automated algorithms that optimize dealing.

AES® for Foreign Exchange offers a unique set of award-winning trading strategies that provide anonymous access to liquidity through smart order routing technology. AES FX provides you with a powerful tool to optimize your execution, capturing price improvement and minimizing market impact.

To find out more, go to credit-suisse.com

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Dow Jones

DJ FX Trader cuts through market noise to provide foreign exchange currency traders and strategists the real-time global FX news, data and analysis they need to make faster and more-informed trading decisions. Powered by the world's most experienced dedicated FX news team, and backed up by the global resources of Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal and parent company News Corporation, DJ FX Trader gives clients a measurable trading advantage with exclusive, market-moving FX news and insight that's delivered ahead of the broader market through desktop trading environments, via the Web and surfaced on mobile devices like the iPhone or BlackBerry. DJ FX Trader is the only news service that provides truly targeted FX intelligence - including expert commentary on what's really moving the currency markets - to drive trading strategies, inspire new ideas and uncover hidden opportunities and risks.

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Currenex and FX Connect

Currenex® and FX Connect® are part of eExchange, State Street Global Markets' suite of fully hosted electronic trading solutions. Both are designed to meet the unique needs of institutional foreign exchange traders. FX Connect's pioneering workflow solutions and Currenex's focus on high frequency trading activity provide one of the broadest ranges of capabilities in the FX market. FX Connect lets users access liquidity from more than 60 providers and execute spot, forward and swap transactions across an unlimited number of accounts. Currenex provides low-latency execution solutions within a multi-bank trading portal as well as one of the largest anonymous FX trading platforms.

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Deal Hub

Option Computers Ltd (DealHub) is the leading global provider of STP and connectivity software to the foreign exchange markets through its flagship DealHub product.

DealHub offers a comprehensive solution that addresses overviews of real-time trading activity, position aggregation, ticket capture, deal splitting forwarding and archiving, internal secure chat and dealing, printer replacement, dealing code analysis, real-time control over algorithmic trading models, price contribution, liquidity aggregation, PB give-ups, FX options parsing, MIS, matching & netting.
External sources supported by DealHub include Reuters, EBS, Bloomberg, ICAP, DDN, multi-bank and single-bank platforms. DealHub is used globally by many of the top FX dealing banks, including UBS, JP Morgan, HSBC and Deutsche Bank.

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GFI

GFI Group Inc. is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products, providing services to institutional clients for a range of fixed income, equity, commodity and financial products.

GFI FENICS, a division of GFI Group Inc, has more than 24 years' experience of providing intuitive price discovery software to currency derivative markets. Its ability to deliver powerful and accurate FX options price discovery and revaluation is enhanced by GFI's presence as an important independent intermediary in OTC markets.

GFI FENICS analytics is supported with an abundance of independent market data sourced directly from GFI's trading systems. GFI FENICS' leading foreign exchange option pricing and analysis tool is licensed for use at over 350 client sites worldwide. GFI FENICS operates from offices in London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

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integral

Integral created the most flexible OTC FX trading network and FX liquidity aggregation service in existence today. Integral's business model supports all FX market participants with the solutions they need to build their own private FX exchange, and to deliver branded trading services to their clientele through an open FX platform. The full life cycle of FX is available in the cloud as services hosted by Integral (FX CloudTM).
Integral's award-winning services include also FX Power TraderTM for margin trading, the family of FX Inside ProfessionalTM products for the professional segment, FX Inside AlphaTM for high-frequency traders and www.TrueFX.com and FX CloudTM. Contact Andre Monza, Managing Director, APAC - 16 Collyer Quay #10-00, Hitachi Tower, Singapore 049318. Tel: +65 6818 9810

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Knight Hotspot FX LLC

Hotspot FX, Knight's award-winning institutional FX ECN, operates a robust and dynamic FX marketplace for the spot trading of over 60 currency pairs plus gold and silver. Hotspot FX was the first firm to introduce an ECN for the institutional foreign exchange marketplace and pioneered the innovation of the multiple FX prime broker credit model. Knight is a global financial services firm that provides trade execution, research, asset management and capital market services across multiple asset classes. The firm is consistently ranked as a leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities with over nine billion shares traded daily. For additional information about Hotspot FX, please visit www.hotspotfx.com.

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Wall Street Systems

Wall Street Systems provides trading and settlement solutions for banks of all sizes and structures.

The Wallstreet FX sales trading solution provides banks with the necessary tools to improve the level of service they provide to their corporate customers, including complete advanced sales trading functionality together with an unrivalled eTrading delivery channel. Banks can increase margins, improve competitive edge and streamline STP by giving their FX/MM customers greater control of trading operations over the web, enhancing the user experience and enabling the bank to benefit from increased volumes and lower processing costs.

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ACT Singapore

The Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore) is a non-profit organization of individual memberships drawn from corporate treasuries and finance professionals involved in corporate treasury work. An elected Executive Committee manages its operations and embarks on initiatives in furthering its aims. For information on ACT(S) and its initiatives, please visit www.act.org.sg

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