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Euroclear looks to strike gold with blockchain
21 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Euroclear collaborating with financial services company itBit to look into creating a settlement services for the London gold market, based on distributed ledger technology...

New global head for Euroclear’s FundsPlace
20 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Katrina Sartorius has moved to the role of global head of FundsPlace, Euroclear’s global infrastructure for funds...

NeMa: Blockchain is a long game
15 June 2016 Dubrovnik
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Blockchain technology will not disrupt the financial services sector in the near term, according to panellists speaking at NeMa in Dubrovnik...

NeMa: Finish what T2S started
15 June 2016 Dubrovnik
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

There is still much work to do to implement Target2-Securities and achieve the harmonisation that everyone desires, according to a panel at the NeMa Conference in Dubrovnik...

SSGA issues SPDR ETFs on Euroclear’s FundSettle
31 May 2016 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of the State Street corporation, has issued 40 SPDR exchange-traded funds on the Euroclear FundSettle processing platform...

Euroclear and Lyxor launch liquidity tool
Brussels 23 May 2016
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and Lyxor Asset Management have teamed up for the launch of an asset liquidity monitoring tool for the fixed income market...

Papenfuß re-elected as chairman of ECSDA
20 May 2016 Warsaw
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Members of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) have re-elected Mathias Papenfuß of Clearstream as chairman...

New members join post-trade blockchain consortium
05 May 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Ernst & Young and two other institutions have joined the Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, bringing the total number of members to 37...

T2S on a roll with wave two
31 March 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Both the Portuguese and Belgian CSDs have completed their migration to the T2S platform, marking a successful wave two of the pan-European implementation plan...

$27 billion could be at risk, says report
24 February 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The annual industry-wide unsupported exposure due to collateral settlement failure for 42 sell-side firms is estimated to be nearly $27 billion, a DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral and PwC report has warned...

T2S delay confirmed for Clearstream CSDs
08 February 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream has confirmed that its German and Luxembourgish CSDs will migrate to the T2S platform with wave four in February 2017, rather than in wave three, as originally planned...

Blockchain a blessing for capital markets
05 February 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Although there are still barriers to the widespread adoption of blockchain in capital markets, a ‘wait-and-see’ approach could be damaging, according to a whitepaper by Euroclear and Oliver Wyman...