Accelerated Settlement Cycles in Europe: An Overview

Regulatory compliance and new demands on post-trade operations have long pointed to the benefits of streamlining processes in the middle and back office. This year, new market initiatives and developments (T+1 and growth in digital assets) are adding to…

The rise of digital assets and shrinking of post-trade settlement times are both driving financial institutions to automate their middle-office operations for much needed flexibility and efficiency. In a DerivSource commentary, Brian Collings, CEO of …

Electronic market makers are growing in influence and reshaping markets, but their post-trade challenges are being overlooked, writes Brian Collings, CEO of Torstone Technology, who highlights that their colossal and wide-ranging operations need partners…

Mack Gill, chief operating officer of Torstone Technology, stresses the importance of automation ahead of the roll-out of T+1 in the US and Canada.

The pain points of adapting to a T+1 settlement cycle are now clearer, and market participants will need to collaborate to adapt to the changes, saysDavid Pearsonat Torstone Technology.

APIs and low-code/no-code enabled systems can help banks to leapfrog into real-time post-trade processing.

Speed, certainty and savings will all be better realised if middle- and back-offices are set up to support digital assets.

The settlement cycle evolution will demand a more flexible, modern middle office.

Real-time, event-driven processing technology has underpinned the front-office for many years, indeed decades, but many other parts of capital markets including risk management, continues to rely on batch-driven processing.