Tradetech Awards 2008 The Shangri-La, Singapore After 3 successful years as Asia's leading electronic trading conference its time for all of us to recognise the achievements of the industry and to showcase the very best of the best. Worldwide Business Research is proud to announce their inaugural Trade Tech Asia Awards and Gala Dinner 2008.Relax, wine and dine at Asia's premier industry event for showcasing excellence in the Asian electronic trading industry. The Awards will be open to all financial services professionals active in Asia in equities and Award nominations are encouraged from ALL industry participants.

Categories for 2008:

• Best (Standard & Alternative) Execution Venue of the Year
  
• Most Innovative Product Of The Year Or Use Of Product (open to buy and sell side)
  
• Best Asian Vendor of the Year (i.e. for data, OMS or EMS)
  
• Outstanding Individual Contribution to Electronic Trading Award

Winners will be chosen by a completely objective panel of experts.To ensure objectivity none of the judges firms can be nominated forany category.

The Judging Process:A panel of industry Judges has been assembled to assess all thenominations in a rigorously independent and impartial processmanaged by WBR. The judges, drawn from the ranks of industrypractitioners and thought leaders, will evaluate all the nominationsto determine the shortlist, and selected a winner in each category,with the results kept confidential until the Awards ceremony.

Judges for 2008

Our distinguished judges for 2008 include some of the most experienced people in the industry. WBR would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions:

	Ned Phillips Chief Executive Officer BlocSec
	Neil Katkov Group Head of Asia Research, Celent Japan
	John Honeyman Vice President Asian Equity - Senior ECS Sales JP Morgan
	Richard Coulstock Head of Equity Dealing, Prudential Asset Management
	John Lee Editor The Trade

Nominations Short List

Best Asian Execution Venue of The Year

• BNP Paribas
  
• Credit Suisse (Crossfinder)
  
• Instinet
  
• Liquidnet

Most Innovative Product Of The Year Or Use Of Product

• BIX (BNP Paribas Internal eXchange) – BNP Paribas
  
• Algorithms Suite – Credit Suisse
  
• Asian Trading Platform – Fidessa Latent Zero
  
• ODIN – Financial Technologies
  
• Korea Cross – Instinet
  
• Triton® Execution Management System - ITG

Best Asian Vendor of the Year

• Charles River Development
  
• Fidessa
  
• Financial Technologies
  
• Flextrade
  
• Tora Trading
  
• Trading Screen

The nominees for the Outstanding Individual Contribution to Electronic Trading Award will be announced later.

Nominations:

For more information about how to nominate yourself / yourclient please call Andrew Thake on +65 6408 9210 or athake@wbresearch.com.

Alternatively go to www.tradetechasia.com Nominations close on September 30th 2008.

When sending in your nominations please:

• Indicate the award that you are putting yourself / your client forward for
• Supply 100-400 words supporting your case. Please provide any independent evidence in terms of news coverage, independent league table performance, client testimonials and company press releases

All nominations to be submitted to Andrew.thake@wbresearch.com +65 6408 9210

All nominations to be received by 30th September. The shortlist will be printed on the website shortly afterwards

Sponsorship opportunities:

For more information about sponsoring an award or taking a table, please contact Pete Mitchell Tel: +971 4 365 4118 pete.mitchell@wbr.ae