Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (BME), a leading European stock exchange operator by trading volume, has holdings that include Spain's four stock exchanges: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia. Its services include public offerings and trading facilities for equities, fixed-income securities, and derivatives. Additionally, the company owns subsidiaries that provide clearing and settlement services. BME has been operating since 1856; the Bolsa de Madrid traces its roots back to the Middle Ages. The company's shareholders include several of Spain's largest banks, including Grupo Santander and its subsidiary, Banco Espanol de Crndito SA (Banesto).

The Pullman Group issues bonds secured by the future royalties of popular songs. The group garnered attention in 1997 when it launched "Bowie Bonds," which securitized future royalties of 300 David Bowie songs, including "Ziggy Stardust." Bonds have been issued for such artists as James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Motown hitmakers Holland-Dozier-Holland, and for TV and movie libraries. The Pullman Group also handles the sales and securitization of other intellectual properties such as trademarks and patents.

Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides portfolio risk evaluation and diagnostics; performance analytics; and financial and liability modeling services. It provides its services to corporate and retirement funds, financial institutions, foundations and endowments, healthcare institutions, public funds, Taft-Hartley funds, wrap programs and sub-advisory, and individuals. The firm manages client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages exchange traded funds and structured products for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe with a focus on the United States. It invests in index based exchange traded funds (ETFs) of all-cap companies, employing a fundamental analysis along with a top-down macro approach to create its equity portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its various equity portfolios against the Standard & Poor 500 Index; the Russell 3000 Index; the Lehman Brothers Government Credit Intermediate Maturity Index; and the Lehman Brothers Municipal Blended 1–10 year Maturity Index. For fixed income, it invests in U.S. treasury and government agency securities; mortgage and asset backed securities; investment grade corporate and municipal securities; and high-grade international government securities, employing fundamental economic and quantitative security analysis to create its fixed income portfolios.

Hanover Acceptances Group serves as a holding company for four operating companies in the real estate, manufacturing, agribusiness, and venture capital sectors. Its Fresh Capital segment leads the investment capital charge for the group, while the Dorrington branch acts as its chief residential and commercial property development and investment unit, primarily in greater London. Its Gerber unit, along with Gerber's Emig subsidiary, counts as one of Europe's largest juice and juice drinks suppliers. Finally, African Realty Trust operates as a citrus fruit grower in southern Africa.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Goldman Sachs) is a bank holding and a global investment banking, securities and investment management company. The Company provides a range of financial services to customers, including corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Its depository institution subsidiary, Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank USA), is a New York State-chartered bank. It operates in three segments: Investment Banking, Trading and Principal Investments and Asset Management and Securities Services. In March 2010, the Company's subsidiaries sold the La Francia mine and related infrastructure assets, including Concession 5160, and Adromi Capital Corp., the holder of the La Francia II concession, to a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. In May 2010, Nexen Inc. sold its natural gas trading operations to a unit of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Impact Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. Impact Venture are a team of company builders that believes that pursuing one's goals is the most satisfying expression of human talent. Impact Venture seek to join entrepreneurs who share in this belief and in Impact Venture passion for innovation, opportunity and accomplishment. Impact Venture work relentlessly to offer strategic direction, recruit management and create partnerships. Drawing on Impact Venture extensive, nationwide network of corporate and financial relationships, Impact Venture provide our entrepreneurs with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and achieve market dominance.

Delaware Management Holdings, which does business as Delaware Investments, provides investment management services to institutional and individual clients. The company manages some 40 mutual funds with value, core, and growth equity, fixed income, and international strategies. Other products for consumers include managed accounts, insurance, and retirement plans. Delaware Investments also offers separate accounts and mutual funds to its more than 500 institutional clients, including corporations, retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. Macquarie Group bought the company in 2010 for nearly $430 million in cash.

Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides cash access products and related services to the gaming industry in the United States and internationally. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. cash access products and services include Casino Cash Plus 3-in-1 ATM that enables patrons to access cash through ATM cash withdrawals, point-of-sale (POS) debit card transactions, and credit card cash advances; QuikCash, a non-ATM cash advance kiosk for the casino gaming industry; money transfer services; check verification and warranty services that allow gaming establishments to manage and reduce risks on patron checks that they cash; and full service kiosks, a multi-function patron kiosk for cash access into self-service kiosks for slot ticket redemption services.Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. also provides information services, such as central credit, a gaming patron credit bureau that assists gaming establishments in credit making decisions; QuikCash Plus Web, a cash access transaction processing system for cashier operations that run on a gaming establishment's own computer hardware; QuikReports, which provide access to information on patron cash access activity; and QuikMarketing, a patron transaction database. In addition, it offers cashless gaming products comprising Powercash, a product that leverages a player’s loyalty card to enable that player to load funds on that card from their checking accounts, credit cards, or debit cards. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. offers its products and services through a direct sales force to traditional land-based casinos, gaming establishments operated on Native American lands, casinos, riverboats, cruise ships with gaming operations, pari-mutuel wagering facilities, and card rooms. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

NYSE Euronext, through its subsidiaries, provides securities listing, trading, market data products, and software and technology services worldwide. The company offers products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions to issuers, investors, financial institutions, and market participants. It operates NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, which lists various debt and equity structured products, such as capital securities, mandatory convertibles, and repackaged securities; and NYSE Arca, an electronic exchange for equities, exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, exchange-traded vehicles, certificates, and options. The company also operates Euronext that lists various securities, including domestic and international equity securities, convertible bonds, warrants, trackers, and debt securities, including corporate and government bonds. In addition, it operates NYSE Liffe that trades futures and options contracts; NYSE Arca Europe, which offers electronic, low latency trading platform for blue chip stocks; NYSE Alternext operates its European markets for emerging growth companies; NYSE Amex, which lists various classes of companies that are qualified for listing on NYSE; NYSE Liffe US that trades full and mini-sized gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts; and SmartPool, a European dark pool dedicated to the execution of institutional order flow.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

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