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Mercantile Bankshares Corp. provides banking services. It operates in two segments such as Banking, Investment and Wealth Management. The Banking segment accepts checking, savings, money market, individual retirement, and time deposits. It provides cash management services, equipment leases, and real estate financing. The Investment and Wealth Management segment offers full-service, discount, online brokerage, account services, private wealth management services, private banking services, institutional investment management, trust administration, estate planning, and mercantile funds. Mercantile Bankshares was founded in 1864 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

New York Academy of Sciences is an independent, not-for-profit organization, which engages in the advancement of scientific research, education, and policy. The company was founded in 1817 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ChinaVest Ltd. (ChinaVest) is the private equity/venture capital arm of Bermuda-registered ChinaVest Management Ltd. The firm was founded by Robert Theleen in 1981 to create a European-style merchant bank with a Chinese flavor to provide financial advisory services, discretionary direct investment and a range of other financial products. Headquartered in Shanghai, the firm also has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and San Francisco. They manage the ChinaVest private equity funds and provide cross-border M&A advisory services for multinational firms seeking to enter the China market and private placement advisory services for Chinese firms across a wide range of industries.

Quality Associates, Inc. provides quality assurance and regulatory services. It offers services in a variety of areas including information systems, archiving, and quality assurance and scientific support. The firm's services include 508 compliance, advanced forms processing, business process improvement, capture solutions, document management, document scanning and conversion, staffing, and enterprise content management solutions. The company was founded by Paul Swidersky in 1986 and is headquartered in Fulton, MD.

Shepherd Kaplan LLC (SK) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by David Shepherd and David Kaplan in 1998 and is a majority-owned and wholly-controlled subsidiary of Shepherd Kaplan Krochuk LLC. SK provides investment advisory services to institutional and private clients as well as endowment and foundation.

360 Treasury Systems AG operates multi-bank and multi-product trading platforms for foreign exchange, money market, and interest rate derivative instruments. The firm provides TEX Multidealer Trading System, a multi-bank and multi-product portal that connects non-toxic non-anonymous flow with a liquidity pool in multiple financial instruments. It also offers integration services, including straight-through processing, integration to confirmation matching, integration to pricing engine, and integration to prime brokerage. The company was founded by Mathew Kuppe and Carlo Koelzer in 2000 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.