Anthony Monro-Davies

HSBC Bank Plc provides commercial banking and financial services. It operates in four businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. The Retail Banking and Wealth Management business offers personal banking, mortgages, loans, credit cards, savings and investments and insurance services. The Commercial Banking business offers financial products and services to enable them to operate efficiently and meet their business aspirations. The Global Banking and Markets business offers capital financing, transaction and advisory banking services, trade, research, securities services and global liquidity and cash management. The Global Private Banking business offers investment management, incorporating advisory, discretionary and brokerage, private wealth solutions, comprising trusts and estate planning services. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

North American Banks Fund Ltd is a is a closed-ended fund. Its principal activities of the company are to carry out business as an investment company. The company has the investing policy of achieving long-term capital growth, through investment in unquoted start-up banks, which intend to offer banking services to small and medium sized enterprises. It invests in banks which are located in certain regions of the United States which includes Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and the South Carolina. The firm was founded May 05, 2005 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

The Ukraine Opportunity Trust Ltd. operated as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. Its investment objective is to achieve long-term capital growth primarily from a diversified portfolio of companies incorporated, headquartered or domiciled in, or whose businesses are primarily carried on in, Ukraine. The company was founded on August 16, 2005 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund Ltd. operates as a closed-end investment fund. It intends to provide investors with risk-adjusted returns through long-biased, opportunistic stressed, distressed and special situation credit-related investments while seeking to limit downside risk by, amongst other things, focusing on senior and senior secured debt with both collateral and structural protection. The company was founded on April 20, 2010 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, the United Kingdom.

Resolution Life AAPH Ltd. provides financial protection, wealth management and advice businesses. The company's Wealth Management services include financial advice, funds management and administration, superannuation, retirement and savings products. Its Financial Protection services include life insurance, income protection, and long term risk products. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Fitch Ratings Ltd. (FRL) is an investment research firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, Inc., ultimately held by The Hearst Family Trust in the US. FRL provides research and specialized ratings of services to residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and managed funds. They also publish quantitatively based ratings such as Q-IFS ratings.