Market Infrastructure

Clearstream recently underwent an organisational restructure and combined its sales, relationship management and client services activities into one joint division.

New cross-border custody and settlement service to act as a single gateway to TARGET2-Securities (T2S) and international markets.

DTCC finds that half of respondents believe Brexit will pose a threat to the broader economy, as concerns about cyber risk and regulation ease. 

Euronext would no longer be able to settle Irish securities at Euroclear’s London-based CREST once the UK leaves the European Union.

DTCC recently proved it is capable of processing 115,000,000 trades daily, or 6,300 trades per second for five continuous hours, on a DLT platform.

 The growing importance of analytics and reporting in ESG investing is opening the door for custodians to play a crucial role.

Due Diligence Questionnaire aims to harmonise and simplify the process of completing questionnaires for global custodians, sub custodians and banks that hold client money. 

SWIFT explained the financial gain for a hacker targeting securities market infrastructures are high, while custodians and brokers are also at risk.

Singapore exchange to launch new securities settlement and depository framework on 10 December.

The test is the latest step by the DTCC to roll out blockchain technology to the US market.