3 Stablecoin Questions

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3 Stablecoin Questions

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services or has a client relationship with the following company: Affirm Holdings Inc, Automatic Data Processing Inc, Block, Inc, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., Chime Financial Inc, Corpay

Inc, Fidelity National Information Services, Fiserv Inc., Global Payments Inc, Global-e Online Ltd., Klarna Group Plc, MasterCard Inc, Paychex Inc, PayPal Holdings, Inc., Q2 Holdings Inc, Shift4

Payments Inc., SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., Upstart Holdings, Inc., Verra Mobility Corp, Visa Inc., Western Union Co, WEX Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC makes a market in the securities of Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., Corpay Inc, Evertec Inc, Flywire Corp, Global-e Online Ltd., Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., Marqeta,

Inc., NerdWallet Inc., Q2 Holdings Inc, SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., Verra Mobility Corp, WEX Inc.

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