Lead Sponsor

Citi (NYSE: C), the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, markets and banking, insurance, securities brokerage, and asset management. Major brand names under Citi’s red arc trademark include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Smith Barney, and Banamex.

Citi, markets and banking, is a leading force in the world’s capital markets and consists of three businesses: Global Banking, Capital Markets, and Transaction Services. It provides more industry-leading solutions to more clients in more countries than anyone else. No other company serving the capital markets offers Citi’s geographic reach, local presence, product scope, expertise, and high standards. Citi provides clients with the global reach they seek while delivering world-class products locally. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com

Principal Sponsors

Macquarie is an international provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. In Australia and New Zealand, Macquarie is a market leader in investment and financial services. In the Asia-Pacific, Macquarie offers a full range of investment, financial market and advisory products and services. In Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, Macquarie focuses on particular business areas in which its expertise delivers special value to clients. Macquarie has grown substantially since its beginnings in Australia in 1969 - and more recently has reported successive years of record profits and growth since 1992. Macquarie has more than 60 office locations in 25 countries, approximately 13,000 staff worldwide and significant joint ventures with local partners across Macquarie’s global markets.

Expertise, innovation and global capabilities UBS Investment Bank is a leading investment banking and securities business, providing a broad range of products and services to our corporate and institutional clients, governments, financial intermediaries and alternative asset managers. With some 19,000 professionals in 34 countries offering world-class distribution and execution across investment banking, equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities products, UBS Investment Bank is a powerful combination of global strength and local insight. Our investment bankers, salespeople and research analysts, supported by risk and logistics teams, deliver expert advice and superb execution to clients all over the world. Through a deep understanding of our clients’ needs, we draw on our vast network of global resources to deliver effective ideas, appropriate solutions and exceptional levels of service to help them achieve their financial objectives. www.ubs.com/investmentbank

Event Sponsors

	Peregrine Securities is the consulting and execution hub of JSE listed Peregrine Holdings, housing Peregrine Derivatives and Peregrine Equities. Peregrine Derivatives has been rated the top derivative execution house in the country for the second year running (Risk magazine) and is the largest independent broker on SAFEX by volume traded. Peregrine Equities is the largest local Prime Broker by client assets, as well as a top 5 JSE Equity broker by volume. Peregrine Prime is a pioneering and dominant player in the country’s fast maturing prime broking space, and currently runs over R8.5 billion on its fully integrated PB platform.
	BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments. Founded in 1996, Tradebook is a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base with trading solutions in over 60 global markets via eight offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on Tradebook's commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.
	CSSS a joint venture created by Standard Bank and Credit Suisse which brings together the capabilities of Standard Bank, the largest bank by assets in Africa and those of Credit Suisse, a leading international investment bank. Our Trading and Sales Trading does not only include script borrow and lending, settlements and administration but offers specialised services such as: AES®: The Standard in Algorithmic Trading, DMA and Prime Swap services. For further information please contact: Office Telephone number: +27 11 384 2000 Office Fax number:+27 11 384 2020
	Marco Polo Network Inc. (MPN) is a leading broker neutral multi-asset class electronic trading platform. In the past five years, MPN has built and deployed the leading electronic trading platform connecting emerging and developed capital exchanges. This Fix enabled trading platform supports equities, futures and options and fixed income trading. MPN is able to facilitate all trading strategies, from DMA to worked orders in more than 50 markets, including Africa, Latin America, Emerging Europe and Asia and is a gateway for multidirectional flows to brokers and exchanges globally. Over the next five years, MPN seeks to become a leader in developing local and regional market liquidity and exchange structures. MPN is partially owned by the New York Stock Exchange, the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, Daiwa Securities & Sumitomo Bank. Marco Polo Securities Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MPN, is a FINRA registered broker dealer. http://www.marcopolonetwork.com.

Exhibitors

In today's unforgiving market environment, financial services firms need best-in-class, bulletproof solutions that afford instantaneous throughput with no down-time. Sybase’s RAP - The Trading Edition, enables capital markets firms to capture and consolidate high volumes of market data feeds by efficiently storing multiple years of trade and other data in real time, compressing stored data by up to 70% and capable of storing up to terabytes of data, while delivering 10 to 100 times faster analytics performance than traditional data management platforms.