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Marsh McLennan is a professional services firm that provides advice and solutions in the areas of risk, strategy, and human capital. The company operates through two main segments: risk and insurance services and consulting. In risk and insurance services, the firm offers services via Marsh (an insurance broker) and Guy Carpenter (a risk and reinsurance specialist). The consulting division comprises Mercer (a provider of human resource services) and Oliver Wyman (a management and economic consultancy). About half of its revenue is generated outside the US.

Bajaj Finance Ltd is the holding company for various financial services businesses under the Bajaj Group, which operates in India. The company is an NBFC in India offering payments, partnerships, services, and lending solutions to customers. The company's model is focused on the acquisition of customers and offering multiple loans and services on a cross-sell basis to meet their financial service needs. The company provides discretionary spending across consumer electronics, furniture, and digital products in India. The company's strategies and structure are closely aligned with those of commercial banks in India. All of its revenue is generated from India.

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.

Founded in Australia in 1978, Computershare has grown via acquisitions to become the world's leading provider of issuer services. Employee share plans and communications services are commonly sold together with issuer services to corporations. The company also has a business services offering and a corporate trust business, alongside a small mortgage administration business that's due to be divested. Over the medium term, around half of group EBITDA is expected to be generated from interest income on client cash balances, or margin income, which is exposed to interest-rate movements.

Power Finance Corp Ltd is a financial institution operating in India and dedicated to financing the country's power, logistics, and infrastructure sectors and its various projects. The company serves state power utilities, central power sector utilities, power departments, private power sector utilities, joint sector power utilities, power equipment manufacturers, and municipal power utilities. The company's main products include rupee-term loans, short-term loans, and a buyer line of credit. Interest income is the company's main source of revenue.

HDFC Asset Management Co Ltd is an asset management company. The company is in the business of providing asset management services to HDFC Mutual Fund and portfolio management and advisory services to clients. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from within India.

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.

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA is a Colombian financial services company. Its segments include: Banking Services segment comprises Banking Services, fund management and trust businesses, storage companies and entities that manage low-value payment systems. Merchant Banking segment comprises Financial Sector (trust and brokerage), Gas and Energy Sector (includes natural gas and energy transportation and distribution businesses), Infrastructure Sector (includes road infrastructure projects, construction services, and operation and maintenance), Hotel Sector (includes hospitality services), Agribusiness Sector (includes palm oil, rubber and rice businesses). Pension and Severance Fund Management" segment comprise administrator of pension and severance funds; and Holding segment.

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.

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.

Rbr Desenvolvimento Comercial Feeder Fof Fundo DE Inv Imob is Brazil based company. It is a real estate investment fund.

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.

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.

Bicecorp SA is a Chile based investment holding company. It is engaged in offering a broad range of services across banking, investments, insurance, and asset management.

JTC PLC is a company based in Jersey that provides fund, corporate, and private client services. The company has two main segments: Institutional Client Services (ICS) and Private Client Services (PCS). The ICS segment generates the highest revenue. JTC PLC offers company secretarial and administration services to various corporate clients, including small and medium-sized enterprises, public companies, multinationals, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and private clients. The company also provides services in real estate, private equity, hedge, renewables, debt, and other alternatives, including sovereign wealth funds.

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.

Central Depository Services (India) Ltd is a securities depository in India. It offers dematerialization for a wide range of securities, including equity shares, preference shares, mutual fund units, debt instruments, and government securities. In addition, it is involved in centralized record keeping of KYC documents of investors, and providing repository services to policyholders to store their receipts and policies in electronic form. The group operates in three segments: Depository, Data Entry, and Storage and Repository. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Depository segment, which provides various services to investors, including dematerialization, rematerialization, holding, transfer, and pledge of securities in electronic form, as well as e-voting services to companies.

Republic Financial Hol Ltd is a financial services group comprising several subsidiaries and associated companies. The company is engaged in providing a wide range of banking, financial, and related services to retail and commercial banking customers, corporate clients, and governments. It operates in two segments: retail and commercial banking, which generates maximum revenue, and other financial services. The company operates in the following geographical segments: Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Suriname, Eastern Caribbean, Guyana, Ghana, Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands. It derives key revenue from its operations in Trinidad & Tobago.

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.

