Today, we’re proud to release our 2021年年报 to share our story of “Progress和你在一起. 在线, interactive report highlights how 存’s ability to deliver value to the industry is built on foundational pillars that include 领导, 影响, 伙伴关系, Purpose and Financial Performance. These pillars underpin our ability to safeguard the global markets and drive product innovation to create solutions that help address the complex business challenges facing clients.
Below is a short summary of our progress in 2021 across these pillars and the key initiatives we advanced last year:
通过领导取得进步: We leveraged our role to drive positive change in market structure and operations, while honing our leadership skills to more effectively support our clients, regulators and other stakeholders.
Progress Through Financial Strength: Our ability to drive progress requires our firm to have a strong balance sheet, ample capital reserves and the ability to manage any market event that occurs. We improved our financial standing by creating new business lines to generate revenue independent of market volumes, 密切管理开支, maintaining solid credit ratings, 筹集新资金, and refinancing debt to benefit from low interest rates.
通过客户影响取得进展: Our clients expect us to drive innovation by enhancing and expanding our solutions to address their top pain points and growing our abilities to serve new markets and asset classes.
- 未来重点增强·升级基础设施,介绍了 additional automation and improved end-to-end asset servicing through the use of innovative technology.
- 服务新市场公布了我们的计划 数码证券管理 (DSM) platform to digitalize and modernize private markets. Similarly, we are using DLT and the cloud to underpin 项目离子 -这将允许美国.S. clients to settle with a flexible timeframe, including on T+0.
- 全行业的影响: Continued to advance open and integrated 机构贸易处理 (ITP)的愿景，扩大了我们的 API的市场, launched new data products, and helped industry comply with Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR).
通过伙伴关系取得进展: Our ability to deliver innovative solutions to meet industry expectations is underpinned by our commitment to collaboration across the financial services ecosystem. This partnership is essential to aligning our strategic priorities with the industry’s top needs. Our partnerships take on many meaningful forms, including:
- 达成共识 global derivatives data harmonization and standardization is just one example among many of how we listen, learn and lead.
- Teaming up with the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) to expand the reach of our annual 系统性风险晴雨表调查 and provide a more comprehensive picture of the leading risk management trends.
- Exploring market impact and remediation scenarios related to settlement risk with the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk (ARC).
通过目标取得进步: While we have always sought to make an impact through engagement programs, 慈善事业, 和志愿服务, we strengthened our efforts with a cohesive strategy for capturing a broader set of actions and metrics. 我们的第一个 环境、社会和治理报告 illustrates our commitment to making a positive impact by tracking, managing and reporting on issues important to our stakeholders and us.
While we can’t predict what tomorrow will bring, we are confident that we have taken the appropriate steps to position 存 for success. 我们准备, planning and continued evolution as an organization will enable us to continue driving positive change by focusing on the pillars of leadership, 财务实力, 客户的影响, 伙伴关系和宗旨.