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Euronext Clearing is Euronext's multi-asset clearing house. As a multi-asset clearing house, Euronext Clearing currently provides proven risk management capabilities on 14 markets, across a range of trading venues. Asset classes cleared include equities, ETFs, closed-end funds, financial and commodity derivatives, bonds and repos. According to the Euronext strategic plan “Growth for Impact 2024”, Euronext Clearing will become Euronext’s CCP of choice for its cash equity, listed derivatives and commodities markets. Euronext Clearing will allow Euronext to directly manage a core service for clients and create value through a harmonised clearing framework across Euronext venues. Euronext Clearing aims to ensure the efficient and safe functioning of the markets served and is committed to contributing to the protection of its members and their clients across multiple jurisdictions in Europe, promoting and offering its services in an equitable, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. Among its main objectives, through the mitigation of counterparty risk and the provision of sound risk management, Euronext Clearing ensures the correct and smooth functioning of the regulated markets.

ELITE, launched in 2012 by Borsa Italiana and now part of Euronext Group, is the European network of private SMEs which accelerates the process to access private and public capital markets. ELITE’s mission is to support companies by connecting them to capital, skills and network to drive their sustainable growth in the long-term. Based on a unique offer of services and solutions, ELITE combines a calendar of workshops and coaching sessions, supporting entrepreneurs and executives upskilling and empowering their strategic plan and business opportunities. ELITE Companies’ management teams are also guided on how to fast-track their development and how to access the most suitable funding options for their needs, whether the Basket Bonds®*, institutional investors, private equity, venture capital or equity markets. With over 2000 companies and 200 partners admitted since the launch, about €13 billion have been raised by ELITE businesses through 1120+ corporate transactions, highlighting how dynamic SMEs are once they are provided with an efficient access to private and public markets. For more information, please visit www.elite-network.com

Monte Titoli, LSEG’s Italian-based Central Securities Depositary (CSD), is a leading provider of efficient and secure settlement, custody, asset servicing, collateral management and issuer services to a domestic and international client base of 188 users and more than 2,600 issuers. Monte Titoli manages a wide range of financial instruments, with €3.32 trillion assets under custody (2018: €3.29 trillion). 44.4 million settlement instructions were processed in 2019. Monte Titoli continues to provide an efficient settlement system, with a year-end settlement rate of approximately 96% of settled transactions. Monte Titoli was granted the licence to operate under the European CSD Regulation (CSD-R) in December 2019. The CSD-R aims to harmonize certain aspects of the settlement cycle and settlement discipline and to provide a set of common requirements for CSDs operating securities settlement systems across the EU.

MTS is one of Europe’s leading facilitators of electronic fixed income markets, connecting a network of over 1000 unique buy- and sell-side participants across Europe and the US, with average daily volumes exceeding EUR 130 billion. The Italian Treasury devised and launched MTS in 1988 to enhance liquidity for investors and decrease funding costs for the public issuer. For the past 30 years, MTS has delivered a fully regulated, stable and scalable electronic infrastructure. It has pioneered e-trading for the professional bond market, delivering a flexible range of order types and access methods and supporting a wide range of instruments. MTS built its business by working closely alongside both issuers and market participants to establish a liquid, transparent and efficient market. It facilitates electronic trading for bond issuances in over 30 countries across Europe and the US, giving it a global view of the fixed income markets but with local expertise in each country. Innovation is at the heart of MTS. It leverages its expertise and experience to deliver trading solutions and market data that reflect the changing needs of rates, money markets and credit participants in Europe and the US. As market conditions continue to evolve, MTS prides itself on supporting participants on both the buy- and sell-side to meet demands from global regulatory authorities for improvements in risk management and compliance with new and pending regulations. MTS has been a trusted facilitator of electronic fixed income markets for over 30 years.

Triennale Design Museum of Milan Italy is a company based out of Italy.

Euronext Clearing is Euronext's multi-asset clearing house. As a multi-asset clearing house, Euronext Clearing currently provides proven risk management capabilities on 14 markets, across a range of trading venues. Asset classes cleared include equities, ETFs, closed-end funds, financial and commodity derivatives, bonds and repos. According to the Euronext strategic plan “Growth for Impact 2024”, Euronext Clearing will become Euronext’s CCP of choice for its cash equity, listed derivatives and commodities markets. Euronext Clearing will allow Euronext to directly manage a core service for clients and create value through a harmonised clearing framework across Euronext venues. Euronext Clearing aims to ensure the efficient and safe functioning of the markets served and is committed to contributing to the protection of its members and their clients across multiple jurisdictions in Europe, promoting and offering its services in an equitable, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. Among its main objectives, through the mitigation of counterparty risk and the provision of sound risk management, Euronext Clearing ensures the correct and smooth functioning of the regulated markets.

ELITE, launched in 2012 by Borsa Italiana and now part of Euronext Group, is the European network of private SMEs which accelerates the process to access private and public capital markets. ELITE’s mission is to support companies by connecting them to capital, skills and network to drive their sustainable growth in the long-term. Based on a unique offer of services and solutions, ELITE combines a calendar of workshops and coaching sessions, supporting entrepreneurs and executives upskilling and empowering their strategic plan and business opportunities. ELITE Companies’ management teams are also guided on how to fast-track their development and how to access the most suitable funding options for their needs, whether the Basket Bonds®*, institutional investors, private equity, venture capital or equity markets. With over 2000 companies and 200 partners admitted since the launch, about €13 billion have been raised by ELITE businesses through 1120+ corporate transactions, highlighting how dynamic SMEs are once they are provided with an efficient access to private and public markets. For more information, please visit www.elite-network.com

Monte Titoli, LSEG’s Italian-based Central Securities Depositary (CSD), is a leading provider of efficient and secure settlement, custody, asset servicing, collateral management and issuer services to a domestic and international client base of 188 users and more than 2,600 issuers. Monte Titoli manages a wide range of financial instruments, with €3.32 trillion assets under custody (2018: €3.29 trillion). 44.4 million settlement instructions were processed in 2019. Monte Titoli continues to provide an efficient settlement system, with a year-end settlement rate of approximately 96% of settled transactions. Monte Titoli was granted the licence to operate under the European CSD Regulation (CSD-R) in December 2019. The CSD-R aims to harmonize certain aspects of the settlement cycle and settlement discipline and to provide a set of common requirements for CSDs operating securities settlement systems across the EU.

MTS is one of Europe’s leading facilitators of electronic fixed income markets, connecting a network of over 1000 unique buy- and sell-side participants across Europe and the US, with average daily volumes exceeding EUR 130 billion. The Italian Treasury devised and launched MTS in 1988 to enhance liquidity for investors and decrease funding costs for the public issuer. For the past 30 years, MTS has delivered a fully regulated, stable and scalable electronic infrastructure. It has pioneered e-trading for the professional bond market, delivering a flexible range of order types and access methods and supporting a wide range of instruments. MTS built its business by working closely alongside both issuers and market participants to establish a liquid, transparent and efficient market. It facilitates electronic trading for bond issuances in over 30 countries across Europe and the US, giving it a global view of the fixed income markets but with local expertise in each country. Innovation is at the heart of MTS. It leverages its expertise and experience to deliver trading solutions and market data that reflect the changing needs of rates, money markets and credit participants in Europe and the US. As market conditions continue to evolve, MTS prides itself on supporting participants on both the buy- and sell-side to meet demands from global regulatory authorities for improvements in risk management and compliance with new and pending regulations. MTS has been a trusted facilitator of electronic fixed income markets for over 30 years.

Triennale Design Museum of Milan Italy is a company based out of Italy.