Confirmed Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Visit https://www.theocc.com/
Contact
Tricia Perl
pperl@theocc.com
Visit https://aws.amazon.com/financial-services/capital-markets/
Amazon Web Services (AWS) powers the infrastructure that exchanges, clearinghouses, and trading firms rely on to modernize clearing operations, accelerate innovation, and strengthen market resilience. Serving capital markets institutions globally, from options exchanges to derivatives clearinghouses, AWS brings 15+ years of financial services expertise and 143 security and compliance certifications. AWS was designated as a Critical Third-Party Provider under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (effective November 2025) and holds the first ISO/IEC 42001 accredited AI certification among major cloud providers. AWS partners directly with market infrastructure providers and regulators worldwide to support operational resilience, cybersecurity, responsible AI governance, and the technological transformation driving the future of derivatives markets.
Contact
Akeem Hunter
akeemhun@amazon.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
Visit https://guavatech.com/
For over 25 years, GuavaTech has provided custom IT trading solutions built from the ground up for the world’s premier financial market participants. With GuavaTech, you’ll be up and running in record time with a resilient system that is fast, secure, and reliable.
Contact
Thomas McArdle
thomasm@guavatech.com
Visit https://www.iex.io/options
IEX (IEX Group, Inc.) is an exchange operator and technology company dedicated to innovating for performance in capital markets. Founded in 2012, IEX launched a new kind of securities exchange in 2016 that combines a transparent business model and unique architecture designed to protect investors. Today, IEX applies its proprietary technology and experience to drive performance across asset classes, serve investors, and advocate for transparent and competitive markets. In 2026, IEX plans to launch IEX Options, a new U.S. options exchange that will bring IEX’s suite of order protection innovations designed to better address the needs of market makers and drive better outcomes for end investors. Learn more at iex.io.
Contact
bdteam@iextrading.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.miaxglobal.com/
MIAX® is a technology-driven leader in building and operating financial marketplaces across multiple asset classes enabled by our in-house built, proprietary technology. We believe the speed and performance of our technology combined with our fully-integrated, award winning customer service sets us apart from the competition.
Our history of growth and vision for the future is what reinforces our position as a global exchange operator. MIAX drives company growth through its pursuit of new opportunities and expanding reach into new markets by providing new trading products and embracing strategic alliances to provide services designed to meet the emerging needs of our trading community.
Contact
Andy Nybo
anybo@MIAXGlobal.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
Visit https://www.nyse.com/trade/options
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), operates two premier U.S. options venues — NYSE American Options and NYSE Arca Options — offering a broad product universe with distinct allocation models and advanced execution capabilities serving diverse trading strategies.
This year, NYSE Arca Options celebrates 50 years of listed options trading excellence — a milestone reflecting decades of innovation and market leadership. Building on that legacy, NYSE is now the exclusive home of MSCI Index Options, including MXEF and MXEA, bringing some of the world’s most tracked international benchmarks to one of the most liquid options marketplaces globally. Underpinning it all is NYSE Pillar, delivering ultra-low latency and high throughput across both venues, cementing NYSE as the premier destination for options innovation and execution.
Contact
Franklin Maldonado
franklin.maldonado@nyse.com
Gold Sponsors
Visit https://www.citadelsecurities.com
Citadel Securities is a next-generation capital markets firm and a leading global market maker, providing institutional and retail investors with the liquidity they need to trade a broad array of equity and fixed-income products in any market condition. At Citadel Securities, the brightest minds in finance, science, and technology use powerful, advanced analytics to solve the market's most critical challenges, turn big ideas into real-world outcomes, and accelerate their careers.
Contact
Mike Harrington
Michael.Harrington@citadelsecuritites.com
At State Street Investment Management, we draw from our global scale and market-tested expertise to help create original solutions and better outcomes for our clients and the world’s investors.
Contact
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.
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Joe Sellitto
joseph.sellitto@sig.com
Visit https://www.wellsfargo.com/cib/
About Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services. A trusted partner to our clients, we provide corporate and transactional banking, commercial real estate lending and servicing, investment banking, equity and fixed income solutions including sales, trading, and research capabilities to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe. Our office locations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking is part of Wells Fargo. Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). Wells Fargo is a leading financial services company with 1.9 trillion in assets that proudly serves consumers, small businesses, and middle market and large companies. We partner with our customers to help them achieve their financial goals and with our communities to make a positive impact.
