Christopher Rodriguez

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. provides a marketplace for trading energy futures & options in the crude oil, natural gas, heating oil and unleaded gasoline markets, as well as for trading precious and base metals futures & options in the gold, silver, and copper markets. It facilitates the buying & selling of energy and metal commodities for future delivery. The company was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Eris Exchange LLC operates as a futures exchange. Its U.S. dollar-denominated Eris Exchange interest rate swap futures contract clears at CME clearing, embeds the cash flows of an OTC interest rate swap, and provides significant capital savings to clients through portfolio margining with CME eurodollars, treasury futures and deliverable swap futures positions. The company was founded by Neal Brady in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 2008, ABN AMRO, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They are a subsidiary of ABN AMRO North America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Amsterdam-based RFS Holdings BV. ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. They focus on consumer and commercial clients in their local markets and focus globally on select multinational corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients. ABN AMRO is active in four principal customer segments: Personal Banking, Private Banking, Business and Commercial and Corporate and Institutional. While they serve a broad range of clients, their strategic focus is on the mid-market segment