Bronze Sponsors
Continental Resources
Continental Resources (CRI) is a trusted provider of comprehensive IT solutions to business, government, and academia. CRI offers you the knowledge, support, and fast delivery that keep your business operating at peak efficiency. Today's blended IT environments require a wide range of experience in heterogeneous IT environments. Solutions offered include: networking, security, directory services, VoIP, storage, disaster recovery, security, directory services, and managed services. CRI is a Hitachi Data Systems Solutions Alliance Partner and holds engineering certifications across all Hitachi Data Systems product platforms. Founded in 1962, and headquartered in Bedford, MA, CRI has offices in major metropolitan areas around the country.
Credit Suisse
As one of the world’s leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York.
Advanced Execution Services
Credit Suisse’s Advanced Execution Services (AES) is a suite of automated, algorithmic trading strategies for Equities, Options, FX and Futures based on thorough execution research and continuous live experimentation, performed by a team of Credit Suisse quantitative analysts and traders. Credit Suisse customers leverage these strategies to reduce market impact and improve trading performance vs. benchmarks in North American, European, and Asian markets, allowing traders to focus on the big picture. AES integrates seamlessly within traders’ electronic workflow; no “box” to install, no software to install, no additional front end, just improved trading performance.
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers Services Oriented Storage Solutions, including virtualized tiered storage, to maximize each customer’s return on investment and minimize risk. These solutions align IT with business objectives, overcoming such challenges as business continuity, disaster recovery, data lifecycle management, and storage consolidation, while simplifying IT infrastructures.
Solution components include a full range of storage platforms, tailored to meet the needs and budgets of organizations of all sizes that include the Universal Storage Platform family, Adaptable or Workgroup Modular Storage models and Simple Modular Storage, all complemented by Hitachi Storage Management software. Global Solution Services combines it all with consulting and implementation services.
With approximately 3,400 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government, and private sectors in over 170 countries and regions.
IVolatility.com
IVolatility.com has specialized in providing professional services in the derivatives marketplace for over 10 years. The powerful IVolatility.com database compliments our sophisticated technology to deliver analytics and data to institutional trading desks, hedge funds, options traders, and risk managers world wide.
Our professional services include a comprehensive risk management system with order management, real time market data, and volatility feeds, unique data sets (North America & Europe) which include three surface data sets, our proprietary IVX data set, NBBO, and others. Futures markets are also covered. We offer a dispersion trading tool as well as scanners and rankers for all markets.
We will be launching our retail execution platform in the 2nd quarter.
Olson Global Markets
Olson Global Markets is an independent research firm specializing in custom content creation and delivery for the professional investment community. We deliver electronic technical alerts on our customers selected portfolios or benchmarks. The firm was established in 1995 and is based in Providence RI. Our content creation uses technical analysis to create both proprietary and collaborative research products and services.
SFB Market Systems, Inc.
SFB Market Systems, the experts in options symbology management for over 14 years, provides state of the art products, services, and solutions to the exchanges and the financial industry. These products include, Symbol Manager, an “Options Symbology Management System” used by the exchanges to manage and generate options series data that is fully integrated with Symbol Master®. Symbol Master® is used by the exchanges and market participants as the centralized repository “database” for symbology management and options series data and is OSI compliant. In addition, Symbol Master® ensures symbology consistency between the exchanges and is clearly the industry’s choice for receiving the most accurate and reliable options series data ever offered. Call SFB today for assistance with your symbology needs.
SunGard MicroHedge
With annual revenue of $5 billion, SunGard MicroHedge is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the continuity of their business. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world's 50 largest financial services companies.
MicroHedge is an integrated trading platform for options traders and risk managers at market-making firms, institutional trading desks and hedge funds. MicroHedge is a solution suite that processes market information, executes on away markets and analyzes risk. MicroHedge offers a real-time trading and risk application; trade execution capability, and streaming automated quote management and market making. MicroHedge also provides a solution for real-time portfolio and firm-wide risk management.
TD Securities
TD Options LLC, a subsidiary of TD Securities (USA) LLC is an electronic options market marking firm, operating as a Designated Primary Market Maker (DPM) and Remote Market Maker (RMM) on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), as well as a Competitive Market Maker (CMM) on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and a Remote Streaming Quote Trader (RSQT) on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX). In addition, TD Options LLC trades equity securities using various strategies and has a quantitative/statistical trading group that focuses on equity modeling, developing and automating scalable trade strategies.
TD Professional Execution, Inc., a subsidiary of TD Securities (USA) LLC, provides customized option, equity and future execution and enhanced routing services to Broker-Dealers and Qualified Institutions in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Additionally, TD Professional Execution operates an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System (ATS), providing a liquidity enhanced equity execution platform for equity participants.
Zions Bancorporation, ESOARS Group
Zions Bank’s ESOARS™ are tracking instruments that provide a market-based alternative to models like Black-Scholes-Merton and Lattice/Binomial for ESO valuation. They measure the cost of ESOs to an option granting company by making payments to ESOARS holders when employees exercise their options. A fair market value of ESOARS is determined in a competitive online auction. Our turnkey ESOARS solution includes:
— an online ESOARS auction platform;
— boilerplate offering materials, such as shelf registration language and a prospectus supplement template;
— access to our bidders and an experienced auction team to ensure an effective, efficient process; and
— confidence that FAS 123R expense reflects a true “fair-market value.”
Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies, with operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. In addition, Zions is included in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Financial 100 indices. Our ESOARS securities team works with clients nationwide.
Additional Bronze Sponsors
- Casey Securities
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