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SPOT 2012SIX Swiss Exchange Open Day

Swiss Exchange

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SIX Swiss Exchange SIX Swiss Exchange is a leading regulated securities exchange in Europe and unrivalled in the life science area. As a key pillar of the Swiss financial sector’s infrastructure, it is an ideal listing location and helps create the best possible trading conditions, connecting investors, issuers and participants from across the world. SIX Swiss Exchange forms the efficient and transparent reference market for trading in its attractive segments of equities, bonds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). It invests continually in high-performance exchange technology and achieves an optimal balance between innovation and stability, boasting the best availability record of all venues in Europe. Its SWXess trading platform supports multiple currencies and features an impressive selection of modular connection options as well as low latency in the microsecond range and high capacity. As a reliable, well connected and highly engaged partner, SIX Swiss Exchange enables the success of its customers.

SIX Swiss Exchange calculates a wide range of indexes – including Switzerland’s foremost equity index, the SMI®, further benchmarks such as the SLI® and SPI® as well as bond, industry, sector and customer indexes. SIX Swiss Exchange delivers its raw data to financial information providers in real time via SIX Exfeed. With holdings in Scoach Switzerland, STOXX, Swiss Fund Data and Indexium, it is involved in successful joint ventures that benefit all financial market players.

SIX Swiss Exchange is a company of SIX Group, which provides first-rate services worldwide in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement as well as financial information and payment transactions.

www.six-swiss-exchange.com

Maneesh Wadhwa

SIX Swiss Exchange Service Provider Relationship Managers:

Diarmuid O’Dwyer


SIX Swiss Exchange Open Day – SPOT 2012

Connect with thought leaders from finance to discuss topical issues, to network, and to meet exhibitor firms with close relationships with SIX Swiss Exchange.

Following the success of last years inaugural event, we are delighted to welcome you to the SIX Swiss Exchange Open Day – SPOT 2012.

SPOT 2012 is designed for Exchange members and for the extended financial community, and provides a unique opportunity to meet with thought leaders from the financial industry, to network with your peers from other institutions, and to meet a wide range of independent providers of software, services and connectivity relevant to your Exchange business.

A number of third party companies with close relationships with SIX Swiss Exchange are exhibiting at todays event, showcasing the solutions, services and products that they offer.

We are also delighted to welcome an exciting lineup of guest speakers this year, who will share their views on topical issues in todays talks.

Shaping tomorrow’s markets

SIX Swiss Exchange successfully launched the first SPOT Open Day in 2011. By hosting SIX Swiss Exchange Open Day – SPOT 2012, we aim to connect exchange participants, banks, financial institutions and third party companies, as well as providing valuable platforms for discussing industry issues, sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas and actively shaping the global markets of the future.

Agenda3 October 2012ConventionPoint SIXZurich

Time Agenda Speaker

10:00 am Exhibition Opens incl. light refreshments

10:45 am Welcome and Introduction Christian Katz, CEO Swiss Exchange

11:00 am Eurozone Rescue: Success or Disaster? Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance University of St. Gallen

11:45 am Stand-up lunch

1:30 pm Demographics and the Global Economy – Are the Financial Markets set to Retire?

Thomas Liebi, CFA, Dr. rer. oec., Chief Economist Asset Management, Swisscanto Asset Management Ltd.

2:30 pm SIX Swiss Exchange in 2013 and Beyond Chris Landis, Head Operations, Swiss Exchange

4:00 pm Doors Close

Maneesh Wadhwa

Diarmuid O’Dwyer


Welcome and IntroductionDr. Christian André Katz, CEO SIX Swiss Exchange

Christian Katz is the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Group’s Swiss Exchange Divi-sion. The Division encompasses SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed, a leading supplier of raw financial data. SIX Swiss Exchange also operates several joint ven-tures including Scoach, which is Europe’s first exchange to specialize solely in structured financial products, Swiss Fund Data and STOXX, a European leader in financial market indices. Before joining SIX Group in early 2009, Christian Katz headed the representative office of Goldman Sachs International in Switzerland, where he focused on the firm’s institutional equity and derivatives business. Before that, he spent eight years with JP Morgan Chase in London, where he was initially responsible for institutional equity sales to Swiss clients and later the Head of Research Marketing for Europe. He was also actively involved in international banking as a result of his previous positions at London Forfaiting Company and SBC Warburg in Zurich, London and Hong Kong. Christian Katz holds a Masters in Business with focus on Finance and a PhD from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Eurozone Rescue: Success or Disaster?Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance University of St.Gallen

Manuel Ammann is Professor of Finance at the University of St.Gallen and Direc-tor of the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance. He served as a Visiting Professor at New York University and the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of St. Gallen and a M.Sc. in Computing Sci-ence from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Manuel Ammann is the academic director of the University of St.Gallen’s Master program in Banking and Finance and is a member of the board of directors of several university institutes.Manuel Ammann authored numerous scholarly publications in his research areas derivative securities, asset pricing, portfolio management, financial markets, and risk management.In addition to his academic activities, he serves as a consultant to financial institutions and government agencies and is a member of the board of directors of several companies.

