Sponsors
  • IB Group has been building electronic access trading technology since its inception in 1977 that delivers real advantages to professionals worldwide. IB is the biggest nonbank brokerage firm, which went public on NASDAQ Stock Market in May 2007, and currently we hold $4.9 billion in equity capital. Interactive Brokers' headquarters are in the USA, and the offices spread throughout Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Australia, Russia, Japan, India, China and other countries. As a regulated broker, IB is subject to financial regulators in many countries of the four continents. As an automated global electronic broker and market maker, IB provides electronic access to options, futures, stocks, forex and bonds on over 90 market destinations in more than 20 countries. IB Group‘s award-winning trading software TWS provides real-time news, quotes and chart analysis, which provides investors the most competitive and innovative trading services. Since the commitment of providing cost-effective services, IB has become one of the world's leading E-brokers with customers in 140 countries, 850 employees worldwide and over 1, 000,000 trades per day.
  • Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of financial information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical financial information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and Multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services, including the BLOOMBERG NEWS® service, BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® network and BLOOMBERG RADIO® services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and Multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. In addition, the award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® Web site provide financial news and insight to business leaders and financial professionals.
  • CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. The company is comprised of four major futures exchanges – CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX – and offers the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange. Our products cover all major asset classes, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. Buyers and sellers of our futures and options products come together through our CME Globex electronic trading platform and our trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world. CME Clearing provides clearing and settlement services for exchange–traded contracts, as well as for over–the–counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets. CME Group's vision is one of ongoing global growth, innovative product development, continually enhanced technology and the highest levels of service of any Exchange globally.
  • The Shidler College of Business offers a unique degree in Financial Engineering with a mission of excellence in research, education, and the environment. Since Hawai'i's mid-Pacific location exposes our state and businesses to hurricanes and floods, the Shidler MFE program will also specifically focus on modeling, valuation, and hedging of weather derivatives. We are also one of the first MFE programs, which offer a course on financial correlation modeling.