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Clearing and settlement
DTCC advances ‘Cloud First’ strategy
16 April 2026 US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation intends to enhance operational resilience through the addition of redundancy, improving fault isolation, and enabling more robust contingency and recovery capabilities
Custody
Ondo Finance, Clearstream, and 360X partner
15 April 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Hansa Tote
The partnership will see the firms combine their strengths across the full lifecycle of tokenised securities, spanning trading, custody, settlement, and collateral management
Digital assets
Deutsche Börse Group acquires Kraken stake
14 April 2026 Germany
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft
Deutsche Börse Group is deepening its partnership with Kraken through a strategic investment of US$200 million in Payward, the unified infrastructure layer behind the cryptocurrency platform
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Poland: New definition of success
Maciej Trybuchowski, CEO at KDPW, examines how Poland’s post-1989 economic transformation has reshaped its capital markets, and why strong post-trade infrastructure and targeted innovation are now central to the country’s next phase of investment-led growth
A stroke of GENIUS for stablecoins as post-trade faces change
The United States’ GENIUS Act has been hailed as a breakthrough for stablecoins, but its impact stretches well beyond digital assets. As regulatory clarity brings stablecoins closer to the financial mainstream, asset servicers are assessing what the new framework means for settlement, custody, and post-trade infrastructure Zarah Choudhary reports
When the story isn’t enough
Vistra Fund Solutions' commercial director Joost Knabben discusses why managers now compete as much on the quality of their data as the strength of their proposition
Technological shift
Rich Anton, chief client officer at CIBC Mellon, looks at agentic AI, connected workflows, and the future of operational insight
Growing expectations
Olivier Carré, technology and transformation leader at PwC Luxembourg, looks at the hype surrounding tokenisation, and asks, could it really unlock US$135 billion in cost savings for asset managers?
Asset tokenisation
Sorin Jitaru, digital assets expert at CACEIS, looks at how blockchain technology could transform the alternative investment landscape
From a system of record to a system of action
Quantios CEO Guy Harrison discusses with Zarah Choudhary how growth, consolidation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the corporate, trust, and fund services landscape — and why core platforms are evolving from systems of record into systems of action
The opportunity ahead
As regulation tightens, settlement cycles shorten, and volumes rise, custodians are rethinking how they engage with asset managers. Diederik Geeraerts, CEO of Taskize, considers how technology and proactive exception management are now central to strengthening and scaling the custodian-buy side relationship
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n-Tier
Peter Gargone
Carmella Haswell sits down with Peter Gargone, founder and CEO of n-Tier, to discuss what may be in store for the year ahead
Linnovate
Henry Lin
Henry Lin, founder and CEO of Linnovate, discusses how AI is being embedded across operational workflows and what the next phase of AI-enabled operating models looks like for the industry
Jersey Finance
Elliot Refson
Elliot Refson, head of funds at Jersey Finance, explains how Jersey serves as a gateway for cross-border private placements, as high net worth and family office investors drive demand for bespoke investment vehicles amid a fundamental shift in fund structures
Clearstream
Piotr Sokol
Piotr Sokol, head of Network Eurobonds and vice president at Clearstream, describes how a curiosity to understand the core infrastructure underlining the financial system drove him to pursue a role where markets, regulation, relationships and strategy all met in one place
Smartstream
Thomas Steinborn
Thomas Steinborn, chief product and technology officer, Smartstream, outlines how agentic AI is reshaping financial operations by enabling autonomous, audit-ready workflows that reduce manual effort, cut risk, and unlock measurable efficiency gains across exception-heavy back office processes
FINBOURNE Technology
Toby Glaysher
Toby Glaysher, chairman at FINBOURNE Technology, examines how rising operating costs, mounting technical debt, and a generational shift in client expectations are forcing asset servicers to reassess their economics, infrastructure, and definitions of value
Saphyre
Gabino Roche and Stephen Roche
As mandatory US Treasury clearing reshapes post-trade infrastructure, Gabino Roche, CEO and founder at Saphyre, and Stephen Roche, president and co-founder at Saphyre, tell Zarah Choudhary that firms must move beyond compliance-driven repapering
Northern Trust
Victoria Bryan
Victoria Bryan, manager, trade performance and analytics, banking and markets at Northern Trust, reflects on carving out a niche in transaction cost analysis, challenging perceptions of asset servicing and why curiosity and data fluency are critical for the next generation of financial services professionals
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Geopolitical risk has evolved into a fundamental factor shaping private markets.Blockchain
Ziv Keinan discusses the evolving institutional adoption of tokenised real-world assets.ISO Standards
Can messaging alone resolve the complexity of corporate actions processing?.
