Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and our independently owned Member Firms provide consulting solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit to our clients through our network of more than 70 offices in over 20 countries. For more information, please visit the Protiviti website.

BBVA is a customer-centric global financial services group founded in 1857. The Group has a strong leadership position in the Spanish market, is the largest financial institution in Mexico, it has leading franchises in South America and the Sunbelt Region of the United States; and it is also the leading shareholder in Garanti, Turkey’s biggest bank for market capitalization. Its diversified business is focused on high-growth markets and it relies on technology as a key sustainable competitive advantage. Corporate responsibility is at the core of its business model. BBVA operates with the highest integrity, a long-term vision and applies the best practices. For more information, please visit BBVA's website here.

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses: ▪ French Retail Banking which encompasses the Societe Generale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation; ▪ International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services to Corporates, with networks in Africa, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets; ▪ Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions. Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (World and Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Euronext Vigeo (World, Europe and Eurozone), four of the STOXX ESG Leaders indices, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index. For more information, you can follow us on Twitter or visit our website.

Founded in 1997, AdvantageData has been a leading provider of credit and credit derivative pricing, descriptive, financial and analytical information to the world’s top financial institutions for more than two decades. AdvantageData’s workstation provides access to a powerful, comprehensive and global fixed-income platform. Thousands of sell and buy-side fixed-income analysts, traders, portfolio managers and risk management professionals rely on AdvantageData every day to access quality data quickly and easily. Likewise, banks, brokers, mutual funds, hedge funds, asset managers and insurance companies utilize the AdvantageData feeds services for end of day valuation, research, and compliance functions.

Eigen Technologies is a machine learning company based in London and New York. Our mission is to help individuals and organizations make the right decisions, and we do this by unlocking the value of their qualitative data. Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Our simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) product accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows. We use state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to recognize patterns in text and give accurate answers to unique questions. This enables our clients to use data in new ways to make the right business decisions: driving down costs, finding opportunities, calculating risks, and meeting regulatory requirements. Founded in 2014, our clients include some of the most respected names in finance, law, and professional services, including Goldman Sachs, MUFG, A&O, Hiscox, and ING.

Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and our independently owned Member Firms provide consulting solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit to our clients through our network of more than 70 offices in over 20 countries. For more information, please visit the Protiviti website.

At Morgan Lewis, we work in collaboration around the world—always ready to respond to the needs of our clients and craft powerful solutions for them. From our 31 offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, we work with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups. Our team of more than 2,200 lawyers and specialists provides comprehensive corporate, transactional, litigation, and regulatory services in major industries, including energy, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, retail and e-commerce, sports, technology, and transportation. We focus on both immediate and long-term goals with our clients, helping them address and anticipate challenges across vast and rapidly changing landscapes.

For more than 30 years, Murex has been providing enterprise-wide, cross-asset financial technology solutions to capital markets players. Its cross-function platform, MX.3, supports trading, treasury, risk and post-trade operations, enabling clients to better meet regulatory requirements, manage enterprise-wide risk, and control IT costs. With more than 50,000 daily users in 60 countries, Murex has clients in many sectors, from banking and asset management to energy and commodities. Murex is an independent company with over 2,200 employees across 17 countries. Murex is committed to providing cutting-edge technology, superior customer service, and unique product innovation.

Introhive is a sales automation, data enrichment and relationship intelligence software that is driving digital and cultural business transformation. The solution`s patented relationship intelligence platform is helping organisations surface, enrich, automate and sync information from email and disparate systems into CRM. Introhive analyses internal contacts, making it easy to identify `who knows who` across the business. The software produces comprehensive data intelligence and relationship capital that is clean, complete and accurate, which will see an acceleration of sales, marketing and business development activity within the organisation.

Fnality International is the commercial realisation of a four-year Research & Development project that has focussed on understanding how market infrastructure needs to evolve to meet the challenge. Fnality has been founded to create a network of decentralised Financial Market Infrastructures (dFMIs) to deliver the means of payment-on-chain in tomorrow’s wholesale banking markets. Fnality, backed by a consortium of Financial Institutions including many of the Globally Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) who sponsored the “USC Project”, believe that there will be widespread adoption of tokenisation, both for new and for existing assets, creating new Value Chains.

SWIFT is a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance. Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. While SWIFT does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardised financial messages in a reliable way, thereby supporting global and local financial flows, as well as trade and commerce all around the world. Headquartered in Belgium, SWIFT’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. SWIFT’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a $4 billion global Fintech leader and a part of the S&P 500® Index, is a leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and corporate issuers globally. Broadridge's investor communications, securities processing and managed services solutions help clients reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure, allowing them to increase their focus on core business activities. With over 50 years of experience, Broadridge's infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for over 50 percent of public companies and mutual funds globally, and processes on average more than U.S. $7 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day of U.S. and Canadian securities. Broadridge employs over 11,000 full-time associates in 18 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 5,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Linklaters is a leading global law firm working with organisations across the fintech landscape. Our long-standing engagement within this sector, and our relationships with regulators and key industry players from financial market participants to disruptors mean that we understand the issues that currently impact each area of the fintech ecosystem and that matter to our clients. We have first-hand visibility of the changes that have been taking place within the fintech sector as well as a deep understanding of the key issues. Drawing on our strengths across our core practice areas such as corporate, financial regulation, structured finance and technology in key jurisdictions across the globe ensures that our clients receive commercially innovative and technically strong advice to a diverse client base at all stages of growth. For more information, please visit the Linklaters website or their Twitter.

