Sponsors

<p>BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2020, BNY Mellon had $35.2 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.</p>

<p>Broadridge, a global fintech leader with $4 billion in revenue, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. Driving business transformation with solutions for enriching client engagement, navigating risk, optimising efficiency and generating revenue growth, helping clients get ahead of today’s challenges with products that can streamline and simplify the securities finance industry.</p> <p>Broadridge offers a suite of global, front to back office securities finance solutions for buy side and sell side. This includes integrated or standalone systems for securities lending, repo, collateral management, collateral optimisation, and an end to end transaction reporting solution for SFTR and CSDR. Broadridge’s solutions help customers to comply with new regulations, increase efficiency, improve strategic decision making and make more intelligent use of capital, balance sheet and liquidity.</p> <p>In addition, Broadridge provides project management, consultancy, business analysis and testing support to augment firms’ internal regulatory project teams and help them comply with the rules in a timely manner.</p> <p>Broadridge’s in-depth expertise in both securities finance and trade reporting regimes including US (CFTC), Europe (EMIR, MiFID I and II, SFTR), will enable clients to adapt to future regulations smoothly while minimising operational disruption and reducing the resource impact of complying with the reporting mandate.</p> <p>For more information about Broadridge and our proven securities finance, collateral management and transaction reporting solutions, please visit our website. www.broadridge.com</p>

<p>Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from 40+ of the world’s leading financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of credit consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of risk. Credit consensus ratings are available for 50,000+ financials, funds, corporates, and sovereigns, 75% of which are otherwise unrated.</p>

<p>Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany&#8217;s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.</p>

<p>EquiLend is a leading provider of trading and post-trade services for the securities finance collateral and swaps industries with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Toronto. Used by securities borrowers and lenders globally, the EquiLend platform (for equities) and BondLend platform (for fixed income) automate formerly manual trading and post-trade processes in the securities finance industry. DataLend provides performance reporting and aggregated, anonymized, cleansed and standardized securities finance data covering all asset classes, regions and markets globally. EquiLend Clearing Services operates the ECS Middle Office and the ECS Gateway, which offer CCP services and connectivity.</p>

<p>Operated by Deutsche Börse AG, Eurex offers a broad range of international benchmark products and operates one of the most liquid fixed income markets in the world, featuring open and low-cost electronic access. With market participants connected from 700 locations worldwide, trading volume at Eurex exceeds 1.6 billion contracts a year, making us the market place of choice for the derivatives community worldwide. Operating as a lean, entrepreneurial organization we strive to fulfill customer demand. Our team of dedicated professionals does its utmost to offer every class of investor the advantages of having spot and futures markets as well as related clearing and settlement activities all fully integrated under one roof.</p> <p>We are still checking our participant, but as soon we have decided, I will let you know. But as already stated, it will be someone from Eurex STS. </p>

<p>Euroclear is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post-trade services. We provide settlement, safekeeping and servicing of domestic and cross-border securities transactions, from bonds, equities and derivatives to investment funds. </p> <p>We connect over 2,000 financial market participants across the globe and ensure securities transactions are processed safely and efficiently. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks.</p> <p>Euroclear’s Collateral Highway is the world’s first open architecture infrastructure for collateral management. It is a neutral, inter-operable, venue-agnostic utility which allows both buy- and sell-side firms to source, mobilise and optimise collateral across geographical borders and time zones.</p>

<p>FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets firms globally. Our more than 55,000 people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests by applying our scale, deep expertise and data-driven insights. We help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard &#038; Poor’s 500® Index.</p> <p>Sitting at the intersection of technology and finance, FIS is focused on delivering fresh ideas and inventive solutions to help our customers adapt and thrive in an ever-changing environment. With a blend of software solutions, cloud infrastructure, global service capabilities and deep domain expertise, FIS is capable of supporting virtually every type of financial organization, including the largest and most complex institutions in the world.</p> <p>Whether on the supply or demand side, FIS’ comprehensive range of market data, securities finance and collateral management solutions gives our clients the efficiency to run smarter operations and the agility to capitalize on opportunities.</p> <p>www.fisglobal.com | getinfo@fisglobal.com </p>

