Asia Risk Congress

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is one of the world’s major exchange groups. Headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices in Mainland China, Singapore and London, HKEX operates a range of equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets. As Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange, the sole operator of the city’s clearing houses, HKEX is uniquely placed to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets. HKEX is also one of the world’s premier initial public offering (IPO) centres, offering companies unrivalled opportunities to access growth capital through a Hong Kong listing. 

HKEX is also the leader in the trading of industry metals through its wholly owned subsidiaries, London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear.  This commodity franchise was further enhanced with the launch of Qianhai Mercantile Exchange, or QME, a new commodities trading venue in Mainland China, in 2018.

HKEX launched the ground-breaking Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme in 2014, allowing international investors direct access to Mainland China’s stock market for the first time. The scheme was expanded with the launch of Shenzhen Connect in 2016, and the launch of Bond Connect in 2017.

With nearly 2,000 employees around the world, HKEX is committed to the provision of strong, stable and innovative markets, ongoing product and market innovation and to connecting investors and companies around the world.  

www.hkexgroup.com

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. It also operates a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).

SGX is committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging its roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, SGX aims to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, SGX provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com.

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex^® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. 

Societe Generale Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 138,000 members of staff in 62 countries and supports on a daily basis 29 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses:

▪ French Retail Banking which encompasses the Societe Generale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation;

▪ International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services to Corporates, with networks in Africa, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets;

▪ Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions. Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (World and Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Euronext Vigeo (World, Europe and Eurozone), four of the STOXX ESG Leaders indices, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index.

For more information, you can follow us on Twitter @societegenerale or visit our website www.societegenerale.com.

Eurex is the leading European derivatives exchange and – with Eurex Clearing – one of the leading central counterparties globally. Being architects of trusted markets characterised by market liquidity, efficiency and integrity, Eurex provides its customers with innovative solutions to seamlessly manage risk. 

On the trading side, Eurex masterminds the most efficient derivatives landscape by pioneering ingenious products and infrastructures, as well as by building ‘smart’ into technology. Eurex is the centre of European equity and equity index markets, offering a global product range, operating the most liquid fixed income markets in Europe and featuring open and low-cost electronic access. 

As central counterparty, Eurex Clearing builds trusted relationships with and among market participants, enabling effective risk management and delivering high efficiencies to clients.

Quantifi provides risk, analytics and trading solutions. Its suite of integrated pre- and post-trade solutions allows market participants to better value, trade and risk-manage exposures.

Quantifi is trusted by the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including five of the six largest global banks, two of the three largest asset managers, leading hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other institutions across 40 countries.

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters. For more information, please go to www.tradeweb.com.

CRISIL is a global analytics company driven by its mission of making markets function better by offering services in the Risk, Research, Ratings, Analytics and Consulting space to global financial institutions (FIs). We are partners to 200+ of the world’s biggest FIs, these include 15 of the top 20 leading global investment banks, 100+ global buy-side firms, including private equity firms, hedge funds and wealth managers, and five leading global insurers. Several systemically important FIs have leveraged our high-end risk and analytics, and bespoke research services over the past 20 years.

Our suite of innovative, technology-driven risk management solutions is crafted to expedite regulatory and internal compliance for FIs. These tools enable informed decision-making and deliver substantial cost efficiencies.

CRISIL has delivered independent opinions, actionable insights and efficient solutions to 100K+ customers through businesses that operate from the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), India, Argentina, Poland, China, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Japan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

To know more, visit www.crisil.com

LCH ForexClear, a leading provider of foreign exchange (FX) derivatives clearing, delivers unmatched capital and operational efficiencies. Built in partnership with the market and with the benefit of LCH’s extensive experience in interest rate swaps clearing, ForexClear’s 24-hour FX clearing service offers industry-leading risk management for deliverable FX forwards, spot and options, non-deliverable forwards and non-deliverable options, across multiple emerging market and G10 currency pairs. LCH is an LSEG business.

S&P Global Market Intelligence integrates financial and industry data, research and news into tools that track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. It offers investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities the intelligence essential to make business and financial decisions with conviction.

Founded in 1996, Numerix has over 19 offices, 700 clients and 90 partners across more than 26 countries. Numerix is recognized across the industry for its many breakthroughs in quantitative research and is proud of its reputation for being able to price and risk manage any derivative instrument – vanillas to the most sophisticated exotic products. Designed for the next evolution of trading and risk operations for both sell-side and buy-side market participants, Numerix is utilized in many forms by banks, government/development banks, broker dealers as well as a range of buy-side institutions, including insurance firms, hedge funds, pension funds and asset managers. Also, consulting and advisory firms. - See more at: https://www.numerix.com/about-numerix#sthash.AknPS2Di.dpuf

About Murex
For more than 30 years, Murex has been providing enterprise-wide, cross-asset financial technology solutions to capital markets players.  Its cross-function platform, MX.3, supports trading, treasury, risk and post-trade operations, enabling clients to better meet regulatory requirements, manage enterprise-wide risk, and control IT costs. With more than 50,000 daily users in 60 countries, Murex has clients in many sectors, from banking and asset management to energy and commodities. 
Murex is an independent company with over 2,000 employees across 17 countries. Murex is committed to providing cutting-edge technology, superior customer service, and unique product innovation. 
For more information visit murex.com

SAS is a global leader in AI and analytics software, including industry-specific solutions. SAS helps organizations transform data into trusted decisions faster by providing knowledge in the moments that matter. SAS helps clients across industries address their most critical and complex analytical challenges through SAS Viya, our cloud-native AI, analytic and data management platform.

From helping our customers fight fraud and mitigate risks through our fraud, anti-money laundering, security intelligence and risk management solutions, as well as helping drive engagement through our customer intelligence solutions, SAS delivers innovative solutions to enable our customers achieve greater productivity, performance and trustworthiness.