Sponsorship Opportunities

Contango Markets delivers a highly focused strategic consulting and business development service to companies seeking to enhance their presence in the international commodities and financial derivatives marketplace. If your company wants to accelerate its entry into a new market or needs to re-evaluate any aspect of its business and product development strategy Contango Markets can help you. Our expert team can call on years of experience which can help you in the following fields; Product development, Trading strategies and information flows, Market operations and clearing/settlement functions, Specialist information technology, Marketing and public relations. Our customers include investment banks, exchanges, clearing houses, fund managers, technology companies and other institutions with an interest in the global cash, derivatives and OTC commodity markets. As well as working with the very largest institutions we have carried out extensive projects for emerging markets and their participants in recent years.

Options Industry Council is an industry cooperative funded by the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NASDAQ Options Market, NYSE Amex Options, NYSE Arca Options, and The Options Clearing Corporation. OIC was formed in 1992 to educate investors and their financial advisors about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded equity options. OIC's resources include: The Options Industry Services Help Desk, educational Web sites at www.optionseducation.org and www.OICoptions.com, instructional DVDs and educational literature and software.

Rostron Parry Ltd
Founded in 1991, Rostron Parry Ltd has focused on undertaking communications and marketing for derivatives and equity exchanges, related service providers and for hedge funds and other investment groups. Rostron Parry’s key area of operation is working with non-UK groups wishing to promote themselves to the London market. We also regularly undertake press work and marketing events in leading centres of continental Europe. Current clients include Eurex, TMX (Toronto Montreal Exchange), ECX (European Climate Exchange), London Metal Exchange, Plus Markets.

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Patsystems delivers tailored solutions, built from modular components, to enhance derivatives trading performance and trade processing. Our solutions can range from a plug-and-play module to address a specific issue, to complete high-performance trading systems with global access to an extensive list of key Exchanges. We work in partnership with our customers to deliver robust systems that align with their business strategies - and have done since our foundation in 1994. Numerous leading banks, trading houses, hedge funds and professional traders around the world rely on us to help them exploit the benefits of electronic trading in derivatives, FX, energy and other asset classes.

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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies.  The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products.  With more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets -- the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex and NYSE Alternext as well as NYSE Arca – represent nearly 40 percent of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group.  NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies.  NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100  index and Fortune 500.  For more information, please visit:http://www.nyx.com

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CME Group operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Mercantile Exchange.  We are the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange.  CME Group offers innovative futures and options products that cover all major asset classes and provides technologies and services to help manage risk.

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Eurex is one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges offering global electronic access to a broad range of international benchmark products and operating the most liquid fixed income markets. With the acquisition of International Securities Exchange (ISE) in December 2007, the world's largest equity options exchange, Eurex significantly expanded its liquidity network into the U.S. Together, Eurex and ISE are the global market leaders in individual equity and equity index derivatives. Currently, the members of the exchanges trade more than 12 million contracts on average per day.
Aside from operating a fully electronic trading platform, Eurex provides an automated and integrated clearing house. Eurex Clearing is one of the world's leading clearing houses, offering fully automated and straight-through post trade services for derivatives, equities, repo, energy and fixed income transactions. Eurex Clearing acts as a buyer to all sellers and as a seller to all buyers thereby minimizing counterparty risk and maximizing operational efficiency. The product offering comprises flexible trade management functions, OTC clearing facilities, advanced risk management services, efficient collateral and delivery management tools. Eurex Clearing serves more than 120 clearing members located in 12 European countries and manages a collateral pool of approximately EUR 55 billion.

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Trayport is an experienced exchange software and solutions partner with 15 exchange clients and over 2,000 participants across the globe. Through our continued investment in the development of high quality trading software we offer competitive solutions to exchanges to support their future growth and success.  Our dedicated team of exchange experts has a proven track record of on-time and on-budget delivery of the Trayport Exchange Trading System which provides high performance and low latency with proven 99.999% availability.
Founded in 1993, Trayport has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. Trayport offers solutions for Exchanges, Brokers and Traders globally across multiple markets.  Trayport is a subsidiary of GFI Group Inc. ('GFIG' on Nasdaq). More information is available at www.trayport.com

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,800 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North; and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.

All the above sponsors will receive:

• One complimentary registration to workshop and annual conference
• Welcoming remarks
• Special signage in event room
• Display table* in foyer area for duration of the meeting
• Acknowledgement in final program (if commitment is made by deadline)
• Acknowledgement on the Conference webpage – with link to sponsor page
• Listing on Master Sponsor sign

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3i Infotech provides technology solutions to over 1500 customers in more than 50 countries across five continents. Our products include capital markets, asset management, private banking, wealth management and anti-money laundering solutions.
Exchanges and regulators constantly strive to meet one of the most difficult challenges – effective supervision to ensure investor protection. AWACS from 3i Infotech handles all the critical elements of the surveillance process and provides a robust monitoring and warning mechanism.
www.3i-infotech.com

Flow Traders was established in 2004 as an independent company of arbitrage traders. Flow Traders consists of a team of specialists and has acquired a leading position in the market, thanks to in-depth knowledge and many years of experience in the trade. In today’s dynamic financial markets it is essential to continually develop new forms of arbitrage. A team of highly trained and qualified traders, supported by state-of-the-art IT systems, enable Flow Traders to stay ahead in this market. Both in terms of sales volumes and diversity, the financial markets around the world are witnessing strong growth – a growth that creates new opportunities for Flow Traders in terms of internationalisation, scale expansion, new products and markets. As an organisation and a team, we have to be flexible and alert to generate maximum profit from those developments. In day-to-day practice, this translates into a constant effort to develop distinctive, creative arbitrage strategies. www.flowtraders.com

The Swiss Futures and Options Association (SFOA) was founded in 1979 as a non-profit professional Association for the purpose of promoting derivative financial instruments, particularly standard futures and options contracts on financial instruments and commodities, to the widest possible audience, and to serve the interests of its members.
SFOA is mostly known by its Bürgenstock conference (which will be held this year in Interlaken  from Sept 8 - 11, 2010),  the regulator’s meeting and the Emerging Market Forum preceding the conference as well as the publication of the Swiss Derivatives Review. Additionally SFOA supports its members by organizing roadshows for them in Switzerland.  For more details please consult the webpage:  www.sfoa.org.

All the above sponsors will receive:

• Special signage in event room
• Display table* in foyer area for duration of the meeting
• Acknowledgement in final program (if commitment is made by deadline)
• Acknowledgement on the Conference webpage – with link to sponsor page
• Listing on Master Sponsor sign

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• Acknowledgement on the Conference webpage – with link to sponsor page
• Acknowledgement in final program (if commitment is made by deadline)
• Listing on Master Sponsor sign

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