Bradford Levy

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

APX, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. Its services include spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

BondDesk Group LLC provided retail fixed income alternative trading systems. It provided trading and wealth management solutions for different types of investors. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Markit on Demand, Inc. designs and develops websites, reports and tools for the financial industry. The company was founded by John Leslie in 1991 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Markit Group Ltd. provides trade processing and financial data software services. The firm offers consulting, current event analysis, cross-industry directories, market insight, forecasts and company analysis, market intelligence platforms, software and design tools, standards and regulations, technical and specialized data, and training services. The company was founded by Rony Grushka, Lance Uggla, Tom McNerney, Kevin Gould in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, Inc. (SIFMA) is an organization that represents the securities industry in the United States. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's main focus is advocating for effective and resilient capital markets. The CEO of the company is Kenneth E. Bentsen.

Markit North America, Inc. provides financial information services. It offers asset pricing, forecasting, and research services to the financial sectors. It owns and operates the CDX credit derivative indices and the synthetic structured finance and loan indices ABX HE, CMBX and LCDX. The company's clients include hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies, and insurance companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City, NY.

MarkitSERV, 50:50 owned by Markit and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), was launched in September 2009. MarkitSERV provides a single gateway for over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transaction processing globally. Its solution helps to reduce operational risk, streamline processing, and improve the safety and certainty of the OTC derivatives markets by simplifying and automating trade processing across the major asset classes, including credit, interest rate, and equity and FX derivatives. They assist the industry in meeting challenging regulatory demands in a very dynamic environment. More than 70 dealers, 50 inter-dealer brokers and 1,700 buy-side institutions are already connected to its service, which handled in excess of eight million confirmations in the last year. MarkitSERV also connects dealers and their clients to central clearing counterparties (CCPs), trade repositories and third-party administrators. This unparalleled network of participants and services positions MarkitSERV as the ultimate connection point for anyone participating in the OTC derivatives marketplace.