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Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs 20,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.
Bloomberg is the leading source of market data, news, and analytics for all financial and legal professionals, corporations, media organizations and individuals around the globe. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and historical pricing, indicative data, reporting, research, estimates, analytics, portfolio-management tools, electronic-trading and order-management systems, multimedia events, and electronic communications to Bloomberg users in more than 150 countries, 24 hours a day.
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With Euro 1,733 billion in assets and 78,896 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.
Global Markets’ equity business, Global Markets Equity, is a market leading provider of equity and equity-linked products to institutional, corporate and retail clients globally. The award-winning platform offers scalability and flexibility in its design, providing a global network of execution services and financial engineering expertise.
Standard & Poor’s comprehensive suite of equity, fixed income, alternative, strategy and custom indices provide investors with an index for every investment. From the investable S&P Global 1200 to the S&P Global Equity Index Series, S&P global equity indices offer accurate measures of the markets by region, sector, style, and size. Recognized as a pioneer in index development for sophisticated index-linked products, S&P has been on the forefront of exchange-traded fund (ETF) development since the launch of the S&P 500 SPDR in 1993. Currently, more than 50% of all U.S. ETF assets are indexed to S&P indices. For a more comprehensive review of Standard & Poor’s indices, please visit the website.
Citi, a leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citi.com.
Citi’s Retail Structured Products Group services institutional investors and retail distribution partners throughout the world to provide cross-asset structured investment strategies, leveraging off Citi's fundamental research capability and the firm's industry-leading derivative research. Under the brand name CitiFirst, we offer a family of structured investments which are tailored to meet the diverse needs of a broad range of investors.
Trading in dynamic foreign exchange markets demands an institution with the strength, products, and technologies you require to manage risk and generate returns. By selecting Credit Suisse as your foreign exchange partner, you will choose an organization with experienced people you can trust, products you require to trade, and systems you need to deal easily and expertly. People, products and technology: with Credit Suisse, everything is in perfect balance.
RBS Global Banking & Markets (GBM) division is a leading banking partner
to major corporations, financial institutions and public sector clients around
the world. GBM provides an extensive range of debt markets, treasury and
investor products, asset and portfolio management and transaction banking
services. The division focuses on long-term customer relationships and
excellence in global product execution.
RBS Investor Products
We offer a wide` variety of products to suit institutional, corporate, and
retail market views and risk appetites. Our 300 dedicated front office
professionals globally offer innovative derivative solutions across multiple
asset classes in a variety of formats. From vanilla to complex, we aim to
provide solutions that are tailored to meet your needs.
Numerix® is the leading provider of cross-asset analytics that enable structuring, valuation and risk management for all types of derivatives and structured products, from vanillas to exotics. Founded in 1996, Numerix has developed a network of over 40 partners, and serves more than 400 financial institutions across 25 countries.
At the core of Société Générale's universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with 12,000 professionals present in over 40 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.
For Corporates, Financial Institutions and Public Sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.
For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes.
BBVA is a financial services group with more than €535 billion in total
assets, 48 million clients, 7,466 branches and 104,000 employees in more than 30
countries. The BBVA Group maintains a leadership position in Spain, Mexico,
Latin America and the Sunbelt Region of the United States. BBVA is also
developing strong operations in Asia, specifically in China.
BBVA Global Markets, a client-focused area, provides corporates and
institutional investors around the world with a wide array of investment and
risk management solutions. These solutions are built by combining an integrated
range of value added products manufactured in its trading rooms in Europe,
America and Asia
The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with well-established businesses in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Head office HSBC Holdings plc is incorporated in England, with its head office in London. HSBC has around 9,500 offices in 86 countries and territories worldwide. HSBC has 100 million customers worldwide.
HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. HSBC Global Banking and Markets in the United States offers a full range of tailored financial products through HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and HSBC Global Asset Management.
About Maxim Group
Taking the future of finance to a new level
As a leading mid-tier investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, Maxim Group provides world-class investment banking, asset management, research and sales & trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Building strong relationships with our clients is the cornerstone of the Maxim Group experience. Our approach, combined with investment flexibility and sharp insight, is what sets us apart from others in the industry.
Maxim’s Fixed Income Group (FIG) has assembled a team of dedicated sales and trading professionals with more than 100 years of collective experience who interface with a worldwide network of institutional and retail clients. FIG is an active market participant in a comprehensive range of sectors, including High-Yield and High-Grade Corporate Bonds, Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities (MBS, ABS), U.S. Treasury and Agency Securities, Structured Products, Preferred Stock, Convertible Bonds, Municipal Bonds. Maxim Group is registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 37 countries.
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies, representing nearly 40 percent of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. As of December 31, 2009, NYSE Arca, NYSE Euronext's US market for ETFs, listed 738 ETFs, 50 ETVs, 89 ETNs, and 190 Certificates, while trading all other eligible ETPs on an Unlisted Trading Privileges basis. On its European markets, NYSE Euronext had 449 ETFs, 42 ETVs, 5 ETNs, and listed 12,762 Certificates and Covered Warrants.
The Russell Indexes are a comprehensive family of U.S. and global equity indexes which allow investors to seamlessly track performance of distinct market segments worldwide. Created in 1984, the Russell Indexes are the most widely used benchmarks by U.S. institutional investors. Today over $4.4 trillion in assets are benchmarked to them. We apply the transparent and objective index methodology we invented originally for the U.S. indexes to the world's equity markets in order to create the Russell global index family. Our pioneering approach to global definitions of cap-size and our fully modular index design for no gaps or overlaps in coverage lead to indexes that are more reflective of the market and therefore make more accurate benchmarks and investment vehicles. Whatever index you require, chances are there is a Russell Index that meets your needs.
Russell Index futures are now trading on ICE and are available there exclusively from September 2008.
STOXX Ltd. is owned by Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Group AG. Launched in 1998, in advance of the completion of the European Monetary Union, the introduction of the Euro and the creation of the Eurozone, the STOXX indices became Europe’s leading equity indices in a fast and impressive success story. By consistently responding to market requirements, STOXX Ltd. further expanded its strategy beyond Europe and now operates as a globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets – developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices. These are licensed to more than 400* companies around the world as the basis for investment products.
