Star One Public Relations: Mar 13, 2013

Closing Deals with Hundreds of Traders & Techies at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London

Golden Networking hosts the World's Most Influential High-Frequency Trading Conference Series, High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges", London (March 21), New York City (May 30) and Chicago (October 8) (www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

New York City, NY, USA (March 13, 2013) -- Finance, technology and consulting firms can provide unique insights from their industry exposure to unique audiences looking to maintain their edge in the competitive investment arena. Golden Networking's forums have been known to raise the profile of both established and emerging firms in finance, technology and consulting. Alternative investments analysts, asset managers, automated traders, chief economists, chief investment officers, chief operating officers, chief risk officers, chief technology officers, developers, financial engineering graduates, fund of funds managers, heads of trading, government regulators, hedge fund managers, high-frequency traders, institutional investors, investment professionals, legal advisors, portfolio managers, proprietary traders, quality directors, quantitative traders, risk managers and statistical arbitrageurs are a few of the titles of attendees expected at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013.

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com), "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges", forums that will be held in London (March 21), New York City (May 30) and Chicago (October 8), will provide the financial and technology communities the opportunity to reach out hedge funds traders, high-frequency trading quants, managers, technologists and practitioners in general while they get the most up-to-date review of where this ever-changing industry stands and is going through inspiring keynote speeches and revealing panel discussions.

Participating as a Sponsor of our High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is an excellent opportunity for finance and technology companies to receive maximum exposure to the high-frequency, quantitative and algorithmic trading communities. Golden Networking is offering three outstanding packages each with a terrific set of privileges for different budgets: Platinum, Gold and Silver, plus specific add-ons that include sponsoring a breakfast, a lunch or a networking reception.

Key Platinum Sponsorship benefits:

- Keynote speaker opportunity

- Top logo placement in ALL program materials

- Top logo placement on website with hyperlink

- Two (2) exhibition stand units

- Complimentary six (6) passes for your clients & prospects

- Acknowledgement of sponsorship during remarks

- Full-page program insert

- Final attendee list with contact information

Key Gold Sponsorship benefits:

- Panelist / moderator opportunity

- Prominent logo placement in ALL program materials

- Prominent logo placement on website with hyperlink

- One (1) exhibition stand unit

- Complimentary 4 passes for your clients & prospects

- Acknowledgement of sponsorship during remarks

- Full-page program insert

- Final attendee list with contact information

Key Silver Sponsorship benefits:

- Logo placement in ALL program materials

- Logo placement on website with hyperlink

- One (1) exhibition stand unit

- Complimentary 2 passes for your clients & prospects

- Acknowledgement of sponsorship during remarks

- Half-page program insert

- Final attendee list with contact information

Key Associate Sponsorship benefits:

- Logo placement on website with hyperlink

- One (1) exhibition stand unit

- Complimentary two (2) passes for your clients & prospects

- Final attendee list with contact information

Key Exhibitor Sponsorship benefits:

- One (1) exhibition stand unit

- Complimentary two (2) passes for your clients & prospects

High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net.

Media Contact:

Julia Petrova

Media Relations Coordinator

Golden Networking

+1-414-FORUMS0

jpetrova@goldennetworking.net

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Google's Top-Ranked HFT Conference to Bring Hundreds of Traders Together in London, NYC and Chicago

Golden Networking hosts the World's Most Influential High-Frequency Trading Conference Series, High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges", March 21 (www.HFTExpertsForum.com).

New York City, NY, USA (March 13, 2013) -- Which is the Google's top-ranked high-frequency trading all over the world? High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013, "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges" (http://www.HFT-Leaders-Forum.com), organized by Golden Networking, will bring the latest on speed trading to the world's financial capitals, London (March 21), New York City (May 30) and Chicago (October 8).

Advanced computerized trading platforms and market gateways are becoming standard tools of most types of traders, including high-frequency traders. Broker-dealers now compete on routing order flow directly, in the fastest and most efficient manner, to the line handler where it undergoes a strict set of Risk Filters before hitting the execution venue(s). Ultra Low Latency Direct Market Access (ULLDMA) is a hot topic amongst Brokers and Technology vendors such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and UBS. Typically, ULLDMA systems can currently handle high amounts of volume and boast round-trip order execution speeds (from hitting "transmit order" to receiving an acknowledgment) of 10 milliseconds or less.

Such performance is achieved with the use of hardware acceleration or even full-hardware processing of incoming market data, in association with high-speed communication protocols, such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet or PCI Express. More specifically, some companies provide full-hardware appliances based on FPGA technology to obtain sub-microsecond end-to-end market data processing. High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 will provide traders, quants and technologists with the most up-to-date review of where this ever-changing industry stands and is going through an inspiring keynote speeches and thought-provoking panels with leaders in the field.

With high-frequency trading the subject of great controversy and debate, many regulations will be bound to change. How will regulations impact the way traders are capturing alpha? Would there be restrictions that can possibly harm algorithmic trading? How the economic and political landscape might impact the pace and severity of these changes?

Finally, there has been a dramatic shift in how instruments are traded in the market. With high frequency trading able to detect price discrepancies in microseconds, aided by technology, regulators have grown increasingly concerned about its impact in market structure and fairness. What is the outlook for the markets when all participants engage in the arms race of super smart algorithms? Where will institutional and retail investors find opportunities? Conversely, could we imagine a world without high-frequency trading?

