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From product announcements to earnings calls, the language used by companies and corporate officers has a profound effect on the price of a stock. Unfortunately, equity analysts’ lack the both the time and resources to thoroughly and objectively assess all the market-moving language relevant to the securities they care about. Using proprietary technology, Prattle has built an automated system that collects reams of complex communications and transforms it real-time, quantitative, tradable data.

RSRCHX is the marketplace for institutional research. Built in consultation with asset management institutions and research providers, RSRCHXchange radically modernises the way in which financial institutions buy and sell research. Ahead of MiFID II unbundling changes coming into force in January 2018, the RSRCHXchange platform enables buy-side firms to access alpha-generating research in a more efficient, discerning and transparent way. At the same time, research providers benefit from access to a growing community of global buy-side firms and efficient payment, compliance and administration processes designed to help analysts focus on what they do best: produce insightful research. Headquartered in London, RSRCHXchange is the only research marketplace built to the specification of the international fund management industry, by experts with decades of fund management and research procurement experience. Our founders are committed to ongoing collaboration with both domestic and international asset management and research communities and continue to invest in additional functionality and platform enhancements. To find out more please go to http://rsrchxchange.com/ or follow us on twitter @rsrchx.

OTAS is a specialist provider of trader intelligence and decision support analytics, powered by artificial intelligence and big-data analysis. OTAS is delivered through our secure private cloud to your desktop or mobile, and our API makes it easy to integrate into your existing applications.

Vega-Chi enables institutional investors to trade convertible and high-yield bonds directly with each other without having to go through intermediaries. It provides an alternative pool of liquidity where participants can achieve best price execution, transaction cost savings, improved liquidity and anonymity. Furthermore, the Vega-Chi trading system offers full pre-trade and post-trade transparency and access to full historical data, allowing investment managers to make better informed decisions. Vega-Chi has 65 participant firms and has received orders in excess of $20 billion since its launch in February 2010. The company was founded by its current CEO, Constantinos Antoniades, and its staff and board of directors include a number of industry experts and veterans.