Colin Cheek

Symphony is an AI-powered communication and technology company fueled by interconnected platforms: Messaging, Voice, Directory and Analytics. Our modular technology - built for global finance - enables over 1,000 institutions to prioritize data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in New York City with 10 additional offices across the globe. Find out more at symphony.com

Genesis Global enables financial markets organizations to innovate at speed through a software application development platform, prepackaged solutions and deep expertise in capital markets and financial services. In supercharging developers to rapidly deliver high-performance, resilient and secure applications, Genesis replaces the buy vs. build challenge with a buy-to-build solution. The Genesis platform is designed with flexibility and performance at its core, providing developers with the frameworks, integrations and components required to automate manual workflows, enhance legacy systems and build entirely new applications. Featuring a resilient, real-time service-oriented architecture, Genesis excels across the performance envelope of low-latency, high-throughput and high-scalability, powering mission-critical applications at the world’s leading financial institutions. Strategically backed by Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi, Genesis Global has offices in Miami, New York, Charlotte, London, São Paulo, Dublin and Bengaluru.

Follow Octaura for: • Perspectives on loan & CLO markets and electronic trading. • The latest from Octauras Insights & Markets businesses - including insights backed by our pricing and liquidity solutions, new cutting-edge trading technology, and how best to use our offerings across a variety of workflows.  • Thought leadership on market electronification, connectivity, and transparency.    Octaura is an electronic trading, data & analytics provider reimagining the way the syndicated loan and CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. We bring trading capabilities, data and analytics together for the first time on a digitized platform–fundamentally transforming the markets and streamlining workflows like never before.

FIA Tech collaborates with the global futures industry to improve operational efficiency via integrated, cloud-based systems. FIA Tech provides key services and processes including managing legal agreements, settling brokerage, meeting compliance requirements and automating reconciliation.

Versana is an industry-backed fintech on a mission to make the syndicated loan market better. By digitally capturing agent banks’ data on a real-time basis, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire market. Through our platform, participants can rest assured they’re accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information. With the support of our investors, Versana is fast becoming the technology of choice to usher in the long-awaited transformation of the syndicated loan market. To learn more, visit Versana.io.

DirectBooks leverages its technology expertise and the market knowledge of its participants to optimize the communications process for primary issuances. Our innovative digital platform serves as a singular distribution point to manage communications across institutional participants, increasing efficiency and accuracy. Messages are tracked in a comprehensive process to simplify compliance. Uniform workflows allow users to disseminate information in a standardized manner without compromising the flexibility needed to execute each deal uniquely. A centralized communications hub ensures accurate information is securely delivered in a timely manner. DirectBooks optimizes the primary issuance workflow to improve efficiency for underwriters and enables the investor community to focus on their specific role in the investment process.

Luma Financial Technologies provides the leading, independent, multi-issuer platform for structured products and annuities. Luma is an award-winning platform that has been used by broker dealers and their advisors nationwide for nearly a decade to more efficiently source, configure, compare and price structured products and annuities that meet their customer’s specific investment needs. Luma's advisor-centric design, renowned education and training capabilities, fully customizable deployment and complete product lifecycle support help drive the further adoption and growth of the structured products and annuities market.

"CONNECTED INSIGHT"​ Our mission: “TO DELIVER THE MOST ACCURATE, TIMELY DATA, WHICH BOTH INFORMS AND CONNECTS THE BOND MARKET"​ Who Are We? Neptune Networks Ltd. ("Neptune"​) is a data connectivity network, supplying the highest quality bond pre-trade data (axes and inventory) from the sell-side to the buy-side via FIX workflows. Neptune supplies data that is standardised, real-time and direct from sell-side risk systems, rather than periodic, manual spreadsheets with their high probability of errors and poor timeliness. Neptune is a technology utility that is uniquely governed by a collaboration of banks and investors, with the aim to enhance the buy-side and sell-side relationship dynamic for the benefit of the overall market. Why Neptune? 1. Real-time Real-time, structured and standardised connectivity means reduction of “noise” and inaccurate data. 2. Ease of Connectivity The use of FIX allows for ease of connectivity via OMS/EMS, or via our own GUI. 3. Governance Ability to participate in Neptune’s governance and future evolution via the Buy-Side Advisory Group and buy-side Board representation. 4. Enhance Relationships We exist only to enhance buy-side and sell-side relationships by making enquiries and trading more targeted, reducing information leakage and allowing for more precise best execution. 5. Highest Quality Highest quality, pre-trade bond data available via one-connection, from the leading sell-side market makers in fixed income. For more information, please contact Byron Cooper-Fogarty: Sales@NeptuneFI.com or see our website. Follow us on Twitter: NeptuneFI_LDN

