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Build Your Business with FPL.

Member Benefitsfor Vendors.

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Invest in your FIX Infrastructure

Protect your FIX investments and ensure FIX remains the de facto

open standard

Win customer confidence as a FIX influencer involved at the

foundation of the protocol’s evolution

Build your product roadmap with a FIX-insider position and shape the

direction of your bottom line

Participate with industry peers on uniquely neutral territory

Gain member-only access to FPL’s working groups and committees

Lobby and vote for FIX developments

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Enhanced Risk Mitigation for Vendors

Develop more efficient solutions

Reduce costs

Mitigate risk by avoiding non-standard processes that introduce

additional risk

Benefit from shared industry learning for the standardisation of

operational processes

Leverage global industry resources

Facilitate transparent industry-benchmarking

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FPL Groups of Vendor Interest

FIXIPL Working Group

Providing a benchmark to measure the speed of a trade as it moves

though different systems at multiple exchanges, trading venues and

investment banks

Risk Management Working Group

Recommended pre-trade and intra-day risk controls

Providing practical guidelines for brokers

Encouraging a standardised, core set of recommended risk management

controls for electronic equity trades delivered directly to an algorithmic

trading product, or to a direct to market (DMA) trading destination

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FPL Groups of Vendor Interest (cont.)

FPL Germany, Nordic, Russia, China, India, APAC, Singapore, Australia and

LATAM Working Groups

Addressing key issues, challenges and opportunities in the regions

Supporting the growth of electronic trading practices and FIX adoption

locally

High Performance Working Group

Focusing on specific aspects where fit-for-purpose high performance FIX

transactions can be improved

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Build Your Pipeline at FPL Events

Use your membership position to shape FPL conference agendas

and participate on panel discussions

Meet with your existing customers to discuss latest innovation

Attract new business

Save on your marketing budget with 25% plus sponsor discount at all

FPL events

Complimentary conference passes

Preferential booth locations in exhibit halls

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Gain Powerful Voting Rights

Receive voting rights for FPL committee elections

Receive voting rights for decisions shaping the development of the

FIX protocol

Non members are not eligible to vote

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Access FPL’s Restricted Member Portal

Receive latest specification development updates and insider news

via FPL’s member-only newsletter and blogs

Exclusive access to member-only resources such as FIX Repository,

FIXimate and FIXwiki

Freely access the FIX Protocol specification archive

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A Sampling of FPL Premier Global Vendor Members