Independent Accreditation for EU AI Act Compliance Offered   LONDON,  15 October 2025 – ISITC Europe CIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AI compliance platform genbounty.com to provide independent AI audits for firms. This service will help create AI policies ensuring compliance and governance. Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs and one […]

ISITC EUROPE CIC/CISI – Live Webcasts Cybersecurity: Is your home the new office?  9th September  – 14:00 -15:00 ‘Working From Home’ exposes the security landscape of your organisation: In this session, we will talk about how COVID-19 has proven to be a huge opportunity for cyber criminals. Join us to learn about the cyber threats […]

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact society, in particular causing major disruption in our children’s education, parents are having to step up and take over up the role of teacher whilst we are in isolation. ISITC EUROPE CIC is pleased to announce that it is now able to offer a discounted online learning package* […]

As we approach our 30th anniversary we are pleased to announce that ISITC EUROPE is now a fully regulated ‘not for profit’ Community Interest Company, remaining one of the City’s longest community associations.  This change was led by KYC/Onboarding and the ongoing focus on Financial Crime by the regulators and to ensure that we continue […]

The City Business Club and ISITC held an event on the evening of Tuesday 16th July, sponsored by Metro Bank, to discuss the recent survey and landscape report on the impact of application resilience and its management. Speakers included representatives from the City Business Club, ISITC, Cloudsoft and Expert Witness. What became obvious after analysing the […]

Following the successful launch of the of the ISITC Europe Masterclass series earlier this year, we’re delighted to share the summary and conclusion report from this exciting and insightful Masterclass session. ISITC Europe Innovation Forum Report Oct 2018 –

ISITC Europe are pleased to announce the release of the ISITC Europe 2018 AGM & Conference videos. The event was held on Thursday 25th January at the London Hilton Tower Bridge with a theme of Birth of a New Industry Model. With almost 200 attendees and an excellent agenda the day was a great success with some brilliant […]

We are pleased to be able to share with you the videos from the recent ISITC Europe General Meeting held at Citi which began with a keynote from Steve Scemama, Partner Head of Capital Markets Technology at Oliver Wyman on “Cost transformation leveraging Digital Architecture, Sourcing and Evolving Operating Models”. This was followed by panel […]

We are pleased to be able to share with you the videos from the recent ISITC Europe General Meeting held in May which covered Robotics, AI, MiFID 2 II T2S and introductions to our Marketing and Academia forums: The videos can be accessed or viewed below: Session 1: Robots, Regulation and T2S – Can they […]

Financial Instrument Identification is becoming a greater challenge for the industry as regulatory reporting and risk management demands increase. Standards that work to address this issue are becoming more important. One new tool that is now available, on an open basis, is the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), which was formerly a proprietary identifier of […]

As you know ISITC Europe has signed a MoU with OASIS Open in North America to work on developing DLT standards. We are also working with the British Standards Institute (BSI), currently serving on two of the sub-committees for Identity and Interoperability. We are calling for volunteers to serve on the ISITC Europe DLT Standards […]

As we all put the winter attire in storage for the Spring and Summer months, I would welcome an opportunity to provide some exciting updates to ISITC Europe as well as invite you to our next General Meeting on the 25th May at Standard Chartered Bank in the City of London. AGM I would firstly […]

ISITC Europe has recognised the tremendous interest in the financial markets for Blockchain DLT and has noted the growing number of groups and committees springing up to try and understand impacts, or to examine potential solutions. This is normal in financial markets when innovation is in full swing and where there is a need for […]

The announcements from eight insurers (one retail, several wholesale and reinsurers) using Z/YEN’s ChainZy mutual distributed ledger technology in earnest, and their large clinical trial clients, has heightened attention on building MDLs quickly and privately using proven technology and not depending on Bitcoin, Ethereum or Ripple payment systems.  Z/YEN are already doing over 50,000 clinical data trial […]

ISITC Europe has signed a MoU with OASIS Open based in North America but with offices worldwide . They specialise in creating open standards and lobbying for standards to ISO amongst others. The ISITC Europe Blockchain DLT Working Group has now merged with the OASIS Open Blockchain Technical Committee under a BlockBenchIT-draft-charter. The Charter is deliberately broad […]

Following the resignation of Dr Hermann Rapp for personal reasons, we have an open position on the ISITC Europe Leadership Group (IELG) for the Head of the ISITC Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) for immediate fulfilment. The IEAF is the most recent addition to the working groups for ISITC Europe and is reflects the leadership ISITC […]

ESMA Report – The Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets This report from ESMA is important reading for people interested in the DLT explosion of interest in financial markets. It’s an encapsulation of views taken from financial services firms trade associations and financial market experts that ISITC Europe contributed to last year. The ISITC Europe […]

Gary Wright, ISITC Europe’s Blockchain DLT leader has been invited to participate at ITU’s workshop on the 21st March in Geneva. He will be remotely participating in “Future directions on blockchain standardization activity” which will highlight diverse aspects and standardization efforts on blockchain in international standards bodies, identify potential items that ITU-T SG17 needs to analyse/review and […]

London, 28th July 2016 As we all head off for well-earned rest and relaxation breaks with family and loved ones, I wanted to provide an update to you of activities, plans and events to book into your calendars when you return. I also wanted to provide you all with an opportunity to contact me should […]

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 […]

Last autumn, 22 clearing houses in the EU filed documents to get the chance to keep fighting for a piece of the pie that clearing houses will compete for under EMIR. This month, a handful of approvals have come through and more are expected in the coming weeks. But what will the new clearing regime […]

London, 13th November, 2012 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, today announced an exciting agenda ahead of its annual AGM. The event is set to provide new and more established members with the latest insight on regulation and innovation, and keynotes include David Bannister, […]

London, 8th November, 2012 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today unveiled two of the keynote speakers at its annual conference. Declan Curry, the well-known financial journalist and broadcaster, has been covering business for 15 years and will close the conference with a light-heartened […]

ISITC Europe Aims To Strengthen Position With A Focus On Increasing Member Numbers. ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today announced it is launching a campaign to increase membership in the run up to its annual conference. ISITC Europe speaks for the whole industry, including […]

London, 9th October, 2012 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, today announced the content of its annual conference and AGM, which will be held for the second year running at RBS’s London office, Bishopsgate, on the 15th November. The event will host interactive panel […]

London, 24th April, 2012 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, is looking to promote closer collaboration with other key associations and trade bodies across Europe, North America and worldwide. With risk and cost reduction topping the agenda for many financial services organisations, leading professionals […]

London, 7th March, 2012 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, today announced the content of its quarterly conference. The event will be held on Thursday 15th March at Northern Trust’s Canary Wharf office and is set to provide both new and more established members […]

The sheer volume of anticipated regulatory developments in the financial sector over the next five years is daunting, not least because of the potential for regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to arrive at different solutions for dealing with the same problems. Dr. Anthony W. Kirby of Ernst & Young compares and contrasts the […]

London, 16th November, 2011 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today unveiled the specifics that its keynote speakers are set to touch on at its annual conference. The event will be held on Friday November 18th at The Royal Bank of Scotland’s head office […]

London, 24th October, 2011 – ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today announced that it is set to undertake a wide ranging industry survey. The survey, which is being undertaken by ISITC partner, City IQ, will poll the organization’s membership and the wider market. It […]

Thursday 17 November 2011 – by Martin Sexton Protesters outside exchanges have the belief that institutions use black magic in the form of derivative products to attempt to boost profits, says Martin Sexton, Europe standards representative of the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication. From an industry standards perspective the classification of financial products […]