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Broadridge, a global Fintech leader with $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive business transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers, and public companies. Our technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of over U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income, and other securities globally. From our position at the center of the industry, we help clients get ahead of today’s challenges and capitalize on what’s next.
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Goal Group is the leading global provider of withholding tax reclamation and securities class action recovery services.
With over 30 years’ experience, Goal helps the largest financial institutions and global investment community fulfil their fiduciary duty, reclaiming excess tax on cross-border income, and seeking legal redress for shareholders who have suffered financial losses through corporate mismanagement and/or unlawful behaviour.
Services are highly automated and provide efficient and accurate solutions, with local client support. Processing millions of claims a year for billions of underlying investors while ensuring the applications are simple to use and effective. Goal is the only service provider that can offer both insourcing and outsourcing solutions using our award-winning applications.
The cornerstones of their business is simple – leading-edge technology, excellent client service, and compelling, flexible pricing. It is this, combined with unparalleled industry knowledge and proficiency, that enables them to achieve outstanding results for their clients globally.
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GlobeTax is an outsourced service provider, managing all aspects of the claim preparation and processing lifecycle for clients to support our vision that no investor overpays withholding tax. For investors and financial institutions seeking to recover taxes through relief at source, quick refund, and standard reclaim processes, GlobeTax offers MIDAS®. In this capacity, GlobeTax procures documentation, monitors income, manages relief at source elections, and files reclaim applications, guaranteeing that all possible entitlements are returned. In addition, MIDAS® provides investors with up to 50 basis points of risk-free operational alpha by recovering over-withheld tax. We also process claims for depositary banks, DTC Participants, issuers, and transfer agents through the firm’s ESP product. With this, GlobeTax collects, validates, and transmits beneficial owner data and documentation along the custody chain. ESP facilitates the secure and efficient transfer of beneficial owner information, ensuring account holders receive the appropriate withholding tax rate.
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Bloomberg supports Open Symbology and drives efforts to contribute to universal and standard systems for instrument and entity identification. This includes Bloomberg’s responsibilities as a Registration Authority and Certified Provider for the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), under the auspices of the Object Management Group and ANSI X9. FIGI enables firms to organize their financial instrument data across asset class, using an identifier that is unique and persistent. With FIGI, firms can establish better data governance and quality, leaving them well placed to successfully comply with various regulations. Bloomberg is also an accredited Local Operating Unit (LOU) of the Global LEI System (GLEIS). As the LEI brings more transparency and efficiency to the marketplace, the use cases continue to expand. Bloomberg is proud to be a part of this global effort to adopt LEIs by offering services to issue new LEIs and maintain, renew, or even transfer existing LEIs.
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ISS Securities Class Action Services (ISS SCAS) delivers a fully outsourced litigation research and claims filing solution that successfully maximizes client recoveries of lost assets. In fact, during the last two calendar years, ISS SCAS’ claims filing clients have recovered more than $1 billion. For more than 30 years, ISS SCAS has been the leading expert in the discipline of securities class actions and antitrust litigation by identifying cases across the globe and utilizing advanced technology to analyze and understand investor losses. Leveraging ISS’ comprehensive and robust infrastructure, ISS SCAS is a trusted partner to its clients, which include the world’s leading mutual funds, hedge funds, wealth management firms, custodian banks, trust companies, registered investment advisors, and pension funds. The ISS SCAS outsourced solution reassures clients they have a dedicated partner to mitigate the risk of missed claims filing and to fully participate in class & group action cases, where eligible.
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Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investing, with $631.9 billion in assets under management, as of June 30, 2022. At Federated Hermes, we are guided by our conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create wealth over the long term. By investing responsibly, we aim to help people invest and retire better, to help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns, and where possible, to contribute to positive outcomes in the wider world.
Our investment solutions span equity, fixed income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset and liquidity-management strategies, and a range of separately managed account strategies. Providing world-class investment management and engagement services to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries, our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks and broker/dealers.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes’ has nearly 2,000 employees include those in London, New York, Boston and offices worldwide.
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Founded in 2008, Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT) is a leading technology-based services firm that helps the investment community identify eligibility, file claims and collect funds made available in securities class action settlements. Offering the most comprehensive range of claim filing and monitoring services available, we provide best-in-class eligibility analysis, disbursement auditing and client reporting, and deliver the highest level of accuracy, accountability and transparency available. Financial Recovery Technologies is a Cross Country Group company (http://www.ccgroup.com). For more information, go to www.frtservices.com or email us at learnmore@frtservices.com.
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The financial services industry relies on CGS’ unrivaled experience in uniquely identifying instruments and entities to support efficient global capital markets. Its extensive focus on standardization over the past 50 years has helped CGS earn its reputation as a trusted originator of quality identifiers and descriptive data, ensuring that essential front- and back-office functions run smoothly. CGS is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by FactSet Research Systems Inc., with a Board of Trustees that represents the voices of leading financial institutions. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.
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With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. To learn more, visit www.dtcc.com.
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Symphony is the most secure and compliant markets’ infrastructure and technology platform, where solutions are built or integrated to standardize, automate and innovate financial services workflows. The Symphony platform is a vibrant community of over half a million financial professionals from 500+ market participants with a trusted directory. It is powering over 2,000 community built applications and bots. The company was founded in 2014 and has raised $510 million from institutional investors. For more information, visit www.symphony.com.
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