Speakers


Demographics and the Global Economy – Are the Financial Markets set to Retire?Thomas Liebi, CFA, Dr. rer. oec., Chief Economist Asset Management, Swisscanto Asset Management Ltd.

Thomas Liebi (1973), CFA, is Chief Economist and a member of the Senior Man-agement. In this function, he is responsible for the macroeconomic outlook and its impact on the investment strategy.Before joining Swisscanto he was Head of Investment Research within a public pension fund, and worked previously as an analyst at Clariden Leu. Mr. Liebi graduated in law and economics as lic. iur. and Dr. rer. oec. at the University of Bern, and as Master of Science in Economics at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.In 2007, he obtained his diploma as a Chartered Financial Analyst. Joined Swisscanto: 2011Professional experience: 12 years

SIX Swiss Exchange in 2013 and BeyondChris Landis, Head Operations, SIX Swiss Exchange

Chris Landis was elected to the SIX Swiss Exchange Management Committee in 2003 and is Head of the Operations Division. He has been employed by the SIX Swiss Exchange and its predecessor organizations since 1993. Chris Landis bore operational responsibility for the EBS project infrastructure.Prior to becoming Head of the Member Support Center in 1995, he was in charge of developing and conducting educational courses for trader representatives and system administrators. In the capacity of Senior Vice President, Chris Landis has been in charge of the Information Technology Division since 1999, with a major focus on developmental and external IT projects. After graduating with a Type B Matura in Zurich in 1978, Chris Landis continued studying in the fields of human medicine, information technology and economics.


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Cameron Tec Annie Walsh, Andrea Beste

Corvil Karen Pace, Malachy MacCarthy

COSI Investor Protection engineered by SIX Markus Gutzwiller, Matthias Müller, Roman Menzi

Equinix Nicole Tanner, Pascal Suter, Miki Mitric

Finanz und Wirtschaft www.fuw.ch

Fixnetix Jamie White, Heetesh Rawal, Sarah Ferguson

Greenline FinancialTechnologies Inc. Alex V. Trianine, Mithin Hirani

Macdonald Associates AG George Macdonald, Tomas Fort, Lucas Fowler

MarketPrizm B.V. James Beeken, Jon Yates

Misys International Banking Systems AG René Flor

NASDAQ OMX Andy Green, Michael O'Brien, Mark Hudson

Orc Group AB Gunnar Sandberg, Martin Alamri, Johan Feinberg

QuantHouse Stephane Leroy

RTS Group Christian Zahm, Alexander Kranz

Scoach Schweiz AG André Buck, Christoph Dettwiler, Christoph Schuler

SIX Swiss Exchange AG Maneesh Wadhwa, Diarmuid O'Dwyer

SunGard Systems Ltd. Antonio Pulido Greaves, Urs Pfeifer, Christophe Bohler

Teleinvest International AG Joseph Küttel, Julian Costea

Thomson Reuters Financial Jan Pieter Nentwig, Bill Fenick

TradingScreen Jonathan Jenkins, Boris Marchand, Bertrand Vultier

ULLINK Vincent Lemaire, Nicolas Gallet

Exhibitors


In 2012 CameronTec irrevocably changes the FIX messaging landscape. Catalys 2.0 is an industry-first, inclusive, FIX-based ecosystem that is engineered on the industry-acknowledged standard in FIX technol-ogy, CameronFIX. CameronTec’s solutions are used by sell side firms representing some of the world’s largest brokers with the most demanding technology requirements. Buy side firms use our technologies to meet their new standards in client success. Hedge funds look to our latest technology to gain the fullest edge and make their mark. Exchanges committed to building an enduring marketplace turn to us. And ISVs find in us a superior and trusted technology partner. Website Address: www.camerontec.comEmail address: [email protected]: +44 20 7942 0950

Corvil is the leading provider of application and net-work latency management solutions to global finan-cial markets. The company was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Dublin. The world’s leading banks, exchanges, data providers and network service providers use Corvil products to:• Monitor and validate application latency perfor-

mance over high speed global networks• Proactively assess and manage network load versus capacity to minimise cost and optimise ser-vice delivery

• Independently validate and analyse latency perfor-mance of trade execution, financial data and low-latency infrastructure services

