Anthony Joseph Perrotta

TGroup LLC is an independent international research and consulting firm headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Larry Tabb in 2003 as The TABB Group and became TGroup LLC in 2016. TGroup focuses exclusively on capital markets. They provide clients with unparalleled insight into the Securities and Investment Management industry segments, with experience in the various sectors including derivatives, equities, foreign exchange and the bond markets.

Tradeweb Markets LLC operates as a global fixed income and derivatives markets. It engages in building and operating electronic over-the-counter marketplaces. The company builds a global web-based electronic network of banks, asset managers, central banks, pension funds and insurance companies to buy and sell government bonds and other fixed income and derivative instruments. It also provides trading solutions for financial advisors and traders. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Blackbird operates a global, inter-dealer derivatives brokerage business that utilizes technology to optimize trading, improve execution and reduce operational risk. Blackbird's team of brokers leverages the company's proprietary technology to enhance liquidity and productivity across its global network of institutional clients, creating the market's only hybrid voice-electronic brokerage platform for OTC interest rate derivatives. Blackbird's hybrid platform consists of a user-friendly electronic trading system coupled with a voice brokerage network, which together allow clients to choose how they wish to trade. There is no other platform like Blackbird's in the marketplace today. The company's proprietary, patented technology enables participants around the world to design and execute trades more efficiently than can be done via voice only. Utilizing industry-standard FpML, Blackbird's electronic trading system facilitates Straight-Through-Processing (STP) by instantaneously communicating all transaction details to each counterparty involved. Blackbird is also fully integrated with Swapswire, which allows for the timely affirmation and confirmation of trade details between participating counterparties. Blackbird is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with brokerage offices in New York, London and Singapore. Blackbird employs a team of 50 brokers worldwide that service over 150 institutional clients in the $390 trillion interest rate swap market.

Part of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc., MarketAxess Corp. provides financial information exchange test-certification services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Founded in 1985, Barclays Capital Asia Ltd. is a Chinese brokerage services company. Part of Barclays PLC, the company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. (MSA) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1987 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSA provides institutional securities such as equities, fixed income, derivatives and research.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.