Service applies an ISO-standard unique transaction identifier to track progress across the trade lifecycle, enabling market participants to identify trades with high risk of settlement failure and to take pre-emptive action
The EU securities market regulator has launched a consultation to assess industry reaction to proposed changes to cash penalty procedures under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation
A continuous access to enriched and linked real-time data resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in trade fails, according to AccessFintech
Market participants have conveyed concerns over “serious difficulties” to implement the mandatory buy-in regime on the scheduled date
The International Securities Lending Association has responded to the European Commission consultation regarding proposed amendments to settlement discipline provisions of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation
The decision of the European Commission to propose the removal of the buy-in obligation from SDR for an indefinite period renders the business proposition of Eurex STS unviable, says Deutsche Börse
The review aims to facilitate CSDs’ ability to offer cross-border services and improve their cross-border supervision
The US post-trade infrastructure specialist releases new operational analytics service enabling broker-dealers and buy-side to benchmark performance against counterparties, peers and industry standards
Whikie Liu, strategy director for capital markets at Swift, considers the impact that North America moving to T+1 will have on markets across the globe and whether the world is ready for the shift
Demand for reliable data to support a front-to-back digital operating model are being superimposed onto longstanding requirements for efficient safekeeping, analytics and trade lifecycle management
Market participants offer their predictions for what should be an eventful year
AFME’s Pete Tomlinson, director of post trade, assesses the current settlement efficiency landscape in Europe, likening it to London’s complicated underground network
Ben Pumfrett of RBC Investor & Treasury Services talks to Jenna Lomax about the front office’s increasing demands for data, and how the company is helping to prepare its clients for shortened settlement windows
Barnaby Nelson, CEO of The Value Exchange, sits down with Jenna Lomax to outline a key imbalance in the industry on how legacy technology is managed. As recent research (with IHS Markit and Digital Asset) has shown, it is both a key enabler for so much industry change and a huge challenge for many firms
Derek Coyle of Brown Brothers Harriman discusses the potential impacts that CSDR will have on custody markets and how firms can best prepare themselves for the upcoming regulation
As firms continue to juggle innovation, customer loyalty and deal with the complexity of regulatory change, Broadridge’s Philip Taliaferro discusses regulatory challenges for the year ahead
Brian Bollen takes a look at Nordic asset servicing and its current CSD models following the economic upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the more recent Russian invasion of Ukraine
It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt Italy and its economy a hard blow in the first half of 2020. Industry experts explain why 2021 has been a different story and outline what the future holds for the country’s asset servicing
The Spanish custody market has undertaken a number of initiatives to improve harmonisation and efficiency, and now, with plans to eliminate further market-level specificities, the market moves closer to full post-trade harmonisation with other EU markets
Experts say DLT has the potential to open the floor to all kinds of innovations if it can become a regulatory and legally integral part of Germany’s business
