Patricia Lynch

RobecoSam USA, Inc. (formerly Sustainable Asset Management USA, Inc.) is a registered investment advisor located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of RobecoSam AG and their ultimate parent is Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA.

Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG provides reinsurance, insurance, and risk management solutions. The firm focuses on the property and casualty, life and health, and asset management sectors. The company was founded on May 1, 1883 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Credit Suisse AG is an investment management firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1856 and was acquired by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) from Credit Suisse Group AG in 2023. Credit Suisse manages global and regional portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. They also offer private banking and wealth management, investment banking, and corporate and business support services.

BlackRock International Ltd. (BIL) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of BlackRock Group Ltd., itself a subsidiary of BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. Founded in 1995, the firm is headquartered in Edinburgh and manages assets for institutional clients, separate accounts, pooled investment vehicles and US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include equity, fixed income and multi-asset strategies. BIL is socially responsible investors which has mandates that explicitly address social, ethical, or environmental considerations.

European Energy Exchange AG provides the market platform for energy and commodity products. It offers power, natural gas, coal, freight, metals, environmental markets, and agricultural markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.

Powernext SA operates as a regulated market, manages the natural gas activities of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) group under the PEGAS brand throughout Europe, and operates the national registry for electricity guarantees of origin in France. It offers Powernext Carbon, which provides an organized spot market enabling exchange of allowances and non compliance risk management services. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Eurex Zuerich AG engages in electronic trading with financial market products such as options, futures, securities lending, and repurchase agreements. It also provides services in electronic stock exchange trading, particularly in the area of software development, as well as processing and provision of financial data. The company was founded on December 19, 1986 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Chicago Board of Trade provides trade derivative facilities. It allows speculators throughout the world to interpret economic data, news, and other information. The company was founded on April 3, 1848 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Clearstream Banking AG engages in providing commercial banking services. Its services include settlement, custody, global securities, financing, investment fund, business and IT solutions and customer support. The company is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany.

Eurex Frankfurt AG operates as a futures and options exchange. The company provides access to futures and options market for European derivatives and offers clearing services for derivatives, equities, and bonds repos. It offers a range of products such as interest rate, equity, equity index, volatility index, and exchange traded funds derivatives. The company was founded in December, 1996 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

U.S. Futures Exchange LLC provides online securities and derivatives exchange services. It offers specialized products to retail, hedge fund, and institutional customers in a regulated futures and options exchange. Its products include equity index futures, foreign exchange products, and binary derivatives. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL

NYSE Euronext operates financial markets and provides trading solutions. It offers an array of products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, clearing operations, market data, commercial technology solutions and carbon trading, all designed to meet the evolving needs of investors, issuers, financial institutions and market participants. The company was founded by Jean-François Théodore in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. operates and regulates a registered national securities exchange. The company was founded in September 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd. (BIM-UK) is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm is a subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. BIM-UK was founded in 2006 following the merger of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and BlackRock. In 2009, BlackRock merged with Barclays Global Investors, including the iShares exchange traded funds business. The combined firm operates under the BlackRock name and has retained the iShares brand. BIM-UK manages a family of mutual funds and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual and pension funds. They also offer alternative investments and managed accounts for individual and institutional clients.

BlackRock (Netherlands) BV (BlackRock Netherlands) is an investment management firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. BlackRock Netherlands provides investment, advisory and risk management solutions to pension plans, insurers, investment banks, savings banks, foundations, official institutions, and individuals.

Part of Euronext NV, Euronext London Ltd. is a company that provides security brokerage services. The company is based in London, UK. Christopher Marcus Topple has been the CEO of the British company since 2018.

Citibank Europe Plc engages in the provision of banking services. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Swiss Bankers Association operates bankers association. The company was founded by Robert U. Vogler in 1912 and is headquartered in Basel, China.

SWX Europe Ltd. develops screen based electronic trading systems for the secondary trading market. The company is an electronic communications network focusing on blue chip UK and European stocks. It gives access to Europe's key financial centre with a market that offers crossborder trading, clearing, and settlement of securities. The company is headquartered in London, UK.

SIX Group AG engages in the development and operation of a central infrastructure, which ensures the flow of information and money between banks, traders, merchants, and investors. It offers products and services for securities trading, stock market transactions, financial information, and payment transactions. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Invt Port) (Swiss Re IP) is the investment portfolio division of Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Swiss Reinsurance Co., Ltd.) itself a subsidiary of Swiss Re AG (SW: SREN) in Switzerland. Based in Zurich, the Swiss Re Group was established in 1863 and provides wholesale reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer to insurance companies, corporations and public sector entities. Swiss Re IM optimizes risk-adjusted investment returns within defined risk limits for the Group’s Business Units, Reinsurance, Corporate Solutions and Admin Re. They are a socially responsible investor which has a strategic approach in place to define and drive key activities across the firm. They have a special focus on climate change and are a signatory to the UN Global Compact.

BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd. (BlackRock UK) is the Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. The firm was founded in 1964 and formerly known as Barclays Global Investors Ltd. Headquartered in London, BlackRock UK manages a range of investment products for various UK and continental European clients including defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, insurance companies, educational and nonprofit organizations, local government entities, and individual and families.

SIX Swiss Exchange AG operates as a stock exchange. It distributes a range of indices; and offers market data for shares, bonds, ETFs and funds, ETPs, indices, statistics, and data services. The firm enables to list and trade in segments, including equities, bonds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), exchange traded products (ETPs), derivatives, sponsored funds, sponsored foreign shares, warrants, and structured products. The company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Association of Foreign Banks In Switzerland operates as banking association, which engages in protecting and promoting the common interests of its members. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Zürich, Germany.

EuroSite Power Ltd. produces energy. It specializes in combined heat and power, cogeneration, gas-engine chillers, discount energy purchase agreements, energy services agreements and on-site utility solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Macclesfield, the United Kingdom.

Brain Research Trust engages in professional, scientific, and technical services. The non-profit company is based in London, UK.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Ltd. (Spain) is a Spanish company that provides brokerage services. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd. (Spain) is a Spanish company that provides brokerage and portfolio management services. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.

BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform. It offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems. The firm’s platform is accessible to MATLAB, R and Python languages. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of OSTC Ltd., FSTP Ltd. provides training and consulting services for financial services. The company is based in Greater London, UK. The CEO of the British company is Julia Kirkland. FSTP was acquired by OSTC Ltd. on May 25, 2021.

OSTC Ltd. provides financial intermediation services. It offers OSTCFX, a full suite of foreign exchange trading products to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bromley, the United Kingdom.

BG Training Ltd. operates as a holding company. The company was founded on May 17, 2010 and is headquartered in Bromley, the United Kingdom.