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About the Organisers & Partners

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 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 Partners

Cassa di Compensazione e Garanzia / Monte Titoli www.lseg.com

Cassa di Compensazione e Garanzia provides Central Counterparty services to multiple trading venues in a broad range asset classes including equities, ETFs, derivatives, closed-end funds and bonds. Wholly owned by the international diversified exchange business, London Stock Exchange Group, CC&G has an international client base of more than 150 clearing and non-clearing members from 10 European countries. CC&G provides clearing services for Group businesses including Borsa Italiana and London Stock Exchange’s derivatives markets.

 

Monte Titoli is a leading provider of efficient and secure financial market post-trade services, across pre-settlement, settlement, custody, asset servicing, issuer services and collateral management on both domestic and cross border securities. These services are provided to a large national and international customer base of more than 400 banks, brokers, trading venues and offers it services to more than 2,200 issuers. 

 

Monte Titoli will be the largest CSD to join the first wave of T2S, delivering a set of services to help its customers enter T2S smoothly and able to take advantage of the new settlement environment.

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.

KPMG LLP www.kpmg.com/regulatorychallenges

KPMG international operates as a network of member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities. KPMG member firms can be found in 156 countries. Collectively they employ more than 152,000 people across a range of disciplines.  Sustaining and enhancing the quality of this professional workforce is KPMG's primary objective. We contribute to the effective functioning of international capital markets. We support reforms that strengthen the markets' credibility and their social responsibility. We believe that similar reform must extend to the professional realm.

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.

Supporting Sponsors

Ansaldo STS www.ansaldo-sts.com

Ansaldo STS is an international leader with a global presence in signalling and the implementation of integrated transport systems for freight and passenger railways, as well mass transit systems. We design, manufacture and implement signalling systems for the management and control of freight and passenger traffic on mainline railways as well as metros. We design, develop and plan the work needed to provide the latest technology for your railway or metro system.

 

All around the world, Ansaldo STS supports its clients to create and develop more reliable and sustainable networks that ease urban mobility and solve the challenges of today’s population and cities rapid growth. From passengers to freight transportation networks, from urban to intercity and cross-border high speed lines, we design and deploy cutting-edge technologies to meet operators’ needs and optimize the performances independently of traffic density and complexity.

City of London Corporation www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

The City of London Corporation is a uniquely diverse organisation. It supports and promotes the City as the world leader in international finance and business services and provides local services and policing for those working in, living in and visiting the Square Mile. It also provides valued services to London and the nation. These include the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery and London Metropolitan Archive; a range of education provision (including three City Academies); five Thames bridges (including Tower Bridge and the Millennium Bridge); the Central Criminal Court at Old Bailey; over 10,000 acres of open spaces (including Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest), and three wholesale food markets. It is also London’s Port Health Authority and runs the Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow. It works in partnership with neighbouring boroughs on the regeneration of surrounding areas and the City Bridge Trust, which it oversees, donates more than £15m to charity annually.

  

CME Group www.cmegroup.com

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.

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CME Clearing Europe is an approved London-based clearing house that clears OTC transactions in a broad range of derivative products in an English law and European regulatory environment. CME Clearing Europe combines operational flexibility with transparent risk management and an account structure that offers a range of protection choices for clients should their clearing broker fail.

 

CME Europe, our new London-based derivatives exchange, will launch soon, subject to regulatory approval. CME Europe will initially offer a range of 30 FX futures with plans to expand into additional asset classes over time.

 

CME European Trade Repository (CME ETR) is built on real-time technology, and delivers world class customer support accepting non-cleared bilateral OTC and exchange traded derivatives dealt anywhere in the world. We provide a multi-asset class reporting solution for ETD, OTC cleared and OTC-bilateral transactions in the following asset classes: interest rates, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and equities.

 

To find out more about CME ETR visit www.cmegroup.com/etr or email repository@cmegroup.com or for CME Group in Europe, please visit www.cmegroup.com/emea or email europe@cmegroup.com.

   

eni www.eni.com

Eni is one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world, operating in the sectors of oil and gas exploration & production, international gas transportation and marketing, power generation, refining and marketing, chemicals and oilfield services. Eni is active in 90 countries with 78,000 employees.

 

Its commitment to sustainable development means that it grow and retain its people, contribute to the development and wellbeing of the communities in which it operate, protect the environment, and invest in technological innovation and energy efficiency, mitigating the risks of climate change.

 

Eni is a recognised leader in sustainability. The company is leader on the FTSE4Good and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices.

   

Assicurazioni Generali www.generali.com

The Generali Group is one of Europe’s largest insurance providers and the biggest European life insurer, with 2012 total premium income of €70 billion.

 

With 80,000 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.

 

Investment Management Association www.investmentuk.org/

The Investment Management Association (IMA) represents the UK investment management industry. Our members manage over £4.5 trillion of assets on behalf of UK and overseas clients.

 

The IMA’s purpose is to ensure investment managers are in the best possible position to:

 

- Build people’s resilience to financial adversity

- Help people achieve their financial aspirations

- Enable people to maintain a decent standard of living as they grow older

- Contribute to economic growth through the efficient allocation of capital

 

Many of our policy positions are set out in the responses sent to consultations by the Government, regulators, the European Commission and others.  We also maintain links with Parliamentarians in both Westminster and the European Parliament and have contributed regularly to the deliberations of Parliamentary Select Committees.

 

We publish and commission research into various aspects of the industry.  This helps to inform policy submissions and promotes greater understanding of the industry.

 

We maintain a system of classifying funds by sector, designed to help investors and their advisers.  Funds in our sectors are regularly monitored for compliance with sector definitions, and oversight of the system is led by an industry committee, the Sectors Committee.

 

We are funded by our members.  Our Board consists of senior members of the industry and we have a range of committees of members covering specific subject areas.