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HSBC is a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Its network covers 64 countries and territories, and its expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives open up a world of opportunity for its customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges.

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions to two client franchises: corporates and institutionals, and operates across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialised Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five house worldwide.

Bank for International Settlements

Calypso Technology, Inc. is a cloud-enabled provider of cross-asset front-to-back solutions and managed services for financial markets with over 40000 users in 60+ countries. Its award-winning software improves reliability, adaptability, and scalability across several verticals, including capital markets, investment management, central banking, clearing, treasury, liquidity, and collateral. Calypso is pioneering innovative technologies (native cloud technology, AI, Big data) that reimagine capital markets.

“Calypso” is a registered trademark of Calypso Technology, Inc. in the U.S., EU and other jurisdictions. Other parties’ trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners.

FIS™ is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. FIS empowers the financial world with software, services, consulting and outsourcing solutions focused on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, trade enablement, transaction processing and record-keeping. FIS’ more than 53,000 worldwide employees are passionate about moving our clients’ business forward.

BlackRock’s Official Institutions Group (“OIG”) partners with central banks, sovereign wealth funds, finance ministries, future generation funds and multi-lateral organizations, offering the full range of customized solutions and global investment management, risk management and advisory services.

Our clients can take advantage of BlackRock’s broad global investment platform and expertise across a robust set of asset classes spanning the full risk spectrum. We are aware of the unique set of requirements facing official institutions and can tailor an investment strategy within a given mandate to reflect the specific constraints and needs of our clients. As a fiduciary, we share the same objectives and challenges as our clients. By partnering with them and leveraging the experience of BlackRock investment professionals as well as Aladdin, our end-to-end operating system for investment management, we believe we can generate long-term solutions that allow us to achieve our client’s goals. BlackRock has provided investment solutions to official institutions worldwide since 1992 and manages $537 billion on behalf of these institutions as of 30 September 2022. 

As of 31 December 2022: 

• OIG manages c. $600 billion in assets under management, including self-reported iShares holdings, for 138 official institution clients worldwide (59 central banks, 27 sovereign wealth funds, 24 national pension funds, 28 multilateral development banks, ministries and agencies).
• OIG provides risk management tools in the form of BlackRock’s Aladdin and eFront solutions to 21 official institution clients worldwide.
• BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory ("FMA") team has completed 146 assignments for global official institution clients since 2013.

Dedicated team of seasoned OIG client relationship managers partner closely with BlackRock’s broader institutional client business to ensure holistic relationship coverage across headquarters and regional rep offices

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 with one core mission: to bring transparency to capital markets through access to information. Today’s Bloomberg—with more than 15,000 employees in 192 locations in 72 countries around the globe—builds on that foundation. Everything that we do connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of global and local information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions. The companies strength- delivering data, news, analytics and electronic trading through innovate technology is the core of the Bloomberg Professional Service, with over 320,000 subscribers worldwide.