Confirmed Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Visit https://www.theocc.com/
Contact
Tricia Perl
pperl@theocc.com
Visit https://boxoptions.com/
Since launch in 2003, BOX has revolutionized equity options trading, blending time-honored market structures with today's technological advancements. Jointly owned by TMX Group and leading broker/dealers, BOX offers an electronic and open outcry trading platform. Our market is known for its transparent, efficient, and user-friendly approach. The advanced trading engine, with an open API and FIX gateway, seamlessly integrates into traders' existing systems, ensuring optimal connectivity.
Contact
Patty Schuler
pschuler@boxoptions.com
Visit https://www.cboe.com/
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), the world's go-to derivatives and securities exchange network, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing, and investment solutions to people around the world. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, FX, and digital assets, accross North America, Europe and Asia Pasific. Above all, we are committed to building a trusted, inclusive global marketplace that enables people to pursue a sustainable financial future.
Contact
Andy Bevers
a.bevers@cboe.com
MEMX is a technology-driven exchange operator serving the global investment community. It offers a simpler, more cost-effective, and transparent way to access liquidity through its MEMX Equities and MEMX Options exchanges, as well as by licensing and operating MEMX technology for clients. MX2 Options, a new pro-rata exchange will go live in 2026, bringing the total number of markets operated by MEMX to six. Founded in 2019 by a diverse group of financial firms, MEMX’s mission is to create healthy competition and advocate for market structure reform that results in more efficient and sensible trading experiences for all investors.
Contact
Geralyn Endo
gendo@memx.com
Visit https://www.nasdaq.com/
Nasdaq (NDAQ) is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software and services enables clients to optimize and execute their business with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities visit us on LinkedIn, on Twitter @Nasdaq or at www.nasdaq.com.
Contact
Tanya Patwa
tanya.patwa@nasdaq.com
Gold Sponsors
Visit https://sig.com/
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.
Contact
Joe Sellitto
joseph.sellitto@sig.com
Silver Sponsors
Visit https://www.chicagotrading.com/
CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
Contact
Steve Crutchfield
steve.crutchfield@chicagotrading.com
Visit https://www.janestreet.com/institutional
Jane Street is a global quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider trading a wide range of financial products, including ETFs, equities, futures, commodities, options, bonds, and currencies. We have offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam which allow us to make markets continually on more than 200 trading venues in over 40 countries around the world. We excel at providing liquidity in complex markets, especially during periods of dislocation and volatility. While our committed capital and firmwide risk book provides us with the capacity, our technology and flat structure fosters a culture of collaboration that facilitates these complex trades.
contact at Nysales@janestreet.com
Contact
Drew Krichman
dkrichman@janestreet.com
Visit www.simplextrading.com
Technology. Trading. Team.
Founded in Chicago in 2004, Simplex Trading is a leading, technology-driven, proprietary trading and option market making firm. We work with the most advanced technology and software in the market, and we've continued to remain at the forefront of the industry by always focusing on innovation, automation and data-driven analysis. We also leverage our experience and expertise to make strategic investments and capitalize on opportunities in the venture capital markets with promising, early-stage financial and technology start-ups
Contact
Rory O'Kane
rokane@simplextrading.com
Visit https://trafix.com/
TRAFiX is a broker neutral Fin Tech company providing innovative Order & Execution Management solutions, real-time FIX connectivity and normalized API interfaces to address the functional and regulatory requirements of the Financial Services Industry. Our scalable offering has been specifically designed to utilize the latest enhancements in software development and enterprise architecture to resovle the growing challenges faced by today's trading community. Currently supporting electronic global equity, option and complex options trading, our open architecture allows for the ongoing addition of asset classes. The TRAFiX team has decades of experience and is singularly focus on designing superior applications that integrate within our customer's technology ecosystem and lowers the total cost of ownership.
Contact
Michael Ottrando
mottrando@trafix.com
Visit https://www.tradewex.com/
Wolverine Execution Services has become the leading provider of innovative order execution and management tools to institutional traders, back offices, and operation teams across the globe. With an offering that includes:
• Custom order flow management tools
• Intuitive order entry applications
• Best execution algos
• Comprehensive reporting services
• Customized Execution Solutions
• And a network of brokers
WEX has redefined institutional trading.
Contact
Tim Martin
tmartin@tradwex.com
Visit https://xfa.marex.com/
XFA is a high-touch, industry-leading trade execution broker dealer for listed exchange-traded derivatives and futures options contracts across the globe.
XFA is trading-floor based and employs fully staffed floor operations on the Cboe Global Markets (Cboe) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME/SOFR).
Execution:
• Index Options and Single-Stock/ETF options
• FLEX Options
• S&P E-Mini's and Russell
• SOFR Options
XFA maintains trading relationships with liquidity providers across the industry to provide high quality execution for options strategies of varying complexity.
XFA is a member of Options Clearing Corp. (OCC), which provides XFA the immediate ability to clear customer traders to their prime broker, creating a seamless agency-execution experience.
Contact
Andy Geye
ageye@x-fa.com
Supporter
Visit https://www.instinet.com/
Contact
Instinet Options Desk
USOptions@instinet.com