Woody Polglase

Nomura International Plc provides a variety of financial services including advisement, investment banking and asset management. It trades in and sells fixed income and equity products, including related derivatives; and provides investment banking services, and corporate finance and private equity services. The company is also involved in asset and principal finance business. It offers investment advisory and management, custody, and employment services. Nomura International was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Goldman Sachs International (GSI) is the Great Britain-based, wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group UK Ltd., ultimately held by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in the US. The firm was founded in 1988 and formerly known as Trushelfco Ltd. Headquartered in London, GSI provides prime brokerage, securities lending, futures services and financing services for a range of clients such as corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net worth individuals.

Citigroup Global Markets Ltd. (CGML) is an international broker-dealer firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Bahamas Ltd., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. CGML has a major presence in the international financial markets as a dealer, market-maker and underwriter in equity and fixed income securities and offers risk-based solutions to producers and investors in commodity markets. They also provide corporate finance services to a wide range of corporate, institutional and government clients. Their trading activities encompass cash, exchange traded and OTC derivative markets.

Société Générale SA (UK) (Société Générale UK) is the Great Britain-based brokerage division of Societe Generale SA (XP: GLE, ADR: SCGLY) in France. Headquartered in London, Société Générale UK was founded in 1993 and provides broking services.

BGC Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of brokerage services to the financial markets. The firm offers integrated voice, hybrid and fully electronic brokerage in a broad range of products, including fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, insurance, energy and commodities and futures. It also provides trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information and other back-office services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Canada Life Asset Management Ltd. (CLAM) is the Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of The Canada Life Group (UK) Ltd., ultimately held by Power Corp. of Canada (TSE: POW) in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1903, the firm was acquired in 2003 by Great-West Lifeco Inc. Headquartered in London, CLAM manages the Canlife fund range, OEIC and Unit Trust funds. Most of their fund range is managed from London, but they also offer a small number of funds which are managed in partnership with companies in the Great-West Lifeco group and associated companies in Canada, the US and Ireland.

Exel Plc used to provide logistics services, including strategic management of the flow and storage of materials. It divided its logistics operations into two complementary segments, which included ground-based supply chain management services such as warehousing and distribution, assembly and just-in-time services. It also used to provide customer focused solutions to manufacturing and retail industries. The company was headquartered in Bracknell, UK

JPMorgan Securities Plc is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1992 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of JP Morgan Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) in the US. JPMorgan Securities provides market research, proprietary pricing data and analytics, and trade execution across multiple asset classes such as credit, equities and FX. They help institutional investors, traditional and alternative asset and fund managers, broker dealers and equity issuers meet the demands of changing markets.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. They are a subsidiary of Alliancebernstein Corp. of Delaware, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH) in the US. Founded in 1999, the firm provides fundamental research and full service execution services to institutional clients globally. They offer bottom-up coverage and portfolio strategies supported by sophisticated quantitative tools.

ABG Sundal Collier AB (ABGSC) is the Swedish securities brokerage subsidiary of ABG Sundal Collier ASA, which is owned by ABG Sundal Collier Holding ASA (FRA: DAB, OSE: ASC) in Norway. Headquartered in Stockholm, ABGSC was founded in 1997 and provides securities execution services to institutional investors.

Minnesota Steel Industries LLC manufactures steel. It incorporated the commercially available technology in mining, concentrating, pellet plant, DRI and electric arc steelmaking on a single site, making it one of the lowest cost steel producers in the world. The company is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Global Brain Corp. (Global Brain) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Yasuhiko Yurimoto. Global Brain Corp. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

PGIM Ltd. is the Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of PGIM Financial Ltd., ultimately held by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) in the US. Formerly known as Pramerica Investment Management Ltd., the firm was founded in 1999 and changed their name to PGIM in 2016. PGIM is headquartered in London and offers a range of fixed income strategies and products to a variety of affiliated and unaffiliated global institutional clients.

IQ Capital Partners LLP (IQ Capital) is a venture capital firm, a susbidiary of NW Brown Group Ltd. IQ Capital was founded in 2000 by Nigel Brown, Ed Stacey, Max Bautin and Kerry Baldwin. The firm Is headquartered in the UK.

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.

World Cancer Research Fund, founded in 1982, is the world's leading authority on the links between diet, weight, physical activity, and cancer prevention and survival. The non-profit company is based in London, UK. The British company is dedicated to researching cancer prevention and survival, with a vision to live in a world where no one develops a preventable cancer. The company funds and carries out the world's largest, most authoritative and up-to-date source of scientific research on cancer prevention and survivorship through diet, nutrition, physical activity, and cancer.

Pearl Diver Capital LLP (PDC) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded by Chandrajit Chakraborty and Indranil Basu in 2008. PDC offers institutional investors access to US and Global corporate credit, in a structured format, through investments in Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) tranches.

Better Society Capital Ltd. (Better Society Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Ronald M. Cohen in April 2012. The firm is headquartered in London.

XO1 Ltd. develops a novel anticoagulant drug. The firm operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded by David J. Grainger on February 28, 2013 and is headquartered in High Wycombe, the United Kingdom.

ICRA Ltd. (Research Firm) (ICRA Research) is the research division of ICRA Ltd., which is ultimately held by Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm is headquartered in Gurgaon, India. ICRA Research provides research services to their clients.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Eight Enterprises LLC (8VC) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joseph T. Lonsdale. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Z Factor Ltd. operates as a drug discovery company. It identifies and develops therapeutic agents to treat alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. The company was founded by James Huntington in 2015 and is headquartered in Babraham, the united Kingdom.

ApcinteX Ltd. develops and markets anticoagulant APC pathway to treat haemophilia. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The Good Box Co. Labs Ltd. engages in the manufacture of contactless payment acceptance devices. Its products include GBx Mini, GBx Core, and GBx Pro. The company was founded by Andrew O’Brien and Francesca Hodgson in 2016 and is headquartered in Salford, the United Kingdom.

Part of Equitable Holdings, Inc., Autonomous Research Ltd. is a financial intermediary that provides financial intermediation services. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2009.

Exane SA (United Kingdom) is the UK-based securities brokerage division of Exane SA in France, which is owned by BNP Paribas SA (EPA: BNP). Headquartered in London, the firm was founded in 2019 and provides institutional investors with a range of services, such as research, sale and execution on European equities.

Part of Equitable Holdings, Inc., Sanford C. Bernstein (Autonomous UK) 1 Ltd. is an investment holding British company. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2018.

JM Financial Institutional Securities Ltd. (JMF-IS) is the securities arm of JM Financial Services Ltd., which is owned by JM Financial Ltd. (NSE: JMFINANCIL), an integrated financial services group based in India. Headquartered in Mumbai, the firm was founded in 1995 as ASK-Raymond James & Associates Pvt Ltd., a joint venture between India-based ASK Investment and Financial Consultants Ltd., US-based Raymond James Financial, Inc. and Bharat Shah. JMF-IS provides trade execution services as well as research and analysis with a strong focus on the Indian economy. Their clients are domestic and offshore institutions, high-net worth individuals and non-resident Indians.

Sanford C. Bernstein (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Bernstein HK) is an investment research firm headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2010 and is a subsidiary of AllianceBernstein International LLC, itself a subsidiary of Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH) in the US. Bernstein HK delivers sell-side, fundamental research and execution services to institutional clients globally.

Sanford C. Bernstein (Schweiz) GmbH (SCB Broker) is the brokerage subsidiary of Allicanbernstein International LLC, which is ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). The firm is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded in 2010. SCB Broker provides brokerage services to their clients.