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NEW YORK, April 7, 2022 -- Templum, Inc. ("Templum"), a provider of next-generation cloud-based capital market infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, announced today that it has won the A-Team Innovation Award for the Most Innovative Alternative Data Solution for Trading and Analytics. The A-Team Innovation Awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across the vendor and practitioner communities that use new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. "As the alternative assets industry grows exponentially , so does the need for alternative data sets in ready-to-use formats to help investors discover opportunities and minimize risk," stated Christopher Pallotta, Founder and CEO of Templum. "We are excited to have one of the most robust alternative data solutions in the industry powered by our marketplaces focused on alternative assets including real estate, collectibles, artwork, media royalties, agriculture, energy and many more. As a leader in the space, we are setting the standard for alternative data solutions for trading and analysis." The Innovation Awards recognize outstanding performance by the vendors of data and technology solutions to the financial industry, focusing on Data Management and Trading Technology. The awards are overseen by the A-Team Innovation Awards Advisory Board, which helps to shape the categories and review the nominations alongside A-Team Group editors to select the winners. Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-Team Group, said, "Congratulations to the winners of our Innovation Awards 2022. Thank you to all the practitioners and vendors who entered their ground-breaking solutions and services and A-Team Group's independent, expert advisory board collaborating with our editorial team to select this year's winners. These awards are extremely popular and competitive, highlighting technological innovation that will be game-changing for capital markets participants." Templum's growing list of awards and accolades includes two recent shortlist nominations in the 2022 Trading TechInsight Awards in two award categories: Best Cloud-Based Trading Environment and Best Alternative Data Consolidator. The industry confirms the final winners via polling conducted  through April 11, 2022. Winners are announced in June 2022. About Templum Templum Markets LLC. is a New York-based broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS) approved to trade unregistered private securities in 53 U.S. states and territories and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Templum, Inc., a trading technology company. Templum is paving the way for investors to participate in new asset classes through integrated market technologies and APIs for primary issuance and secondary trading. Templum's combined solution provides liquidity and distribution in private markets by enabling continuous trading experience for investors rather than the manual processes currently in place. In doing so, Templum delivers custom trading solutions to power marketplaces. For more information, please visit www.templuminc.com . About the A-Team Innovation Awards The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. ‍

By Edward Lee Amid desultory returns elsewhere, retail and institutional investors are increasingly searching for new sources of diversification. –Alternative assets, specifically digital securities sold pursuant to Regulation A+, Regulation CF, and Rule 506(b) are now an asset class available to non-accredited investors to meet demand for diversification. However, as with any nascent asset class, investors seek the peace of mind that the alternative assets they diversify their portfolio with are traded in a marketplace that is required to follow a known, and standardized, set of risk management and compliance practices.  Automation has improved the efficiency of secondary markets, and technology has enabled market participants to solve problems with innovative solutions. Markets and market participants have also adopted advanced technologies to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements in many areas. However, it is essential to remember that not all technology regarding risk and compliance is the same. What does good look like for today's private alternative marketplace?   Liquidity is undoubtedly the main risk facing investors in the fractionalized asset market. However, some allocators have yet to fully understand the differences between a fractionalized asset and traditional equity security. Accordingly, at Templum, we implement processes to help our clients overcome these various challenges. For instance, our ATS (Alternative Trading System) comes with a comprehensive and customizable surveillance engine, so you can tailor the monitoring of events and rules based on the marketplace you are running. In addition, users can configure rules for orders placed or trades executed based on various criteria, including order size (e.g., absolute or % of outstanding), trade value, price, or price differentials based on the last trade.  Rules can also be set up to alert specific parties, such as management or compliance, who can then initiate a trading halt. In addition to a comprehensive set of rules, you can customize how they apply to specific entities, assets, or investors to ensure your marketplace operates compliantly while enhancing investors' experience.  In terms of risk management and surveillance, what tools should be considered? Not all technology and solutions are the same, with some technology stacks offering nothing more than risk surveillance post-order match. What should you look for from your technology and broker dealer partner?   1. Pre-order match. Identifying risks once they already exist is good but the ability to identify risks before they happen is crucial, for example, the ability to prevent an insider from selling before being allowed to sell. Templum has several pre-order entry risk controls, setting it apart from other solutions. As a result, Templum's system reduces risk by not letting risk be created in the first place. 2. Post-order match. These rules are for items that the issuer does not necessarily want to prevent but be aware of as they occur.  For example, receiving an email notification when the last trade price for a security is up or down 10% from the previous trade price. 3. Customizable rules engine The flexibility to create rules based on concerns specific to your marketplaces vs the limitations of a one size fits all approach is paramount. We at Templum understand that issuers require that flexibility.  These risk and surveillance standards coupled with a registered broker-dealer ensure that investors can trade securities in a marketplace that offers automated, continuous trading in a regulated environment. The Opportunity is Front and Center According to Pitchbook data, global crowdfunding exploded from $8.61 billion in 2020 to $113.52 billion last year – a 1,021% increase. The US market alone doubled year on year through Regulation CF and A+, with much higher numbers being raised and over 32% oversubscribed, according to SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) filings1. Today the growth is undeniable, and the demand from investors exists. The market is also expected to expand significantly in 2022 and 2023 as ATSs, start to list private securities; specifically, the market is projected to grow from $7 trillion in 2021 to $30 trillion in 2030, according to Forbes2. The traditional method of consummating a transaction in alternative assets was burdensome and complicated. However, the opportunities are enormous for firms that use technology to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements at scale while bringing standardization and risk control to enhance the investor experience.   1 https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2022-pitchbook-analyst-note-analysts-advise-on-key-trends-to-watch-as-markets-return-to-turmoil 2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2022/06/16/the-growing-popularity-of-the-private-secondary-market/?sh=6670fefd27ae‍ Is your firm looking to create a private personalized marketplace backed by a sophisticated technology stack? See Templum’s Award Winning Solution book a demo today.‍ ‍

