Gary Wright, Director of ISITC Europe looks at some of the investment operations key issues of 2025, with the help of Alan Burr, Chair of the CISI’s Operations Forum Committee, and Richard Leigh, Program Director of Scottish Investment Operations (SIO), plus George Littlejohn, Senior Advisor at the CISI and producer of this podcast. This is […]

TalkTime Podcast: Equity Indices In this TalkTime Podcast, ISTIC Europe’s Research Director, Dr. Tony Gandy, converses with Professor Daniel Broby on the subject of Equity Indices. The Equity Index is a complex area for market professionals, and yet it underpins the investment decisions made by enormous numbers of retail investors as they increasingly choose passive […]

TalkTime Podcast: The Impact of Crypto on Economic Recovery (The Convergence of Traditional Markets with Digital Assets) In this TalkTime Podcast Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs at ISITC Europe discusses with GMX Founder, Hirander Misra the ongoing development of digital assets and the convergence with traditional financial markets. Although, this was recorded a few […]

TalkTime Podcast: T+1 Implementation – Budget Considerations ISITC Europe in conjunction with the CISI, PIMFA, IA, SIO and ISLA, is creating a series of Podcasts to examine the  Task Force recommendations for T+1 implementation in the UK. The Podcasts focus on T+1 and the related impacts on Financial Services firms both domestically and internationally. In […]

TalkTime Podcast: T+1 Report – Is it fit for purpose? In February 2025, the UK T+1 Task Force published its final report and recommendations for the implementation of T+1 in the UK. This podcast is part of a series discussing all things related to the move to T+1 settlement by the capital markets globally. In […]

Final Implementation Plan Published by the UK Accelerated Settlement Task Force. The final implementation plan published by the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce is now available. This is the culmination of two years of detailed analysis, debate and design by 450+ subject matter expert volunteers from 116 Market Participant firms across the industry, working in five […]

Stock Lending Workstream In this third Podcast one of the industry’s leading experts on Stock Lending and Borrowing, Roy Zimmerhansl discusses the work he has taken part in as lead in the UK Technical T+1 Taskforce stock lending workstream. The activity of efficient stock borrowing and lending is vital to maintain liquidity in capital markets. […]

Taskforce Regulatory Workstream In this second podcast of the series you will hear co-chairs of the UK T+1 taskforce regulatory workstream John Siena,  Associate General Counsel, Co-Head – Regulatory Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman and Ashley Rowlands, Senior Associate (Knowledge), Linklaters discuss the work undertaken by their workstream. They cover the objectives and conclusions that […]

T+1 Challenges and Opportunities ISITC Europe and the CISI is producing a series of short podcasts with collaboration from members of the UK T+1 technical taskforce. The purpose being to breakdown into specific business segments, operations, systems and rules the effect of the move to T+1. T, which will affect most of the worlds securities […]

T+1 Taskforce Consultation Live webchat Date: 11th October 2024 Time: 12:00 BST Medium: Zoom The Accelerated Settlement Technical Taskforce has just published it’s interim report of industry recommendations to enable the UK to move to T+1. A huge task, conducted in exemplary fashion – so a big shout out to Andrew Douglas and colleagues. We have been […]