Euronext // 2021 Universal Registration Document
Presentation of the Group 1 Description of the Business
Launch of Tech Leaders In 2022, Euronext announced the launch of Tech Leaders, a segment dedicated to highlighting the visibility and attractiveness of high-growth listed Tech companies among international investors, together with a suite of services to support them throughout their financial journey. Alongside this segment, Euronext is launching a full suite of pre-IPO services to attract private Tech listing candidates to Euronext’s markets, supporting their growth financing needs. Euronext’s Tech Leaders segment will provide listed Tech companies with enhanced visibility among Euronext’s large international investor base, as well as access to the largest financing liquidity pool in Europe, which attracted 25% of European share trading activity in 2021 via the Optiq® trading platform. The Tech Leaders segment will be composed of innovative and high-growth Tech companies that are listed on Euronext markets and comply with a set of financial and non-financial criteria that set them apart in terms of market capitalisation, free-float, and growth profile. Tech companies listed on this segment will benefit from increased visibility towards investors and services to facilitate their access to financing throughout their growth journey. This initiative includes a comprehensive offering of pre-IPO services to support future listings of high-growth Tech companies, leveraging on Euronext’s flagship pre-IPO programme TechShare. Euronext will offer executive training and coaching, advisory services and corporate access to investors, to prepare private Tech companies for their potential future IPO. Euronext will develop and deploy these initiatives in close cooperation with both public and private institutions. Subject to regulatory approval where relevant, the composition of the Tech Leaders segment and details of the services offered will be announced during Q2 2022. Euronext Corporate Services Euronext Corporate Services is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Euronext group launched in 2016 with the ambition to help listed companies make the most effective use of capital markets and support organisations with innovative solutions and tailor-made advisory services in Governance (iBabs), Compliance (ComplyLog), Communication (Company Webcast), Investor Relations (Advisory and IR Solutions). Corporate Services already serves more than 4,000+ clients in over 25 countries, of which 1,000+ are listed companies. Euronext Corporate Services helps listed companies make the most effective use of capital markets, from blue-chip large caps to SMEs, located across all Euronext markets and beyond (Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain). Euronext Corporate Services offers a unique and comprehensive value proposition based around four main pillars: i. investor relations: n tailor-made advisory, market intelligence, decision making analytics and ESG advisory services for listed companies,
n complete and intuitive investor relationship management and targeting platform, n dynamic and strategic analysis of shareholding structure, n flexible and customised market data components for listed companies’ investor relations websites, n regulatory news services for listed companies to distribute announcements to the market; ii. communication: comprehensive range of webcast, webinar and conference call services for all types corporate events (investor relations, internal communication, marketing, training, etc.); iii. governance: digital board portal solution helping organisations to secure their Board meetings and to streamline their decision making processes; iv. compliance: n innovative solution to automate the management of insider lists in a way that both saves time and ensures compliance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation, n whistleblowing solution that allows safe, anonymous reporting of all potential ethical violations and wrongdoing, n automated employee trade monitoring tool, n digital liability register that saves municipalities time when ensuring compliance with the Finnish Municipality Act. This offering has been built through a combination of organic developments and acquisitions. To achieve its ambition, Euronext has acquired four companies providing innovative solutions for corporates: n Company Webcast (100%-owned), a leading Dutch company specialising in professional webcast and webinar services; n IR.Manager (100%-owned), a London-based provider of investor relations workflow and targeting tools; n IBabs (100%-owned (1) ), a leading Dutch provider of dematerialised and secured board portal solutions for corporate and public organisations; n ComplyLog (100%-owned), a leading Swedish provider of an insider list management solution, in compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation. TRADING Euronext provides multiple marketplaces for investors, broker- dealers and other market participants to meet directly to buy and sell cash equities, derivatives, power, FX, fixed income securities and exchange traded products (“ETPs”). One of the primary functions of the Group’s markets is to ensure that orders to purchase and sell securities are executed in a reliable, orderly, liquid and efficient manner. Order execution occurs through a variety of means and Euronext continually seeks to develop additional and more efficient trading processes. 1.3.4
(1) Since 3 March 2021, when the Group exercised its call option to acquire the remaining 40% of the shares in iBabs B.V. Refer to Section 7.1.5 – Key Factors affecting Businesses and Results of Operations for further information.
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