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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

Four new members added to DTCC’s board of directors
02 April 2026 US, UK, and Hong Kong
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Roland Chai, Massimiliano Ciardi, Stephen Hood, and Georges Lauchard will serve on the board, which plays a key role in overseeing the strategic direction of DTCC, works closely with the firm's leadership, and advises on various topics

DTCC launches Rapid Issuance
01 April 2026 US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The new service aims to support the bulk eligibility of equity-linked structured notes, shortening processing time, reducing operational complexity and enabling higher volumes

DTCC launches DTCC Digital Assets Solutions
31 March 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s new offering will be responsible for developing and driving DTCC’s strategy to tokenise DTC custodied assets

Clearstream, DTCC, Euroclear, and BCG release white paper
04 March 2026 Belgium, Luxembourg, US
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The document outlines an interoperability framework intended to facilitate the implementation of data standards across five fundamental components including ownership, mobility, and compliance

Watson joins DTCC as Managing Director and Head of Asset Services
25 February 2026 US, UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

In this role, Adam Watson will lead the strategic direction, performance, and modernisation of DTCC’s global Asset Services business, overseeing operational delivery, product innovation, regulatory engagement, and client experience

Figure releases On-chain Public Equity Network for direct stock lending
15 January 2026 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Shareholders will be able to use Figure’s Democratized Prime, a DeFi protocol to borrow against and lend out their stock, disintermediating the role prime brokers traditionally play

DTCC receives approval for new agent clearing service
07 January 2026 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Approval from the US SEC enables the firm to offer the service within FICC’s ACS offering, and through BNY’s Global Collateral Platform

DTCC partners with Digital Asset Holdings and the Canton network
17 December 2025 US
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

With this partnership, DTCC plans to enable a subset of US Treasury securities custodied at DTC to be minted on the Canton Network

DTCC receives green light to launch tokenisation service
12 December 2025 US, UK, Hong Kong
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

DTC receives No-Action Letter from SEC to offer new service to accelerate adoption of digital assets

Settlement risk fears persist for T+1 despite automation uplift
25 November 2025 UK, Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The UK & EU T+1 pulse survey examines feedback from over 350 market participants and reviews how the two regions are progressing towards an accelerated settlement cycle

Thomas Sullivan chosen as managing director
01 October 2025 US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

He will be tasked with leading and enabling the development of DTCC Digital Assets’ strategic objective