Thank you to our sponsors for helping make the
15th Annual Canadian Securities Lending Conference possible
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BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American-based financial services provider, with over 2,700 professionals in 30 locations around the world, including 20 offices in North America, offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$1.0 trillion total assets and approximately 54,000 employees as of January 31, 2025.
Website: bmocm.com
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J.P. Morgan’s Trading Services delivers solutions that empower clients to optimize their liquidity and treasury needs by delivering innovative securities finance and collateral solutions. We provide an interconnected suite of products to fuel portfolio and operational alpha. https://www.jpmorgan.com/securities-services
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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada’s biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries.
Learn more at rbc.com
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BNY is a global financial services company that helps make money work for the world – managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. For more than 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, putting its expertise and platforms to work to help them achieve their ambitions. Today BNY helps over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally to access the money they need. BNY supports governments in funding local projects and works with over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals, and so much more. As of December 31, 2024, BNY oversees $52.1 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.0 trillion in assets under management.
BNY is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Headquartered in New York City, BNY employs over 50,000 people globally and has been named among Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators. Additional information is available on www.bny.com. Follow on LinkedIn or visit the BNY Newsroom for the latest company news.
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National Bank Financial Markets is the trade name of the Financial Markets division of National Bank of Canada. National Bank Financial is a fully-integrated investment dealer combining retail advisory and brokerage services with institutional brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance, and securities clearing for third parties. National Bank Financial Markets has a major presence in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver, as well as operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Our professionals are passionate, entrepreneurial and client-focused team. Our “One Client, One Bank with One Mission – Putting People First” culture creates an environment of collaboration and accountability. We work together to deliver solutions that help our clients achieve long-term success.
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State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $46.6 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $4.7 trillion* in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, State Street operates globally in more than 100 geographic markets and employs approximately 53,000 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street’s website at www.statestreet.com.
*Assets under management as of December 31, 2024 includes approximately $82 billion of assets with respect to SPDR® products for which State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (SSGA FD) acts solely as the marketing agent. SSGA FD and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated. Company website: https://www.statestreet.com
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TD Securities is a leading corporate and investment bank. Operating out of 34 cities across the globe, we offer a wide range of capital markets products and services to our corporate, government, and institutional clients around the world. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions.
Website: https://www.tdsecurities.com/ca/en
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FIS Global is a financial technology company providing solutions to financial institutions, businesses and developers. We unlock financial technology that underpins the world’s financial system. Our people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, by helping our clients confidently run, grow and protect their businesses. Our expertise comes from decades of experience helping financial institutions and businesses adapt to meet the needs of their customers by harnessing the power that comes when reliability meets innovation in financial technology. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit FISglobal.com. Follow FIS on LinkedIn, Facebook and X (@FISglobal).
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EquiLend is a leading global financial technology firm providing Trading, Post-Trade, Data & Analytics, RegTech and Platform Solutions to the securities finance industry. With a presence across North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, EquiLend operates in multiple jurisdictions, upholding the highest regulatory standards.
Renowned for its commitment to innovation and operational excellence, EquiLend continues to drive efficiency and automation in the industry. The company is Great Place to Work Certified™ in the U.S., UK, Ireland and India and has received industry recognition, including Americas and EMEA Data Provider of the Year and Regulatory Solution of the Year at the Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards 2024.
For more information, visit equilend.com
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Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services. Improve performance and drive operational efficiency with our innovative banking & markets solutions to meet your securities finance, foreign exchange and institutional brokerage needs. Securities lending can play a significant role in your investment portfolio and risk management strategy and we are committed to providing you a flexible, customizable and transparent program to bring enhanced returns.
Visit https://www.northerntrust.com/united-states/what-we-do/asset-servicing/capital-markets/securities-finance for details.
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Wealthsimple is one of Canada’s fastest growing and most trusted money management platforms. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 3 million Canadians and holds over $50-billion assets. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
To learn more, visit wealthsimple.com
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GLMX is a leading global provider of transformative technology for financial markets, serving clients in securities finance, including repo and securities lending, and adjacent short end markets. With offices in North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia, global buy-side and sell-side institutions rely on GLMX for access to enhanced market liquidity and to maximize trade lifecycle efficiency and reporting.
For more information about GLMX, please visit glmx.com.
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MUFG is Japan’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest, with offices throughout Japan and in 40 other countries. MUFG Securities (Canada), Ltd. was created as part of MUFG’s business growth strategy and expanded MUFG’s securities finance and capital markets activities into Canada.
Website: mufg.jp
Wi-Fi Sponsor
Nearwater Capital works with banks to provide specialized financing to assist them with their funding and balance sheet requirements. Considered to be the leader in providing specialized solutions for banks and their broker dealers to assist in meeting their customer mission while improving capital and efficiency while reducing costs associated with managing scarce financial resources. The mutual alignment of interest of working with its banks to help them succeed in their client mandate makes Nearwater Capital the preferred funding counterparty for the world’s most respected financial institutions.
Website: nearwatercapital.com
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Pirum was founded in 2000 with the objective of automating the securities finance and collateral management industries. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platform has since become the industry gold-standard, globally, for automation and connectivity solutions. Today, the Pirum product suite, which uniquely covers pre- and post-trade flows as well as collateral management/optimization functionality, is used and trusted by over 150 leading financial institutions around the world, covering both buy- and sell-side activities. Pirum delivers automation, operational efficiency and resilience, reduced cost, and facilitates regulatory compliance for its network of clients, who use Pirum’s solutions to connect, communicate, and process their trades, as well as manage and optimize their collateral in global financial markets. By connecting industry participants around the world, the Pirum dynamo sits at the heart of a complex multi-party financial markets eco-system, all the while increasing transparency and resilience, streamlining operations and fostering collaboration.
Website: www.pirum.com
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Scotiabank is a leading bank in Canada and a leading financial services provider in the Americas. We are here for every future. We help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
Website: scotiabank.com
Contributing Sponsor
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization and the largest U.S. equities lending counterparty. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. For more than 30 years, OCC’s Stock Loan Programs have reduced operational risk while enabling capital and collateral savings for Clearing Members.
As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility, OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to 21 exchanges and trading platforms.
Media Sponsor
Finadium, a specialist consultancy in capital markets with a media outlet, connects with over 5,600 professionals on operations, regulation, technology and business. Finadium is known for its practitioner approach, driven by data with no nonsense. This has made us a trusted partner to hundreds of client institutions globally.
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TMX Group operates global markets, and builds digital communities and analytic solutions that facilitate the funding, growth and success of businesses, traders and investors. TMX Group’s key operations include Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, TMX Trayport and TMX VettaFi, which provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, technology solutions, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across North America (Montréal, Calgary, Vancouver and New York), as well as in key international markets including London, Singapore and Vienna.
Our Mission
We power capital and commodity markets with client-centric, technology-driven global solutions.
Our Vision
To be an indispensable solution for companies around the world to raise capital and the preferred destination for traders and investors to prosper.
For more information about TMX Group, visit www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on X: @TMXGroup.