London, 12th October 2016 The International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) Europe intends to collaborate with the OASIS international open standards consortium to advance adoption of Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) by the financial services industry. Based on DLT benchmarks developed by the ISITC Europe Blockchain Working Group, the project will secure international support […]

London, 15th December 2015 ISITC Europe Update Dear Industry Colleague, As you saw last week, the IELG and I are working hard to reshape ISITC Europe and deliver value to Members and the industry in general. The Agenda we set out last week has generated a great deal of interest from industry participants and like-minded […]

4th December 2015 ISITC Europe are delighted to announce that Nigel Solkhon has agreed to act as ISITC Chief Executive in an interim capacity following the recent departure of Graeme Austin. Nigel is a Director at Citi and Head of Execution 2 Custody product in EMEA. Nigel was a founding Member of ISITC Europe in […]

The recent Regulations working group meeting was held on the 9th June. For further details on the working group and meeting minutes please visit the working group page: http://isitc-europe.com/working-groups/isitc-europe-regulations-working-group/

Not everyone wants to copy the world’s most successful blockchain. While bitcoin’s public-facing, immutable ledger has proven resilient to attacks (and a mostly reliable way to transact peer-to-peer), businesses are still looking for something else to meet their volume and privacy requirements. Read more…

Published in Coindesk Daniel Palmer | Published on February 18, 2016 at 22:10 GMT Trade processing was historically an inefficient process that involved sending documents between firms via fax and Telex, and manual re-keying of data as it passed from one proprietary trading system to another. Then, in 1991, a group of financial industry leaders […]

London, UK, January 20th 2016 – B.I.S.S. Research, the City think tank, facilitating academic research in the financial services sector, today announced that it is collaborating with ISITC Europe to produce a series of Blockchain events for ISITC Europe members. Blockchain has captured the imagination of software developers and business leaders over the last few […]

The IELG are working hard to reshape ISITC Europe and deliver value to Members and the industry in general. The Agenda we recently sent out has generated a great deal of interest from industry participants and like-minded Industry associations. This has given us a great deal of comfort that the topics are ones which we […]

Firstly, I would like to thank the IELG for giving me the opportunity to lead ISITC Europe on an interim basis. It is an exciting challenge to help review the current state of the organisation as well as lead the important task of helping make ISITC Europe more relevant and Member driven. As way of […]

Graeme Austin has stepped down from the role of ISITC Europe Chief Executive. Graeme has decided on a complete change of career and will be leaving the industry. We wish him well in his new role and thank him for his significant contribution to ISITC over the years. It is sad to see Graeme go […]