HSBC, BNP Paribas, Citadel Securities, CME Ventures and Broadridge among investors backing latest round as focus shifts to regulated blockchain market infrastructure.
Julia McKenny, CEO of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA), highlights the urgent need for industry-wide collaboration and interoperability to address systemic risks and move beyond siloed approaches in the global securities ecosystem.
Collaboration will support near real-time collateral mobility and automation through DTCC’s Collateral AppChain platform.
FINMA sign-off also allows crypto custody services to be offered through consolidated CSD infrastructure.
BNP Paribas, Citi and CACEIS back initiative to streamline settlement and custody across EU markets.
BlackRock, BNP Paribas, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and State Street among 50 firms participating in the trials – set to begin in July.
Measured optimism is replacing long-held caution across Africa’s capital markets, but as infrastructure improves and digital adoption surges, questions remain over access, governance and the pace of reform.
Funding round supports platform build-out, DLT collaboration and expansion of collateral mobility use cases.
At the centre of the programme is the re-architecture of DTCC’s clearing, settlement and risk systems.
Europe’s central securities depositories have long been seen as the quiet infrastructure beneath the market. But when facing a wave of technological disruption, regulatory change and a renewed push for more integrated capital markets in Europe, the region’s post-trade infrastructures are now evolving to look very different from how we’ve previously viewed them.