Al Ansari Financial Services is engaged in the business of buying and selling foreign currencies and traveller's cheques, cheques, executing remittance operations in local and foreign currencies, payment of wages through establishing a link to the operating system of wages protection, special products such as bill payments, cash collections, sale and reload of multi-currency prepaid cards and transportation of cash and valuables, stored value facilities, and other related services.

Choice International Ltd is a company engaged in providing financial services. It operates through the segments of NBFC services, Broking & Distribution services, and Advisory services. The company generates a majority of its revenue from Broking and Distribution services. It offers services like equity trading, commodity derivative trading, financial planning, currency futures trading, fund distribution, and structured products. The company conducts its business operations mainly in India.

KFin Technologies Ltd is a technology-driven financial services platform. The company provides services and solutions to asset managers and corporate issuers across asset classes in India and provides several investor solutions including transaction origination and processing for mutual funds and private retirement schemes in Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Flow Traders Ltd is a financial technology company operating in the financial markets, using its proprietary technology platform to provide liquidity by quoting bid and ask prices in financial products. It ensures the provision of liquidity to support the uninterrupted functioning of financial markets. The company's core trading focus is on exchange-traded products (ETPs), enabling investors to buy and sell ETPs by quoting bid and ask prices under virtually all market circumstances and also has expanded into fixed income, commodities, digital assets, and foreign exchange. The company's reportable segments are; Europe which generates key revenue, the Americas, and Asia.

Indian Energy Exchange Ltd is an India-based power trading platform provider. It is a power exchange for spot trading in power/electricity, trading of Renewable Energy Certificates (REC), and Energy Saving Certificates (ESCerts). The main activity of the company is to provide an automated platform and infrastructure for carrying out trading in electricity units for the physical delivery of electricity.

XPS Pensions Group PLC is a UK employee benefits consultancy and related business services. The services provided by the company include Pensions, Investment, National Pension Trust Administration, and Self-Invested Pensions. The company derives maximum revenue from Pensions Actuarial & Consulting followed by Pensions Administration, Pensions Investment, National Pension Trust (NPT), and SIP.

Sagicor Financial Co Ltd is a financial services provider with over 180 years in the Caribbean, approximately 90 years in Canada, and around 70 years in the United States. The group offers products and services, including life, health, and general insurance, banking, pensions, annuities, investment management, and real estate. The company derives a majority of its revenue from Canada.

Fundo Investimento Imobiliario FII REC Recebiveis Imobiliarios is an investment company. The purpose of the Fund is to invest in real estate projects, through the acquisition of assets, or rights related thereto, subject to the other requirements and investment policy provisions.

Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Ltd is a South Africa-based diversified financial services company. The company operates through seven segments: Retirement consulting, Healthcare consulting, Investments, Individual consulting, Multinational consulting, Solutions & Enablement, and Client Services & Business Optimization. Its services include Retirement consulting, Investments, Healthcare, Preservation funds, and Others. The company also offers online services.

NICE Information Service Co Ltd is engaged in providing credit information services. The company operates in three business segments: Credit Information business segment is engaged in providing corporate rating, individual rating, corporate information, asset management and bond evaluation services; Financial Service business segment is engaged in providing ATM and CD VAN, credit card settlement, tax accounting, and cash management services; and Manufacturing business segment is engaged in manufacturing electronic components, mobile phone battery, touch panel, touch sensor and others. All the business activity of the group is functioned through Japan.

ICRA Ltd is an independent and professional Investment Information and credit rating agency. The company operates through four segments: Rating, research, and other services; Consulting services; Knowledge and Market Services. The company generates over half of its revenue from the Rating, research and other services segment. Rating, research, and other services segment provides rating, grading, and industry research services. The consulting services segment provides management consulting which includes risk management, financial advisory, outsourcing, and policy advisory. The knowledge Services segment provides KPO services and the Market services segment provides financial information products and services. Geographically the majority of revenue is generated from within India.

Banco De Valores SA is a banking firm engaged in providing services like Trust, Shares & Debt Issuance, Mutual Funds, and Ratings.