Kensho is an Artificial Intelligence company that builds solutions to uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction. With engineers comprising over 75% of our ~100-person team, Kensho is an engineering-driven culture, laser focused on building products that solve our customers’ complex problems. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Trade Ideas Limited (TIL) is the industry-owned utility providing independent, trade idea message routing through the Trade Ideas Hub. TIL supports the international electronic alpha capture marketplace by making the Hub accessible to all market participants. The Hub acts as a central facility enabling banks and brokers to send trade ideas to their clients, irrespective of which systems or vendor platforms either party may use, and for asset managers to connect to multiple banks through one platform. Benefits: Low latency - Market leading performance for delivery/receipt of trade ideas Anonymous - Trade idea data belongs to the banks that produce it. We do not aggregate, analyse or manipulate the underlying data passing through the Hub and do not seek to commercialise it Simple - Simplified operational requirements. A single connection to the Hub enables you to link to multiple banks or asset managers Cost efficient - Cost-effective means of connecting to multiple organisations, whether you use your own in-house system or a vendor platform Independent - We are vendor neutral. We are happy to work with any commercial vendor wishing to connect to the Trade Ideas Hub and provide solutions to the wider electronic alpha capture market MiFIID II - Trade Ideas are aligned with regulatory best practise

Symphony is an AI-powered communication and technology company fueled by interconnected platforms: Messaging, Voice, Directory and Analytics. Our modular technology - built for global finance - enables over 1,000 institutions to prioritize data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in New York City with 10 additional offices across the globe. Find out more at symphony.com

The largest global financial institutions use OpenFin’s intelligent workspaces and developer platform to help their teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Delight users and accelerate time-to-value with a workspace that does it all. Launch apps, automate tasks, configure complex layouts, search, context share, send and receive notifications and discover new apps. Our Chromium container provides all the tools you need to build Native Web Apps and deploy securely to locked-down desktops. Use our APIs to enable complex layouts, cross-app messaging, desktop notifications, secure OS access, and more. Clients expectations about how work gets done have changed. They don’t want siloed apps: they want a connected experience. Whether it’s more powerful layouts, unified notifications, or data flowing from one app to another - our tools empower you to give customers what they want. Join the OpenFin ecosystem and deliver elevated workspace experiences to your customers today. Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. Used by 90% of global financial institutions, OpenFin deploys more than 3,500 desktop applications to more than 2,400 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, ING Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong.

Genesis Global enables financial markets organizations to innovate at speed through a software application development platform, prepackaged solutions and deep expertise in capital markets and financial services. In supercharging developers to rapidly deliver high-performance, resilient and secure applications, Genesis replaces the buy vs. build challenge with a buy-to-build solution. The Genesis platform is designed with flexibility and performance at its core, providing developers with the frameworks, integrations and components required to automate manual workflows, enhance legacy systems and build entirely new applications. Featuring a resilient, real-time service-oriented architecture, Genesis excels across the performance envelope of low-latency, high-throughput and high-scalability, powering mission-critical applications at the world’s leading financial institutions. Strategically backed by Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi, Genesis Global has offices in Miami, New York, Charlotte, London, São Paulo, Dublin and Bengaluru.

Follow Octaura for: • Perspectives on loan & CLO markets and electronic trading. • The latest from Octauras Insights & Markets businesses - including insights backed by our pricing and liquidity solutions, new cutting-edge trading technology, and how best to use our offerings across a variety of workflows.  • Thought leadership on market electronification, connectivity, and transparency.    Octaura is an electronic trading, data & analytics provider reimagining the way the syndicated loan and CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. We bring trading capabilities, data and analytics together for the first time on a digitized platform–fundamentally transforming the markets and streamlining workflows like never before.

FIA Tech collaborates with the global futures industry to improve operational efficiency via integrated, cloud-based systems. FIA Tech provides key services and processes including managing legal agreements, settling brokerage, meeting compliance requirements and automating reconciliation.