Our Sponsors:

Eurex

Eurex Clearing, Europe’s leading clearing house, offers fully automated and straight-through post-trade services for a growing range of derivatives, equities, bonds, secured funding & securities financing and energy transactions. It also provide the same clearing services for off-exchange traded products registered via the EurexOTC services.

As a central counterparty clearing house, we mitigate your counterparty risk and maximize your operational efficiency. We combine seamless post-trade services, efficient collateral and delivery management with an industry leading risk management – to keep you clear to trade.

At Eurex Clearing increasing market integrity is key. We were the world’s first clearing house to provide our customers with derivatives risk data in real-time. Various risk control services benefit both our customers and the greater marketplace by enhancing overall safety.

Together with Eurex Exchange, the International Securities Exchange, the European Energy Exchange, Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo, Eurex Clearing forms Eurex Group.

www.eurexclearing.com

London Stock Exchange Group

London Stock Exchange Group sits at the heart of world's financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivative markets as well as offering high performance trading platforms, access to real time and reference data, and market-leading post-trade services.
Monte Titoli is the Group's depository and the 3rd largest provider of CSD services in Europe. As a leader in the post-trade industry with a AA rating from Thomas Murray, Monte Titoli currently maintains 3.2 trillion AUM. A wide range of services are currently offered to a large and internationally diverse client base constituting over 400 banks and brokers and over 2,200 issuers. Monte Titoli is taking a leading role in a continuously evolving market environment as a global service provider, starting from is evidenced by its long-standing commitment to participate in the first wave of the ECB's T2S project. LSE with Monte Titoli is about to launch a new service for Eurobonds aiming at offering in this domain a more competitive and efficient service to both issuers and investors. The service will be launched by June 2013.

Citi OpenInvestor

Citi OpenInvestor^sm is the investment services solution for today’s diversified investor that combines specialized expertise, comprehensive capabilities and the power of Citi’s global network to help clients meet performance objectives across asset classes, strategies, and geographies. With an on-the-ground presence in over 95 countries and over $12 trillion in assets under custody, Citi offers award winning service and unmatched scale. Citi provides institutional, alternative and wealth managers with middle office, fund services, custody, investing and financing solutions focused on clients’ specific challenges, customized to their individual needs.

LCH. Clearnet

Established more than 12 years ago, SwapClear is LCH.Clearnet’s market-leading interest rate swap clearing service. To date, it has cleared more than 1.5 million OTC interest rate swap trades in 17 of the world’s largest currencies, and its membership currently stands at 67. SwapClear has a total notional outstanding of more than $325 trillion, with an additional $145 trillion eliminated through multilateral trade compression using TriOptima’s triReduce service. SwapClear has also cleared a cumulative client notional of over $4 trillion and is the only OTC clearing service to have successfully handled a significant OTC interest rate swap default, doing so when it resolved Lehman Brothers’ $9 trillion IRS default in 2008, resulting in no loss to any market participants.

State Street Corporation

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 $24.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $2.1 trillion in assets under management at December 31, 2012, State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets. For more information, visit State Street’s web site at www.statestreet.com.

This AUM includes the assets of the SPDR Gold Trust (approx. $72.2 billion as of December 31, 2012), for which State Street Global Markets, LLC, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors, serves as the marketing agent.

Regis-TR

REGIS-TR is a European Trade Repository which offers simple registration and administration solutions for the market, both in Europe and worldwide.

This Trade Repository was created by BME & the Deutsche Boerse Group, to allow market players to comply fully with the upcoming derivative regulation, which in Europe is the EMIR (European Market Infrastructures Regulation). EU and other regulators have made it clear that greater risk management of these trades require a full picture of this market. Registration will ensure transparency for the supervisory authorities and REGIS-TR makes it easy.

In addition, REGIS-TR provides services to ease administration tasks and improve operations management. Different levels of service access are available as solutions for participants and the system offers excellent flexibility and functionality.

CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through the CME Globex electronic trading platform and trading facilities in New York and Chicago.
CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort.
In addition, CME Group has a growing presence in Europe. Launched in May 2011, CME Clearing Europe is a London-based clearing house that clears OTC transactions in a broad range of derivative products in an English law and European regulatory environment. As an FSA-approved Recognised Clearing House, CME Clearing Europe's service combines operational flexibility with a transparent risk management and an account structure that offers a range of protection choices for clients should their clearing broker fail.
CME Group has also announced it is in the process of applying to the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority to create a London-based derivatives exchange. Pending regulatory approval, CME Europe Ltd is expected to launch in mid-2013 and will initially offer FX futures with plans to expand into additional asset classes.
CME Group has a growing London-based team committed to serving the financial risk management needs of customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

DTCC has operating facilities and data centers around the world and, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the post-trade processing of financial transactions for thousands of institutions worldwide. With 40 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, simplifying the complexities of clearance, settlement, asset servicing, global data management and information services for equities, corporate and municipal bonds, government and mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, money market instruments, syndicated loans, mutual funds, alternative investment products, and insurance transactions. In 2012, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at approximately US$1.6 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from 131 countries and territories valued at US$37.2 trillion. DTCC’s global trade repositories record more than US$500 trillion in gross notional value of transactions made worldwide.

www.dtcc.com
For more information on DTCC Global Trade Repository, please contact GTR-EMEA@dtcc.com