<p>HQLAᵡ is an innovative financial technology firm founded by financial market practitioners. Our core clients are financial institutions active in securities lending and collateral management, and our shareholders include market-leading service providers in the global financial ecosystem.</p> <p>Our long-term vision statement is to accelerate the financial ecosystem’s transition towards frictionless ownership transfers of assets. We aim to achieve this vision by collaborating with our clients to design, develop and deliver innovative, technology-driven solutions for specific pain points in the financial markets.</p> <p>Our immediate value proposition and mission statement is to improve collateral mobility amongst market-leading tri-party agents and custodians. In the HQLAᵡ operating model, there is no movement of securities between custodians. Instead, a digital collateral registry is used to record ownership of baskets of securities, whilst the underlying securities remain static in the custody location of the collateral giver. This enables platform participants to seamlessly execute capital efficient securities lending transactions for enhanced balance sheet optimization. </p>

<p>If you would like further information regarding our product offering in Global Securities Financing, please contact the following:</p> <p>Equity Lending &#038; Repo – Paul Bradford </p> <p>e-mail: paul.bradford@ing.com tel: +44 207 767 8088</p> <p>Funding &#038; Financing – Rob Mugridge </p> <p>e-mail: Robert.mugridge@ing.com tel: +44 207 767 8511</p> <p>FI Repo – Roger Gardner </p> <p>e-mail: roger.gardner@ing.com tel: +44 207 767 8727</p>

<p>J.P. Morgan’s Corporate &amp; Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $24 trillion of assets under custody and $514 billion in deposits, the Corporate &amp; Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Our securities services businesses help institutional investors meet the demands of changing markets with a broad array of services, including customized agency securities lending solutions to help institutional investors enhance portfolio returns and sophisticated collateral agency solutions to help institutions efficiently manage collateral and address financing, funding and liquidity requirements. For more information, visit www.jpmorgan.com.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset &amp; wealth management, corporate &amp; investment banking, insurance, and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, Natixis counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries. Its clients include corporations, financial institutions, sovereign, and supranational organizations, as well as the customers of Groupe BPCE’s networks. Listed on the Paris stock exchange, Natixis has a solid financial base with a CET1 capital under Basel 3(1) of €11.3 billion, a Basel 3 CET1 Ratio(1) of 11.4% and quality long-term ratings (Standard &amp; Poor’s: A+ / Moody’s: A1 / Fitch Ratings: A+).</p> <p>(1) Based on CRR-CRD4 rules as reported on June 26, 2013, including the Danish compromise &#8211; without phase-in.<br /> Figures as at 31 March 2020.</p>

<p>RBC Investor &#038; Treasury Services (RBC I&#038;TS) is a specialist provider of asset services, custody, payments and treasury and market services for financial and other institutional investors worldwide, with over 4,500 employees in 16 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. We deliver services which safeguard client assets, underpinned by client-centric digital solutions which continue to be enhanced and evolved in line with our clients’ changing needs. Trusted with CAD 4 trillion in client assets under administration(1), RBC I&#038;TS is a financially strong partner with among the highest credit ratings globally(2).</p> <p>(1) RBC quarterly results released April 30, 2020<br /> (2) Standard &#038; Poor’s (AA-) and Moody’s (Aa2) legacy senior long-term debt ratings of Royal Bank of Canada as of April 30, 2020</p>

<p>Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: “for every future,” we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of approximately 97,000 employees and assets of over $1.2 trillion (as at April 30, 2020), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit http://www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.</p>

<p>Global investment challenges continue to grow in scale and complexity – from financial market and fee compression to shifting regulations and emerging technology.<br /> Our clients’ goals are at the center of everything we do. We combine data, insights and scale to help our clients solve their most pressing challenges. Our aim is to enhance and preserve the value of our clients’ portfolios to achieve better outcomes and gain insights. We back our multi-asset class trade execution with technology designed to help manage risk. Our data-driven research provides a deeper understanding of how investor behavior, media narratives, and real-time economics interact to drive markets.</p> <p>With teams in 29 countries serving clients in more than 100 markets, we provide a strong global network and local market expertise that keeps our clients connected to market developments as they happen.</p>