#vxinsight by the ValueExchange

Last Updated: December 5, 2025
This podcast is a collection of webinars and discussions hosted by the ValueExchange, as part of our regular series of research reports. Giving you actionable insights that you can use in your daily lives, these podcasts are there to help you make sense of what your world is doing: your peers, your competitors and your colleagues.
Xchange Ep 1: T+1 and funding - the scary story, America at light speed, tokenised collateral, and reading CSDR technical standards on the beach
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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? 

DLT in the Real World 2025 (Series 4) with Accenture: Is 2025 the year DLT finally moves from promise to production?
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World to Africa 2025: Africa is no longer a “future” growth story — it’s happening now.
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Our latest World to Africa 2025 podcast unpacks the forces driving record allocations into the continent, featuring Standard Bank, BNY, and The ValueExchange. 

FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 3 - APAC)
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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. 

FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 1 - North America)
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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. 

FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 2 - Europe)
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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. 

DLT in the Real World 2025 (Series 4) with Broadridge: DLT is no longer “what if.” It is happening at scale.
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In our new podcast with Horacio and Paul from Broadridge, we look at how DLR is transforming repo and collateral: 

Path to 2023: The case for securities processing transformation - North America
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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. 

Asset Servicing Automation 2024: survey key findings and expert insights (ISSA)
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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.

Asset Servicing Automation 2024: survey key findings and expert insights
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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.

World to Africa 2024: what does the Africa opportunity look like in 2024?
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 3) with the HKMA: What does it mean to issue over HKD6 billion in digital bonds?
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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.  

DLT in the Real World (Series 3): with Clearstream: What does it mean to issue over EUR3 billion in structured products using a DLT registry?
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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".

DLT in The Real World (Series 3) with NSDL: How can DLT bring trust and automation to a heavily decentralised market ecosystem?
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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%.

DLT in The Real World (Series 3): The evolution of the DLT market in Africa viewed by Standard Bank, a key player in the region
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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 ValueExchange / Nasdaq - Scaling the Carbon Markets with Roland Chai
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 3): Broadridge DLR and the transformational benefits of DLR in treasury
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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.

Proxy voting and Class actions: Today’s ESG challenge
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How important is shareholder governance? What needs to be done to fix the current issues on shareholder governance?

The numbers behind tokenization
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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

Asset Owner Transformation 2023: Key findings
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How and where are asset owners driving transformation in their investment operations in 2023?

Proxy Voting in Australia - Our Key Findings review
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How are governance and investor changes putting pressures on our proxy voting processes in Australia? And how able are we to react?

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): MarketNode and product issuance
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How is DLT being used to address key inefficiencies in bond and fund issuance?

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): Clearstream D7 and digital issuance
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How is Clearstream's D7 platform transforming product issuance today - and moving us closer to "T+1 hour" issuance?

DLT in the Real World: Key Findings from our 2022 explained with ISSA
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How, where and why are we using DLT in the capital markets today?

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): Stock Exchange of Thailand and ecosystem change
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How is DLT making an impact traditional, regulated stock exchanges and what are we learning about how this technology can change the whole ecosystem

Reimagining Corporate Actions: What is the right operating model for today's world?
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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?

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): HQLAx and collateral
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How is DLT making an impact on how we manage and exchange collateral every day?

Asset Owner Transformation (episode 4): Realising transformation and making new friends
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How are asset owners turning countless internal and external drivers into an operational change agenda today?

Asset Owner Transformation (episode 2): Driving change and unintended consequences
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How are different external pressures driving change amongst the world's asset owners - and what hidden impacts are different regulatory models having globally today?

Asset Owner Transformation (episode 3): Shaping the Strategic Agenda and shifting raisons d'etre and
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How are asset owners shaping their transformation agendas today - in light of huge external pressures to change?

Asset Owner Transformation (episode 1): Beyond Excel
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How are asset owners transforming their operating models today and what is driving that change?

LegacyTech Transformation - What do you need to know?
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): SDX and regulated blockchains
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 2): DTCC and the Private Markets
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How is DLT changing the way that we work today? 

Australian Corporate actions in a global context: where can we be looking to transform?
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Australian corporate actions are complicated and, like many markets around the world, in need of more automation. 

The Grey Costs of FX: Our Key Findings explained
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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?

DLT in the Real World: Key Findings from our 2021 research explained
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A year is a long time in DLT - so what have we learned about deploying DLT in our world in 2021? 

Corporate Actions 2021: Key Findings explained
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming bond issuance
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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. 

DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming repos and collateral
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming Real Estate investments
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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.

DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming trade processing
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How can DLT help to make a 96% reduction in processing times for derivatives clearing - and help to move towards same-day clearing?

Asset Servicing Innovation: The View from Asia-Pacific
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Our 2020 industry wide survey highlighted the need and desire for change across the entire corporate action lifecycle. 

Asset Servicing Innovation: Key Findings explained with Broadridge and ISSA
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How is the asset servicing industry reacting to the perfect storm of regulation, risk and market pressures in 2020? 

Grey Costs per Trade: Driving industry best practice
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How can visibility on your costs per trade drive competitive advantage? 

Asian Brokerage in Transformation: Key Findings explained
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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?

DLT in the Real World: Key Findings explained
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How is DLT really being used in the securities industry today? 

Grey Costs per Trade 2020: Key Findings
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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. 

2020 in Perspective series: #Regulation
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The finance industry is suffering from regulatory overload in many areas: with over 25% of investment budgets being spent only on regulatory change. 

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