Event agenda
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
15:00 - 19:00
Early arrivers’ mingle
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
09:00 - 09:40
Going for growth?
- Custody
- Settlement
- Regulation
• Return of the matrix • What’s hot at PostTrade 360° • Trust and efficiency
1 speaker
Post-trade regulation – the COMPLETE overview (Wednesday edition)
- Regulation
1 speaker
10:00 - 10:40
Financial crime compliance, and sanctions benchmarking
- Custody
- Technology
- Regulation
- Data
New vs old: The art of clever AI adoption
- Technology
- Sourcing
- The human element
- Data
3 speakers
The future of corporate actions and proxy voting: Collaboration and innovation for a more efficient ecosystem
- Custody
- Technology
- Data
2 speakers
Hosted by
The insights from the EU DLT pilot regime
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Regulation
3 speakers
10:00 - 10:50
Official opening: The forces shaping post trade through 2026 and beyond
Time again for the yearly top-up on our industry’s full picture. Our senior panel shares the broad view on the changes rolling in – with a focus on how financial institutions should leverage them to their advantage.
3 speakers
11:00 - 11:40
Driving efficiency and transparency in the voluntary carbon market
- Custody
- Sourcing
- Data
Let us introduce the Northern Trust Carbon Ecosystem.
2 speakers
Hosted by
Hear it from the players: the EQUITIES clearing market panel
- Clearing
- Sourcing
3 speakers
Setting the scene: what’s known and done on T+1
- The T+1 track
- Custody
- Settlement
3 speakers
The strengths of the Nordic model – What can Europe learn from our experience?
- Custody
- Settlement
2 speakers
Hosted by
12:00 - 12:40
As ETFs grow, what’s in it for operations
- Custody
- Settlement
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
- Sourcing
4 speakers
Data will fuel tomorrow’s business. This is what you should do
- Data
4 speakers
The ECB’s digital payment trials – overview and examples
- Settlement
- Collateral and liquidity
- Digital/digitalised assets
The promise and practicalities of today’s repo activity
- Custody
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
- Sourcing
2 speakers
12:00 - 12:50
Funnel vision: Would fewer CCPs and way fewer CSDs make for better EU infrastructure?
- Settlement
- Clearing
- Regulation
Should the US scene, with the DTCC group alone at the centre, be taken for a role model to Europe, too? What should be done, how should it be approached, and who should decide over it?
5 speakers
13:00 - 13:40
How custodians and other platform providers play the third-party services game
- Custody
- Technology
- Sourcing
- Data
Click for a link to our background article.
4 speakers
On the industry movers’ minds – a conversation with ISSA Board members
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 1: getting ready to trade
- The T+1 track
- Custody
- Settlement
- Collateral and liquidity
Trends in CCP risk management and implications for market participants
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
2 speakers
14:00 - 14:40
Asset servicing needs harmonising – but just how?
- Custody
- Settlement
- Technology
- Regulation
- Data
Differing standards in asset servicing processes – such as corporate actions, shareholder identification and tax treatment – are a headache for European securities-industry professionals. Come and let’s sort it out.
3 speakers
Cyber and operational resilience: Protecting client assets in the face of growing threats
1 speaker
Hosted by
How post-trade tech investments suddenly became cool, and why
- Technology
- Sourcing
5 speakers
My operating model – in bullet points
- Custody
- Technology
- Sourcing
Meet senior operational colleagues for a chat about their current top objectives – and the action they are taking to reach them.
14:00 - 14:50
Zooming in on Europe’s CSD industry – what’s up for 2026
- Settlement
- Technology
- Regulation
6 speakers
15:00 - 15:40
How CSDs seek to diversify and expand their service portfolios
- Settlement
- Sourcing
- Data
1 speaker
New vs old: What will change in how we execute payments, settle trades and custody assets
- Custody
- Collateral and liquidity
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Regulation
3 speakers
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 2: execution and booking
- The T+1 track
- Sourcing
Where Europe’s fund and asset managers want to see post trade going
- Custody
- Clearing
- Regulation
- Sourcing
1 speaker
16:00 - 16:40
DORA double, part 1: Implications at CSDs and CCPs
- Settlement
- Clearing
- Technology
- Regulation
- Sourcing
1 speaker
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 3: enrichment and matching
- The T+1 track
- Data
Trends and efficiencies in listed-derivatives clearing
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
Trends in private-market investment operations
- Custody
- Collateral and liquidity
- Sourcing
1 speaker
16:00 - 16:50
Sociable and tech savvy – how post-trade organisations attract and build tomorrow’s staff
- Sourcing
- The human element
Click for a link to our background article.
