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Globacap Limited operates a blockchain-based platform that facilitates debt and equity issuance, as well as the administration and custody of financial instruments. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the company provides an end-to-end digital capital-raising ecosystem designed to automate and streamline post-trade processes. By digitizing assets, Globacap supports businesses throughout their capital lifecycle, allowing for the efficient creation, management, and transaction of digitized equity. The platform aims to reduce ongoing administrative overhead and enhance liquidity in secondary markets, making it easier for users to manage their financial assets.

CoinRoutes is a provider of trading software focused on cryptocurrency assets. The company has developed an algorithmic trading system that allows traders to access a unified view of various cryptocurrency markets and liquidity providers. This system enables users to execute trades across multiple exchanges in a single transaction, thereby enhancing efficiency. Additionally, CoinRoutes' platform filters out market noise to deliver a clearer perspective on trading conditions. Importantly, the system allows clients to maintain full control over their exchange keys and wallets, ensuring enhanced security and autonomy in their trading activities.

NEO Exchange is a capital markets fintech company that aims to facilitate positive change within the industry. It specializes in raising capital and assets, as well as providing services related to exchange-traded funds, trading, investing, and market data. By focusing on these key areas, NEO Exchange seeks to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of financial markets.

ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Chi-X Global Holdings is a prominent operator of alternative market centers and trading exchanges in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan. The company specializes in providing a diverse array of on-market trading services, including equity trading and advanced technology solutions for the financial markets. By leveraging innovative trading platforms, Chi-X Global Holdings aims to enhance market efficiency and accessibility for its clients, contributing to the overall development of the trading landscape in the regions it serves.

BIDS Trading is a licensed broker-dealer that operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS) designed for the anonymous trading of large blocks of shares. The platform addresses the challenge faced by block traders in identifying reliable trading partners without exposing their trading intentions. By not disclosing side, size, or price information, the system allows participants to maintain confidentiality and protect their identities during transactions. All eligible broker-dealers and their institutional clients can engage with the platform, provided they meet certain regulatory and credit requirements. This innovative approach facilitates efficient trading while ensuring discretion for users.

Trade Alert is a software and services company focused on the synthesis and distribution of securities market intelligence to financial professionals. Trade Alert's system architecture combines proprietary software, ultra-low latency market data and high-performance computing to notify users of market activity and order flow dynamics relevant to their business in real-time.

MATCHNow is a broker-neutral dark pool, accounting for nearly 65 percent market share in total Canadian dark trading.

Hanweck is the leading provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets focusing on the large-scale risk problems of banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds, central counterparties and exchanges — where the number of instruments and positions number in the millions. Hanweck delivers risk analytics as a real-time service in flexible ways, from feeds to APIs, that dramatically simplify integration with customers' risk architecture. Founded in 2003, Hanweck expanded from consulting into product development in 2006. Hanweck was a first mover and remains the industry leader in applying graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware accelerated computing to the equity derivatives market. The firm has created a range of data products and custom integrated solutions that build upon this expertise. Hanweck also delivers risk measurement solutions and consulting across a range of asset classes including fixed income products and derivatives.

FT Options offers a suite of customizable, automated, and integrated applications designed for class research and analytics functionality for prop trading firms, hedge funds, and separately managed accounts that traffic in options. It is a portfolio management platform that combines risk and volatility analytics and research, providing an edge as you identify and act on profit opportunities. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago.

EuroCCP is a prominent central counterparty (CCP) that specializes in clearing and settlement services for pan-European equity markets. The company operates as a low-cost provider, clearing equities from 18 European markets as well as from the United States, including Depositary Receipts, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and Currency Exchange-Traded Commodities (ETCs). Recently, Euronext became an equal shareholder in EuroCCP, joining existing partners such as ABN Amro Clearing Bank, Bats Europe, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and Nasdaq.

ETF.com is a provider of comprehensive information and analysis focused on exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The company serves both investors and financial advisors by offering the latest news, educational resources, and investment tools specifically tailored to enhance understanding and decision-making regarding ETFs. By delivering independent and authoritative insights, ETF.com aims to improve investment outcomes for its clients and foster awareness within the ETF community. Through its online platform, the company facilitates access to critical data and analysis, positioning itself as a single source for ETF intelligence.

Hotspot FX brings the powerful benefits of an independent, transparent ECN marketplace structure to institutional foreign exchange trading. These benefits include full depth-of-book view, centralized price discovery, direct and anonymous market access, instantaneous trading on live, streaming prices and robust real-time pricing, benchmark, and reference data. For hedge funds, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), corporate treasuries, and institutional asset managers, Hotspot FX's FX ECN model provides full market transparency and greater control of the trading process, enabling better trade execution and lower execution costs.

The company provides an electronic marketplace for investors to buy and sell U.S. stocks. It also offers connectivity and market data services, including book feeds, as well as access to last sale information and historical data for members; and trading functionality and market operations support services. In addition, the company provides liquidity aggregation tools, smart order routing strategies, attribution incentive programs, and pre-trade risk tools.

Chi-X Europe operates a pan-European multilateral trading facility. It offers trading in listed cash equity securities within 25 indices across 15 national European markets, as well as in ETFs, exchange-traded commodities, and international depositary receipts through two order books operated on a single platform.