Technology

Shorter settlement cycles, tighter operational deadlines and increasingly connected market infrastructure are changing how asset servicing functions across European capital markets. The move toward T+1 settlement is particularly significant because it compresses the time available for allocations, confirmations, corporate-action...

LSEG and Snowflake have announced an expanded five-year enterprise-wide collaboration aimed at making trusted financial data easier for customers to access, share and use within cloud-based data and AI environments. The agreement brings together LSEG’s financial market infrastructure and...

Traditional market infrastructure is increasingly being adapted to accommodate digital securities as financial institutions move DLT-based issuance and settlement beyond isolated experiments. The development is significant because digital assets still depend on established market functions, including issuance, custody, settlement,...

Market transparency is increasingly dependent on how quickly and consistently financial information can be collected, consolidated and distributed across fragmented trading venues. The development is significant because market participants often need to combine data from multiple sources before building...

Financial reporting frameworks are being redesigned as regulators and market participants look to reduce duplicated submissions and make reported information more reusable. The shift is significant because fragmented reporting can require the same transaction details to move through multiple...

Digital securities are moving beyond issuance and settlement experiments as financial institutions explore their use in collateral and financing workflows. The development is significant because collateral markets depend on the rapid movement, valuation and reuse of assets across multiple...

Corporate actions are becoming more closely tied to the operational changes created by shorter securities settlement cycles. As markets move toward T+1, the time available to coordinate dividends, reorganisations, entitlement processing and investor elections is becoming more compressed. The...