Agnes Mazurek, global head of product, Digital Assets at Apex Group, looks at the growing market for tokenised funds, and the rapid pace of expansion the market is seeing
The US equities shift to T+1 settlement has highlighted a growing timing discrepancy between international institutional investors, leading to a systematic funding divide that has moved operational, liquidity, and settlement risk into new areas of the market
South Africa has spent more than a decade modernising its post-trade infrastructure through settlement reform, automation and tighter risk controls — but as offshore investing demand grows and investors continue to hedge against rand volatility — the country’s asset servicing market faces a new challenge
Robin Hasson, head of reconciliation solutions at Smartstream, speaks to Zarah Choudhary about the role of ‘always on’ AI agents, the importance of human oversight, and why governance must remain central as automation evolves
Tahlia Kraefft explores how a widening gap in proxy voting reform between the two regions is creating fragmentation and forcing multinational firms to manage highly disparate systems
Zarah Choudhary speaks with Eamonn O’Callaghan, Ireland-based global head of ETF Product at CACEIS, about the forces driving the expansion of ETFs and how digital assets and tokenisation could influence the future of the ETF ecosystem
As institutional demand for digital assets accelerates, Zarah Choudhary examines how traditional custodians and crypto-native firms are competing — and converging — to define the future of digital asset custody
Frank Becker, chief operating officer and head of sales at Comyno, discusses the firm’s C-ONE platform, bringing standardised connectivity to EquiLend NGT, scalability, and supporting institutions inbuilding more efficient and resilient operating models across securities finance
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
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
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
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