LCH builds strong relationships with credit, equity, fixed income, FX and rates market participants to help drive superior performance and deliver best-in-class risk management. With our accumulated experience and expertise, we are uniquely positioned to help members and clients increase capital and operational efficiency, while adhering to an expanding and complex set of cross-border regulations. Working closely with our stakeholders, we have helped the market transition to central clearing and introduced an array of innovative enhancements, including compression, sponsored clearing, credit index options clearing, contracts for differences clearing, the launch of LCH Spider, our portfolio margining tool, and LCH SwapAgent for managing uncleared swaps. When combined with an uncompromising commitment to service delivery, it's no surprise that LCH is the natural choice of the world’s leading market participants.

We have a long history for being thought leaders and innovators in the capital markets, from advising on the first ever Eurobond launched in 1963, to more recently working with Nivaura on the world’s first fully automated cryptocurrency-denominated bond issuance that was cleared, settled and registered on a public blockchain. We have developers, business analysts, project managers and STEM graduates imbedded within the team working alongside our legal experts to deliver what our clients need across the capital markets, be it for supporting regulatory change in the derivatives market, or developing innovative finance structures for bonds, CLOs, securitisations or other financial products.

Baton Systems is reforming how payments are made in the world’s largest financial markets. By delivering on-demand synchronization and orchestration of asset movements through its distributed ledger-based platform, it is liberating balance sheets and eliminating the need for capital-intensive pre-funding of FX and margin requirements. Founded in 2016 by technology, payments and capital markets veterans, and backed by venture capital, Baton Systems works with numerous market participants – including major global banks, custodian banks and exchanges – to meet today’s demands for capital efficiency, regulatory compliance and operational superiority. Find out more at www.batonsystems.com.

La Place, a meeting point for business leaders, financial institutions, start-ups and investors, continues the mission of this mythic place.

Paris EUROPLACE is the Paris financial services-led body, in charge of developing and promoting Paris as an international financial center. Paris EUROPLACE is chaired by Augustin de ROMANET, Chairman and CEO, Aéroports de Paris (ADP). Paris EUROPLACE brings together all financial services industry stakeholders and is the voice for its 400+ members, corporate issuers, investors, banks and financial intermediaries, professional associations, attorneys and accountants, consulting firms, etc., as well as the financial market authorities. For more information please visit the Paris EUROPLACE website.

INVYO is the first market intelligence platform in the Fintech in Europe. The company offers a SaaS solution that leverages proprietary Big Data analytics and Natural Language Analysis (NLP) technologies to help financial institutions drive their digital transformation strategy. INVYO provides its clients with predictive analysis, sourcing, market intelligence and competitive intelligence tools, and conducts targeted analyzes accessible on request or from its research portal. Since 2015, INVYO has been publishing the Invyo insights information website to monitor industry trends in Europe, Africa and Latin America.

The voice of RegTech globally. The International RegTech Association (IRTA) exists to ease and accelerate the evolution of RegTech. We drive innovation, and we facilitate integration and collaboration, throughout the entire global RegTech community. Founded in 2017, the IRTA global non-profit association with over 100 member firms including RegTech providers; regulated financial institutions; government agencies; regulators and academics. https://regtechassociation.org/

CFTE is an education platform supported by senior leaders from the largest institutions, startups and universities. It addresses the needs of professionals in finance and technologists to upskill in a rapidly changing industry being transformed by emerging technologies. To date, over 40,000 finance professionals have been upskilled through CFTE courses worldwide. The signature Fintech Foundation and AI in Finance online courses have been developed by experts from leading Universities, financial institutions, startups and regulators, such as MIT, Imperial College, Citi or Starling Bank.

Fintech Finance works with prominent executives in the industry to provide key decision-makers globally within the foremost financial services organizations with consistent and accurate intelligence on emerging trends, breakthrough technologies and stimulating developments, helping them to make informed decisions. At Fintech Finance, we produce monthly video episodes looking at range of topics within financial services, as well as attending some of the most prominent events within the sector. www.Fintech.Finance @FintechF

FinTech Futures is a digital publishing platform for the worldwide fintech community. Built on the renowned Banking Technology brand, FF provides daily news, analysis and expert commentary across a comprehensive range of areas: • FinTech • BankingTech • PayTech • RegTech • WealthTech • LendTech • InsurTech Our broad readership and solid reputation, combined with in-depth coverage across fintech on a worldwide scale, makes us the leading resource for technology buyers, sellers, developers, integrators and other specialists across the sector. The FinTech Futures brand incorporates: • Monthly Banking Technology magazine in print and digital • Banking Technology Awards, an annual event recognising excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services, and the people who make it happen • PayTech Awards, an event celebrating the best of the best in paytech industry Fintechfutures.com