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ACI Germany
More than 1'500 financial market participants of German markets are members of ACI Germany, The Financial Markets Association, in order to represent the professional interests of the banking trade. ACI Germany is hence the largest union by members at the moment in ACI worldwide. Please click here for a list of the representatives in the German subcommittee for Repo/ Lending/ Collateral.

www.bearingpoint.de
Link to BearingPoint's Competence Group Repo & Securities Lending and to a free copy of the survey "The Electronic Repo Market" (2008)

www.bundesbank.de
General information about Bundesbanks activities.

www.clearstream.com and www.euroclear.com
Link to the leading global providers of clearing, settlement and custody services.

Comit AG
Comit is a business and IT consulting partner in the financial sector. They combine in-depth business experience, solid IT skills and focused project methodology to give you optimal added value. One of the focuses is collateral trading and management. Comit offers FINACE®, the state-of-the-art IT solution covering all aspects of securities lending, repo and structured securities finance as well as collateral management in a fully integrated and modular manner. Two of its modules are specifically designed to support clients using the Eurex Repo CHF and Euro as well as Eurex SecLend platform.

ION Trading
ION Trading is the market leader in providing a full suite of innovative real-time solutions for electronic trading, position and risk management, pricing, and order management.

The ION Trading solution includes:

• Trading access across multiple trading venues retaining all native market features.
• Multi-market aggregation of depths and quotes, management of multi-market inventory, client flows and credit lines.
• Global repo and securities finance offering leveraging our Anvil product which is the most popular solution available. Anvil offers powerful position and trade management, risk management, margin management, P&L and many other features and is used for proprietary trading or managed/agency lending.
• Consulting services at the highest level of expertise, provided from the largest team of dedicated repo and securities finance technologists.

The ION Platform is a fully distributed, centrally managed, component-based framework compliant with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concept. More than 130 leading financial institutions in 25 different countries have already partnered with ION Trading across a wide range of strategic solutions to access the premiere trading venues.

www.xemac.de
The automated collateral management facilities of Xemac improve liquidity by ensuring the optimal use of collateral, allowing customers to manage their assets more efficiently, and in real time.

International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
ICMA represents financial institutions active in the international capital market worldwide. ICMA's members are located in 46 countries, including all the world's main financial centres. ICMA's market conventions and standards have been the pillars of the international debt market for over 40 years, providing the framework of rules governing market practice which facilitate the orderly functioning of the market. ICMA actively promotes the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the capital markets by bringing together market participants including regulatory authorities and governments. Eurex Repo GmbH is an associate member of the ICMA.

ICMA European Repo Council (ERC)
The ERC was established in December 1999 by ICMA. Membership is open to any ICMA member who undertakes dedicated repo markets activity. The ERC seeks to address market practice issues arising in the cross-border repo market in Europe. A core responsibility of the ERC and one of the original reasons for its existence is to assist ICMA in maintaining the legal documentation which underpins the safe functioning of the cross-border repo market, specifically, the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA). Eurex Repo GmbH is member of the ERC.