Platinum Sponsors
Chicago Board Options Exchange
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, founded in 1973, is the creator of listed options and the nation's largest options marketplace. CBOE is the industry leader in product innovation, having created equity options, index options, LEAPS, and, more recently, "Weeklys SM" and Options on VIX® - CBOE's widely followed investor "fear gauge." CBOE, long at the forefront of options education and advocacy, is also home to the world-renowned Options Institute and CBOE.com, the Exchange's award winning website.
Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing, LP
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms.
Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P. (“GSEC”), a fully-owned subsidiary, is at the forefront of advanced technology offering interactive tools and services to not only grow our clients’ businesses, but to maximize their performance in this increasingly complex and dynamic environment. Our client base consists of broker dealers, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, corporate institutions, pension funds, mutual funds, and central banks, many of which utilize REDIPlus® for execution and position monitoring. On REDIPlus®, clients can trade across various global markets and products classes, including equities, options, futures, and foreign exchange. As a global clearer, we are dedicated to supporting client expansion into the international marketplace.
LiquidPoint BNY ConvergEx Group
The LiquidPoint solution for professional options traders combines sophisticated trading tools with low latency routing and execution to optimize workflow across multiple exchanges and liquidity sources. We provide a cutting-edge front end, enterprise-wide workflow automation solution and FIX compliant API toolkit for integration into front, middle and back office systems. Additionally, we offer customized solutions and white labeled deployments. LiquidPoint is a listed options execution and trading technology firm and a member company of BNY ConvergEx Group.
BNY ConvergEx Group provides premier, customized global agency trading and investment technology solutions, together with unparalleled client support, directly to our institutional clients. Our extensive expertise in liquidity and execution management, investment technologies and intermediary and clearing services, combined with our global resources and entrepreneurial passion, enable us to provide a unique, unmatched offering. With the broadest global footprint, BNY ConvergEx Group has offices located in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia, operating in over 90 markets.
Merrill Lynch
For more than twenty-five years, Merrill Lynch has been a premier provider of execution, clearance and financing services to: professional traders, broker dealers, electronic/remote/floor-based market makers, and specialists around the world. With a global management structure, responsive local support, comprehensive product offering and solid balance sheet, Merrill Lynch is uniquely positioned to support its clients' complex product and service needs. These products include: equities, listed options, futures, equity, fixed income & commodity based exchange traded funds, and various over-the-counter products. Our leverage and financing solutions include risk-based haircuts and portfolio margining.
We have over 500 dedicated professionals supporting our clients, offering an open client service model with global & regional coverage. Our offices are located in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
NYSE Arca
NYSE Euronext operates the world's largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges representing a combined $30.3 trillion total market capitalization of listed companies.
The NYSE Arca Options trading platform offers superior technology, speed, reliability and innovation. All trading interest is treated equally and all participants are provided with unlimited access; there are no restrictions on quote or order entry. Market Makers can select from any issue on the exchange for inclusion in their primary.
Fueled by a robust expansion in electronic trading which is now nearly 70% of NYSE Arca's daily volume, NYSE Arca has become the fastest growing options exchange in the U.S., outpacing industry growth by 73%. In the Penny Pilot issues, NYSE Arca's unique post/take pricing model and superior technology has garnered new volume, more than doubling market share in those issues since the onset of the Pilot.
The Options Clearing Corporation
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) was founded in 1973 and is the largest clearing organization in the world for options. OCC was the first clearinghouse to receive a 'AAA' credit rating from Standard and Poor's. As of December 2007, OCC's average daily options volume was more than 11.4 million contracts and average daily premium settlements were $5.3 billion. Operating under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, OCC issues and clears U.S.-listed options and futures on a number of underlying financial assets including common stocks, currencies and stock indexes.
OCC provides clearing and settlement services for the American Stock Exchange, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, and Philadelphia Stock Exchange. OCC also provides clearing services to several security futures and futures markets including the CBOE Futures Exchange, The Island Futures Exchange, OneChicago and Philadelphia Board of Trade.
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