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Kevin McCarthy
J.Kevin.McCarthy@wellsfargo.com
Silver Sponsors
Visit www.abnamroclearing.com
Clearing listed U.S. futures, equities, equity options and cash treasuries is within the DNA of ABN AMRO Clearing. In the United States, ABN AMRO maintains a large market share on the major exchanges providing clearing, stock loan, back-office support and risk-management on listed futures, equities and equity options. If adding U.S. products and services to your portfolio is in your growth plans, please let us know how we can help design a road map for product expansion.
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Ronald Breault
ronald.breault@abnamroclearing.com
Visit https://business.bofa.com/content/boaml/en_us/home.html
We provide services across the world's debt, equity, commodity, and foreign exchange markets to approximately 8,000 clients consisting of asset managers, hedge funds, pensions, and insurance, coporates, governments and other financial institutions.
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Mauricio Izurieta
mauricio.izurieta@bofa.com
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.
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Frank Bednarz
Frank.bednarz@chicagotrading.com
Visit https://clearstreet.io
Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale. We give our clients the technology, tools and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and transforms how they interact with markets tomorrow. For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.
Contact
Farid Zainal
fzainal@clearstreet.io
Visit https://dashfinancial.com/
Dash Financial Technologies is a technology-driven, pure agency broker-dealer specializing in electronic execution and capital markets technology solutions. Founded in 2011 on the core principles of transparency, customization, and data-driven service, Dash delivers advanced trading technologies, execution services, analytics, and regulatory solutions to institutional clients.
Contact
Eugene Kearns
eugene.kearns@iongroup.com
Visit https://www.eurex.com/ex-en/
As the leading European derivatives exchange and one of the leading clearing houses globally, Eurex provides you with innovative solutions to seamlessly manage risk - being architects of trusted markets characterized by liquidity, efficiency, and integrity.
Our vision is to be the globally trusted leading architect of trading, clearing and risk management services. Driving the industry with an extensive offer of innovative products.
Our mission is to create better markets.
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Alexander Ballenger
alexander.ballenger@eurex.com
Visit https://www.exegy.com/
Exegy is a global leader in low-latency market data, trading, and execution technology, delivering innovative solutions that power the world’s capital markets. Backed by Marlin Equity Partners, Exegy provides comprehensive, end-to-end systems for the entire market ecosystem—including buy-side and sell-side firms, exchanges, and ISVs.
Contact
Grady Moore
gmoore@exegy.com
Visit https://www.goldmansachs.com/
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution providing a comprehensive suite of investment banking, investment management, execution, and clearing services. With over 40 years of experience in clearing, Goldman Sachs facilitates seamless transaction settlement and financing across major global equities and derivatives exchanges for a diverse client base including broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and institutions. Global execution capabilities which provide agency execution as well as principal liquidity, DMA, smart order routing and access to non-displayed liquidity combined with a robust post-trade clearing platform, enables clients to efficiently navigate multiple asset classes, currencies, and jurisdictions.
Contact
Eric Rhodes
eric.rhodes@gs.com
Visit https://www.imc.com/
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Founded in 1989, IMC employs more than 1,900 talented individuals across offices in Europe, the US, Asia-Pacific and India. Its core business is to provide essential liquidity in financial assets on trading venues, and to deliver the best outcome in value and risk to investors. IMC engages in trading activities on its own account and employs advanced algorithms, statistical techniques, and innovative technologies to execute its strategies. Its venture capital arm, IMC Trading & Tech Investments, connects innovative trading start-ups and scale-ups with IMC’s world-class expertise and financial backing to drive long-lasting value and success across the industry.
Contact
Shawn Cruz
shawn.cruz@imc.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
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Drew Krichman
dkrichman@janestreet.com
Visit https://www.lseg.com/en/data-analytics
LSEG Data & Analytics is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure. With over 40,000 customers and 400,000 end users across approximately 190 markets, we are an essential partner to the global financial community and redefining the future of data in financial services. We enable customers to draw crucial insights through data, feeds, analytics, AI and workflow solutions.
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Bennett McCabe
bennett.mccabe@lseg.com
Visit https://www.matrixexecutions.com/
Matrix is a technology-driven firm founded by innovators and trusted, experienced industry professionals. We provide exceptional technology and execution services for the trading community. The ability to quickly adapt to the ever-changing derivatives trading landscape is based on our deep industry involvement, our extraordinary staff, and our entrepreneurial spirit. Exceptional execution services come from having close client relationships to assess their unique needs, experienced engineers to deliver innovative technology, and vast knowledge of handling derivatives execution for 20+ years. We strive to provide the most advanced technology and best service in the business.
