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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

Who wins the settlement layer race?

Tahlia Kraefft examines the race to redefine how transactions are cleared and settled, and asks who comes out on top — tokenised fiats or central bank money?