The alternative asset class needs new infrastructure — who will build it? A recent article in TechCrunch authored by David Jegen and Abdul Abdirahman asked this question and we could not agree more that the alternative asset class need new infrastructure but, spoiler alert... the future is here now. Templum does this today.   Templum has recognized the growing problem of "the lack of digital infrastructure" for alternative assets. We knew the traditional alternative assets ecosystem was fragmented and ill-equipped to handle mass investor adoption and scale. We have witnessed investors and platforms cobbling together “tools and infrastructure,” to create inefficient "trading platforms" that fall well short of investor expectations.   So, we solved the problem; we architected and launched a purpose-built trading platform  and infrastructure solution. Our platform empowers issuer-centric marketplaces and provides market participants with an enterprise-grade trading experience  through its API powered technology stack, robust market data offering, and regulated trading and custodial workflows. For marketplaces, Templum empowers them to access additional end-investors through a single point of access. Moreover, Templum is continuing to expand its ecosystem, becoming a single access point for investment platforms, fintech platforms and wealth allocators to source alternative investments for the end investor across multiple alternative asset categories, in both the primary and secondary markets, through a single SEC-regulated brokerage or advisory account.   Custody, Clearing and Settlement Alternative Asset Brokerage Accounts Liquidity Opportunities   Broker-Dealer and ATS Services Asset Distribution Primary Issuance Data Aggregation and Analytics Market Surveillance Retail through Institutional Investors And More For firms seeking infrastructure focused on scale, efficient access to additional liquidity options and improving the investor experience, they do not need to look further than Templum. Here is a snippet from TechCrunch: ‍ “Just as these traditional alternatives are becoming a consistent part of the modern investment portfolio, a new era of alternative assets is emerging, fueling an even broader and more fragmented landscape for investing. Dozens of platforms have launched to fractionalize, package and distribute everything from farmland, litigation finance and P2P lending to art, wine and collectibles. Crypto added fuel to this trend and quickly became a mass-market asset category. Together with more established alternative classes like venture capital and private equity, these new alternatives give retail investors unprecedented access to asset classes that either never existed (like crypto) or were previously limited to high-net-worth investors. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. Traditional alternative assets like venture capital and private equity at least have an ecosystem built to serve them, but that infrastructure is aging and built for a narrower base of institutional investors, like endowments, pension funds and large family offices."   Read the full article from TechCrunch ‍   Is your firm looking to create a private personalized marketplace backed by a sophisticated technology stack? See Templum’s Award Winning Solution book a demo today. ‍

CHICAGO (Nov. 9, 2022) – Leading advisory CPA firm Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) and Templum Inc. (Templum), a provider of capital markets infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, have collaborated to provide crowdfunding platforms and private securities startups with foundational services to grow and achieve their goals. This dynamic alliance will create opportunities for issuers and secondary marketplaces to accelerate their growth. In addition, Baker Tilly’s financial and operational advisory services helps startups keep their focus on their business by removing administration and compliance challenges. “Organizations in the first stages of operations need a strategic partner to bridge the regulatory and operational gap,” said Christine Fenske, managing partner of Baker Tilly’s financial services practice. “Combining our deep expertise in regulatory compliance, tax and accounting with Templum’s advanced technology for alternative asset trading deepens our capabilities to help our clients reach regulatory compliance and achieve their goals.” “Our proprietary technology enables startups to grow at speed and scale thereby unlocking trillions of dollars in assets,” said Christopher Pallotta, founder and CEO of Templum. “Through our collaboration with Baker Tilly we are excited to also solve the additional back-office pains that burden these firms.” Baker Tilly joins Templum’s fleet of strategic allies, geared towards providing a full suite of solutions for their clients. The team focuses on helping crowdfunding platforms and private securities startups to reach regulatory compliance and address operational and financial issues, including multistate operations, tax and accounting. About Baker Tilly US, LLP ( bakertilly.com ) Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a leading advisory CPA firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 148 territories, with 38,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.3 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. About Templum    Templum Markets LLC. is a New York-based broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS) approved to trade unregistered private securities in 53 U.S. States and Territories and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Templum, Inc., an award-winning trading technology company. Templum is paving the way for investors to participate in new asset classes through integrated patent pending market technologies and APIs for primary issuance and secondary trading. Templum's combined solution provides liquidity and distribution in private markets by enabling a continuous trading experience for investors rather than the manual processes currently in place. In doing so, Templum delivers custom trading solutions to power marketplaces. For more information, please visit www.templuminc.com .