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Pat Hickey
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, with more than 240 fully featured services. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, increase security, become more agile, and innovate faster.
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Akeem Hunter
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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.
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Patty Schuler
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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.
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Andy Bevers
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For over 20 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.
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Thomas McArdle
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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 all investors, and advocate for transparent and competitive markets. In 2024, IEX announced its plans to launch IEX Options, a new U.S. options exchange that will bring IEX’s suite of order protection innovations to better address the needs of market makers, pending regulatory approvals. Learn more at iex.io.
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bdteam@iextrading.com
MEMX is a technology-driven exchange operator that provides its members and the global investment community with a simpler, less costly, and more transparent way to access liquidity. The firm currently owns and operates two exchanges trading U.S. equities and U.S. options. MEMX also provides its market technology and services to clients. 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.
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Geralyn Endo
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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.
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Andy Nybo
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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.
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Tanya Patwa
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The New York Stock Exchange is the world's largest stock exchange, with an unmatched community of leading companies.
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Gold Sponsors
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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
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Mike Harrington
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Visit https://clearstreet.io
Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with financial technology and services that empower market participants with real-time data and best-in-class products, tools and teams, to navigate capital markets around the world. Complemented by white-glove service, Clear Street's cloud-native, proprietary product suite delivers financing, derivatives, execution and more to power client success, adding efficiency to the market and enabling clients to minimize risk, redundancy and cost. Clear Street’s goal is to create a single platform for every asset class, in every country and in any currency.
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Jake Pisano
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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
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Rory O'Kane
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Silver Sponsors
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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
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Dash was launched in 2011 with the mission to create elegant, high performance technology solutions for the capital markets community. Founded on a philosophy of transparency, performance, and service we strive to execute our goals with focus and passion, while fostering a culture of education, innovation, and craftsmanship. With offices in New York and Chicago, our initial focus on US listed options solutions has helped propel Dash to become the leading option technology solutions provider in the industry.
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Eugene Kearns
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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.
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Rachna Mathur
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Visit https://www.exegy.com/
Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading and execution systems, and future-proof technology and infrastructure. Backed by Marlin Equity Partners, Exegy serves as a strategic partner to the complete capital markets ecosystem of the buy side, sell side, exchanges, and ISV/technology firms around the globe.
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Ashley Wescott
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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. With over 40 years of experience, Goldman Sachs Clearing provides the expertise to help clients finance and settle transactions on the world’s major equities and derivatives exchanges. Clients include broker dealers, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and corporate institutions. Professional service combined with our global execution offering and post trade clearing platform allows clients to work with multiple asset classes, currencies and jurisdictions seamlessly.
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Eric Rhodes
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Visit https://www.imc.com/us/
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 1,600 talented individuals across offices in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific. 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.
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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.
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Drew Krichman
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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
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Visit https://sterlingtradingtech.com/
Sterling Trading Tech is a leading provider of professional trading technology solutions for the global equities, equity options and futures markets. With over 100 clients including leading brokers, clearing firms and prop groups in over 20 countries, Sterling provides solutions tailored to clients’ needs. Sterling is committed to providing fast, stable technology along with outstanding customer service. Sterling provides trading platforms, OMS, and risk products to its clients.
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Chris DeMaso
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Visit https://sig.com/
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. Our rigorous and analytical approach to decision making has led Susquehanna to become one of the largest and most successful proprietary trading firms in the world. In our offices around the globe, our employees are relentless problem solvers who collaborate to make optimal decisions.
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Bill Fontes
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Visit https://trafix.com/
TRAFiX is a broker neutral FinTech company focused on providing innovative trading applications to the Financial Services Industry. Our products and services include Order and Execution Management solutions, real-time FIX connectivity and normalized API interfaces to address the functional and regulatory requirements of our customers. Our scalable offering has been specifically designed to utilize the latest enhancements in development and enterprise architecture to resolve the growing challenges faced by today’s trading community. TRAFiX currently supports electronic equity, option and complex option trading, however our open architecture allows for the ongoing addition of asset classes. The TRAFiX team has decades of experience and is singularly focused on designing superior applications that integrate within our customer’s technology ecosystem and lowers the total cost of ownership.
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Michael Ottrando
mottrando@trafix.com
Visit https://www.webull.com/
Webull is a leading digital investment platform built on next-generation infrastructure, empowering users with advanced charting tools, real-time data, and low-cost trading across securities, options, and futures. Webull Financial LLC is a registered broker-dealer with the SEC and a futures commission merchant registered with the CFTC. It is a member of FINRA, NFA, and SIPC. Wealth management services and advisory accounts are offered through Webull Advisors LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor. Registration does not imply a certain skill level. All investments involve risks, including the potential loss of principal, and options carry unique risks not suitable for all investors. Please visit www.webull.com/disclosures to read the ODD.
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Arianne Adams
arianne.adams@webull-us.com
Visit https://www.tradewex.com/
WEX along with Wolverine Trading Technologies 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.
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Tim Martin
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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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Steve Crutchfield
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dxFeed is a subsidiary of Devexperts and a leading market data services provider and calculation agent for the capital markets industry. The company focuses primarily on delivering financial information and services to buy- and sell-side institutions in global markets, both traditional and crypto. This includes brokerages, prop traders, exchanges, individuals (traders, quants, and portfolio managers), and academia (educational institutions and researchers). dxFeed has been named the Best Data Provider by the With Intelligence Fund Operations and Services Awards 2025.
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Antonio Goncalves
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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). These services, including SpiderRock ATS, are offered via a trading platform licensed to SpiderRock EXS, LLC by SpiderRock’s subsidiary SpiderRock Platform Services, LLC. SpiderRock also provides market data and analytics services through its subsidiary, SpiderRock Gateway Technologies, LLC.
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Kasia Kobylarz
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Visit https://tradier.com/
Tradier is a full-feature options, equities, and futures broker driving Choice, Service, and Value by providing powerful trading functionality, Robust APIs, Low Cost, and great customer support to Active Traders. Traders have a highly customizable trading experience through a network of 100-plus integrated platforms. Tradier’s unique approach and model have made it a preferred and leading destination for Active Options Traders. Traders can trade commission-free equities and options with an innovative $10 per-month subscription.
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Dan Raju
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Visit https://www.wedbush.com/
Wedbush Securities is a premier securities and investment services firm, providing financial services to individual, institutional, and issuing clients for over seven decades. As an organization, we thrive because of the dedication of approximately 900 colleagues in nearly 100 national offices making Wedbush a unique and successful firm. Our firm’s individuals possess a collective entrepreneurial spirit, are guided by ethics, and are driven to share in an unyielding devotion to our clients. We are focused on delivering best-in-class service with client loyalty and integrity at the forefront of our every action. Our firm continues to grow through exceptional client relationships, with an emphasis and commitment to client financial safety and success.
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Michael O'Callaghan
michael.ocallaghan@wedbush.com
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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.
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Joseph Corcoran
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