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Cross-border flows, market infrastructure, and the next phase of custody

Viraj Kulkarni, CEO of PIVOT, speaks to Zarah Choudhary about how cross-border investment flows are evolving, why India has become a key market for global custodians, and how Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are developing along very different infrastructure paths

How institutions evolve

Abdul Sheikh, vice president, Relationship Management at CIBC Mellon, reflects on how three decades of steady, client-led technology investment have reshaped the firm from a paper-based operation into a digital-first institution

Washington’s crypto pivot from enforcement to market structure

Tahlia Kraefft examines the joint framework between the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role in Washington’s crypto supervisory shift and wider effort to integrate digital assets into the traditional financial regulatory system

Geopolitical fragmentation is redirecting private capital flows

Tahlia Kraefft explores how geopolitical risk has evolved from a background consideration to a fundamental factor shaping private market capital allocation and investment strategy

The tokenisation marathon

Ziv Keinan, founder of STG Security Token Community and head of markets and partnerships at XDC Network, speaks with Asset Servicing Times about the evolving institutional adoption of tokenised real-world assets and the role of stablecoins in financial infrastructure

Corporate actions data challenge

As the industry migrates from ISO 15022 to ISO 20022, questions remain over whether structured messaging alone can resolve the operational complexity of corporate actions processing. Zarah Choudhary examines where standards are helping — and where market practice still stands in the way

2025: The year our new foundations proved their strength

María Santos, head Trade Repositories at SIX-Group, sees 2025 as a year of strength, scale, and strategic shift, and asks, what will 2026 demand next?

Transaction reporting takes on new significance as regulators tune in

Quinn Perrott, co-CEO at TRAction, explores how recent EMIR, MiFID, and global regulatory rewrites are reshaping transaction reporting, and why data quality, global alignment, and the right regtech partnerships are becoming critical for firms under increasing supervisory scrutiny

Data governance: Greatest compliance challenge and emerging core competency

Susannah Hammond, senior regulatory intelligence expert at CUBE, considers how robust data governance is fast becoming a defining capability for financial services firms

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