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Ashurst is a leading international law firm with world class capability and a prestigious global client base. The firm's people are its greatest asset and it brings together lawyers of the highest calibre with the technical knowledge, industry experience and regional know-how to provide the incisive advice clients need.

We embed our experts with your own; collaborating seamlessly with your business, legal, risk and compliance teams. We help you push boundaries, forge new paths, but always manage your risks.

We strongly believe the digitisation of traditional financial instruments and other asset classes has reached a maturation point. The world’s largest investment firms, payment companies, financial market infrastructure providers and global regulators are playing their part. Missing out is not an option. 

Breaking new ground requires trusted advisors who are experts in their fields. Creating a new financial market requires specialists spanning the globe and multiple legal disciplines. Our digital assets lawyers are leaders in their fields and have amassed some of the leading experience in this nascent market that is hard to rival. 

Whatever success looks like for you, we have the capabilities to meet any legal challenges that come along the way.
 

Headquartered in London, LMAX Group is a global financial technology company and the leading independent operator of multiple institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading.

The Group’s portfolio includes LMAX Exchange, LMAX Global and LMAX Digital.

Servicing funds, banks, asset managers and retail brokerages, LMAX Group builds and runs its own high performance, ultra-low latency global exchange infrastructure.

Uniquely positioned to offer both FX and crypto trading, LMAX Group is shaping the future of capital markets and is driving the industry transformation to an open, transparent marketplace with fair, precise and consistent execution, based on robust trading technology

LMAX Group has a global client base spanning 100 countries and 11 offices worldwide.

To find out more, visit www.LMAX.com

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Ownera is a digital securities software company building the institutional inter-trading rails for a new multi-trillion-dollar digital securities market. The company led the creation of the open-source FinP2P interoperability protocol and delivers FinP2P based network nodes and digital securities solutions to the financial industry. This peer-to-peer network unlocks global distribution and liquidity by digitally connecting agents, brokers, and exchanges across the world for the instant issuance, trading, pledging and settlement of securities transactions.

Ownera recently announced its Series A investment round including strategic investment from J.P. Morgan, US Bank, LRC Group, Draper Goren Holm, tokentus Investment AG, Accomplice Blockchain, Polymorphic Capital, The Ropart Group and Archax.

For more information, go to www.ownera.io

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FinanceMalta, is a non-profit public-private initiative, set up to promote Malta as an international financial centre. The organisation brings together, and harnesses, the resources of the industry and government, to ensure that Malta maintains a modern and effective legal, regulatory and fiscal framework in which the financial services sector can continue to grow and prosper.

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The FSDC was established in 2013 by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government as a high-level, cross-sectoral advisory body to engage the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development. The FSDC has been incorporated as a company limited by guarantee with effect from September 2018 to allow it to better discharge its functions through research, market promotion and human capital development with more flexibility.

Keep up with the latest FSDC news by following our Website, Research, LinkedIn, Twitter & YouTube

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have  more than 3,700 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. Our global financial services and regulation practice helps our clients navigate the evolving and increasingly complex regulatory environment, working seamlessly across major business and financial hubs. With a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, risk and compliance professionals and government relations and public policy strategists, we provide clients  with an “end-to-end” service, combining deep legal and regulatory  knowledge with practical industry experience to deliver practical and commercial solutions.

The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) is an onshore business and financial centre located in Doha, providing an excellent platform for firms to do business in Qatar and the region. The QFC offers its own legal, regulatory, tax and business environment, which allows up to 100% foreign ownership, 100% repatriation of profits, and charges a competitive rate of 10% corporate tax on locally sourced profits. The QFC welcomes a broad range of financial and non-financial services firms. For more information about the permitted activities and the benefits of setting up in the QFC, please visit: www.qfc.qa 

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The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime.

The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally.

Gowling WLG is an international sector focussed law firm with more than 1,800 legal professionals worldwide in cities across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia

Our global reach, combined with our sector knowledge and commitment to outstanding service, is why Gowling WLG is the trusted adviser to international clients including FTSE 100 and 250 companies and financial institutions.