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Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, Tradeweb Markets is a leading fixed-income trading platform. While it does offer electronic processing for some voice-negotiated trades, the company focuses primarily on providing electronic trading networks that connect broker/dealers, institutional clients, and retail customers. While the company offers trading in a wide variety of products, the bulk of its business is in US and European government debt, mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, and US and international corporate bonds. The firm also sells fixed-income trading and price data, primarily through a deal with Refinitiv’s Eikon service.

Clear Street is a New York-headquartered financial services firm modernizing brokerage clearing and custody. Founded in 2018, the company built a cloud-native platform handling equities, options, fixed income, and futures across global markets. The system supports multi-currency settlements and real-time risk management for institutional clients. Clear Street replaces legacy mainframe infrastructure with scalable AWS-based technology. The firm serves hedge funds, market makers, and prime brokers in the United States and Europe.

Euroclear is a Brussels-headquartered provider of post-trade services for capital markets. The group settles domestic and cross-border transactions in bonds, equities, derivatives, and investment funds, holding €38 trillion in assets under custody as of 2023. Euroclear operates through five central securities depositories serving 130 markets worldwide and processes over 240 million transactions yearly. It supports clients including banks, broker-dealers, and asset managers with collateral management and asset servicing, maintaining a 99.999% availability rate for its platforms.

StoneX Group Inc is a brokerage and financial services firm. Its service offerings are execution, OTC / Market-Making, advisory services, payment solutions, market intelligence, Physical Trading and clearing services. The firm operates in four segments: Commercial, Institutional, Self-Directed/Retail, and Payments. Its customers include governmental and nongovernmental organizations, commercial banks, brokers, institutional investors, and investment banks. The company operates in the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and other countries, out of which the majority of revenue is generated from the Middle East and Asia Region.

National Stock Exchange is a Mumbai-headquartered electronic stock exchange in India. Launched in 1994, it trades equities, derivatives, currency, commodities, and debt instruments via NEAT trading system. NSE introduced screen-based anonymous trading, T+1 settlement cycles, and dematerialized securities. The exchange operates co-location data centers and clearing through NSE Clearing Limited. It lists over 2,000 companies and handles the majority of India's equity derivatives volume.

Allfunds is a fund distribution platform connecting fund houses and distributors, creating a single access point for both sides to gain a wider reach with regard to assets under administration and fund variety, respectively. As of 2024, Allfunds had EUR 1.6 trillion in assets under administration stemming from about 860 distributors on its platform. In return, distributors gained access to about 156,000 funds from 3,300 different fund houses. Allfunds also provides ancillary services to both fund houses and distributors, covering the marketing, distribution, legal, regulatory, as well as data and analytics needs arising in the fund distribution space. Allfunds derives the majority of its revenue from Italy, Spain, and France.

Founded in 2000, MarketAxess is a leading electronic fixed-income trading platform that connects broker/dealers and institutional investors. The company is primarily focused on credit based fixed income securities with its main trading products being US investment-grade and high-yield bonds, Eurobonds, and Emerging Market corporate debt. Recently the company has expanded more aggressively into Treasuries and municipal bonds with the acquisitions of LiquidityEdge and MuniBrokers in 2019 and 2021, respectively. The company also provides pre- and post-trade services with its acquisition of Regulatory Reporting Hub from Deutsche Börse Group in 2020 adding to its product offerings.

Virtu Financial Inc is a financial firm that leverages technology to deliver liquidity to the world-wide markets and transparent trading solutions to its clients. The company's operating segment includes Market Making; and Execution Services. The non-operating segment of the company includes the Corporate segment. The company generates maximum revenue from the market-making segment. The Market Making segment principally consists of market-making in the cash, futures, and options markets across equities, options, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States and also has a presence in Ireland and Other Countries.

Pipe is a financial services platform that enables subscription-based businesses to access capital by trading future recurring revenue streams with institutional investors through real-time auctions. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company processes transactions for SaaS firms, media publishers, and e-commerce operators seeking non-dilutive funding based on annual contract values. Launched in 2020, Pipe integrates with billing systems like Stripe and Zuora to automate revenue verification and payouts, serving over 5,000 companies globally with a marketplace exceeding $3 billion in tradable revenue by 2023.

Anchorage Digital is a San Francisco-headquartered federally chartered digital asset bank providing custody, trading, staking, and governance services to institutions. The platform operates Anchorage Digital Singapore for Asia-Pacific clients and maintains offices in New York, Porto, and Sioux Falls. Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital secures over $50 billion in assets under custody for hedge funds, exchanges, and foundations.

Saudi Tadawul Group Holding Co provides trading, clearing, and settlement services in securities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also provides services related to innovation in technology. The company's segment includes Capital Markets; Post Trade; Data and Technology Services and Corporate. It generates maximum revenue from the Post Trade segment.

LayerZero Labs is an omnichain interoperability protocol enabling messaging between 50+ blockchains. The endpoint-based architecture uses Ultra Light Nodes and decentralized verifiers for trustless communication. Supporting dApps like Stargate and Radiant Capital, it handles over $30 billion in cross-chain volume since 2022. Headquartered in Vancouver, LayerZero Labs launched V2 in 2024 with zero-knowledge proofs. Partnerships include Circle for USDC bridging.

Paxos is a New York-headquartered regulated trust company founded in 2012. The firm issues stablecoins including Pax Dollar and partners with PayPal for PYUSD, while providing settlement services for gold tokens and crypto brokerage. Paxos operates under New York Department of Financial Services oversight, serving institutions like Venmo and Interactive Brokers with digital asset custody and trading infrastructure.

Compagnie Financiere Tradition SA is a Switzerland-based interdealer broking firm. It acts as a marketplace and an intermediary and facilitates transactions between financial institutions and other professional traders in the capital markets. Its Financial and non-financial products include bonds, interest rates, index futures, currency and credit derivatives, equities, precious metals, energy and environmental products and others. Its geographical segments are Europe, Middle East and Africa; Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Tradegate AG Wertpapierhandelsbank is a Germany-based company. It is engaged in providing banking and financial services. In addition to retail banking, the company focuses on the trading of several domestic and foreign securities on the Tradegate Exchange, and the Frankfurt and Berlin stock exchanges. The company's main business activity consists of market specialist activities and market making; it acts as a Market Specialist on the Tradegate Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and as an order book manager on the Berlin Stock Exchange. It extends its services to the securities listing on the stock exchanges in Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hanover, and Dusseldorf.

2TM is a blockchain infrastructure provider for financial markets, headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2013, it operates Mercado Bitcoin, Latin America's largest cryptocurrency exchange handling over $10 billion in annual volume. The platform facilitates secure trading, custody, and investment operations across 15 countries. 2TM supports institutional clients with staking services and tokenized assets on Ethereum and Solana networks.

21Finance is a Zurich-headquartered fintech provider of decentralized platforms for digital asset issuance and trading. Its software enables banks and intermediaries to launch compliant marketplaces for tokenized shares, bonds, funds, security tokens, and cryptocurrencies on secondary markets. Regulated under Swiss financial laws, the solution supports Ethereum-based smart contracts.

Zeta is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud-native banking technology platform enabling financial institutions to launch credit cards, loans, deposits, and digital banking apps. Recognized by Celent in 2023 as a top issuer processing partner for US banks and credit unions, it powers over 25 million cards globally with API-enabled features for processing, fraud detection, loyalty programs, and core banking. The company employs more than 1700 staff, with 70 percent in technology roles across the US, Middle East, Asia, and regional headquarters in Mumbai, India.