Sponsorship Opportunities

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients worldwide through a network of 13 offices located in key financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the U.S. The firm’s record of success and unparalleled client service has set it apart for more than 140 years and made the firm a model for the modern practice of law. S&C’s Financial Services Group is a leader in representing financial services firms on virtually any significant matter they may face.

Alston & Bird is a leading international law firm whose core practice areas are intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate, and tax, with national industry focuses that include financial services, technology, health care, manufacturing, and life sciences. The firm has built a reputation as one of the country’s best employers, appearing on Fortune magazine’s ranking of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 24 consecutive years, an unprecedented accomplishment among law firms in the United States. Alston & Bird has offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Fort Worth, London, Los Angeles, New York, Raleigh, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is the issuer of USDC and Euro Coin - highly liquid, interoperable, and trusted money protocols on the internet. Circle’s open and programmable platform and APIs make it easy for organizations to run their internet-scale business, whether it is making international payments, building globally-accessible Web3 apps or managing their internal treasury. Learn more at https://circle.com

Cleary Gottlieb is a global law firm with over 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries. We work across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. Clients know Cleary for our signature approach to serving their needs with a wide range of integrated capabilities in antitrust, bank regulatory, capital markets, corporate governance, enforcement, litigation, M&A, tax, and more.

Covington & Burling is a preeminent multinational law firm with 1,300+ lawyers and advisors worldwide. In an increasingly regulated world, Covington’s sophisticated and Chambers-ranked financial institutions practice has the exceptional ability to help clients navigate their most complex transactional, regulatory, enforcement, and consumer protection matters.

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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP serves clients from 11 offices around the country. Combining deep regulatory and technology expertise, we advise on matters ranging from strategic transactions to high-stakes disputes to core operational issues. We provide excellent legal work, but our main focus is on helping clients achieve their strategic goals by providing the highest level of client service, however our clients define it. Recognized as a national leader in our commitment to DEI and pro bono, recent honors include being named an Inclusion Champion by Diversity Lab, a Social Impact Leader by Law360, and receiving Citi’s 2022 Law Firm Diversity Champion Award. Our Chambers-recognized team addresses matters spanning transactional, regulatory, and enforcement issues for clients including large banking institutions, broker-dealers, payment processors, and fintechs ranging from startups to unicorns.

To realize the true potential of the digital economy, you'll need to do more than keep pace. You have to lead the way. Deloitte can help by working with you to anticipate challenges, develop and implement strategies, and embrace the shift to a higher bottom line for the future of financial services. We bring together professionals with diverse experience to provide customized solutions for clients across all segments of the banking and capital markets industries, serving our clients locally, while drawing upon the firm's considerable global resources and industry expertise.

At EY, we share a single focus — to build a better financial services industry, one that is stronger, fairer and more sustainable. Our strength lies in the proven power of our people and technology, and the possibilities that arise when they converge to reframe the future. Our professionals are dedicated to the industry, and live and breathe financial services. This deep sector knowledge combined with a holistic point of view, delivers true value from strategy through to implementation. Whether your business challenge is specific, complex, small or large, we can be trusted to deliver solutions that work for today and tomorrow. By using technology as a tool, to transform what a business can be, and people can do, we are building long-term value for our financial services clients. It is how we play our part in building a better working world.

At KPMG LLP, we understand the payments business across the value chain, with a depth and experience from which we can draw to assist our clients in any marketplace. Retail consumers, commercial businesses, and larger corporates from many industries all stand to gain (or lose) from the forces of change in the payments space right now, making it absolutely critical to identify these signals of change in order to seize the opportunities in each of these areas.

Learn more how we can help with your digital transformation strategies: https://kpmg.com/us/en/capabilities-services/banking-industry-services/kpmg-us-payment

Ludwig Advisors counsels the world’s premier financial institutions as they navigate complex regulatory terrain. With expertise cultivated at the highest levels of industry and government, our team of former regulators, financial services executives and legal professionals delivers tailored solutions and strategic guidance for the myriad of challenges facing today’s leading financial institutions.

