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Stricter foreign direct investment screening

The cumulative strengthening of FDI screening and geopolitical protectionism has fractured global capital markets. In the first of a two-part series, Tahlia Kraefft explore how against this backdrop of greater complexity for investors managing cross-border guidelines, custodians have evolved into regulatory intermediaries enforcing multi-jurisdictional compliance before transactions

Building scale in tokenised collateral

As tokenised collateral moves from proof-of-concept projects to production-scale deployments, questions around interoperability, regulation, and market infrastructure are becoming increasingly important. Tonic’s Chris Watts, CEO and co-founder, and Steven Czarnota, head of digital, discuss the industry’s progress with Zarah Choudhary

The many sides of digital ETFs

Eamonn O’Callaghan, global head of ETF Product at CACEIS, examines the regulatory, operational, and custody considerations shaping the growth of digital ETFs and ETNs as investor demand for cryptocurrency exposure through traditional investment wrappers accelerates

Why the industry’s automation problem is really a data problem

Michael Wood, general manager for Asset Servicing at Broadridge, speaks to Zarah Choudhary about how rising event volumes are exposing weaknesses in operating models and why many firms are placing greater emphasis on trusted data as the foundation for scalable automation and AI

When exceptions become the rule

As firms face growing data complexity, compressed settlement cycles, and increasingly interconnected markets, operational breaks are becoming harder to prevent and faster to resolve. Zarah Choudhary explores why reconciliation remains at the heart of operational resilience

The tokenised money market fund moment has arrived

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

Structural disparity in global market infrastructure exposed by T+1

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

Iranian shadow banking faces growing crackdown under new sanctions

US regulators are widening their focus to dismantle opaque structures used to bypass global financial oversight

Balancing act between domestic infrastructure and offshore capital

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

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