5 speakers
Thursday, 4 September 2025
09:00 - 09:40
Europe’s trading venues, their battle for volumes … and what post-traders should know about them
- Sourcing
2 speakers
Getting the grip on out-of-network assets
- Custody
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Data
Post-trade regulation – the COMPLETE overview (Thursday edition)
- Regulation
1 speaker
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 4: funding and inventory
- The T+1 track
- Custody
- Collateral and liquidity
- Sourcing
1 speaker
10:00 - 10:40
Distribution of investment funds
- Custody
- Regulation
- Sourcing
Omnibus vs beneficial-owner accounts at the Nordic CSDs – who wants what and why
- Custody
- Settlement
2 speakers
On the EU’s agenda
- Custody
- Settlement
- Clearing
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Regulation
The future of collateral management
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
1 speaker
Hosted by
10:00 - 10:50
Europe rising?
- Regulation
US go-it-alone policies prompts Europe to bolster its independence – and the financial market needed to support it. Let this senior panel help make sense of the big picture on Europe, its markets and its global context. What action points should be next?
1 speaker
11:00 - 11:40
ESG data – beginning to make sense?
- Data
Location, location, location. Where should post-trade work be carried out, and by whom?
- Sourcing
- The human element
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 5: clearing
- The T+1 track
- Clearing
4 speakers
T+1 impacts through the trade journey, pt 6: settlement and fail management
- The T+1 track
- Custody
- Settlement
- Technology
- Data
4 speakers
12:00 - 12:40
DORA double, part 2: Implications at market participants and custodians
- Custody
- Technology
- Regulation
- Sourcing
The flavours of T+0
- The T+1 track
- Custody
- Settlement
- Technology
- Digital/digitalised assets
Let’s look at the alternative principles by which our future settlement solutions might be designed … by the time we find T+1 too slow.
The promise and practicalities of today’s securities lending
- Custody
- Clearing
- Collateral and liquidity
- Sourcing
4 speakers
13:00 - 13:40
Hear it from the players: the DERIVATIVES clearing market panel
- Clearing
- Sourcing
2 speakers
Managing securities services risk
- Custody
- Collateral and liquidity
- Technology
- Regulation
- Sourcing
- The human element
- Data
New vs old: The promise of new payments infrastructure in optimising liquidity
- Collateral and liquidity
- Technology
- Digital/digitalised assets
4 speakers
The effects of the EU’s AI Act in securities operations
- Technology
- Regulation
- Data
13:00 - 13:50
What’s next on T+1 – looking forward to the upcoming market and regulatory changes
- The T+1 track
- Settlement
- Regulation
5 speakers
14:00 - 14:40
Issuers, investors, intermediaries – Meet ISSA’s asset servicing working group
- Custody
- Settlement
- Collateral and liquidity
- Technology
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Sourcing
- Data
Navigating the expanding requirements for repo clearing – from the US to Europe
- Clearing
- Regulation
1 speaker
Scaling AI in Financial Services: Opportunities and Challenges
- Custody
- Technology
2 speakers
Hosted by
15:00 - 15:40
New threats, new defenses – cybersecurity in 2026
- Technology
The tools out there to nail the settlements
- Custody
- Settlement
- Collateral and liquidity
- Technology
- Sourcing
1 speaker
15:00 - 15:50
The cloud operators-to-FMI strategic partnerships
- Custody
- Technology
- Sourcing
- Data
16:00 - 16:40
Clearing – as seen by market participants
- Clearing
- Sourcing
DLT in the real world
- Custody
- Collateral and liquidity
- Technology
- Digital/digitalised assets
- Regulation
Getting on top of KYC and AML in capital market operations
- Technology
- Regulation
- Data
The new SSI standard – and what you have to do
- Custody
- Settlement
- Technology
- Data
1 speaker
18:30 - 23:59
Dinner placeholder – Ticket from your sponsor required
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