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From a system of record to a system of action

Quantios CEO Guy Harrison discusses with Zarah Choudhary how growth, consolidation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the corporate, trust, and fund services landscape — and why core platforms are evolving from systems of record into systems of action

The opportunity ahead

As regulation tightens, settlement cycles shorten, and volumes rise, custodians are rethinking how they engage with asset managers. Diederik Geeraerts, CEO of Taskize, considers how technology and proactive exception management are now central to strengthening and scaling the custodian-buy side relationship

Withholding nothing

Industry experts explore how automation, regulatory reform, and evolving compliance demands are reshaping cross-border dividend tax recovery and investor outcomes

Beyond digital transformation

Joel Kornblum, head of Business Development and Relationship Management with RBC Investor Services, dives into how leveraging partnerships, proprietary development, and AI together, can help deliver competitive advantage through an integrated operating model

From operations to influence

As automation and digital infrastructure reshape the custody sector, Zarah Choudhary examines how women’s influence is expanding from the processing floor to the strategic direction of the industry

Liquid credit gains momentum

Charly Guyot, global head of Loan Solutions and head of Alternative Investors Client Line Americas, and Declan McCluskey, global hedge fund product and solutions manager at BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business, explore the growing opportunities for liquid credit and how managers can scale up with the right infrastructure and support

Global reporting rules are increasing adoption of standardised token identification

Tahlia Kraefft assesses how the acceleration of global regulatory frameworks for digital assets, particularly the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, is driving adoption of Digital Token Identifiers as the standard for identifying crypto-assets

Rewiring settlement

As the London Stock Exchange Group advances plans for a Digital Securities Depository, Zarah Choudhary explores whether digital-native settlement represents incremental enhancement or the beginning of structural redesign across Europe’s post-trade ecosystem

Operating intelligence... a new opportunity for investors

Charlotte Hogg, CEO of Alter Domus, looks at how as the private markets industry expands and becomes more complex, managers will have to close the gap between their investment intelligence and operational intelligence capability

Investment accounting: Build vs buy

Lior Yogev, CEO at FundGuard, examines why firms continue to treat investment accounting infrastructure as strategic IP — and why that assumption is increasingly difficult to justify

Family offices are rewriting the rules of fund and asset servicing

As family offices scale in size and complexity, their expectations of fund and asset servicers are shifting just as rapidly. Rob Lowe, UK market head at Pictet Asset Services, speaks with Zarah Choudhary about how this evolving client segment is driving new models of customisation, digitalisation, and cross-border sophistication

From oil flows to capital flows

The Middle East is undergoing a quieter transformation in its financial plumbing. As regulatory frameworks mature, private markets expand and digital infrastructure develops, the region’s asset servicing ecosystem is evolving into a more institutional, internationally connected environment

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