Tahlia Kraefft explores how sanctions compliance is progressively changing past being solely a regulatory requirement and becoming embedded as an informal component of the governance pillar of ESG
As governments move to increase supervision of foreign capital, in the second part of this two part series, Tahlia Kraefft explores how custodians are becoming key conjoining tissue in a less unified global financial ecosystem with stricter oversight
As firms face growing compliance demands, documentation is changing from a record-keeping exercise into a cornerstone of operational resilience, finds Zarah Choudhary
The cumulative strengthening of FDI screening and geopolitical protectionism has fractured global capital markets. In the ?rst 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
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
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
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
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
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