For more information on Corvil, please visit www.corvil.comWebsite Address: www.corvil.comEmail address: [email protected]: +44 20 7153 1954

Collateral Secured Instruments (COSI) minimize issuer risk of structured products by using collateral in the form of securities or cash deposits.This innovative service offered by SIX Swiss Exchange in collabora-tion with SIX Securities Services and Eurex Zurich has received several awards. There are currently over 2’300 active instruments with a volume of more than CHF 2.7bn.Website Address: www.six-swiss-exchange.com/cosiEmail address: [email protected]: +41 58 399 2921

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix con-nects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital con-tent and financial companies including more than 900 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets in 13 countries across the Ameri-cas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific . In Switzerland, Equinix runs 4 data centers in Zurich and 2 data centers in Geneva.Website Address: www.equinix.chEmail address: [email protected]: +41 44 355 69 00

Fixnetix, winner of the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast50 UK, provides outsourced managed services across multiple asset classes to leading global banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading groups seeking ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting, infra-structure connectivity and risk management solu-tions. The company is in 33 co-location and proximity


hosting centres across Europe and the US and offers trading access to over 87+ markets including Asia-Pac. November 2011, Fixnetix won first place for the 2011 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, earned 2nd place in the Deloitte Technology 500 EMEA and placed fourth in the 11th annual Sunday Times Micro-soft Tech Track 100 league table which ranks Britain’s one hundred privately-owned technology, media and telecoms (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over the last three years. Website Address: www.fixnetix.com Email address: [email protected]: +1 312 3997878

Greenline specializes in providing systemic innovation to the financial services industry. Greenline emerged with the advent of the global electronic marketplace and has since distinguished itself as an industry leader in custom enterprise development for the world’s pre-mier financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship prod-uct, VeriFIX, is recognized throughout the global financial services industry as the most robust and feature-rich testing and market simulation tool. Greenline complements VeriFIX with other solution and services to assist companies throughout the cer-tification and client support phases. Website Address: www.greenlinetech.comEmail address: [email protected]: +44 20 7709 3226

MACD is a leading provider of trading solutions for the Swiss market. GLOX, a powerful multi-asset OMS, offers an extensive trading front end and far reaching connectivity. In addition to SIX Swiss Exchange, we also provide connectivity to UBS, CS, BBH, Swiss-canto and Bloomberg.Other markets are continually being added - ask us for a complete list.Connectivity to Avaloq, OTMS, Olympic, TCS and Apsys are provided as standard.Website Address: www.macd.comEmail address: [email protected]: +41 44 577 0800

Founded in 2007 with the engagement of the NAS-DAQ Neuro project under the Cicacda Corp name, MarketPrizm has been dedicated to helping financial services firms better manage their infrastructure, trading and technology requirements.Colt is now the majority share holder in MarketPrizm, which is headquartered in London and has staff based in centres around the world, including UK, France, US, Hong Kong and China. MarketPrizm brings together a compelling combina-tion of industry, trading and technology expertise providing high-performance trading technology infra-structure and services. The company’s proven, inno-vative solutions are designed to provide ultra low latency connectivity, market data and execution ser-vices to exchanges and alternative trading venues, HFT traders, brokers, banks and other market partici-pants. MarketPrizm’s mission is delivering outcome-oriented technology that enables the world’s marketplaces and their participants to lower costs, reduce risk and maximize competitive advantage.Website Address: www.marketprizm.comEmail address: [email protected]: +44 790 38 444 92

Misys is one of the world’s leading suppliers of finan-cial software solutions with the most comprehensive product portfolio to support the business areas Trad-ing, Risk, Treasury, Buyside, Retail, Wholesale, Lend-ing, Trade Finance, Mobile, Compliance, etc. After the recent merger with Turaz, Misys is now also the pro-vider of the award-winning Kondor+ product family. Over 1,800 financial institutions in 120 countries rely on Misys software including all of the world’s top 50 banks. Over 4,500 Misys professionals work closely with our clients to achieve the successful implemen-tation and support of solutions. For more information please visit www.misys.com. Website Address: www.misys.comEmail address: [email protected]: +41 43 488 3601


Proven in the world’s fastest and largest markets, SMARTS market surveillance and compliance solu-tions from NASDAQ OMX are the industry benchmark for the global exchange, regulator and broker com-munity. Installed in more than 35 national exchanges and regulators and 65 brokers across 60 countries, SMARTS is the world’s leading provider of surveil-lance and compliance technology.Website Address: www.nasdaqomx.com/SMARTSEmail address: [email protected]: +44 20 7065 8155

