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KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, operates from 22 offices across the UK with approximately 15,300 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a revenue of £2.43 billion in the year ended 30 September 2021.

KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG is the brand under which the member firms of KPMG International Limited (“KPMG International”) operate and provide professional services. “KPMG” is used to refer to individual member firms within the KPMG organization or to one or more member firms collectively.

KPMG firms operate in 145 countries and territories with more than 236,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each KPMG member firm is responsible for its own obligations and liabilities. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre (IFC) of the capital city of the United Arab Emirates opened for business on 21st October 2015. ADGM augments Abu Dhabi’s position as a leading financial centre and a business hub serving as a strategic link between the growing economies of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and the rest of the world.

Operating within an international regulatory framework based on direct application of the English Common Law, ADGM governs the entirety of Al Maryah Island, which is designated as the financial free zone of Abu Dhabi.

ADGM is ranked as one of the top IFCs in the Middle East and Africa region and is considered MENA’s largest Fintech hub. With a progressive and inclusive business ecosystem, ADGM enables global financial and non-financial institutions to leverage synergies between itself and multiple jurisdictions, thereby positioning it as one of the world’s most advanced, diverse and progressively governed financial hubs.

For more details on ADGM, please visit www.adgm.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @adglobalmarket and LinkedIn: @Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

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

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

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. We are widely regarded as the UK and Europe's leading tech law firm. We have been focusing on the tech sector for the last 20+ years and all of our lawyers have experience in working with global leaders in disruptive technologies.

Our financial services regulatory practice provides solutions-focused advice to UK and international clients on all aspects of financial services law and regulation. We combine industry knowledge and technical excellence to produce solutions that are both commercial and compliant.

We are passionate about FinTech and advise on FinTech regulatory matters across the payments, consumer lending, investment, wealth management and banking sectors. We are also recognised as market leaders in understanding and advising on cryptoassets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology and advise a range of cryptoassets issuers and investors, asset managers, exchanges and wallet providers in the UK, EU and beyond.

Our regulatory lawyers are embedded within our cross-firm Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) team and are able to support financial sector participants on their compliance with a range of applicable disclosure and reporting obligations. Our ESG strategy is part of our overall approach to Responsible Business. We are committed to acting in an inclusive manner, taking care of our people and our clients, giving back to our local communities, supporting our broader society and protecting the environment.

Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX ) is a pioneer within the voluntary carbon markets having released the world´s first and only spot trading platform to facilitate the buying, selling and retirement of carbon credits. Today, CTX, along with its parent company, GEM, have the technology to meet the offsetting demands of climate change at both private corporate and public governmental levels. With an award nominated global team of diverse and inclusive members, CTX has the dedication and passion to instill their three tenets of transparency, security and simplicity across the global voluntary carbon markets.

Shearman & Sterling is a global law firm that partners with corporations, major financial institutions, emerging growth companies, governments, and state-owned enterprises to provide the legal and industry insight needed to navigate the challenges of today and achieve their ambitions of tomorrow. For 150 years, Shearman & Sterling has built strong and long-lasting relationships with clients around the world by advising on ground-breaking, and precedent-setting matters across industries and sectors. Our lawyers come from 55 countries and speak more than 65 languages.

Through FinTech Foundry by Shearman, the firm is committed to supporting FinTech startups and entrepreneurs shaping the future of financial services. We provide multi-disciplinary legal and industry knowledge, thought leadership and a forum to connect key participants in the wider FinTech ecosystem. Leveraging our deep regulatory knowledge and global capabilities, we help clients cultivate relationships with regulators and other market participants, deliver innovative solutions to increasingly complex legal and regulatory issues, and capitalize on opportunities presented by regulatory reform initiatives and market developments. Learn more about the FinTech Foundry here: https://fintech.shearman.com/

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.

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated partners to our customers, with an open model and commitment to excellence. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

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

Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a diverse and extensive practice comprising the full range of commercial, financing, regulatory, and other areas. It is recognised throughout the business community for its innovation, expertise and commitment to its clients – helping its clients achieve their commercial objectives and deal with the most business-critical and challenging situations, however complex or new those challenges may be.
Our financial regulatory practice acts for clients across the full waterfront of the financial services sector and is known for supporting clients on some of the most complex, ground-breaking, and innovative matters. These aspects provide the practice with real insight into the different objectives and challenges facing financial services businesses, as well as a broad perspective across the financial services market as a whole, providing knowledge which is fed back into all the work it does.

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.

Persefoni’s Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) provides businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies the software platform for managing their organization’s climate-related data, disclosures, and performance with the same level of trust, rigor and confidence as their financial reporting systems. The company’s software enables a central system of record with internal processes that support Investor Grade reporting, simplifying the calculation of a carbon footprint, identifying decarbonization strategies, performing climate trajectory modeling aligned to temperature rise scenarios, and benchmarking impact by region, sector, and peer groups.

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