Event agenda

AI in post trade – where we’re at and where we’re going

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Citi

From reform to resilience: rethinking liquidity in European pensions

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BNY

Geopolitics and post-trade: FMI resilience and systemic risk management

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

Post-trade regulation – the COMPLETE overview (Wednesday edition)

The alpha mandate: harnessing data and capital optimisation to drive real post-trade returns

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OSTTRA

DLT collateral mobility’s five operational hurdles

Meet my new relation: Structural shifts across the post-trade services landscape

New third-parties pop, others get disintermediated; new value-creating services and providers appear, others become obsolete. What types of actor will your company be leaning on more or less next year, or a decade from now? Why?

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

The regulator’s view of Europe’s current clearing and FMI topics

Repo operations in 2027

At the heart of industry-shaping cooperation

Few industries benefit as much from standardisation and collaboration as post trade does – and accordingly, associations and shared ventures play central roles. Get inside their heads and predict the tomorrow that they are busy with today.

CORPORATE ACTIONS: Cutting costs and risk in data sourcing

In corporate actions processing, a large part of the time cost and risk is concentrated to the data sourcing step – and a sometimes worlds-apart relation between issuers and processing pros doesn’t make it easier. Let’s zoom in on it.

DLT: How exchanges are tokenising

Are we up for a complete migration from traditional securities formats to DLT-based ones, or will exchange members agree freely which format should be delivered? Either way, exchange operators are taking action; here’s how.

Do we still care about the post-trade barriers to single capital market?

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

Handling private-market investments efficiently

On a planet far from the volume churns and STP dashboards of listed securities, private market investments grow their impact despite their paperwork.

Asset servicing – issuers, intermediaries and investors

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

Do we really need same-day settlement?

Hear it from the players: the EQUITIES clearing market panel

Don’t miss this year’s edition of the 360° show’s classic clearinghouse 'battle' (split into separate derivatives/equities categories). With 2027 coming up, what is each provider’s edge in the Europe’s market – and how is it transforming?

Making auditors love you

The word burden, as in burden of proof, keeps popping whenever audits are discussed. But if we try to understand the pain better, could it guide us to better audit readiness and perhaps an even broader range of operational capacities?

2027’s CSD agenda

GenAI: Custody’s new clothes?

Moving to T-0 Operations in exchange traded derivatives

Securities financing operations in 2027

The future of securities services – a discussion with the ISSA board

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

Limited-partner processes in focus

CSD account structures – what should be next?

We thought this was a technicality but our 2025 session turned out to be that year’s blockbuster, the room completely packed! Let’s continue forward.

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

Cyber – the risks and how to mitigate them

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

MISP perceptions part 1: the regulatory changes

December last year saw the European Commission present MISP – the Market Integration and Supervision Package. So, how will it change regulation and supervision?

T+1 COUNTDOWN: Nailing allocations and confirmations

African fields – current issues in the continent’s securities scene

Fintech Daydreaming podcast live: payments on new rails

There’s a lot of new stuff in payments – so, what parts of it all will actually matter? Join for a live production session of the Fintech Daydreaming podcast.

Fund tokenisation update

Japanese topics – T+1, swap market deleveraging, and more

Settling in: understanding the evolution of post-trade in France, Belgium and the Netherlands

The competition around settlement in FR, BE and NL is not only unusually tough – it also raises completely new questions about what can be done or not in Europe’s infrastructures market. So, how will this affect me?

Strategic moves in the CCP market – what’s been up in the past two years?

Cloud operators-to-FMI strategic partnerships

Last year we looked in depth at the collaboration between Clearstream and Google, including the DLT-based issuance platform D7. Let’s keep digging into the growing involvement of the major cloud computing capacity providers in post-trade processing.

DLT: Build it and they will come, or …? Custodians’ makeshift stablecoin solutions as regulatory clarity is pending

Post-trade regulation – the COMPLETE overview (Thursday edition)

Who owns the collateral of the world?

DLT: Regulation keynote

Safely holding an asset on a blockchain is only worth so much if a court will rule out my claim to the same asset in the real world. Let’s look at where we are at, and what remain the hot regulatory issues in various areas of DLT-based holding and trade.

MISP perceptions part 2: the implications for market participants and FMIs

December last year saw the European Commission present MISP – the Market Integration and Supervision Package. So, what will be its impact on the post-trade industry and its clients?

On the minds of the Nordics’ CSD leaders

Sanctions and countermeasures – guidance for dealing with blocked securities

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

The provocative emergence of prediction markets

Under calls for tightened regulation, new ways of running liquid books in real time are supporting ­bets on real-life outcomes. Let’s understand this new market, with a focus on how it challenges our post-trade operations.

Hear it from the players: the DERIVATIVES clearing market panel

Don’t miss this year’s edition of the 360° show’s classic clearinghouse 'battle' (split into separate derivatives/equities categories since 2024). With 2027 coming up, what is each provider’s edge in the Europe’s market – and how is it transforming?

Standards – their interaction with regulation, supervision, and why they matter

Synergies and frictions at the dawn of new market infrastructures

The state of CBDCs and other digital payments in the regulated world

ALWAYS ON: Implications in funding

CORPORATE ACTIONS: Mapping the road to golden operational records

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

T+0 models – the benefits, drawbacks and implementation challenges

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

The new with the old: beat the odds and make AI work for you

Out of every 100 artificial intelligence initiatives, 95 fail already at the proof-of-concept stage, then four of the last five will die as projects. So what will take you to the lucky one-in-a-hundred that see success? Or should you even bother?

Today’s state of trading and issuance with digital assets

Where do we stand with adoption of digital assets in the trading and issuance areas? Let’s look at what asset classes we are seeing being tokenized – and how our post-trade processes are impacted.

Fees, fees, fees. User-side voices on costs and competition in securities services and systems

Users of post-trade services and systems weigh a lot of factors as they seek to shave the next basis point from their operational costs. Hear how they are thinking and acting.

PLATFORMS: Flavours of platforms

Activity is going on to centre investors’ and other market participants’ securities operations on platforms – but what are these? A metaphor might be our phone app stores, yet a more nuanced look will reveal a range of strategies.

Tackling our proxy processing nightmares

The challenges and opportunities for digital identity and onboarding

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International Securities Services Association (ISSA)

The CSDs’ and CSD participants’ readiness for T+1

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

The US treasury clearing mandate – and how European market participants should deal with it

T+1 COUNTDOWN: What’s still to do – and what are the risks?

ALWAYS ON: Implications at the clearinghouse and its clients

Digital assets: what have we got, what could we still have and what's in the way of progress?

PLATFORMS: Setting up our mix of platformed services – the asset manager viewpoint

Consultation time: just how should FMIs manage their clouds and other third-party risks?

Did we just solve SFT processing? What’s in it and what’s next on Swift’s new standard

Agent lenders rejoice. A recent standardisation effort could look like a technicality but has been greeted with high hopes. So what is it all about?

The evolution of shareholder rights legislation

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European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA)

The human element

Paradoxically, with everything getting more technical and automated, the impact of humans just appears to grow. Let’s look closer at who we are and what makes us excel.

ALWAYS ON: Implications at the CSD and its clients

SSIs – what else is left to do, and what are the next steps?