A&O Shearman is the transformational law firm, created to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients’ most complex, multijurisdictional matters across an ever-changing world and regulatory landscape. A firm of nearly 4,000 lawyers, including 800 partners, working across almost 50 offices worldwide, A&O Shearman has the global reach, experience, diversity of skills and backgrounds, and deep sector expertise to actively shape the future of our clients, secure their competitive advantages and support them worldwide in their growth and innovation processes. In Germany, A&O Shearman is represented at four offices with around 240 lawyers, including 58 partners. We advise leading national and international companies and institutions on all issues of commercial and capital markets law.

As an international exchange organisation and innovative market infrastructure provider, Deutsche Börse Group ensures capital markets that are fair, transparent, reliable and stable. With its wide range of products, services and technologies, the Group organises safe and efficient markets for sustainable economies. Its business areas cover the entire financial market transaction process chain. This includes the provision of indices, data, software, SaaS and analytical solutions as well as admission, trading and clearing. Additionally, it comprises services for funds, the settlement and custody of financial instruments as well as the management of collateral and liquidity. As a technology company, the Group develops state-of-the-art IT solutions and offers IT systems all over the world. With more than 15,000 employees, the Group has its headquarters in the financial centre of Frankfurt/Rhine-Main, as well as a strong global presence in locations such as Luxembourg, Prague, Cork, London, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney.

Euroclear is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post-trade services. Guided by its purpose, Euroclear innovates to bring safety, efficiency and connections to financial markets for sustainable economic growth. Euroclear provides domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bonds, equities, derivatives and funds. As a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure, Euroclear is committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise. The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank – which is rated AA by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s – as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & International. The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 1,072 trillion in securities transactions in 2023, representing 299 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held EUR 37.7 trillion in assets for clients by end of 2023.

The Intesa Sanpaolo Group is one of the top banking groups in Europe with a significant ESG commitment, a world-class position in Social Impact and strong focus on climate. The Intesa Sanpaolo Group is the leading banking group in Italy, with 13,9 million customers and over 3,000 branches, and is the country’s leading provider of financial products and services to both households and enterprises. The Group has a strategic international presence, with over 900 branches and 7.5 million customers. It is among the top players in several countries in Central Eastern Europe and in the Middle East and North Africa, through its local subsidiary banks. The IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division: a global partner which, taking a medium-long term view, supports corporates, financial institutions and public administration, both nationally and internationally. Its main activities include capital markets & investment banking. The division is present in 24 countries where it facilitates the cross-border activities of its customers through a specialist network made up of branches, representative offices, and subsidiary banks focused on corporate banking.

Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a diverse and extensive practice comprising the full range of commercial, financing, regulatory, and other areas. It is recognised throughout the business community for its innovation, expertise and commitment to its clients – helping them achieve their commercial objectives and deal with the most business-critical and challenging situations, however complex or new those challenges may be. Our Financial Institutions Group supports UK, EU and global financial institutions from across the full spectrum of the financial services sector on a wide range of corporate, financing and regulatory matters. We are well-known for supporting clients on some of the most complex, ground-breaking, and innovative matters, which provide the practice with real insight into the different objectives and challenges facing UK, EU and global financial services businesses, as well as a broad perspective across global financial services markets as a whole. This knowledge is fed back into all the work it does. Further information about Slaughter and May is available at https://www.slaughterandmay.com/

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With one voice for Germany's most important financial centre Frankfurt Main Finance was founded in 2008 as the voice of the financial centre Frankfurt in Germany and the Eurozone. Frankfurt Main Finance has more than 75 members, including the state of Hesse, the cities of Frankfurt and neighbouring Eschborn and Offenbach, numerous well known financial market players and their service providers, as well as private and public universities and research institutions. With their membership, they all express their close ties to the financial centre as well as their will to position Frankfurt as a first-rate national and international financial centre. Frankfurt Main Finance pools the strengths of the players in the financial centre, markets the location and creates top-class dialogue platforms. https://frankfurt-main-finance.com/en/

OMFIF is an independent think tank for central banking, economic policy and public investment. With teams in London, Singapore and the US, we produce research and meetings to provide our global public and private sector members with a better understanding of the world economy. Key themes of our analysis and discussions include: macroeconomics, sustainable investment, digital economy, global flows, policy and regulation, real assets, gold and asset allocation. Through our Digital Monetary Institute, policy-makers, technologists, financiers and regulators convene to explore the challenges and opportunities of digital finance. The principal focus is on payments instruments in wholesale and retail markets.