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ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS IN EUROPE (AFME)

Submitted by christian on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 14:03

AFME is the voice of Europe's wholesale financial markets. AFME represents the leading global and European banks and other significant capital market players. AFME focuses on a wide range of market, business and prudential issues and offer a pan-European perspective, bringing to bear deep policy and technical expertise and constructive influence with European and global policymakers. The Association advocates stable, competitive, sustainable European financial markets that support economic growth and benefit society.

On behalf of its members, AFME

  • Offers a single voice for Europe's capital market participants and advocate their views at national, EU and global levels
  • Builds constructive dialogue with regulators and policymakers
  • Offers its policy and product expertise to help achieve a balanced and stable regulatory environment; and
  • Promotes the contribution of the financial sector to society

AFME acts as a bridge between the wholesale financial markets, politicians, regulators and the public. Its activities comprise:

  • Advocacy - close dialogue with regulators to ensure that the industry's perspective is understood and carries weight
  • Policy development - applying its market expertise to assist formulation of EU and national legislation
  • Education - helping policymakers to understand the markets
  • Communication - developing content, convening debates
  • Co-ordination - bringing market participants and industry bodies to work together on the key issues for the sector

Priorities

AFME's overarching priorities are agreed by its Board. The focus is on:

  • Strategy: developing pan-European reach and visibility
  • Policy and product areas:
  1. Funding growth in the real economy through-well functioning capital markets
  2. Prudential regulation- Shaping the implementation of CRD4 and Basel III
  3. Capital Markets- Leading debate on the goals for MiFID II
  4. Global FX- Advocating consistent, coherent global regulation
  5. Taxation- Scrutinising the proposed Financial Transaction Tax
  6. Securisation- Helping to restore confidence and restart the market
  7. Resolution- Creating a robust international framework
  8. Banking Union- Supporting EU policymakers in developing the new framework.

Full Members

  1. ABN Amro Bank N.V.
  2. Banca IMI S.p.A.
  3. Banco Santander
  4. Bankia
  5. Bank of America Merrill Lynch *
  6. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ **
  7. Barclays PLC
  8. BNP Paribas *
  9. BNY Mellon *
  10. Canaccord Genuity
  11. Cenkos Securities plc
  12. Citi *
  13. Clydesdale Bank
  14. Commerzbank AG
  15. Crédit Agricole *
  16. Credit Suisse Securities Europe Ltd *
  17. Daiwa Capital Markets
  18. Danske Bank
  19. Deutsche Bank AG *
  20. Espirito Santo Investment Bank
  21. Evercore Partners International LLP
  22. Exane Limited
  23. Gleacher Shacklock
  24. Goldman Sachs & Co *
  25. Grupo BBVA
  26. HSBC *
  27. ICAP Europe Ltd
  28. ING Bank
  29. Investec Bank
  30. Jane Street Financial
  31. Jefferies International Limited
  32. J.P.Morgan Chase Bank, NA *
  33. KCG Europe Ltd
  34. Kepler Cheuvreux
  35. Liberum Capital
  36. Lloyds Banking Group *
  37. Macquarie Group
  38. Mirabaud Securities LLP
  39. Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
  40. Mizuho Bank, Ltd **
  41. Mizuho International plc
  42. Moelis & Company UK LLP
  43. Morgan Stanley *
  44. N+1 Singer Advisory LLP
  45. Nationwide Building Society
  46. Natixis
  47. N M Rothschild & Sons Limited
  48. Nomura International plc *
  49. Nordea Bank
  50. Northern Trust Corporation
  51. Numis Securities
  52. Oriel Securities
  53. Panmure Gordon & Co
  54. Peel Hunt LLP
  55. Rabobank
  56. RBC Europe Limited *
  57. Royal Bank of Scotland *
  58. Sanford C Bernstein Ltd
  59. Scotiabank
  60. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank **
  61. Shore Capital and Corporate Limited
  62. Société Générale *
  63. Standard Bank
  64. Standard Chartered Bank
  65. State Street **
  66. The Co-Operative Banking Group
  67. UBS Investment Bank *
  68. UniCredit Group SA
  69. VTB Capital Plc
  70. Wells Fargo Securities
  71. Westpac International **
  72. Zeus Capital Limited
  • Full Member of AFME and Global FX Division *
  • Member of Global FX Division Only ** (Global FX  DivisionWorks to help develop best practices and monitor policy and regulatory developments that could affect the FX markets.

