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
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
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