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About the Organisers & Partners

Event Hosts

Assonime www.assonime.it

Assonime – Association of Joint Stock Companies incorporated in Italy – is a long-established business association and think-tank set up by companies in different branches of activities (industry, finance, services and public utilities). Since its establishment in 1910 it has gained a reputation as a leading centre for analysis of national and European regulation and has become a leading advocate of the need to establish well-functioning market institutions.

Its mission is:

• to contribute to a regulatory framework that encourages enterprise and investment;
• to promote the interpretation, adaptation and application of rules governing economic activities so as to improve market functioning;
• to help members to apply existing rules

Barclays PLC www.barclays.com

Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth and investment management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs 140,000 people.

Kreab Gavin Anderson www.kreabgavinanderson.com

Kreab Gavin Anderson is a world leading communications consultancy. We provide independent and strategic advice on high-stakes financial, corporate and public affairs communications.
 
With operations in 25 countries, and over 350 highly experienced consultants, we offer communications counsel to the highest levels within companies, organizations, governments and governmental agencies.

Event Organisers

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe is the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider. Founded in 1989 and with offices at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and debates. We work successfully with businesses, institutions, NGOs and governments alike while organising our own portfolio of sector leading events.

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-europe.com

Event Partners

ING Belgium SA/NV www.ing.be

ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. Our 94,000 employees serve over 67 million private, corporate and institutional customers in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Australia. We draw on our experience and expertise, our commitment to  excellent service and our global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.

Managed Funds Association www.managedfunds.org

The Managed Funds Association (MFA) represents the global alternative investment industry and its investors by advocating for sound industry practices and public policies that foster efficient, transparent, and fair capital markets. MFA, based in Washington, DC, is an advocacy, education, and communications organization established to enable hedge fund and managed futures firms in the alternative investment industry to participate in public policy discourse, share best practices and learn from peers, and communicate the industry’s contributions to the global economy. MFA members help pension plans, university endowments, charitable organizations, qualified individuals and other institutional investors to diversify their investments, manage risk, and generate attractive returns. MFA has cultivated a global membership and actively engages with regulators and policy makers in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and all other regions where MFA members are market participants.

KPMG www.kpmg.com/regulatorychallenges

Through KPMG’s Regulatory Centres of Excellence, located in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, KPMG member firms deliver cross-border insights and offer practical solutions – locally and globally – in response to the unprecedented scale and impacts of regulatory change. The Centres of Excellence bring together global regulatory expertise, engaging with policymakers, regulators and the financial services industry to provide advice on the strategic, compliance and business implications of the evolving regulatory landscape.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We have more than 152,000 outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 156 countries worldwide.

Supporting Sponsors

Ansaldo STS www.ansaldo-sts.com

Ansaldo STS is a company listed on the Telematic Stock Market (MTA) organized and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., Star segment, FTSE MIB index, with Euro 80,000,000.00 fully paid-up share capital represented by 160,000,000 ordinary shares each having Euro 0.50 nominal value.

 
Ansaldo STS is a leading technology company listed on the Milan stock exchange and operating in the global Railway & Mass Transit Transportation Systems business with the provision of traffic management, planning, train control and signalling systems and services. It acts as lead contractor and turnkey provider on major projects worldwide.

The activities of the company are organized in two business units:

• Signalling
• Transportation Solutions.

Ansaldo STS is headquartered in Genoa, Italy, and employs over 4,000 people in 28 different countries. 40% of company capital is held  by Finmeccanica, which is therefore the company’s principal shareholder.

The Group is an industry leader in signalling and rail transport systems.

CC&G / Monte Titoli www.londonstockexchangegroup.com/what-we-do/post-trade-services/post-trade-services.htm

London Stock Exchange Group provides post trade services through CC&G and Monte Titoli, offering one of the most efficient clearing, settlement and custody services in Europe. CC&G provides Central Counterparty services to multiple trading venues across a broad range of asset classes including equities, ETFs, bonds, equity, energy, commodities derivatives and closed-end funds. CC&G has an international client base of more than 170 customers from 10 European countries. Monte Titoli is a leading provider of efficient and secure financial market post-trade services: across pre-settlement, settlement, custody, asset services and collateral management. Monte Titoli has an extensive international customer base of over 400 banks and brokers, CCPs and trading venues and offers its services to more than 2,200 issuers. Monte Titoli will be in the first wave of T2S - the centralised settlement platform developed by the Euorsystem.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP www.cgsh.com

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a leading international law firm founded in 1946 by lawyers committed to legal excellence, internationalism and diversity. Our clients include multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments and their agencies, as well as domestic corporations and financial institutions. Organized and operated as a single, integrated global partnership, Cleary Gottlieb employs approximately 1,200 lawyers from more than 50 countries and diverse backgrounds who are admitted to practice in numerous jurisdictions around the world. The firm operates out of 16 offices located in New York, Washington, Paris, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, Cologne, Rome, Milan, Moscow, Hong Kong, Beijing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Abu Dhabi and Seoul.

eni www.eni.com

eni is a major integrated energy company, committed to growth in the activities of finding, producing, transporting, transforming and marketing oil and gas. It has global operations in 79 countries with outstanding expertise and holds positions of leadership in the primary international markets.

eni has adopted a Sustainability model aimed at promoting the respect of people and their rights, of the environment and, more generally, of the widespread interests of communities that reside where eni works. eni guarantees the sustainability of its activities in the long-term providing a coherent framework for innovation development, a risk prevention management strategy as well as considering the stakeholders’ interests through dialogue and the sharing of objectives.

Companies listed on the Stock Exchanges are periodically screened to become part of the Sustainability Indexes that signal companies with a good environmental, social and governance performance. In 2011, eni has been included again in the Dow Jones Sustainability World and Europe and the FTSE4Good indexes.

Assicurazioni Generali www.generali.com

The Generali Group is one of Europe’s largest insurance providers and the biggest European life insurer, with 2011 total premium income of almost € 70 billion.

With 82,000 employees worldwide and 65 million clients in more than 60 countries, the Group occupies a leadership position on Western European markets and an increasingly important place in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.