Contact
Liza Serro
Liza.Serro@matrixexecutions.com
Visit www.morganstanley.com
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in 42 countries, the firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com
Contact
mset-options@morganstanley.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://www.spiderrock.net/
SpiderRock deploys some of the most innovative execution, risk management, and analytics solutions available for the U.S. equity, options, and futures markets and soon will support foreign derivatives markets, starting with Europe. SpiderRock offers certain financial services through its wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary, SpiderRock EXS, LLC (member of FINRA/NFA/SIPC). SpiderRock also provides market data and analytics services through SpiderRock Data and Analytics businesses.
Contact
Pat Read
learn@spiderrock.net
Visit https://securitytraders.org/
Security Traders Association (STA) is a grassroots organization comprised of more than 20 Affiliates in the U.S. and Canada. STA members represent individuals employed in the financial services industry across varying business models. STA educates its members on market structure issues while representing their interests with legislators, regulators and other industry associations. STA events keep attendees informed on industry trends and provide unique networking opportunities, which contribute to career development and productivity. STA is committed to promoting goodwill and fostering high standards of integrity in accord with its founding principle, dictum meum pactum, “my word is my bond.”
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Dawn Combs
dawn@securitytraders.org
Visit https://sterlingtradingtech.com/
Sterling Trading Tech (Sterling) is a leading provider of professional trading technology solutions for the global equities, equity options, futures, fixed income, mutual funds, FX, and crypto markets. With over 100 clients across more than 20 countries, Sterling delivers fast, reliable platforms tailored to the needs of brokers, clearing firms, and prop trading groups. Sterling is committed to innovation, stability, and exceptional client service.
Contact
Keith Cacciola
keith.cacciola@sterlingtradingtech.com
Visit www.thetadata.net
Theta Data is a leading market data provider of options and stocks data. Our mission is to empower users with the reliable data they need for informed decision-making. With a commitment to speed and breadth of information, Theta Data stands at the forefront of the market data industry, providing the tools and insights necessary to thrive in today's fast-paced and competitive markets.
Contact
Bailey Danseglio
bailey@thetadata.net
Visit https://www.tradeweb.com/
Description: Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing, and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale, retail, and corporates markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $2.6 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters.
Contact
Emily Gilfillan
emily.gilfillan@tradeweb.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.wedbush.com/
Wedbush is a full-service investment firm with multi-asset capabilities and strong execution across equities and derivatives. With over 70 years of market leadership, we are defined by a relentless focus on client service and a commitment to excellence. Our differentiated research and deep market expertise enable us to deliver actionable insights and innovative solutions for institutional and individual investors.
Contact
Michael O'Callaghan
michael.ocallaghan@wedbush.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
Bronze Sponsors
Visit https://www.futuclearing.com/
FUTU is a leading global investment and trading platform trusted by more than 27 million investors worldwide. FUTU/Moomoo enables users to make well-informed investment decisions. With advanced charting tools, pro-level analytical features, FUTU fosters a dynamic community where investors can share, learn, and grow together. Founded in the US, FUTU has expanded its global presence to serve investors across Singapore, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, and New Zealand. The company is an independent brand of FUTU Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU), a Hong Kong-based fintech company transforming the investing experience by offering digital financial services in multiple markets.
Contact
Yong Jiang
yjiang@futuclearing.com
Visit https://mcapmarkets.com/
MCAP is a leading financial technology firm and one of the most active electronic market makers in securities globally. Operating across more than 40 countries, the firm trades over 10,000 securities and executes 500,000+ transactions each month. Through its core businesses—Market Making, Platform Solutions (QwickRoute), and Data Analytics—MCAP delivers deep liquidity, advanced execution capabilities, and actionable market insights to institutional clients. MCAP’s mission is to drive greater efficiency, transparency, and innovation across global financial markets, empowering institutions to navigate today’s fast moving trading environment with confidence.
Contact
Daniel Seidenstein
daniel.seidenstein@mcapmarkets.com
Supporter
Visit https://www.instinet.com/
Contact
Instinet Options Desk
USOptions@instinet.com
Visit https://www.sifma.org/
SIFMA is the voice of the nation's securities industry. We advocate for effective and resilient capital markets.
Contact
Katie Kolchin
kkolchin@sifma.org
Visit https://tnsi.com/solutions/waypoint/
Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, is a global provider of mission-critical trading infrastructure. Built on the combined strengths of TNS’ Financial Markets business and Radianz, Waypoint supports financial institutions globally across the full trading infrastructure stack - combining the world’s largest financial extranet, a managed low-latency platform with global hosting and exchange access, and fully managed market data operations. With decades of experience operating financial market infrastructure, Waypoint maintains an extensive global footprint across major financial centers, supported by 24x7x365 operational teams, deep local expertise and end-to-end management delivered by multidisciplinary technical experts.
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Trista Burke
tburke@tnsi.com