Market Makers

Bluefin Trading are specialists in market making ETFs and ETCs across a wide asset classes and issuers. Bluefin has long been established as an on screen official market maker in many stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange, but also offers competitive pricing for OTC counterparties. Our areas of expertise in the ETF space include Commodities, Emerging Markets and Fixed Income products. Our counterparties include banks, private banks, brokerage houses, institutional investors, wealth management and pension funds.

Tel: 0207-509-7059
STX: 71777
Email: europe@bluefintrading.com

Commerzbank is Germany’s second largest bank with over 11 million clients worldwide and one of the leading market makers for ETFs in Europe. Commerzbank has a long standing experience in market making and our capabilities in this space were further highlighted in 2009 when UBS chose Commerzbank to become the sole authorised participant for their ETF offering.

We cover a wide range of ETFs for all the major providers and are active on seven different exchanges in Europe, including the London Stock Exchange (as well as Deutsche Boerse, Borsa Italiana, NYSE Euronext Paris, NYSE Euronext Lisbon, SIX Zuerich, Nasdaq OMX) . We are the biggest Designated Sponsor on Xetra in Germany (currently Europe’s biggest ETF market) as well as in Switzerland.

We are constantly working on expanding our product coverage. Currently we provide liquidity for iShares, db x-trackers, Lyxor, Source, Credit Suisse ETF, UBS ETF, Amundi, ETF Securities, EasyETF, RBS Market Access, SPDR ETF, ETF lab, Invesco PowerShares, ComStage and HSBC ETF.

For further information please contact:

London Dealing Desk                                                               Frankfurt Dealing Desk          
Thomas Weber                                                                        Frank Mohr
Vice President                                                                          Director
+44 (0)20 7475 1759                                                              +49 (0)69 1362 2512
thomas.weber2@commerzbank.com                                         frank.mohr@commerzbank.com 

Flow Traders is an international leader in electronic arbitrage trading and market making. 

We've been named ETF Market Maker Europe in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 at the Global ETF Awards. We're a privately held financial firm, founded in 2004, with operating offices in Amsterdam, Singapore and New York.

We keep pace with global markets' growth by continually building our team of exceptional talent. Our business expands each day by adding new products across an ever-broadening range of markets around the globe. But the backbone of our success is the collection of creative doers, thinkers, and above all, believers who form our team.
www.flowtraders.com

Goldenberg Hehmeyer LLP was founded in December 2005.  The company specialises in electronic arbitraging across exchanges, asset classes and algorithmic trading.  Since August, 2011, Goldenberg Hehmeyer LLP has been making markets in over 70 Exchange Traded Funds on the London Stock Exchange.  The firm leverages off of its traders’ extensive ETF market making experience and industry know-how.  We have been providing competitive two-way prices on all of the major European exchanges as well as off order book, with the emphasis on emerging market and fixed income underlying.

IMC Financial Markets is one of the world's leading electronic market-making firms with offices in Amsterdam, Zug, Chicago, Hong Kong, and  Sydney.  IMC employs a diverse set of sophisticated trading strategies across several asset classes on nearly every major market in the European, North American and Asia Pacific regions. 
 
IMC Financial Markets is one of the largest global market-makers in Exchange Traded Products.  In Europe, IMC is among the top 3 market-makers in terms of on-exchange market share.  Furthermore, IMC puts an emphasis on fostering strong relationships with the ETP issuers, as well as exchanges.  These strategic relationships coupled with our global presence enable us to be a reliable and competitive market-making partner.

Peel Hunt is an independent, full-service broking house. We offer our clients corporate broking/finance, research, sales, sales trading, market making and fixed income services. Our focus is on UK mid and small caps and we have the largest trading platform in our field.
Our strong capital commitment to our market making and trading departments ensures we are regularly ranked as a top market maker. We make markets in over 2,500 UK instruments, including:

»» FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE Small Cap stocks
»» AIM stocks
»» Fixed Income
»» Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)

According to Bloomberg’s reported volume statistics, our market making activities account for nearly 4%* of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
In addition, we make markets in all UK-listed ETFs and we are ranked number one by Bloomberg** for declared volumes in approximately 60 names, and are ranked top five for volumes in most other UK listed ETFs. The team is organised into market sectors to ensure you find highly expert traders. The breadth of our coverage and competitiveness of our pricing make us one of the leading market makers in the UK in terms of market share.

The combination of Peel Hunt’s independence and trading volume in the ETP market ensures our clients receive the highest level of execution, for the best product, at the right price. We strive to keep our clients up to date with all Peel Hunt research, as well as UK equity, economic news and trading flows that may affect the timing and efficiency of an ETP execution.

We have recently published a how to guide on ETFs called ‘ETFs – An introduction for investors’, if you would like to receive a copy of the book, please click here www.peelhunt.com/ETFbook.

Visit www.peelhunt.com for more information on our services.

*Correct as of April 2011
**Correct as of April 2011

UniCredit has demonstrated pioneering leadership in ETFs for over 10 years with a well established and successful ETF team based in London, in Munich and in Milan.

UniCredit is Official Market Maker on all asset classes listed on 9 different European Exchanges (London Stock Exchange-UK, LSE Borsa Italiana-Italy, Deutsche Boerse-Germany, Vienna Stock Exchange-Austria, SIX Swiss Exchange-Switzerland, NYSE Euronext Paris-France, NYSE Euronext Amsterdam-Netherlands,NYSE Euronext Bruxelles-Belgium and Warsaw Stock Exchange-Poland).

UniCredit is Authorized Participant for ETFs issued by: Amundi/Credit Agricole, Comstage/Comeerzbank, CS ETF/Credit Suisse, db x-trackers/Deutsche Bank, EasyETF/BNP Paribas, ETFlab/Deka Bank, ETF Securities, HSBC ETF/HSBC, InvescoPowershares/ Invesco, iShares/Blackrock, LYXOR ETF/ Societe Generale, Ossiam/Natexis, RBS Market Access/RBS, Source ETF, SPDR/ State Street, UBS ETF/UBS).

UniCredit  is substantially involved in the formation of the European ETF market and remain central in ETFs and ETCs for institutional investors with specialized market making and advisory services delivered through a dedicated ETF/ETC Sales Team in its 11th year. Our consistent focus has been second to none and key to such an established track record of success.
This expertise is reflected in various awards including: No. 1 ETF House 2003-2011 on Deutsche Risk Rankings.

Fore mor information contact:
Paolo Giulianini
Managing Director, Head of ETF Trading and Market Making
+44. 20 7826.6789
etftrading@unicredit.eu

Winterflood Securities is an international capital markets firm committed to efficient and responsive liquidity provision with integrity. Classic trading values and sophisticated modern technology combine to deliver a range of highly-flexible execution services custom-designed for each client.

As one of the leading European liquidity providers, Winterflood makes markets in more UK stocks than any other firm (source: London Stock Exchange). Its team of traders bring a wealth of experience and commitment to market making, offering brokers, asset managers and institutional investors over 13,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American equities together with investment trusts, ETPs, Gilts and bonds.
Winterflood also provides low latency integrated electronic trading platforms that allow:

• Immediate access to Winterflood’s internal liquidity in all sectors
• FIX order routing directly to Exchange order books and MTFs
• Dedicated sales trading services for managed orders

Visit  www.winterflood.com