THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

CCB custody business: making steady progress

China Construction Bank offers intelligent, innovative and dutiful support for custody customers and the healthy development of national financial markets.

On route: Redefining the fund administration experience

Opus Fund Services has consistently been recognised in the annual Industry Leaders awards season, this year winning Global Custodian’s 2022 Hedge Fund Administrator of the Year and the award for Best Client Service. This article seeks to explore what it is that has Opus’ clients writing so positively about their Opus experiences.

Transforming the digital asset landscape

Digital Prime Technologies has assembled the Board, team and the tech to go along with best practices and products from traditional finance to allow capital markets firms to launch and manage a digital asset offering for their existing clients, at a time when best practices and corporate governance is of the upmost importance for institutional investors.

Sibos 2022 takeaway: Time to tackle settlement fails

High settlement fail rates are a persistent challenge facing post-trade and saddle investors and intermediaries alike with added costs and operational risk. Simon Daniel, product manager at Swift, looks back at discussions from Sibos about the root causes behind securities settlement fails and how the problem can be solved.

Getting to grips with regulation

Jesus Benito, head of domestic custody operations & trade repositories at SIX, discusses the impact of CSDR on the post-trade landscape.

The road to T+1

Javier Hernani, head securities services at SIX, provides a CSD perspective on moves to T+1 in Europe.

Fireside Chat with… SS&C’s Bill Stone

Global Custodian sits down with the founder and CEO of SS&C, Bill Stone, to discuss the origins of the company and the development of the fund administration industry.

Moving on up

Independent investment bank Cowen has traversed the recent market difficulties well, increasing business lines and geographic reach in the last two years. Here, Jack Seibald, managing director and global co-head of prime brokerage and outsourced trading, discusses the market conditions and the firm’s upcoming acquisition by TD.