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com) "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges" will bring insights for investors and speed traders, who need to protect and refine their competitive advantage in a world dominated by algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Recognized practitioners, regulators, experts, and strategists will return to High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, New York City and Chicago to provide hundreds of attendees with the information they are looking for in an open and unbiased environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and effective networking.

Topics that will be discussed at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 include the role of new technologies to achieve low-latency, the movement toward emerging markets, which is increasingly attuned to the use of bots, and the regulatory environment, specifically how new technologies are changing the game, including a look at the upcoming regulatory changes in both sides of the Atlantic.

Media Contact:

Julia Petrova

Media Relations Coordinator

Golden Networking

+1-414-FORUMS0

jpetrova@goldennetworking.net

http://www.goldennetworking.net

Future of Automated Trading According to Foresight Report with Bristol's LSCITS Leader Dave Cliff

New York City, NY, USA (March 13, 2013) -- "What the Foresight Report Tell us About the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets" is the topic of closing keynote speaker professor Dave Cliff, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol and Foresight Project Member of the Lead Expert Group on Algorithmic Trading, at the most influential high-frequency trading conference in the world, Golden Networking's High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges", March 21 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

Advances in technology continue to transform how our financial markets operate. The volume of financial products traded through computer automated trading taking place at high speed and with little human involvement has increased dramatically in the past few years. For example, today, over one third of United Kingdom equity trading volume is generated through high frequency automated computer trading while in the US this figure is closer to three-quarters.

The new two-year Foresight study The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - An International Perspective, sheds new light on technological advances which have transformed market structures in recent years. The independent and international study has involved 150 leading experts from more 20 countries to provide the best possible analysis on computer trading to date. The aim of this project is to make a significant contribution to the challenges computer-based trading brings in the coming years and capitalize on the opportunities it has to offer.

It assembles and analyses evidence on the effect of HFT on financial markets looking out to 2022. A High Level Stakeholder Group, comprised of senior individuals from relevant institutions, provided strategic oversight for the project and advised on the key issues to be addressed.

Sponsored by Her Majesty's Treasury, the project was led by the Government Office for Science under the direction of the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington. It has involved leading experts, among them, Professor Cliff, member of the computer science team at the University of Bristol and Director of the UK Large Scale Complex IT Systems Initiative. Professor Cliff is the inventor of the seminal "ZIP" trading algorithm, one of the first of the current generation of autonomous adaptive algorithmic trading systems, which was demonstrated to outperform human traders in research published in 2001 by IBM.

Prior to joining the University of Bristol in 2007, Professor Cliff held faculty posts at the University of Sussex School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science. He'd also spent roughly half his career working as a researcher in industry: initially for Hewlett-Packard Labs, where he ended up as a Department Scientist; and latterly for Deutsche Bank London, where he was a Director/Trader in their Foreign Exchange Complex Risk Group.

Since October 2005, Professor Cliff has been Director of the UK Research and Training Initiative in the Science and Engineering of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS). This is funded by almost £10m of UK public funds (from EPSRC), with significant support from partners in industry and the UK public sector.

Most of his personal research work in the ten years before he got involved in LSCITS was centered on adaptive automated trading systems for various types of markets, and on automated design of market mechanisms. He started doing this in 1995, for market-based control of ultra-large-scale data-centres. In 2001 a team at IBM showed his "ZIP" trading software beating human traders, which got the attention of various companies in the global financial markets.

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com) "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges" will bring insights for investors and speed traders, who need to protect and refine their competitive advantage in a world dominated by algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Recognized practitioners, regulators, experts, and strategists will return to High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 to provide attendees with the information they are looking for in an open and unbiased environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and effective networking:

- Professor Alex Preda, Professor of Accounting, Accountability and Financial Management, King's College

- Ms. Arlene McCarthy, Vice Chair - Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee and Draftsperson, Market Abuse Directive, European Parliament

- Mr. Axel Pierron, Sr. VP, Securities & Investments, Celent

- Ms. Carol Clark, Sr. Policy Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

- Mr. Chris Skinner, Chairman, Financial Services Club

- Professor Daniel Beunza, Lecturer, London School of Economics

- Professor Dave Cliff, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol

- Mr. David Mills, Sales Director EMEA, Azul Systems

- Mr. Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders

- Mr. Giovanni Beliossi, Managing Partner, FGS Capital

- Mr. Hirander Misra, Chairman, Forum Trading Solutions

- Professor Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Lecturer, London School of Economics

- Dr. Magrino Bini, Statistical Arbitrage Portfolio Manager, Millennium Partners

- Mr. Philip Stafford, FT Trading Room Deputy Editor, Financial Times

- Professor Philip Treleaven, Director, PhD, Centre in Financial Computing, UCL

- Mr. Philippe Guillot, Executive Director of the Markets Division, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF)

- Mr. Sam Tyfield, Partner, Vedder Price, P.C.

- Mr. Stuart Theakston, Head of Research and Automated Trading, GLC

- Dr. Tommi A. Vuorenmaa, Head of Research & Trading, Valo Research and Trading

- Mr. VJ Angelo, Director, Global Markets Exchange Group

- Professor Walter Distaso, Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College London

Media Contact:

Julia Petrova

Media Relations Coordinator

Golden Networking

+1-414-FORUMS0

jpetrova@goldennetworking.net

http://www.goldennetworking.net