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Event Name: Switch and Data Presents: Financial Market Structure: Panel Event

Event Date: 11/19/2009 – 11/19/2009

Event Location: Helmsley Hotel, 212 East 42nd Street, NY, NY 10017

Panelist:

Host:
John Panzica, Vice President, Financial Services Practice, Switch and Data

Moderator
Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group

Panelists
Nigel Faulkner, Managing Director, CTO Equities Trading, Goldman Sachs
George Hessler, Executive Vice President, Lime Brokerage
William Warner Director, Sales Engineering, Reliance Globalcom
Mark Casey, President, CFN Services, Incorporated
Josh Schubkegel, Exective Director, Client Facing Technology, UBS

Event Description: Financial Market Structure: Architectural and Infrastructure Challenges in the New Trading World Many new material changes have firms overhauling their trading infrastructure. How does your overall strategy stack up against the next guy? Join us for a panel discussion about the latest trends and challenges that have firms re-designing for 2010.

Event Website: http://www.switchanddata.com/Financial/Fall-Event

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In today’s financial markets, trading firms face constant pressures in a fiercely competitive environment. Providing best execution and superlative customer service is fundamental to attracting order flow. Running trading operations efficiently is also an imperative, to minimize costs internally and to offer best value to customers. Despite the increase in recent years of automated and algorithmic trading, the human touch is as important as ever in financial trading. Traders bring a wealth of experience to the art of trading, even when it is driven by computer-generated indicators. Their experience and relationships are vital to seeking out liquidity and efficient execution.

Trading operations overall need to be agile and flexible in order to meet ever changing demands and to rapidly exploit business opportunities. The regrouping of traders to react to – even pre-empt – market demand, requires trading positions that can be immediately configured to individual trader’s preference and information needs. At the same time, management and operational costs of trading operations need to be driven down in reaction to the ever downward pressure on margins. Whether costs are reduced through sharing of information services, through a reduction in maintenance costs, or change management costs, it all adds to the bottom line.

Fortunately, new approaches to trading room design, allowing the remote deployment of both servers and desktop PC hardware, together with dynamic allocation of resources to facilitate ‘hot desk’ working address these key requirements for agility, flexibility, manageability and cost containment.

This industry briefing explores offerings from WEY Technology and presents real-life benefits as experienced by Sydbank, a leading Danish bank.

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