Nicholas Gardiner

Scientific Beta aims to be the first provider of a smart factor and ESG/climate index platform to help investors understand and invest in advanced factor and ESG/climate equity strategies. Established by EDHEC-Risk Institute, one of the top academic institutions in the field of fundamental and applied research for the investment industry, Scientific Beta shares the same concern for scientific rigour and veracity, which it applies to all the services that it offers investors and asset managers. On January 31, 2020, Singapore Exchange (SGX) acquired a majority stake in Scientific Beta. SGX is maintaining the strong collaboration with EDHEC Business School, and principles of independent, empirical-based academic research, that have benefited Scientific Beta’s development to date. Since 2015, Scientific Beta has also been offering highly advanced strategies in the area of ESG and climate change, whether involving options integrated into smart beta indices or pure ESG or climate investing benchmarks. As a complement to its own research, Scientific Beta supports an important research initiative developed by EDHEC on ESG and climate investing and cooperates with V.E and ISS ESG for the construction of its ESG and climate indices.

BidFX is a leading EMS for the FX market and offers an innovative solution to the changing FX landscape. With market leading trading and workflow technology it offers clients a cutting edge execution management system. We offer clients a complete suite of negotiation tools across all FX products and a hub to all major banks Algo suites. Our best-execution TCA features include pre-trade predictive models, in-trade benchmarking and post-trade synopses all via a cloud based solution. BidFX is a subsidiary of SGX Group.

The $500 billion global freight market that transports nearly everything we eat, wear and use around the world remains almost completely offline. Which means that our everyday products cost more than they should. Freightos® makes international shipments faster, more cost-effective and reliable, expanding global trade between the people of the world with the largest global digital freight booking platform. Using a combination of breakthrough technology, data, and a platform that spans multiple global logistics providers, importers, airlines, ocean liners, and leading tech players, Freightos includes Freightos Marketplace, WebCargo, WebCargo for Airlines, Clearit and Freightos Enterprise, including Freightos market intelligence module, Terminal. Together, this ecosystem makes global trade smoother and more frictionless.

In 2015, CobaltFX saw an opportunity to rethink and challenge how credit and post-trade life cycles happened. Driven by a vision to re-engineer the world of foreign exchange and challenge status quo, CobaltFX has built a unique platform connecting trade counterparties to build an infrastructure empowering global financial institutions in accessing deeper liquidity, while deploying less credit and minimising operational risk. In CobaltFX, it is quite simple; the infrastructure allows market operators to share the synergies of running orderly and controlled market operations with common standards. One single credit limit set drives multiple market access points simultaneously, dynamically and in real-time - this is what we call Dynamic Credit. The same trade data drives all mutually agreed trade life-cycle events. The connectivity in CobaltFX becomes the cornerstone throughout the entire FX process allowing for greater profitability and more control. Headquartered in London, UK, CobaltFX is part of United Fintech - a global acquisition and growth platform that acquires and scales innovative Fintech companies in the capital market. Read more about United Fintech and CobaltFX at unitedfintech.com/cobaltfx

Our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity. With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, boards, private equity and governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence. EY-Parthenon is a brand under which a number of EY member firms across the globe provide strategy consulting services. For more information, please visit ey.com/parthenon.

About Trading Technologies Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income, foreign exchange (FX) and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, clearing, post-trade allocation and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes the Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Scientific Beta aims to be the first provider of a smart factor and ESG/climate index platform to help investors understand and invest in advanced factor and ESG/climate equity strategies. Established by EDHEC-Risk Institute, one of the top academic institutions in the field of fundamental and applied research for the investment industry, Scientific Beta shares the same concern for scientific rigour and veracity, which it applies to all the services that it offers investors and asset managers. On January 31, 2020, Singapore Exchange (SGX) acquired a majority stake in Scientific Beta. SGX is maintaining the strong collaboration with EDHEC Business School, and principles of independent, empirical-based academic research, that have benefited Scientific Beta’s development to date. Since 2015, Scientific Beta has also been offering highly advanced strategies in the area of ESG and climate change, whether involving options integrated into smart beta indices or pure ESG or climate investing benchmarks. As a complement to its own research, Scientific Beta supports an important research initiative developed by EDHEC on ESG and climate investing and cooperates with V.E and ISS ESG for the construction of its ESG and climate indices.

BidFX is a leading EMS for the FX market and offers an innovative solution to the changing FX landscape. With market leading trading and workflow technology it offers clients a cutting edge execution management system. We offer clients a complete suite of negotiation tools across all FX products and a hub to all major banks Algo suites. Our best-execution TCA features include pre-trade predictive models, in-trade benchmarking and post-trade synopses all via a cloud based solution. BidFX is a subsidiary of SGX Group.

The $500 billion global freight market that transports nearly everything we eat, wear and use around the world remains almost completely offline. Which means that our everyday products cost more than they should. Freightos® makes international shipments faster, more cost-effective and reliable, expanding global trade between the people of the world with the largest global digital freight booking platform. Using a combination of breakthrough technology, data, and a platform that spans multiple global logistics providers, importers, airlines, ocean liners, and leading tech players, Freightos includes Freightos Marketplace, WebCargo, WebCargo for Airlines, Clearit and Freightos Enterprise, including Freightos market intelligence module, Terminal. Together, this ecosystem makes global trade smoother and more frictionless.