Why sponsor

Invesco is an independent investment management firm that helps clients build long-term, strategic partnerships with official institutions, offering the best of its investment expertise and capabilities.

It manages $1.4 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide and offers specialised investment teams across a comprehensive range of asset classes, investment styles and geographies.

Invesco has more than 8,400 employees worldwide and an on-the-ground presence in more than 20 countries, serving clients in more than 120 countries.

HSBC is a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Its network covers 64 countries and territories, and its expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives open up a world of opportunity for its customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges.

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.

Regnology is a leading technology firm on a mission to bring safety and stability to the financial markets. With an exclusive focus on regulatory reporting and more than 35,000 financial institutions, 70 regulators, international organizations, and tax authorities relying on our solutions to process their regulatory reporting data, we’re uniquely positioned to bring greater data quality, efficiency, and cost savings to all market participants. With over 900 employees in 16 offices and a unified data ingestion model powering our work, our clients can quickly implement and derive value from our solutions and easily keep pace with ongoing regulatory changes. Regnology was formed in 2021 when BearingPoint RegTech, a former business unit of BearingPoint Group, joined forces with Vizor Software, a global leader in regulatory and supervisory technology. The company is on a continued organic and external growth path, building up as one of the world's most recognized global regulatory reporting powerhouses. 

About BNP Paribas Asset Management

BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) is the investment arm of BNP Paribas, a leading banking group in Europe with international reach. BNPP AM aims to generate long-term sustainable returns for its clients, based on a sustainability-driven approach. BNPP AM’s investment capabilities are focused around six key strategies: High Conviction Strategies, Liquidity Solutions, Emerging Markets, Multi-Assets, Systematic, Quantitative & Index and Private Assets, with investment processes incorporating quantitative and fundamental analysis.

Sustainability is core to BNPP AM’s strategy and investment philosophy. Among the leaders in thematic investment in Europe¹, BNPP AM intends to contribute to a successful Energy transition, healthy Ecosystems, and greater Equality in our societies (our “3Es”). BNPP AM currently manages EUR 540 billion of assets (EUR 656 billion of assets under management and advisory) and benefits from the expertise of more than 500 investment professionals and around 400 client servicing specialists, serving individual, corporate and institutional clients in 67 countries.

Source: BNPP AM, as at 31 December 2023

¹ Source: 2^nd in Europe for active sustainable thematic strategies, according to an analysis made by BNP Paribas Asset Management based on Morningstar data as at 31/12/2022. 

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions to two client franchises: corporates and institutionals, and operates across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialised Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five house worldwide.

eCurrency™ is the leading innovator and technology provider for Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).  eCurrency CBDC solution is the first to be operationalized to issue digital fiat currency operating alongside notes and coins. eCurrency combines hardware, software and cryptographic security protocols to provide central banks the tools they need to preserve their charter as sole issuers of sovereign currency in a digital economy.

iGCB, the Retail and Central Banking Solutions arm of Intellect Design Arena, offers an end-to-end Contextual Banking suite with a unique blend of integrated functionality and agility made possible by its Microservices-based, API-first, cloud-native architecture with powerful integration capabilities. iGCB offers the world’s first and only digital banking technology solution, Intellect Quantum, which is purpose-built for central banks to manage every aspect of their financial market operations efficiently. Intellect Quantum caters to key central banking functions involving monetary policy implementation, financial stability, currency management, payments, risk management, and reserves management.

SecurEyes is a specialized consulting and solution engineering firm focused in risk management, supervisory technology, regulatory technology and cybersecurity advisory services.

With 700+ global customers and 12,500+ consulting engagements, we are the trusted partner of several regulatory bodies, governments, and multinationals across the globe. We have obtained prestigious empanelment’s with reputable entities, as well as numerous prominent certifications.

Our state-of-art product SE-RegTrac is an enterprise supervisory product to digitize supervisory activities for central banks. It integrates supervisory and regulatory technology into a single platform thereby empowering regulators in risk-based supervisory responsibilities and at the same time equipping regulated entities in managing their regulatory responsibilities. It supports multiple sectors including banking, fintech, credit bureau, financing & leasing and insurance companies.

SecurEyes has demonstrated leadership in acquiring global recognition in many areas such as winning the “Technology Services Award 2023” by the Central Banking Awards Committee at the level of central banks worldwide for the year 2023.

Our other products help clients in regulatory compliance management, cyber supply chain risk management and operational risk management.

For detailed information, please visit: www.secureyes.net.

If you wish to contact a member from the SecurEyes team - please contact at  riskmanagement@secureyes.net.

CAIM is a UK-regulated specialist investment manager with a particular focus on managing foreign exchange reserves on behalf of central banks globally. We offer directly managed bespoke strategies to each of our institutional clients, in public market fixed income and equities, across developed markets and China. We prioritize our clients, treat them as partners, and seek to become trusted advisors to each institution we work with. We can trace our roots back to 1749, when our predecessor organization was originally established by the British Crown. CAIM has via our predecessor organisation offered financial services to our clients since 1833. We began managing money for the world’s first sovereign wealth funds in the 1960s, and CAIM’s oldest current central bank reserves management account dates to the early 1980s. 

About LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, playing a vital social and economic role in the world’s financial system. With our open approach, trusted expertise and global scale, we enable the sustainable growth and stability of our customers and their communities. We are dedicated partners with extensive experience, deep knowledge and a worldwide presence in data and analytics; indices; capital formation; and trade execution, clearing and risk management across multiple asset classes. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 23,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

SQL Power Group Inc. is a global application software firm specializing in Financial Regulation, Digital Transformation and Advanced Analytics.

SQL Power is at the forefront of regulatory software innovation - rolling out the world's first fully-integrated XBRL-based data collection, risk management, case management, and advanced analytics solution in 2009. The platform integrates easily with existing regulators’ legacy systems and evolves seamlessly alongside changes to Global Financial Standards and customer needs.

For more information please visit sqlpowergroup.com 

Schroders is an independent global asset management company with over 210 years of investment heritage. Asset management is our business and our goals are completely aligned with those of our clients – the creation of long-term value.

We manage $650 billion on behalf of institutional and retail investors, financial institutions and high net worth clients from around the world, invested in a broad range of asset classes across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. We employ over 5,600 talented people worldwide operating from over 34 different countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia Middle East, and Africa. 

We manage over $38bn on behalf of Official Institutions and have a dedicated team to support these institutions.

IRIS Business Services Limited (IRIS) is India’s only RegTech SaaS provider listed on both BSE and NSE. Established in 2000, IRIS supports over 30 regulators and 6000 enterprises across 52 countries, impacting over 2 billion lives. IRIS transforms regulatory compliance into a business advantage with its innovative solutions.

Headquartered in Mumbai, IRIS has subsidiaries in the USA, Singapore, and Italy, and an affiliate in the UAE. It is an active member of various XBRL jurisdictions: XBRL International, US, India and South Africa and serves as an authorized GST Suvidha Provider and private Invoice Registration Portal in India.

Recognized for its digital innovation, IRIS has received accolades such as India’s Best TaxTech Company (TIOL 2021), India’s Best Fintech Company (FE 2022), India’s Best MSME Tech Company (Jagran 2022), and Best Regulatory Technology Services (Central Banking, London 2024).

IRIS’ products are ISO 27001:13 and SSAE 18 (SOC 1 Type 2) certified.