ACI - The Financial Markets Association

ACI was founded in Paris in 1955 as Association Cambiste International which was initially aimed at members of the FX and money-market community. The name changed in 1995 to ACI - the Financial Markets Association reflecting the revision of membership criteria into one single membership. ACI is a leading global association of wholesale financial market professionals contributing to the market’s development through education, market practices and technical expertise and advice. Currently ACI has some 13,000 individual members with National Associations in 64 countries world-wide.

www.aciforex.com
 

EUROCLEAR

Euroclear provides domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions. User owned and user governed, the Euroclear group comprises the international central securities depository Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as the national central securities depositories (CSDs) Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear UK & Ireland and NCSD, the CSD for Finland and Sweden. Euroclear also owns EMXCo, the UK’s leading provider of investment-fund order routing, and is awaiting regulatory approvals to acquire Xtrakter, owner of the TRAX trade matching system.

Based on year-end 2007 data, the combined group settled the equivalent of more than EUR 575 trillion in securities transactions, representing 198 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held more than EUR 20 trillion in assets for clients. Euroclear Bank is rated AA+ by Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings.

About Euroclear Bank’s collateral management service
Euroclear Bank is a world leader in collateral management provision currently holding collateral totaling over EUR 280 billion on behalf of clients. We offer a wide range of services which allows clients to collateralise exposures across products, instruments and counterparties using one collateral pool - at a highly competitive price.

Services include:
Triparty Repo agreements
Triparty Securities Lending
Triarty Derivatives support
Triparty Collateral Services
Triparty Secured Loans
Collateral Re-use service

www.euroclear.com
 

ISLA

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) is a trade association established in 1989 to represent the common interests of participants in the securities lending market. ISLA has more than 90 full members comprising insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, banks and securities dealers representing more than 4,000 clients. While based in London, ISLA represents members from more than twenty countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America.

www.isla.co.uk
 

ICMA Centre

In 1991 ICMA sponsored a professorship in investment banking at the University of Reading in the UK, which led to the creation by the University of the ICMA Centre. It has since grown to become one of the world’s major centres of academic excellence in the study of financial markets.

www.icmacentre.ac.uk


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