Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 276,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com/UK.

StarCompliance is the world’s leading provider of compliance technology solutions. Trusted globally by forward-thinking companies in 114 countries, Star's future-ready compliance platform delivers on-demand configurability, multi-jurisdictional integrity, and the actionable intelligence you need to monitor for conflicts, meet regulatory obligations, and reduce risk. Compliance no longer needs to be complex. Check out Star's intuitive, straightforward UX and give your employees the multi-layered protection they need to comply with confidence. www.starcompliance.com

Freedom Finance Europe Ltd. operates Freedom24, an investment platform serving clients across Europe and providing direct access to 15 global stock exchanges in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Combined, it offers more than 1 million trading instruments, including stocks, ETFs, bonds, options, and futures. Freedom24 also provides fixed and non-fixed savings plans, yielding up to 4.2% in EUR and up to 6.1% in USD. Freedom Finance Europe Ltd. is part of Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), a global conglomerate providing services in retail financial securities brokerage and trading, investment research, investment banking and underwriting services, insurance, and consumer banking. Find out more about us at https://freedomfinance.eu/

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing regulatory, financial, and analytical expertise throughout the financial services industry. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, and clear-cut analysis. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex and, often, contentious situations. Our Global Investigations practice provides financial institutions and their legal counsel with the information required to make well-informed business and legal decisions in numerous practice areas, including: Investigations / White-Collar Defense / Enforcement: Our team assists with a broad range of regulatory, compliance, and systems-related matters and addresses business challenges related to all types of internal investigations. Our experts produce reports that often serve as the basis for instructive exhibits in litigation and enforcement defense. Similar work is done for proactive reviews, initiated by Compliance, Audit, or senior management. Sanctions & International Trade Compliance: Our experts advise clients on counterparty risk, AML, and sanctions exposure, including source of wealth checks on high-net-worth individuals, verification of the ultimate beneficial ownership of client companies, review sanctions exposure particularly with regards to geopolitics and the dynamics of key sanction risks, as well as assess multiple client portfolios for reputational and regulatory risk.

Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, our lawyers advise clients on market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.

ASSOCIAZIONE INTERMEDIARI MERCATI FINANZIARI - ASSOSIM represents the interests of the intermediaries active on the Italian financial markets, namely, Italian investment firms, investment banks and subsidiaries of foreign investment services providers. ASSOSIM carries out advocacy and advisory activities, training and organization of conferences and seminars. Its members account for nearly the entire amount of the transactions carried out on the Italian stock markets as from Italy, and more than 80% when considering cross border transactions. Since 2007, the membership has been extended to law firms, consulting and IT solutions development companies, and to those entities providing services to financial intermediaries.

CIO Applications Europe has fast culminated into the most sought-after magazine Pan-Europe as it has transformed its course hand-in-hand with the technology and has culminated into a leading media brand, with a unique editorial focus on bringing to light the core innovations in technology.CIO Applications Europe magazine stands out with its unique approach of learning from peers approach offering professionals the most comprehensive collection of technology trends. The magazine is the single most successful initiative of Pan-Europe to advise and guide decision-makers regarding the latest in the fast-evolving technology landscape. We are determined to propose a myriad of additional services that can improve businesses and help customers deal with issues related to this industry.

CIOReview is a leading technology magazine that is at the forefront of guiding enterprises through the continuously varying business environment with information about the solutions and services. The magazine serves as a trustworthy knowledge source as well as a platform for the C-suite executives, industry experts, technology buyers, and other decision-makers to share their valuable insights about new technology trends in the market.

Founded in 1988, the International Council of Securities Associations is the global organization of twenty securities industry associations representing firms across Asia, the Americas, and Europe. ICSA advocates for regulatory policies, regulations, and initiatives across jurisdictions that promote efficient and well-functioning securities markets and the flow of cross-border capital. The aim is to assist in increasing confidence and enhancing economic growth. ICSA provides a forum for member associations to work with regulators and government authorities to understand developments, exchange views, and collaborate.

The Swedish Securities Market Association (SSMA) is a trade association representing the interests of investment firms active on the Swedish securities market.

Best Execution – where the buyside and sellside meet Best Execution’s quarterly magazine, daily online news and regular e-mail newsletters examine the impact of regulation, new market participants and new technologies on all asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives and FX) from pre-trade to post-trade and beyond. One of the consequences of regulation has been the changing dynamic of buyside-sellside interactions and Best Execution is now broadening its remit with Broker Review to examine the true cost of services provided by brokers to their clients. This will not only cover execution and research, but also scrutinise the shift towards sustainability with the increasing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment strategy. Best Execution acts as a bridge between the buyside and the sellside, shining a light on their changing relationship and examining the evolution of the global securities markets, but never forgetting that it is not just technology, but people who are needed to hone that competitive edge. www.bestexecution.net

Talking about bonds starts at the DESK The DESK provides buy-side traders and their counterparts with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. The DESK’s quarterly magazine, daily news, weekly newsletters and social media feeds give us a constant flow of information to the market, blending a mix of exclusive stories, in-depth trader profiles and technical analysis of trading across the cash and derivatives’ fixed income markets. The DESK is trusted by bond traders to be the best information on market structure, data and trade execution. Using a unique model of feedback via monthly off-the-record briefings and quarterly quantitative research, we help buy-side traders to navigate the evolving fixed income markets and sell-side traders to better support their clients. Our readers predominantly come from the developed financial market centres of Europe and North America, but our combination of print and digital gives The DESK a global reach. www.fi-desk.com