Associate Members

  1. AgFe Ltd
  2. Ahorro y Titulización SGFT S.A
  3. AIAF Fixed Income Securities Market
  4. Allen & Overy LLP
  5. AllianceBernstein Holdings
  6. APG All Pensions Group
  7. Apollo Management International LLP
  8. Ashurst LLP
  9. Attorneys at Law Borenius Ltd
  10. AVIVA Investors
  11. AXA Advisors, LLC
  12. Babson Capital
  13. Baer & Karrer
  14. Baker & McKenzie Ltd
  15. Belfius Bank
  16. Berwin Leighton Paisner
  17. BlackRock
  18. Bloomberg L.P.
  19. BlueBay Asset Management
  20. Bourse de Luxembourg
  21. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
  22. Castle Hill Asset Management
  23. Chenavari Investment Managers
  24. Chiomenti Studio Legale
  25. Citadel Group
  26. Clayton Euro Risk
  27. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP
  28. Clifford Chance LLP
  29. Cognis Capital Partners LLP
  30. Cravath, Swaine & Moore
  31. Credit Foncier
  32. Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, SLP
  33. DBRS
  34. D.E. Shaw & Co. (London) LLP.
  35. Debevoise & Plimpton
  36. Dechert LLP
  37. Deka Investment
  38. Deloitte LLP
  39. Delta Lloyd Asset Management
  40. DLA Piper
  41. Demica
  42. Eaton Vance Management International
  43. ECM Asset Management Limited
  44. European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD)
  45. Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd
  46. European Investment Bank (EIB)
  47. European Investment Fund
  48. FCE Bank plc
  49. FIL Investment Services
  50. Fitch Ratings
  51. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  52. Genworth Financial
  53. GestiCaixa S.G.F.T.H., S.A.
  54. GLG Partner LP
  55. Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP
  56. Henderson Global Investors
  57. Hermes Investment Management
  58. Hogan Lovells
  59. Houlihan Lokey
  60. Ignis Investment Management
  61. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
  62. Intex Solutions, Inc.
  63. Inver Caixa Gestion S.G.I.I.C.S.A.U.
  64. Irish Stock Exchange plc (ISE plc)
  65. J.P.Morgan Asset Management
  66. King Street (Europe)
  67. Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
  68. K&L Gates LLP
  69. Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
  70. Latham & Watkins LLP
  71. Legal & General Investment Management
  72. Linklaters Business Services
  73. Liquidnet Europe
  74. Loomis Sayles Investments
  75. Macfarlanes LLP
  76. Mayer Brown LLP
  77. Meriten Investment Management
  78. MetLife Investments Limited
  79. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
  80. Moody's Investors Services
  81. Muzinich & Co.
  82. M&G Investments
  83. New Amsterdam Capital
  84. Neuberger Berman
  85. Newton
  86. Northlight Group
  87. Oak Hill Advisors (Europe) LLP
  88. Oaktree Capital Management Ltd.
  89. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  90. PGGM
  91. PIMCO Europe Limited
  92. Pioneer Investments
  93. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  94. Proskauer Rose LLP
  95. Prytania Group
  96. Reed Smith LLP
  97. Robeco
  98. Rogge Global Partners Plc
  99. Ropes & Gray
  100. Sankaty Advisors
  101. SCIO Capital
  102. Securitisation Services S.p.A.
  103. Shearman & Sterling LLP
  104. Sidley Austin LLP
  105. Shadbolt Partners LLP
  106. Simmons & Simmons LLP
  107. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  108. Slaughter & May
  109. Standard & Poor's
  110. Structured Finance Management Sullivan & Cromwell
  111. Susquehanna Ireland Ltd
  112. The Paragon Group of Companies Plc
  113. Thomson Reuters
  114. Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd
  115. TMF Structured Finance B.V.
  116. TSB Bank Plc
  117. TwentyFour AM
  118. Uria Menendez Abogados S.L.P.
  119. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
  120. White & Case
  121. Wilmington Trust
  122. XL Group
  123. Zais Group

 

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