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Swift completes tokenised asset blockchain transfer experiments
31 August 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Following recent experiments, Swift has found that its infrastructure can facilitate the global transfer of tokenised assets over both public and private blockchain

DTCC’s T+1 IWG begins testing cycle
14 August 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Test Cycle 1 consists of free-form testing and corporate actions scenario testing, and will continue until 25 August 2023. The second test cycle will take place between 28 August and 8 September

Núñez joins DTCC as chief information security officer
19 July 2023
Reporter: AST

Post-trade market infrastructure specialist DTCC has appointed Yonesy Núñez to lead its information security and technology risk management

DTCC’s FICC passes $750 billion processing milestone
14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation has processed more than US $750 billion in daily sponsored activity through its sponsored service

R3 releases beta version of new gen Corda platform
14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through consultation with the Corda community, this evolution is driven by scalability, enhanced privacy and security, user friendly dev tools and the new generation platform’s ability to interconnect and interoperate with other DLT platforms

Collaboration is key to improve settlement efficiency, WFC speakers agree
06 June 2023 Czech Republic
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Panellists on the ‘Settlement efficiency’ panel at this year’s World Forum of Central Securities Depositories agreed that the industry needed to work collectively to improve settlement fail rates

CSDs must act to combat evolving risk environment, WFC panellists say
05 June 2023 Czech Republic
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Systemic risk management is “a daunting task but one that is necessary,” according to a panellist at this year’s World Forum of Central Securities Depositories

DTCC partners with Nomura Research Institute
25 May 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

As part of the mandate, regional firms in Japan will be able to leverage CTM, DTCC’s platform for the central matching of cash securities transactions, directly from NRI’s SmartBridge Advance solution

DTCC Europe joins Financial Markets Standards Board
12 May 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

DTCC Europe has joined the Financial Markets Standards Board, the global standards body advocating for fair and effective wholesale financial markets

DTCC makes trio of leadership appointments
30 March 2023 United Kingdom
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Susan Cosgrove (pictured) has been named as president of clearing and securities services, replacing DTCC veteran Murray Pozmanter

DTCC’s MF Info Xchange service sees significant increase in distributed event notifications in 2022
22 March 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

DTCC has reported that its MF Info Xchange service saw a 55 per cent growth in distributed event notifications between 2021 and 2022

DTCC launches service to support transition from LIBOR benchmark rates
13 March 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has launched a LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution to support the industry’s transition to alternative benchmark rates ahead of the 30 June LIBOR cessation