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Sidley’s Banking and Financial Services lawyers help leading financial institutions around the world navigate an uncertain and fast-changing regulatory environment. Working seamlessly across the firm’s many legal disciplines, our lawyers stay ahead of evolving regulatory and enforcement developments, counseling the entire value chain of the payments industry, including leading financial institutions and fintechs, payment networks, processors, and facilitators, money transmitters, prepaid program managers, cryptocurrency exchanges, brokers and platforms, merchants, corporate payors and payees, and others, on emerging trends and regulatory priorities. We are uniquely situated to help clients navigate CFPB issues, including enforcement, supervision, regulation, and market inquiries.

Swift is a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance.

Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,500 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. While Swift does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardised financial messages in a reliable way, thereby supporting global and local financial flows, as well as trade and commerce all around the world.

As their trusted provider, we relentlessly pursue operational excellence; we support our community in addressing cyber threats; and we continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies. Our products and services support our community’s access and integration, business intelligence, reference data and financial crime compliance needs. Swift also brings the financial community together – at global, regional and local levels – to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest or concern.

Headquartered in Belgium, Swift’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. Swift’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.

WilmerHale is a leading, full-service international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers located throughout 13 offices in the US, Europe and Asia. With decades of experience in financial regulation, government service and private practice, our Securities and Financial Services lawyers effectively address the full spectrum of issues affecting financial services industry participants, including international banks, FinTech startups, specialty consumer financial product firms, broker-dealers, and investment advisors. With experience tailored to each client’s needs, we provide an effective response to a constellation of regulatory questions and enforcement matters.

Akoya serves as a financial data access network connecting financial institutions and data recipients. The company's platform enables consumer-permissioned data access based on standardized APIs and eliminates the need for consumers to share account user ids and passwords. With streamlined integration and reduced maintenance, Akoya has created a safer and more efficient data access ecosystem

Arnold & Porter’s Financial Services team combines full-service financial regulatory, transactional, and litigation capabilities with pragmatic problem-solving and results-driven determination to optimize our clients' options. With key offices across U.S. and key global financial centers, the practice, which includes many lawyers who have served in leadership and staff positions at many of the federal and leading state regulators, develops innovative structures and novel solutions to complex issues arising under relevant statutes, regulations, and regulatory guidance. We help clients offer new products and services, structure and expand their operations, and manage through challenging economic and regulatory environments.

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 102 Availability Zones within 32 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

CDW Corporation (Nasdaq: CDW) is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 14,900 coworkers. For the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2023, CDW generated Net sales of approximately $22 billion. For more information about CDW, please visit www.CDW.com.

Our broad array of products and services range from hardware and software to integrated IT solutions such as security, cloud, hybrid infrastructure and digital experience.

For more than two centuries, Cravath has been known as one of the world’s preeminent law firms. Each of our practice areas is highly regarded, and our lawyers are widely recognized for their best-in-class legal work in the United States and internationally. The Firm’s representation of significant global companies and financial institutions, some of which have retained us from their inception, has enabled us to develop an extremely broad-based practice. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with respect to their most challenging legal issues, significant business transactions and critical disputes.

Early Warning Services, LLC, a financial services technology leader, has been empowering and protecting consumers, small businesses, and the U.S. financial system with cutting-edge fraud and payment solutions for more than three decades. We are also the company behind Zelle®, and the soon-to-launch PazeSM, a wallet that reimagines e-commerce payments. Early Warning partners with more than 2,500 banks and credit unions to increase access to financial services and products, and protect financial transactions.

To learn more about Early Warning, visit www.earlywarning.com.

Form3 is the account-to-account platform. Founded In 2016, Form3 set out to revolutionize the world of payment processing and disrupt the traditional payment infrastructure model, with an always on, cloud-native, Payments-as-a-Service platform.

Today, Form3 is trusted by some of UK and Europe’s biggest Tier1 banks and fastest-growing fintechs to handle their critical payments architecture. Form3 has been awarded Tech of the Future for Banks & Financial Institutions 2023 by Paytech and Fintech Futures, Payments Tech of the Year in 2022 at the UK Fintech Awards and Payments Innovation of the Year 2022 at the Payments Awards.