J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realise value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organisations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

The proliferation of communication platforms and electronic records has made identifying and mitigating compliance violations a challenge for modern businesses.. Without the right technology, businesses are opening themselves up to the risk of non-compliance. For over two decades, Smarsh has enabled organisations of all sizes to quickly and easily meet their record retention and oversight obligations with industry-leading technology that allows them to manage the risk and see the value in their communications data. These include mandates from FINRA, SEC, FFIEC, CFTC, NFA, EU (MiFID II), FCA, IIROC and other industry-specific governing bodies around the world. Our capture, archiving, surveillance supervision and e-discovery solutions enable our customers to focus on innovation and growth, while seamlessly dealing with communications compliance. And our advanced capabilities (available on a per channel basis) ensure our customers can carry out proactive compliance measures for specific channels with real-time monitoring, blocking and alerting. When the leading banks in North America, Europe and Asia, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors want a unified communication warehouse solution offering that has the ability to capture all forms of digital communications, both text and voice, store them and then analyse them through advanced NLP models to gain valuable business intelligence, they talk to Smarsh.

Arthur Cox LLP is one of Ireland’s leading law firms. We are an “all-island” firm with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We also have offices in London, New York, and San Francisco. Our practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and business law. With 600 legal staff and a total headcount of 900, we provide a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from multinational organisations, banks, and financial institutions and established global leaders to government agencies and new players in emerging industry sectors. Our story has been defined by our progressive outlook. For over 100 years, we have led the way in the legal field in Ireland. For our clients, we work to deliver the best service and support. With an independent, entrepreneurial spirit of innovation leading the way.

As the largest law firm in Europe, we can cover your needs across the entire continent. Whether you are seeking advice on a complex cross-border legal issue or require local law guidance in a new business market, we have you covered. Our unique local presence of over 50 offices across 26 key European countries means we can assist you with the legal and strategic challenges you face in all your chosen markets. Our multi-disciplinary, full-service teams across Europe can support your regulatory, mergers and acquisitions, investment, financings and capital markets work. In the UK, our 90 strong financial services team is based out of London and Edinburgh, with a specialist finance disputes team in Bristol. Our clients include banks, building societies and other finance providers, life and general (re)insurers and intermediaries, broker-dealers, funds and investment managers, markets, platforms and exchanges, investment advisers, payment institutions, FinTech companies and pension funds.

The smartest business solutions come when we work together – international but operating as one integrated team. Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities, and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you. Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with fully integrated teams working through offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bringing experienced professionals to some of the most active growth markets today. Our client base includes a significant number of the current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies and we advise the top 10 investment banks, many of the world's largest financial conglomerates and more than half of the top 50 European hedge fund managers. We focus on four highly regulated sectors (asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences and technology, media and telecommunications) – using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail. This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.

At Comply, we pride ourselves on being the champion for compliance leaders. Through technology and services, we help financial institutions navigate the ever-changing regulatory environment, end to end. The Comply Platform is a modern, comprehensive solution for managing employee and firm compliance. Configurable by design and backed by decades of regulatory expertise, the platform enables firms to: • Stay one step ahead of risk: Proactively monitor and identify conflicts of interest related to employee trading (including cryptoassets), gifts and entertainment, outside business activities and much more - all while providing a simple, intuitive preclearance user experience. • Streamline operations: Make it easy to administer, manage and report on certifications and attestations, employee disclosures, SMCR and much more. • Get a 360-degree view of compliance: Eliminate information siloes and offline data management, providing strategic oversight across all entities and jurisdictions, and maintaining audit-ready documentation. This is all underpinned and enhanced by our deep industry expertise – which includes expansive knowledge in technology enablement and regulatory compliance protocols and processes. That's why we're the trusted partner to more than 5,000 firms in over 60 countries and have been serving financial institutions for over 20 years.

LeapXpert is the leading enterprise communications platform providing governed communication solutions that enable secure messaging across consumer channels, ensuring full compliance, security, and data governance. Trusted by Tier 1 and Tier 2 financial institutions, LeapXpert serves hundreds of customers in over 45 countries. The platform supports popular messaging apps—WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS, WeChat, Telegram, LINE, and Signal—while integrating seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, Slack, and more. Recognized globally for its innovation, LeapXpert was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving, and has won multiple international awards. For more information visit www.leapxpert.com

NICE Actimize, Financial Markets Compliance, can provide firms with the complete compliance coverage required by today’s financial markets regulations – an environment which requires a view across assets, instruments, communications, markets, and regulatory jurisdictions. We offer both Holistic Surveillance and Communication Compliance solutions.

Shield is how compliance teams in financial services and other highly regulated industries can finally read between the lines to see what their employee communications are really saying. Too many organizations are struggling with compliance because the insights they need to stay ahead of market abuse, internal bad actors, and increasing regulatory risk are invisible to them. Their outdated systems aren’t able to keep up with all the false positives and the sheer volume of data they need to monitor. To read between the lines and get ahead of all this, you need a way need to: 1. See more – with a modern, agile solution that lets you easily monitor all your channels, from Teams to WhatsApp to Zoom, all from a single platform. 2. Know more – with AI/ML that models real human behaviour to generate proactive, relevant alerts that add critical context to every decision. 3. Solve more – with end-to-end eComms compliance capabilities that eliminate data silos and let you customize workflows, policies, and procedures for greater control. That’s why everyone from the largest financial organizations in the world to the leading Hedge Funds and Asset Manager all partner with Shield. And it’s how we’ve been able to help our customers reduce false positive alerts by 97%, conduct faster investigations, and reduce compliance costs.

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 works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 250 members that manage US$800 billion of private credit assets globally. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).

Global Trading is an industry-leading news service for the global equities capital markets: providing information, education, insights and analysis for senior professionals working within trading and execution across Europe, the UK, North America, APAC and other emerging markets. With a focus on the intersection between the buy and sell-sides, and covering all industry elements from technology and trading strategies to regulation, best execution, market structure and liquidity, Global Trading is the first port of call for convergence and comparison across markets: tracing both evolution and innovation throughout the equities markets.

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.

Financial News is the agenda-setting publication read by smart and ambitious professionals in the City of London and across Europe's financial markets. Our award-winning journalists deliver the latest news and analysis, from in-depth interviews with influential business and political leaders, to insight into career advancement, bonus trends and other hot topics in the world of work.