Axactor ASA is a debt management company that specializes in purchasing and collecting debt portfolios. It also provides collection services for third-party-owned portfolios. The company operates in two segments: Non-performing loans (NPL) and Third-party collection (3PC). The NPL segment invests in portfolios of non-performing loans, which are presented as 'Purchased loan portfolios' in the consolidated statement of financial position. The 3PC segment focuses on performing debt collection services on behalf of third-party clients. Axactor ASA operates in Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. The majority of its revenue comes from interest earned on purchased loan portfolios.

Hyundai Motor Securities Co Ltd is a Korea based company engaged in providing securities and financial services such as securities dealing, brokerage and underwriting services. The company also offers investment consulting, internet banking, corporate financing and corporate analysis services. The business areas in which the organization is involved are Retail, Wholesale, Pension, Research, Trading and IB.

OVB Holding AG provides financial advisory services related to financial security, risk protection, and asset generation. It acts as a link between the customers and providers of financial investment and insurance products. The company operates banks, insurance, and investment companies throughout Europe and selects customer-specific solutions on the basis of their offers. The firm has operations across Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, and Southern and Western Europe. It recognizes majority of its revenues from brokerage received.

Leonteq AG is a Swiss fintech company with a marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees. The company has a presence in its home market of Switzerland and other parts of Europe, as well as an established footprint in Asia and other regions.

EUWAX AG is based in Germany. It trades securitised derivatives, provides liquidity for German equities and other trading instruments at the Stuttgart stock exchange. It manages various asset classes, such as securitized derivatives, domestic equities, bonds, and active and passive funds.

Patria Credito Imobiliario Indice De Precos Fundo De Inv Imob Res Ltd is a real estate investment fund.

Hsi Logistica Fundo De Investimento Imobiliario aims to obtain income and capital gains, through investment in real estate or real rights over ready made properties in the Logistics segment.

Fundo De Investimento Imobiliario Guardian Logistica is a Real Estate Investment Fund.

Alfa Holdings SA is a holding company. The company holds interests, directly or indirectly, in segments such as finance, insurance, and services.

Centrepoint Alliance Ltd is a community of financial advisers. It provides technology, services, education, and on-the-ground training to its clients. The company's reportable segments are Licensee and Advice Services which generates maximum revenue for the company provides Australian Financial Services Licence-related services to financial advisers and its clients and mortgage broking services; Funds Management and Administration segment provides investor-directed portfolio services and investment management services to financial advisers and their clients; Consulting services segment represents the business that provides consulting to both self-licensed advisers and licensees.

Alterna Asesoria Internacional SAB De CV is a holding company of companies principally engaged in the provision of advisory services, asset management, and administration, securities and insurance brokerage, and management of venture capital investments and private equity funds in the United States and other jurisdictions other than Mexico.

Cavali ICLV SA is the Peruvian Central Securities and Settlement Depository. The company processes transactions carried out in the stock exchange. The company services include negotiable invoices, services for investors, registration of securities, compensation and liquidation and international services.

Stock3 AG is a technology company specializing in stock exchanges and trading. The group operates a web platform and associated mobile applications, offering the following solutions: technical infrastructure and editorial content related to capital markets; targeted outreach to an audience with active trading and investment behavior, to its advertising partners; a terminal solution for financial market data and analysis to market participants, and the opportunity to conduct securities transactions with various brokers via the parent company's web platform and mobile applications. Geographically, the group is currently active in the DACH region, with a focus on Germany.

K33 AB is a holding company with broad exposure to the digital assets industry. The Company offers market execution, actionable insights, and superior support to private and institutional partners across EMEA.

Tick Trading Software AG develops and distributes software packages for professional trading. The company's products are the TBMX Trading Platform, tick-TS Cloud, e-Trading Compliance Monitor, and others. tick Trading Software AG is active in the field of programming IT software; The focus here is on the programming of EDP software in the financial services segment (stock market software, trading software, etc.). In addition, it offers its customers "Software as a Service" housing and hosting of complex server systems for stock exchange trading in combination with its software solutions.

Norwegian Block Exchange AS ) is a company that stores and exchanges virtual currency for fiat and holds both an e-money and VASP license. Its main part of the business contains the development and operation of trading platforms for virtual currency for the company's customers.

Investimentos Bemge SA provides studies, analyses, and provides consultancy services on the company's operational policies and expansion projects. It also offers fund and investment management services.