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Retirement failure

Kevin Milne, owner, Due Diligence Reports, has found retirement the least successful of his recent ventures

The making of a regional custodian

From the fall of the Iron Curtain to the integration of settlement systems to a harmonized platform in Europe, Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, talks about the growth in the capital markets in Central and Eastern Europe and how that prompted providers to think more global

An Englishman in Hong Kong

Nick Bryan’s arrival in the custody industry coincided with the discovery of the Asian Tiger economies by Western fund managers. From then on, finding opportunities in new emerging markets would be part of his banking career and his retirement

Raising the infrastructure bar

Perhaps best known for spearheading the launch of the U.K.’s central securities depository (CSD) CREST, Iain Saville has overseen significant improvement to European market infrastructure and continues to push for its advancement

Both sides now

Over the past 22 years, Fabian Vandenreydt has spent much of his career working both with (securities) market infrastructures and their clients

The rise of repo

Despite the progress in automation in the tri-party repo market, says Saheed Awan, work still needs to be done to manage valuable collateral inventory on a global and holistic basis

Venturing together

Tom MacMillian led one of the most successful joint ventures in global custody at a time when technology and scale began to influence competition

Italian lessons

Susan Livingston, partner, BBH credits much of her successful career to her experience in getting to grips with a settlement crisis