Moody's Investors Service is a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. Moody's commitment and expertise contributes to transparent and integrated financial markets, and the firm's ratings and analysis track debt covering approximately 120 sovereign nations, 11,000 corporate issuers, 21,000 public finance issuers, and 72,000 structured finance obligations.

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, Fitch Learning, and BMI Research. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is majority owned by Hearst.

DBRS is an independent, privately held, globally recognized credit ratings agency with offices in Toronto, New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt and Madrid. Founded in 1976 in Canada, DBRS is growing rapidly internationally. DBRS’s four decades of experience and strong track record are the foundation to seek out new opportunities and to make targeted investments aligned with its core ratings operations. As the world’s fourth-largest ratings agency, DBRS’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs in their local markets, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.

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.

Founded in 1771, Vienna Stock Exchange (“VSX”) is one of the more established independent exchanges in Europe. VSX offers a compelling service range of a fully-fledged listing and cash market infrastructure provider at the highest quality level. By offering competitive listing solutions on its platform “Vienna MTF”, VSX has become an attractive European debt listing venue for a growing number of international issuers. Broadly recognised as the major hub between Western and Central-Eastern Europe, VSX has become a truly international player, featuring debt issuers from 30 different countries. The Vienna listing team has more than 75 years of experience in helping clients with their listing needs even in complex transactions.

The Spanish Mortgage Association (Asociación Hipotecaria Española, AHE) is an organisation made up of banks, cooperatives and credit financial institutions which have a major presence in the Spanish mortgage market. As a specialised professional association, the AHE represents the interests of its members in all aspects related to mortgage activity and covered bonds. The AHE plays a very active part in all governing bodies and working groups of the European Mortgage Federation (EMF) and of the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC).

EL ESPAÑOL es un periódico digital independiente fundado en 2015. Universal. Combativo. Plural. Innovador. Ecuánime. Inteligente. Tuyo.

La Información is the main newspaper in business and economic news of Henneo, one of the largest communication groups in Spain both for its audience levels and for its differentiated offer, being the publishing company of recognized and prestigious brands as 20 Minutos, Cinemanía, Sportyou or Heraldo de Aragón. Since its relaunch in November 2017, La Información has consolidated in record time as one of the leaders of the Spanish economic press, with an audience already exceeding 5 million unique users per month, making a journalism in its best essences; serious, rigorous and committed. Independent but not neutral in the defense of good practices and stability. With exclusive contents, a select quality control and a committed and professional staff, the economic newspaper of Henneo has shown that it is possible to carry osave an informative proposal based on rigor, truthfulness and differentiation, which responds to the demands of an audience expert and knowledgeable about economic and business springs. La Información offers an agile journalism, but without stridency, as our business and social base deserves; a journalism in favor of the pillars of our economic growth, which does not therefore obviate constructive criticism when it comes to supporting the best management and administration practices. La Información: your new approach for the economy

Bolsamania is the leading native financial website in Spain. Founded in 1999 (we celebrated our 20th anniversary last year), it is the oldest digital financial media outfit in the country and the last remaining one not belonging to one of the big media groups. Bolsamania's parent company is Web Financial Group, a leading international provider of technology solutions for the financial industry. Bolsamanía has an audience of 3.5 millon unique users monthly and a subsidiary website aimed at institutional investors, FundsNews

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 post trade).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.