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Cognito has built a high level of expertise and understanding of the financial and financial IT markets over many years, providing communications services to organizations from a wide range of sectors. The following list is an example of Cognito's clients, past and present.
Hedge Funds / Exchanges/Brokerages / Financial Institutions / Asset Managers / Consulting Firms / Financial Systems / Media/Events / Other
Financial Institutions / Asset Managers
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Is the eighth largest bank in Europe and 13th in the world based on total assets, with more than 4,500 branches in 53 countries, a staff of over 110,000 full-time employees and total assets of EUR 986 billion (as at 30 June 2006).
www.abnamro.com |
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Is a full service provider of payment, collection, liquidity and investment management, trade finance, commercial card and information solutions.
www.jpmorganchase.com |
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Is one of the oldest money managers in the United States, An independent, privately-held firm managing approximately USD 107 billion in assets, Lord Abbett offers a full range of mutual funds, institutional and individually managed accounts.
www.lordabbett.com |
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Is the third largest corporate and investment bank in the eurozone, with presence in 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
www.socgen.com |
Exchanges / Brokerages
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Is an unconflicted agency broker delivering neutral and high-speed direct market access trading on leading stock exchanges. The company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and has operations in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the US and the UK.
www.neonet.biz |
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Is one of the largest independent derivatives brokerage firms in the United States and serves institutional clients throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
www.iaenglander.com |
Hedge Funds
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Is an alternative asset management firm specializing in fixed income securities. HFH Group's investment activities focus on relative value opportunities within the universe of mortgage- and asset-backed securities. HFH Group is currently registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser.
www.hfh.com |
Consulting Firms
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Is a market-leading provider of specialised trade receivables securitization solutions, providing consulting, advisory and technology services to a diverse range of multi-national clients.
www.demica.com |
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Is a London-based capital markets consultancy working with investment banks, hedge funds and asset management firms to deliver solutions that work across trading, risk management, operations and supporting functions.
www.greyspark.com |
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Is an independent management consulting firm focusing on the global financial markets industry. Its focus is to achieve timely, bottom line results in the areas of strategy, finance, operations and technology for Capital Markets, Investment Management and Private Equity businesses.
www.milestonenyc.com |
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Is a leading international consultancy specialising in capital markets technology. It offers solutions for business critical systems across all asset classes, with particular focus on risk, electronic trading and data management.
www.net2s.com |
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Provides specialised systems and business process consultancy for treasury, cash, debt and risk management solutions across a range of sectors, including corporate treasury, government institutions, banks, central banks and asset managers.
www.nfs-group.com |
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Stone House provides strategic, operational & IT consulting to
investment managers and hedge funds
www.stonehouseconsulting.com |
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Provides financial markets research and advisory firm based on interview-based research and analysis and offers acquisition, due diligence and business continuity strategies and consulting.
www.tabbgroup.com |
Financial Systems
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Is the leader in high-performance, low-latency messaging solutions for financial institutions. Founded in 2002 by Mark Mahowald (former COO of Talarian), 29West team members have been at the forefront of high-speed, real-time data distribution and networking since the mid-1980s. 29West has offices in Chicago, New York, London and Tokyo.
www.29west.com |
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Is an award-winning leader in complex event processing technology, allowing both the buy- and sell-sides to quickly build and deploy real-time applications, that can analyze and respond instantly to high-volume and high-speed data in order to minimize risk and increase competitive advantage.
www.aleri.com |
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Is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA is headquartered in San Jose, California with 91 offices in 38 countries.
www.bea.com |
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Delivers Best Execution and Market Conformity solutions to leading
Global banks across Europe. b-next has an extensive portfolio of
solutions to detect and deter market abuse, insider trading and
conflicts of interest.
www.b-next.com |
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Bonaire is focused on providing revenue management and accounting software and services solutions to the asset management industry. Clients include industry leading institutional and segregated account investment managers, mutual funds, wealth managers, broker/dealers, RIAs, banks/trusts, fund administrators and custodians. www.bonairesoft.com |
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Is one of the world’s leading international communications companies, providing mobile, broadband, domestic and international fixed line services as well as finance, enterprise and carrier solutions.
www.cw.com |
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Is a global provider of an integrated trading and risk management application suite with other 90 top tier customers including seven of the top ten banks. Calypso specializes in derivative and treasury products.
www.calypso.com |
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Develops, deploys and supports leading edge automated accounting and operations solutions for the alternative investment industry.
www.cogencysoft.com |
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Is a global provider of trading and connectivity solutions that enable financial institutions to deliver customized, real-time, electronic trading services to their clients.
www.cognotec.com |
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A unit of Cantor Fitzgerald, is a technology provider for the financial capital markets. Its system trades products ranging from US treasuries and European government bonds to futures and foreign exchange, enabling traders to conduct over USD 45 trillion of transactions annually.
www.espeed.com |
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Is a global leader in the provision of comprehensive solutions for the finance industry. Fernbach offers a sophisticated component-based solution portfolio which ensures data consistency independent of actual business processes and can calculate complex financial ratios.
www.fernbach.com |
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Is a global provider of real world portfolio and risk management solutions for quantitative analysts and portfolio managers. Its Cognity software suite incorporates the latest and most transparent advances in analytics, including comprehensive treatment of real world fat-tailed and skewed asset returns.
www.finanalytica.com |
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Is a financial services IT consulting firm specializing in delivering customized solutions to clients trading in the capital markets. Finetix is headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Toronto and Houston.
