Digital Asset is a software and services provider that helps enterprises build economic value through interconnected networks. The company designs and delivers technology that reshapes legacy systems and workflows into efficient, secure, and interconnected applications. Daml, our technology, works across traditional boundaries, creating interconnected networks where information and value flow freely. Daml is a platform for building multi-party applications. It extracts and simplifies business processes to make data accessible and optimizes workflows using smart contracts. Leading organizations from financial services to insurance and healthcare partner with Digital Asset to create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks. To learn more about Digital Asset, please visit www.digitalasset.com Click here to follow up on Twitter and Linkedin..

Meritsoft, a Cognizant Company, is the leading fintech innovator in capital markets post-trade process automation. With deep expertise and proven technology we help financial institutions digitize and manage their post-trade processing and compliance requirements across trade expenses, billings and cash flows, payment and settlement of taxes and claims, research payments and commission sharing agreements, and CSDR and fails management process automation. Our solutions incorporate powerful analytics and MI capabilities, helping financial institutions to control costs, maintain liquidity and meet their compliance obligations. Modular, scalable, and with a range of deployment options, including on-premise, cloud and BPaaS, our solutions drive back-office efficiencies that are transforming operations for the digital era.

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than US$2.5 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA proactively communicates with the media and the general public to increase awareness around the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council, or ACC, to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 200 members that manage US$450 billion of private credit assets. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) - first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).

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.

Celent is the leading independent research and advisory firm focused on technology for financial institutions globally. For over 20 years we have supported senior executives at financial entities globally make confident decisions around their technology strategies to execute at scale.

ECSDA, the European Central Securities Depositories Association, represents 39 national and international central securities depositories (CSDs) across 35 European countries. The association provides a forum for European CSDs to exchange views and take forward projects of mutual interest. It aims to promote a constructive dialogue between the CSD community, market participants, European public authorities and all other stakeholders looking to achieve an optimal regulatory framework for clearing and settlement. CSDs are financial market infrastructures which act as the first point of entry for newly issued securities and subsequently ensure the settlement and safekeeping of these securities. They thus play a vital role in supporting safe and efficient securities transactions, whether domestic cross-border.

Innovate Finance is the independent industry body that represents and advances the global FinTech community in the UK. Our mission is to accelerate the UK’s leading role in the financial services sector by directly supporting the next generation of technology-led innovators. Innovate Finance’s membership ranges from seed stage startups and global financial institutions to investors, professional services firms, and global FinTech hubs.

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) is a leading non-profit industry association, representing the common interests of securities lending and financing market participants across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Its geographically diverse membership of over 180 firms includes institutional investors, asset managers, custodial banks, prime brokers and service providers. Working closely with the industry, as well as national, regional, and global regulators and policy makers, ISLA advocates for, amongst other things, the importance of securities lending to the broader financial services industry. It supports both the Global Master Securities Lending Agreements (GMSLA) legal framework, including the Title Transfer and Securities Interest over Collateral variants, as well as the periodical enforceability and security enforcement across global jurisdictions. Through member working groups, industry guidance, consultations and first-class events, ISLA plays a pivotal role in the creation and promotion of market best practices and processes, thought leadership, standards for legal frameworks, and securities lending guides and related documents.

Best Execution reviews the issues that impact the achievement of best execution in the global securities markets throughout the trading lifecycle (from pre-trade to trade execution to post-trade). Increasingly driven by regulation we report on the seismic shifts that are occurring in capital markets across asset classes, with a key focus on the cutting-edge technology solutions and services that are needed to meet these changes.

FinTech Belgium asbl/vzw is the independent federation of FinTechs in Belgium. Our non-profit organisation was created in 2015 by and for Belgian FinTech companies. It is the first and largest community of FinTechers in the country, gathering financial professionals, startup entrepreneurs and investors, who are interested in discovering and discussing disruptive business models and new technology for the financial services industry. Our 3 main missions are to be a platform for dialogue with regulators and other parties, actively and tangibly promote the FinTech sector in Belgium and Belgian FinTechs abroad, and share the experience within and outside the community.

FinTech Futures is a premier digital publishing platform and the definitive source of news and analysis for the worldwide fintech community. We are the go-to, trusted resource for industry buyers, sellers, developers, integrators, regulators, and other specialists across the sector, big and small. Our website attracts over 100,000 visitors per month with over 200,000 page views and our daily newsletter is delivered to over 35,000 key decision-makers in the financial services and technology sectors. The brand is active across the key B2B social media platforms, with over 50,000 followers on Twitter @FinTech_Futures and over 54,000 followers on LinkedIn. FinTech Futures also publishes The Banking Technology magazine, a print and online publication founded in London in 1983. The magazine, published ten times a year, is a trusted brand for fintech professionals an enjoys a worldwide distribution. FinTech Futures also holds industry events including the annual Banking Tech Awards and Banking Tech Awards USA, which recognises the top achievers and innovators within the banking technology community, and the annual PayTech Awards, which celebrates excellence and innovation in the payments industry.

The world’s leading source of exclusive, in-depth news & analysis on risk management, derivatives, and complex finance. Risk.net looks at topics in detail, assesses the implications, speaks with practitioners and regulators to produce detailed, analytical pieces. Our data tools help industry professionals look at derivatives market sizing, benchmarking data, and sales opportunities. Risk.net can help you: • Develop your knowledge of risk-related issues • Offer better support to stakeholders • Keep informed of other organisations and their projects • Learn from thought leaders

The DESK provides buy-side traders with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. Published quarterly, The DESK delivers facts from the frontline of trading, opinion on the potential of new initiatives and support for fixed income desks across investment firms. Talking about bonds starts at The DESK.