Orc is a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry. Orc delivers trading and market access solutions that are used by propri-etary trading and market making firms, investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage houses world-wide. Orc develops and provides the tools needed for run-ning a profitable trading and brokerage business in today’s competitive and ever-changing markets. With market presence in all major global financial centers, Orc provides sales and support services from its offices across the EMEA, Americas and Asia-Pacific regions. Website Address: www.orc-group.comEmail address: [email protected]: +46 8 506 477 00

QuantHouse is part of S&P Capital IQ and provides end-to-end systematic trading solutions. This includes ultra low latency market data technologies, algo-trading development framework, proximity hosting and order routing services; to help hedge funds, mar-ket makers, proprietary desks and latency sensitive sell side firms to take the lead.Website Address: www.quanthouse.comEmail address: [email protected]: +44 20 7676 8100

RTS Relatime Systems delivers high-performance, end-to-end technology products and services across asset classes and continents to elite financial institu-tions and commodity trading houses. The firm is a global leader in robust electronic trading software, connectivity, hosting, matching and risk management solutions. With standardized low latency connectivity gateways to 135+ exchanges and execution venues worldwide, the firm provides proximity hosting and co-location services to 65+ venues via its global data center network. The RTS infrastructure enables cli-ents to deploy sophisticated trading strategies quickly, securely and cost-effectively throughout multiple trading desks and sites. Website Address: www.rtsgroup.netEmail address: [email protected]: +49 69 610 090

Scoach, a joint venture between SIX Group and Deutsche Börse AG, is a leading exchange for struc-tured financial products. Scoach operates trading platforms in Zurich for Swiss market participants, as well as in Frankfurt for investors in Germany and the EU member states.On Scoach Switzerland Ltd, only those products are traded that have completed the regulated listing pro-cedure of SIX Swiss Exchange and fulfill clearly defined requirements with regard to investor protec-tion. Trading is subject to strict rules that ensure transparent and fair dealings for all market partici-pants. Speed of execution, fairness, transparency, security and innovativeness are the criteria by which we meas-ure our success.”Website Address: www.scoach.chEmail address: [email protected]: +41 58 399 2100

SunGard’s solutions for capital markets help banks, broker/dealers, futures commission merchants and other financial institutions improve the efficiency, transparency and control of their trading and process-ing. From market connectivity, trade execution and securities financing to accounting, data management


and tax reporting, our solutions provide cross-asset support for the entire trade lifecycle.SunGard’s Front Arena is a global capital markets solution that delivers electronic trading and position control across multiple asset classes and business lines. Integrating sales and distribution, trading and risk management, and settlement and accounting, Front Arena helps capital markets businesses around the world improve performance, transparency and automation.Website Address: http://www.sungard.com/financialsystemsEmail address: [email protected]: +41 44 560 8400

TELEINVEST, an SIX approved ASP and ISV, is in the business of linking buy-side, sell-side and proprietary (Nostro) trading with the electronic market places on and with internal host systems and applications.TELEINVEST is considered by many as the tailor-made approach to individual solutions for the finan-cial industry. TELEINVEST designed and built its proprietary tech-nology at a time when electronic securities trading started in Switzerland and Europe, in the mid 1990’s. We believe that vital qualities of a trading system, like stability, reliability, performance and modularity can only be guaranteed if the technology used is con-trolled 100% in-house.Website Address: www.teleinvest.comEmail address: [email protected]: +41 21 691 47 56

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and profession-als. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media mar-kets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries.For more informa-tion, go to www.thomsonreuters.comWebsite Address: www.thomsonreuters.comEmail address: [email protected]: +41 22 722 3633

TradingScreen is the leading provider of broker-neu-tral electronic trading solutions to the Buy Side. We offer a suite of solutions encompassing all asset classes across global markets. TradingScreen aims to simplify the complexity of asset class fragmentation and the proliferation of liquidity pools by consolidat-ing liquidity and execution management of both exchange traded and OTC instruments on a single platform.Website Address: www.tradingscreen.comEmail address: [email protected]: +41 22 731 2252

Ullink is a global provider of trading software and ser-vices specializing in cost-saving, high touch and low touch trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side mar-ket participants. For over eleven years, the Ullink cli-ent experience has been grounded in access to our reliability to deliver the most current and innovative technology available in the industry. Clients benefit from Ullink’s modular, scalable front and middle-office solutions, across all asset classes, encompass-ing low latency, pre-trade risk, algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading. Privately held, Ullink services its clients, including top-tier global financial institutions, from offices in New York, São Paulo, Lon-don, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Cluj and Sydney. Please contact [email protected] for more information.Website Address: www.ullink.comEmail address: [email protected]: +33 1 49 95 10 13


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