13.1 billion dollars was the expected total spend for Halloween in 2025 in the US. How does the horror of halloween align with the potential fear of T+1 and funding?
Our latest World to Africa 2025 podcast unpacks the forces driving record allocations into the continent, featuring Standard Bank, BNY, and The ValueExchange.
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their operations for the decade ahead.
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with @FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their operations for the decade ahead.
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their operations for the decade ahead.
In our new podcast with Horacio and Paul from Broadridge, we look at how DLR is transforming repo and collateral:
North America’s post-trade industry is at a turning point. In our new The Path to 2030 podcast, Barney Nelson and Matthew Stauffer discuss the opportunities and challenges reshaping the market from extended trading hours to digital assets and modernization.
What is the case for asset servicing automation in 2024 and where are firms focusing today in reducing cost and risk across corporate actions and proxy voting? Drawing on the latest statistical insights from our “Asset Servicing Automation 2024” industry research campaign (led by Broadridge, DTCC and ISSA), William Hodash (of ISSA) and Pradeep Raos (of ISSA) discuss today’s challenges, ambitions and change journeys in the specific context of spiralling volume and cost growth in 2024.
What is the case for asset servicing automation in 2024 and where are firms focusing today in reducing cost and risk across corporate actions and proxy voting? Drawing on the latest statistical insights from our “Asset Servicing Automation 2024” industry research campaign (led by Broadridge, DTCC and ISSA), John Kirkpatrick (of Broadridge), Scott Grant (of Broadridge) and Patrick Barthel (of DTCC) discuss today’s challenges, ambitions and change journeys in the specific context of spiralling volume and cost growth in 2024.
Why, where and how should global investors be planning their African investment strategies in 2024? In this first episode of our World to Africa series (in partnership with Standard Bank), Stephen Barnes and Hari Chaitanya walk through the major areas of opportunity in Africa today and look at what market structure changes foreign investors need to be tracking.
In this latest episode of our DLT in the Real World Series (run in partnership with ISSA), James Fok explains how the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s CMU has delivered efficiencies of over 1,000 hours per bond issuance, through its Evergreen and Genesys initiatives.
As one of the most mature DLT-based platforms in the capital markets, Clearstream’s D7 is now reaching a point of critical scale with over 1000 new issuances every month. In this latest episode of the DLT in the Real World podcast series (run with ISSA), Jens Hachmeister and Thilo Derenbach walk through the latest outlook on the D7 journey – and explain why “Just because something works on a small boat doesn’t mean it will work on a container ship".
In this latest episode of our DLT in the Real World series, Vishal Gupta from NSDL explains how DLT is transforming the issuance and management of debentures in India - with adoption rates of over 70%.
In this episode, part of our latest series of ‘DLT in The Real World’, run in partnership with ISSA, we discuss how DLT creates unique opportunities to the African market.
The voluntary carbon markets face a unique challenge: they have to do in decades what other financial markets have done in 125 years in terms of maturity.
In this fascinating episode Horacio Barakat and Paul Chiappetta join Barnaby Nelson to discuss how DLR is already delivering on "phase 2" treasury benefits - well beyond the operational savings that were first envisaged. As one of the most mature uses of DLT in our markets, this is great evidence of the continuing and evolving benefits of the technology.
How important is shareholder governance? What needs to be done to fix the current issues on shareholder governance?
What is the case behind tokenisation in securities finance? Against a backdrop of highly disparate and manual processes, DLT and tokenisation is emerging as a leading solution to the issues of reconciliations, delivery issues and balance sheet challenges. In this #vxInsight episode, Kelly Mathieson (of Digital Asset) an Ken DeGiglio (Equilend) discuss the opportunities and deployment journey of DLT in repos and securities lending
How and where are asset owners driving transformation in their investment operations in 2023?
How are governance and investor changes putting pressures on our proxy voting processes in Australia? And how able are we to react?
How is DLT being used to address key inefficiencies in bond and fund issuance?
How is Clearstream's D7 platform transforming product issuance today - and moving us closer to "T+1 hour" issuance?
How, where and why are we using DLT in the capital markets today?
How is DLT making an impact traditional, regulated stock exchanges and what are we learning about how this technology can change the whole ecosystem
With volumes reaching historical peaks and people challenges at their most acute, how can all profiles of market practitioners drive scale in their asset servicing?
How is DLT making an impact on how we manage and exchange collateral every day?
How are asset owners turning countless internal and external drivers into an operational change agenda today?
How are different external pressures driving change amongst the world's asset owners - and what hidden impacts are different regulatory models having globally today?
How are asset owners shaping their transformation agendas today - in light of huge external pressures to change?
How are asset owners transforming their operating models today and what is driving that change?
LegacyTech stands on the critical path to every major area of transformation in the capital markets. From digital assets to ESG; from T+1 to CSDR, a firm's ability to manage its legacy technology agenda is a direct driver to both growth and survival.
In this, second episode of our DLT in the Real World series (run in partnership with ISSA), Mathias Studach explains how the SDX is expanding the boundaries of what is possible in the complicated world of regulated securities markets - from bond issuance to CBDC experiments.
How is DLT changing the way that we work today?
Australian corporate actions are complicated and, like many markets around the world, in need of more automation.
How our the hidden costs of FX distorting our investment performance today? Do we really know? What can we be doing to improve our visibility of this key space?
A year is a long time in DLT - so what have we learned about deploying DLT in our world in 2021?
With 56% of our costs of a corporate action made up by data sourcing alone, what can be done to reduce the cost and risks that we carry every day.
In September 2020, HSBC, SGX and Temasek announced that they had completed a pilot digital bond issuance and distribution – replicating an SGD400m issuance for Olam International.
In 2018, Broadridge launched a new platform to simplify repo trading - leveraging the benefits of blockchain and smart contracts to overall collateral flows in a highly complex market.
If real estate investments were all about paper, Consensys' project to distribute $350 million of tokenised real estate assets for Mata Capital showed they no longer have to be.
How can DLT help to make a 96% reduction in processing times for derivatives clearing - and help to move towards same-day clearing?
Our 2020 industry wide survey highlighted the need and desire for change across the entire corporate action lifecycle.
How is the asset servicing industry reacting to the perfect storm of regulation, risk and market pressures in 2020?
How can visibility on your costs per trade drive competitive advantage?
How are Asian brokers dealing with an unprecedented amount of market change today: as their investor clients demand ever more from them, whilst the regulatory and operational risks they face every day continue to multiply. Where is the competitive edge?
How is DLT really being used in the securities industry today?
Taking in feedback from financial services experts from around the globe, the Grey Costs per Trade campaign aims to deliver new insights on how we are tracking and managing our costs per trade today.
The finance industry is suffering from regulatory overload in many areas: with over 25% of investment budgets being spent only on regulatory change.