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.

With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations around the world, 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.

Eurex Repo GmbH is a leading provider for international financing in the secured money market business (repo). Its highly liquid marketplace combines electronic trading with the efficiency and safety of clearing as well as standardized collateral management and settlement for secured funding and financing transactions – and is continuously growing.

A wide range of international fixed income securities and equities can be traded in e.g. EUR, USD, CHF within the General Collateral (GC) and Special Repo segments. Its GC Pooling Market is the European benchmark for standardized secured funding with central clearing.

Euroclear is one of the world’s largest providers of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, ETF and mutual fund transactions. Euroclear is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure 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 and the fund platform MFEX. The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 992 trillion in securities transactions in 2022, representing 304 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held EUR 35.6 trillion in assets for clients by end of 2022.

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.

ION specializes in software and data to digitize and automate mission-critical workflows, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting. Extensive client collaboration underpins our capital markets technology and data solutions for financial institutions dealing in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, cleared derivatives, and secured funding.

Frictionless, precise and real-time transfer of ownership of securities. HQLA^X is an innovative financial technology firm that leverages Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to bring game-changing efficiencies to the securities finance and repo industry. Their core clients are banks and asset managers active in the global securities finance and repo markets, and their unique platform enables market participants to execute frictionless, precise and real-time transfer of ownership of securities. The HQLA^X platform is unique in coupling the benefits of DLT with existing triparty and custody infrastructure, making it easy for clients to improve their collateral mobility and avoid costly intraday liquidity.

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

LCH builds strong relationships with commodity, credit, equity, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX) and rates market participants to help drive superior performance and deliver best-in-class risk management.

As a member or client, partnering with us helps you increase capital and operational efficiency, while adhering to an expanding and complex set of cross-border regulations, thanks to our experience and expertise.

Working closely with our stakeholders, we have helped the market transition to central clearing and continue to introduce innovative enhancements. Choose from a variety of solutions such as compression, sponsored clearing, credit index options clearing, contracts for differences clearing and SwapAgent for managing uncleared swaps. Our focus on innovation and our uncompromising commitment to service delivery make LCH, an LSEG Post Trade business, the natural choice of the world’s leading market participants globally.

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.

Guaranteed Repo is a global electronic trading solution that increases capacity, reduces costs and improves operational efficiency in financing markets. It is a fully integrated, scalable, front-to-back solution. Sunthay has developed and refined the concept and has contributed standardized guarantee documentation. Bloomberg provides the electronic trading capability, and Euroclear provides post-trade collateral management services. Guaranteed Repo can operate in multiple jurisdictions for multiple asset classes.

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $920 billion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters.