Post Roundtable Report: Digital Transformation & The New Market Landscape Digital Transformation & The New Market Landscape: Roundtable Report Insights Discover the future of capital markets in this post event dynamic report from the ISITC Europe and Scottish Investment Operations (SIO) roundtable held in Edinburgh, hosted by Franklin Templeton and sponsored by TORI Global. This […]

Post Roundtable Report: Capital Markets Transition & Innovation Challenges – Beyond T+1!   We’re excited to share the latest insights from the ISITC Europe and the SIO roundtable held in Edinburgh, hosted by Franklin Templeton and supported by industry leaders across post-trade, buy and sell side, custodians, compliance, and technology. This collaborative session, sponsored by […]

ISITC TalkTime Podcast: The Future of Corporate Actions – Insights from SWIFT Introduction In this latest TalkTime Podcast entitled ‘The Future of Corporate Actions’ Gary Wright, Director of ISITC Europe welcomes Kelli West, Global Head of Securities and FX Strategy at SWIFT, to discuss the evolving landscape of corporate actions and SWIFT’s strategic role in […]

TalkTime Podcast: The Untapped Potential of Tax Reclaims Did you know that an estimated $16 billion in withholding tax on foreign dividends goes unclaimed every year? Most investors are missing out on money that’s rightfully theirs—simply because the process to reclaim it is complex, time-consuming, and often misunderstood. In our latest ISITC Europe Talk Time podcast, […]

AN ISITC Europe & SIO Interactive Event On: Wednesday 26th November 2025 Venue: 5 Morrison St, Edinburgh EH3 8BH – Hosted by: Franklin Templeton   Event Sponsored    by About the Event ISITC Europe and SIO invite you to a half-day of interactive leadership roundtables in Edinburgh entitled, Beyond T1: From Settlement Acceleration to Systemic […]

  From T+1 to T+0 – Digital Settlement, Atomic Processing, and the Future of Post Trade Executive Summary The second ISITC Europe roundtable hosted by Tori Global on the Future of Post Trade explored the transition from  T+1 to T+0 settlement, highlighting the critical role of digital infrastructure, atomic settlement, and cross-sector collaboration. As the […]

Compliance, Controls and Data: Are We Ready for T+1? I had the privilege of attending an excellent ISTIC Europe Market Roundtable hosted by TORI Global, bringing together compliance, operations, and strategy leaders from across the financial services industry. With the T+1 settlement deadline rapidly approaching, the session was both timely and thought-provoking. Market Context and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce has published the draft recommendations and consultation report. The report is 75 pages long and contains 43 principal recommendations plus 14 additional recommendations. These recommendations have been crafted in 8 months of hard work by 450+ of our peers from more than 110 different firms operating in the UK […]

An ISITC Europe T+1 Forum Event In association with the CISI, PIMFA, IA and Fintech NI. Kindly hosted by Ulster Business School’s Centre for Financial and Regulatory Technology The Preparedness and Implications of T+1 Settlement and Digitalization of the Capital Markets Date: Tuesday, 17 September 2024 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Ulster Business School Centre […]

An ISITC Europe T+1 Forum Event In Association with the SIO, CISI, PIMFA, and the IA Navigating the Journey to T+1 and Digitalization of the Capital Markets Date: Wednesday, 18 September 2024 Time: 09:00 – 17:00 (Drinks from 17:00) Location: The Royal Scots Club, 29 – 31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6QE Overview This one […]

A T+1 Forum Event hosted by EY  UK Accelerated Settlement – The path forward Post Event Summary An ISITC Europe  T+1 Forum event was hosted by EY on the 16th of May, to discuss the transition to accelerated settlement in the UK. It focused on the UK move to T+1, looking at FMI readiness and unique challenges faced […]

An ISITC Europe T+1 Forum Event hosted by EY In Association with the CISI, PIMFA, and the IA UK Accelerated Settlement – The Path Forward Date: Thursday, 16 May 2024 Time: 16:00 – 17:30 Registration from 15:30 for a prompt start at 16:00. Drinks from 17:30 Location: Ernst & Young LLP (EY), 25 Churchill Place, […]

The advent of T+1 – and what it means for the global investment industry – Roundtable discussion Thursday 25th April 2024 Location: CISI, 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 8AF Time: 15:00 for 15:30 – 17:30 followed by refreshments Supporting partner trade organisations: CISI, ISITC Europe, IA, PIMFA and the SIO For the past nine months, […]

No Change To CLS Settlement Timeline For T+1 T+1 arrives in North America on May 27th and 28th this year. The UK Technical taskforce is working towards implementation of  T+1 in the UK by the end of 2027. The EU markets have yet to set a date, but it is anticipated they will also move […]

  Today, saw the publication of the long-awaited UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce report written by Charlie Geffen. ISITC Europe supports the report and its conclusions, which recommends that the UK implement T+1 settlement by 2027 We also support the wish to collaborate with the EU to where possible, to coordinate the T+1 implementation date and […]

The race to T+1: Your guide to getting ready In this recording ‘The race to T+1: Your guide to getting ready’ from a LinkedIn broadcast, moderated by Simon Daniel from Swift, T+1 implications and assessment are discussed with Alex Chow from the Investment Association and Gary Wright, Director Industry Affairs of ISITC Europe. The conversation […]

A T+1 Forum Event hosted by EY Post event review on T+1 Settlement – a race against time The North American move to trade date plus one (T+1) settlement on May 28, 2024, will have the greatest impact on global capital markets in over a decade. The effects of this change will reverberate in different […]

A T+1 Forum Event hosted by EY T+1 Settlement – a race against time in more than one sense Date: Wednesday 19th July 2023 Time: 16:00 – 17:30 Location: Ernst & Young LLP, 25 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5EY ISITC Europe CIC would like to thank the T+1 Forum secretariat Ernst and Young […]

This academic paper is written from research commissioned by the SWIFT Institute discusses the progress made towards T+1 and instantaneous settlement in financial markets, and industry preparedness for such a change. It covers the various equity settlement technologies and analyses how collateral, stock lending and margin requirements can impact the settlement processes. The debate on […]

Thinking about T+1 – Is a crisis always obvious? How do you define a crisis? It may sound like a dumb question – surely, it’s obvious! If your house is on fire – certainly. But is it always obvious? The reason I raise this issue is the efficiency of post-trade operations in buyside firms. For […]

The move to T+1 measuring the impact on Market Resilience An Industry Research Consultation kindly hosted by the SIO Date: 22nd February 2023 Time: 3.30 – 5.45 Location: Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St Mary’s St, Edinburgh EH1 1SU, UK ISITC Europe has been commissioned by the SWIFT Institute to conduct academic research into […]

New SWIFT report: Solving the post-trade transparency challenge From packages to pizzas, today we can track the status of almost anything we order. But currently there’s no way of tracking a securities transaction across the various intermediaries in a trade. As a result, securities players face significant costs and risks associated with failed trades that […]

  As you may have seen, in the US the SEC has recently voted to propose rule changes including moving to a T+1 settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions in securities. The SEC says: “The proposed changes are designed to reduce the credit, market, and liquidity risks in securities transactions faced by market participants and […]

Webinar: Transformational Challenges for Post-trade in 2022 24th March 2022 @ 16:00 GMT As 2022 gets underway, we discuss some of the key strategic considerations and transformational challenges that the post-trade community will need to address. If 2021 saw ongoing focus in digitalisation as a response to the pandemic, 2022 will see momentum continuing as […]

Post-trade Alpha Discussion Document The recovery from the initial phases of the pandemic dominated management agendas in 2021, as the industry adjusted to what has been widely described as the ‘new-normal’. The adoption of remote and hybrid working practices created momentum around digitalisation agendas, which whilst focussing on new ways of working (rather than transforming […]

The diversification of institutional investments into a broader range of asset types over the last couple of decades has been significant and transformative. Buy-side firms have expanded their investment focuses from the more traditional end of the investment spectrum to all kinds of alternatives, including real assets such as commodities, real estate and even crypto […]

ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Post-Trade Efficiency and Transformation ISITC Europe talks to Bob Santangelo from Broadridge about the need for post-trade efficiency and transformation. The discussion centres around the impact that the global pandemic has had on the need for banks and brokers to transform their processes to achieve greater post trade efficiency. Which has been exacerbated […]

We need to talk post-trade : The problem with the status quo Even before the spring 2020 volatility, the need to invest in post-trade infrastructure across the sell-side was becoming widely accepted. Investment in the back-office has lagged that of the front-office for decades. In some institutions, front-office systems capable of executing thousands of trades a […]