Early this year, Clearstream announced plans to expand its existing link to the Ukrainian capital market with additional asset classes. Global Custodian speaks to Jan Willems, head of product management, global markets at Clearstream about the ICSD’s experience in Ukraine over the past few years.
Paper outlines members’ views and results from the analysis of CSDs’ ISO Messages experts.
With just three days to go until Global Custodian’s Leaders in Custody Asia awards, we detail the shortlist for Market Infrastructure Project of the Year.
The Macao Central Securities Depository and Clearing was launched in December 2021 and has hit a number of milestones in its first 18 months as the special administrative region of China looks to grow the role of financial services within its economy.
Some 34 institutions, including BNY Mellon, HSBC and Northern Trust, have signed up to the platform, representing more than 630 million securities transactions each year.
New programme initially launches with a Northbound channel, offering Hong Kong and international investors access to Mainland China’s interbank interest rate swap markets.
Initiative aimed at facilitating broader access for foreign investors and builds on MoU signed back in 2020.
The ICSD has been present in Krakow for a decade and already employs 800 staff.
Excluding the impact of the Russian sanctions, Euroclear’s underlying Q1 net profit nearly doubled from the same period in the year prior, but inclusive the increase was nearly 500%.
New solution looks to improve access to critical Eurobond data for investors, alongside improving the transition into secondary trading.