www.finetix.com |
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Fundtech is a global company which develops transaction banking systems - offered as either a software license or Software as a Service (SaaS). Major product lines are: payments and liquidity management; cash management, financial messaging through the world’s largest SWIFT service bureau, financial supply chain including: electronic invoice presentment and trade services; remote deposit capture; merchant services such as credit card gateways; and mobile banking.
www.fundtech.com |
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Is the market leader in the development and deployment of post-trade, pre-settlement solutions.
www.omgeo.com |
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Offers comprehensive IT solutions for the asset management sector, drawing on three complementary areas of expertise: packaged software solutions; systems integration; and application service provider (ASP).
www.linedata.com |
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Provides system solutions and outsourcing services to exchanges, clearing houses, CSDs, banks and brokerage firms, as well as participants on energy markets.
www.omxgroup.com |
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Is a leading developer of broker-neutral, automated trading software for
global equities, futures, options and FX. With offices in New York,
London, Hong Kong, and Hyderabad, Portware works in partnership with its
clients to create highly integrated solutions to streamline workflow and
increase operational efficiencies on trading desks worldwide.
Portware's
flagship product, Portware Enterprise, is a fully customizable,
FIX-compliant trade management and execution system for single asset,
portfolio, basket, automated and algorithmic trading. Portware
Enterprise has been implemented at more than 100 financial firms
worldwide, including sell-side program trading desks, quantitative hedge
funds and investment management firms.
www.portware.com |
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Is the leading provider of innovative wireless software for the financial services industry. Its Mobile mPlatform® solutions are used by mobile financial professionals to extend critical business data from internal enterprise systems to the mobile device of their choice.
www.pyxismobile.com |
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Is a financial software company that provides state-of-the-art models, pricing tools, and risk analysis for the world's credit markets. Our goal is to set the global standard for advanced credit modelling and risk analysis.
www.quantifisolutions.com |
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Is the first 3rd-generation multi-asset trading and order management system for sell-side and buy-side financial institutions. It allows users to trade listed and structured instrument types across all asset classes on the same platform.
www.quodfinancial.com |
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Since 1971, SimCorp has been providing investment and portfolio management software and services to global investment managers, asset managers, fund managers, fund administrators, pension funds, insurance funds and wealth managers.
www.simcorp.com |
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Develops ultra low latency trading solutions for faster and smarter trading. Skyler Technology, Inc. is a privately held company located in Concord, California with offices in New York and London.
www.skylertech.com |
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Provides hosted trading solutions services for the hedge fund industry, delivering front-to-back office functionality, portfolio management, customized reporting, market data integration, prime broker and fund administrator connectivity and disaster recovery.
www.skyroadasp.com |
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Delivers front-to-back office, cross-asset derivatives solutions for buy- and sell-side organizations, including global investment banks and hedge funds.
www.sophis.net |
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Tradeweb is a leading provider of online markets and a pioneer in the development of electronic trading and trade processing. The company provides services in the fixed income, derivative, and equity markets to clients in more than 50 countries.
www.tradeweb.com |
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Is a leading provider of financial message processing platforms for global corporates and banks.
www.traxfinance.com |
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Provides strategic software solutions for the financial industry, offering an enterprise suite for managing financial resources globally.
www.trema.com |
Media / Events
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EuroFinance is the specialist in cash and treasury management
conferences, training and research. Part of the Economist Group, the
company has a reputation for producing the most innovative and
prestigious events in this area. Each year, the team travels to over 40
countries, interviewing around 2,000 corporate treasury professionals
from the global 500 companies. This gives them a unique insight into the
trends and behaviour in treasury and cash management and an unrivalled
global viewpoint.
www.eurofinance.com |
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Was founded in 1969 and is listed on the Stock Exchanges in London and Luxembourg. It is a leading international business to business publisher, focused primarily on international finance. It publishes more than 100 magazines, newsletters and journals as well as surveys, directories, books and maps.
www.euromoneyplc.com |
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Annual Excellence in IT awards is respected across the finance sector as recognizing genuine achievement by technologists.
www.efinancialnews.com |
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Marcus Evans is one of the world's leading providers and promoters of
Strategic Conferences, Professional Training, In-Company Training,
Business-to-Business Congresses, Corporate Hospitality and on-line
information.
Founded in 1983, the company now employs over 3000 employees operating
into 54 offices, in 31 countries around the world. The company's
revenues are generated from clients from the majority of the world's top
1000 companies. The company's international network of offices provides
a one-stop shop for a company's business intelligence, learning and
training needs.
www.marcusevans.com |
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Osney Media Is a global company offering a combination of live events, bespoke training courses and publications catered to buy-side practitioners responsible for client reporting, performance measurement and operations, and trading and information technology.
www.osneymedia.com |
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WBR is the world's biggest large-scale conference company and part of the PLS group, one of the world's leading providers of strategic business intelligence with 16 offices worldwide. WBR hosts over 60 annual conferences on an annual basis attended by over 10,000 senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies attend over 60 annual conferences – a true ‘who’s who’ of today’s corporate world. From Automotive events in Bucharest to Logistics conferences in Arizona and Finance summits in Hong Kong, WBR is dedicated to exceeding the needs of its customers around the world.
www.wbresearch.com |
Other
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7city Learning is a global financial services training company providing
solutions for financial and professional skills training. 7city has a
range of training solutions designed to increase professional skills,
improve performance and ensure the most effective and flexible approach
to enhancing financial knowledge.
www.7city.com |
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Comprised of leading executives from hundreds of institutions worldwide, ISITC provides members with the means to revolutionize the securities-trading process. ISITC brings together broker/dealers, custodians, investment managers, vendors/utilities and other industry professionals to develop proposed standards that are designed to enhance efficiencies in trade processing and related communications.
www.isitc.org |
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