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Infrastructure Providers in the Capital Market

This subgroup includes businesses or institutions that provide and operate infrastructure related to transactions in the capital market. Their roles include: - Providing transaction execution facilities. - Conducting clearing and risk management. - Executing transaction settlements (clearing and settlement). - Managing transaction record-keeping, accounting, and reporting. - Assessing security prices to determine fair market value. - Managing investor protection funds. - Financing security transactions. - Providing, managing, and operating services for securities offerings conducted by issuers to sell securities directly to investors through an open electronic system network. - Providing and operating other infrastructure related to transactions in the capital market.