Tahlia Kraefft explores how geopolitical risk has evolved from a background consideration to a fundamental factor shaping private market capital allocation and investment strategy
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
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
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
Susannah Hammond, senior regulatory intelligence expert at CUBE, considers how robust data governance is fast becoming a defining capability for financial services firms
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
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
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
Olivier Carré, technology and transformation leader at PwC Luxembourg, looks at the hype surrounding tokenisation, and asks, could it really unlock US$135 billion in cost savings for asset managers?
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