Company: BSTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049659
Chunk: 66

Company: BlackRock Science & Technology Term Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 66
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 Stanley             |                      $808 |                     $(808) | $—                                            | $—        |
| Toronto-Dominion Bank      |                 2,120,376 |                 -2,120,376 | —                                             | —         |
|                            |                $7,194,950 |               $(7,194,950) | $—                                            | $—        |
| BST                        |                           |                            |                                               |           |
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |                  $542,784 |                 $(542,784) | $—                                            | $—        |

| (a) | Collateral received, if any, in excess of the market value of securities on loan is not                                                    
 presented in this table. The total cash collateral received by each Trust is disclosed in the Trust’sStatements of Assets and Liabilities. |

The risks of securities lending include the risk that the borrower may not provide additional collateral when required or may not return the securities when due. To mitigate these risks, each Trust benefits from a borrower default indemnity provided by BIM. BIM’s indemnity allows for full replacement of the securities loaned to the extent the collateral received does not cover the value on the securities loaned in the event of borrower default. Each Trust could incur a loss if the value of an investment purchased with cash collateral falls below the market value of the loaned securities or if the value of an investment purchased with cash collateral falls below the value of the original cash collateral received. Such losses are borne entirely by each Trust. 5. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS The Trusts engage in various portfolio investment strategies using derivative contracts both to increase the returns of the Trusts and/or to manage their exposure to certain risks such as credit risk, equity risk, interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange rate risk, commodity price risk or other risks (e.g., inflation risk). Derivative financial instruments categorized by risk exposure are included in the Schedules of Investments. These contracts may be transacted on an exchange or OTC. Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts : Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are entered into to gain or reduce exposure to foreign currencies (foreign currency exchange rate risk). A forward foreign currency exchange contract is an agreement between two parties to buy and sell a currency at a set exchange rate on a specified date. These contracts help to manage the overall exposure to the currencies in which some of the investments held by the Trusts are denominated and in some cases, may be used to obtain exposure to a particular