Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a U.S $4 billion global Fintech leader, is a leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and corporate issuers. 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. $8 trillion in fixed income and equity securities trades per day. Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index and employs over 12,000 associates in 17 countries.

Capco is a global technology and management consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to offer our clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, transformation delivery, and managed services, to move their organizations forward. Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we help our clients successfully innovate, increase revenue, manage risk and regulatory change, reduce costs, and enhance controls. We specialize primarily in banking, capital markets, wealth and asset management and insurance. We serve our clients from offices in leading financial centers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit our web site at www.capco.com, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) is the operator of all stock Markets and financial systems in Spain. BME has been a listed company since 2006. In the last years it has become a reference in the sector in terms of solvency, efficiency and profitability. BME offers a wide range of products, services and trading systems based on an advanced and stable proprietary technology. The company also provides global market access systems to issuers, intermediaries and investors in Europe, America and Africa. BME structure is organized into seven business units that represent the broadest and most varied range of products and services that a company in its sector can offer to the financial community: Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Clearing, Settlement, Market Data and Value-Added Services.

RepoClear is the leading provider of cash bonds and repo clearing, helping participants better manage risk and capacity across bilateral or anonymous trading. With more than 100 members across 14 government bond and repo markets, it provides unmatched opportunities for superior balance sheet and settlement risk offsets. In 2014, RepoClear introduced €GCPlus, LCH’s triparty basket repo clearing service, to provide even more advanced liquidity management. Established in partnership with major banks in 1999, RepoClear is available through both LCH-Ltd and LCH-SA.

Meritsoft, a Cognizant Company, is the leading fintech innovator in post-trade process automation. With more than twenty years’ experience, Meritsoft brings proven expertise in case management, regulatory compliance, payment, and settlement of tax, claims and brokerage cash flows. The FINBOS platform and market infrastructure provides a powerful integrated solution for capital markets institutions seeking to control costs, meet regulatory requirements and maintain liquidity. Modular, scalable, and driven by powerful analytics, Meritsoft’s solutions drive back office efficiencies and help financial institutions transform their operations for the digital era. Available as a fully managed service or on-premise, the Meritsoft solutions deliver real business value for buy-side and sell-side firms, whatever their size.

Clearstream is a leading global financial infrastructure provider delivering efficient, innovative securities services in over 110 countries. With over €14 tn in assets under custody, Clearstream operates an International Central Securities Depositories (ICSD) serving the international issuer and investor community and national CSDs in Germany and Luxembourg. After migration to the pan-European settlement platform, TARGET2-Securities (T2S), Clearstream enhanced its service offering to allow clients to settle in commercial and central bank money via a single platform. Clients benefit from harmonised connectivity channels, a streamlined custody network and improved asset servicing and collateral management services.

With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities, data centers and offices in 15 countries, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets.

To learn more, visit www.dtcc.com.

BNY Mellon’s Pershing is a leading provider of custody services and associated solutions for wealth and adviser firms. With over $2T* in global client assets, safekeeping is paramount to our offering. We invest millions annually in market-leading technology and operational excellence so you don’t have to. Our flexible offering covers all areas of the wealth management proposition, allowing you to focus on what is important to you—your clients. *AuA/C Pershing Global at 30 June 2020

ECSDA, the European Central Securities Depositories Association, represents 40 national and international central securities depositories (CSDs) across 36 European countries. The association provides a forum for European CSDs to exchange views and take forward projects of mutual interest. It aims to promote a constructive dialogue between the CSD community, market participants, European public authorities and all other stakeholders looking to achieve an optimal regulatory framework for clearing and settlement. CSDs are financial market infrastructures which act as the first point of entry for newly issued securities and subsequently ensure the settlement and safekeeping of these securities. They thus play a vital role in supporting safe and efficient securities transactions, whether domestic cross-border.

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with more than 2,000 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than $2 trillion in hedge fund or private credit assets. AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 170 members that manage $400 billion of private credit assets globally. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors). For further information, please visit AIMA’s website, www.aima.org.

Global Custodian has been the authoritative editorial voice of the global securities services industry for over 30 years. The publication, with a circulation of over 20,000 industry professionals in 128 countries around the world, is defined by high-quality editorial and a series of annual surveys that have become benchmarks for the industry. Through digital, print, events and research, we are delighted to serve the securities services community with the most-trusted source of news, insight and data, leaning on both our rich history and innovative vision for the future of publishing.

Best Execution reviews the issues that impact the achievement of best execution in the global securities markets throughout the trading lifecycle (from pre-trade to trade execution to posttrade). Increasingly driven by regulation we report on the seismic shifts that are occurring in capital markets across asset classes, with a key focus on the cutting-edge technology solutions and services that are needed to meet these changes.

We need to talk about bonds. Liquidity has been sucked out of the credit markets by regulation. It can only be replaced by a structural change in the secondary market, or a change to the issuance model in the primary market. Neither is happening right now. Fixed income trading costs are opaque at best, so achieving best execution in the bond market seems an impossible task. Wedded to illiquidity, a lack of price transparency could threaten to impact issuers. The DESK provides buy-side traders with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. Published quarterly, The DESK delivers facts from the frontline of trading, opinion on the potential of new initiatives and support for fixed income desks across investment firms. Talking about bonds starts at The DESK.

Asset Servicing Times is the go-to industry resource for free news, views and opinion on securities services and asset servicing. The fortnightly publication and accompanying website—the only free-to-read asset servicing resources around—keep you abreast of everything to do with custody, fund administration and fintech in easy-to-digest issues that inform, educate and explain, at no cost to you. The website also provides the latest information on asset servicing events around the world, and advertises the key jobs available in this industry as they become available.

Established in 1996, the Association of Global Custodians (AGC) is a group of 12 financial institutions that provide securities safekeeping services and asset-servicing functions to primarily institutional cross-border investors worldwide. Member institutions are: BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Brown Brothers Harriman, Citibank, N.A., Deutsche Bank, HSBC Securities Services, J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust, RBC Investor and Treasury Services, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Standard Chartered Bank, State Street Bank and Trust Company. As a non-partisan advocacy organization, the AGC represents members’ common interests on regulatory and market structure matters through comment letters, white papers and interaction with legislative and regulatory authorities and financial industry organizations. The member banks are competitors, and the AGC does not involve itself in member commercial activities or take positions concerning how members should conduct their custody and related businesses.