Northern Trust mandates ICE ETF Hub to support US ETF servicing launch
Agreement will see ICE platform used for ETF primary market order workflows as Northern Trust builds out its US institutional ETF servicing capability.
Technology
RBC Investor Services participates in Canadian DLT bond issuance trial
Project Samara sees RBC, Bank of Canada, EDC and TD complete tokenised bond issuance and settlement using central bank money.
Citi issues digitally native structured note on Euroclear DLT platform
Transaction marks first wealth management structured note on Euroclear’s D-FMI distributed ledger infrastructure.
Asia
Fireside Friday with… Euroclear’s Philippe Laurensy
Euroclear’s Asia Pacific CEO Philippe Laurensy says securities services points to strong issuance, gradual market opening in China, and growing collaboration across the region’s fragmented markets as key trends in the region.
Saphyre and DTCC’s FICC link to support Treasury clearing mandate
Integration aims to streamline onboarding and documentation workflows as firms prepare for expanded central clearing requirements.
Broadridge expands pass-through voting on ProxyVote
New functionality aims to simplify investor participation and support wider adoption.
Fragmentation threatens digital asset scale, warn DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear
The post-trade giants call for a ‘same asset, same rights, same outcome’ approach to linking TradFi and DLT.
Euroclear takes minority stake in Proxymity
Strategic investment sees post-trade provider join digital investor communications platform’s global consortium as both shareholder and client.
FundGuard mandated by Mondrian to modernise investment accounting
Cloud-native platform to replace legacy ledger as part of broader technology overhaul.
HSBC Orion selected for UK digital gilt instrument pilot
HM Treasury appoints HSBC’s tokenisation platform for DIGIT issuance as UK tests blockchain-based sovereign bonds.