ABOUT ISS: Founded in 1985, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) empowers investors and companies to build for long-term and sustainable growth by providing high-quality data, analytics, and insight. Comprised of seven discrete business lines, ISS is today the world’s leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence and fund services, and events and editorial content for institutional investors and corporations, globally. ISS LiquidMetrix is an independent provider of TCA, Execution Quality and Pre-Trade analysis services. Our clients come from the buy-side and sell-side, as well as exchanges and regulators looking for actionable analysis and insights. The LiquidMetrix suite is dedicated to helping clients meet their best execution regulatory and performance obligations by providing industry leading client service and trade analytics. We appreciate that each client has a unique investment strategy that requires a solution for their specific needs. The LiquidMetrix suite of services offers trading firms an independent assessment of best execution, transaction cost analysis and venue performance statistics across global securities markets. Combined with a surveillance service to detect financial market abuse, LiquidMetrix provides sell-side and buy-side clients with actionable intelligence to monitor, measure and improve trading performance. The LiquidMetrix solution is designed to meet the regulatory, monitoring and performance reporting requirements needed today, performing millions of calculations each day and servicing clients globally to reduce trading costs, satisfy regulatory requirements, and provide external reporting. Formally known as Intelligent Financial Systems (IFS), a software company founded in 1997, the LiquidMetrix suite was first created in 2010 and continues to evolve and provide analytic services to financial services firms worldwide.