About Our Sponsors

While BNY Mellon is best known as a custody bank, we’re actually much more than that. In fact, we service the entire lifecycle of a transaction, from custody through to trading, funding, liquidity, collateral management and settlement. BNY Mellon is a market leader in agency securities lending, conduit principal securities lending and secured loans and deliver comprehensive services around pledged margin assets, from collateral segregation through to collateral administration. Whether it’s cash equities, ETFs, sovereign or corporate bonds, agencies or MBS, you can execute it all with our capital markets desk. BNY Mellon provides clients access to cost-effective funding and efficient access to money market funds through our Liquidity DIRECT portal.

BBH is an independent, global financial services firm founded in 1818 and headquartered in New York City. It counts among its clients institutions, privately-held companies, families and wealthy individuals which it serves through its three business lines: Investor Services, Investment Management and Private Banking. The firm is known for its exceptional client service and selectivity.

BBH operates in over 90 markets worldwide from 18 offices. BBH employs approximately 6,000 professionals. For more information, please visit www.bbh.com.

eSecLending is an independently owned financial services company providing securities financing, collateral and liquidity services, and default management solutions to institutional investors and clearing organizations worldwide. With a consultative, flexible approach, we partner with clients to deliver tailored solutions which are aligned to each client’s individual requirements, goals and objectives.

Fidelity Capital Markets® (FCM) provides innovative trading and technology solutions, and execution services across multiple asset classes for institutional investors. Our offering includes a suite of electronic brokerage products for equities, options, prime brokerage, securities lending, fixed income, municipal- and bank-issued brokered CD underwriting, and FOREX. For more than 30 years, FCM has successfully worked with asset managers, hedge funds, family offices, endowments, banks, and brokerage firms in support of their business goals. Fidelity has one of the largest retail and institutional presences; this expansive network provides institutional investors with a differentiated offering and greater access to liquidity. We can help clients maximize their investment strategies with our leading market insight, advanced technology solutions, and high-quality trade execution.

Fidelity Agency Lending® provides institutional investors with a customizable securities lending program that can help optimize investment performance and revenue and improve oversight. Our program has more than $2.7 trillion in client assets (as of 12/31/21), capital markets expertise, AI-powered technology, custom program solutions, and proprietary benchmarking tools. Fidelity Agency Lending expands and builds upon the securities lending capabilities established more than 20 years ago in our Capital Markets organization, which also offers Prime Services, Fully Paid Lending, and PB OptimizeSM .

Combining Wall Street expertise with Silicon Valley technology, GLMX has developed a thriving ecosystem for the negotiation, execution and management of securities financing transactions (SFT). Using state-of-the-art streaming technology, GLMX facilitates a wide array of SFT including multi-variable negotiation, lifecycle events management, STP, reporting and data management. Funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, GLMX brings unparalleled trading and liquidity management workflow efficiencies to existing counterparties in the global securities financing markets. The GLMX solution provides intuitive technology, extremely quick development times and enhanced customisation. These characteristics allow GLMX to create a premium user experience.

J.P. Morgan Securities Services provides custody, accounting, administration, middle office, collateral and performance management services to institutional investment managers, pension funds and governments. For over four decades, we have helped clients enhance portfolio returns and meet their evolving needs with customized agency lending solutions linked to our global markets and trading capabilities. As an industry leader helping to safeguard over $31 trillion in client assets under custody, we have a strong focus on risk management, innovation, operational excellence, global processing and superior client service.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in banking, markets and investor services. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments and institutions across 100+ countries. www.jpmorgan.com/securities-services

At Northern Trust, we strive to improve performance and drive operational efficiency with our innovative solutions across securities lending, foreign exchange, institutional brokerage and transition management. Securities lending can play a significant role in your investment portfolio and risk management strategy and we are committed to providing you a flexible, customizable and transparent program to bring enhanced returns to investors who lend.

S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, perform valuations and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities around the world use this essential intelligence to make business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets, offering ESG solutions, deep data and insights on critical business factors. S&P Global has been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth and accelerates progress for more than 160 years. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $40.0 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $3.7 trillion* in assets under management as of September 30, 2023, State Street operates globally in more than 100 geographic markets and employs approximately 42,000 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street’s website at www.statestreet.com.

*Assets under management as of September 30, 2023 includes approximately $58 billion of assets with respect to SPDR® products for which State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (SSGA FD) acts solely as the marketing agent. SSGA FD and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated.

State Street Global Markets – With more than a quarter century of track record for delivering research and trading value for institutional clients, we combine long-established academic partnerships and proprietary data sets to meet your goals. Our powerful full-service approach can help you maximize returns in smarter and simpler ways, while our system risk indicators assist you in minimizing risk. Our proprietary, award-winning flow indicators, macro strategy expertise, and quantitative investment analytics helps you identify opportunities, mitigate risk and maximize alpha generation. Additionally, our electronic platforms deliver proven, innovative and reliable means to achieve our clients’ objectives across the entire investment cycle.