All information in these reports has been checked to the best of the author’s and publisher’s ability, the facts in these report are believed to be correct at the time of publication, but cannot be guaranteed.

Please note that the findings, conclusions and recommendations that each report delivers will be based on information gathered in good faith from both primary and secondary sources, whose accuracy ISITC Europe and the Authors are not always in a position to guarantee.

In addition where information is noted in this report as being supplied by a third party this information has not been verified by ISITC Europe and does not reflect the views or opinions of ISITC Europe. As such ISITC Europe can accept no liability whatever for actions taken based on any information that may subsequently prove to be incorrect and do not accept any liability for loss arising from decisions based on them.

Where opinion is expressed, it is that of the authors and editors.

Home » Archive by Category "Reports"

Roundtable Report: Moving from T+1 to T+0 to Tokenized Assets

Post Roundtable Report: Moving from T+1 to T+0 to Tokenized Assets ISITC Europe recently held a roundtable discussion looking at ‘Moving from T0 to Tokenized Assets’ run under the Chatham House Rule, which was attended by a senior managers and experts from a cross-section of capital market firms. ISITC Europe Director of Industry Affairs, Gary […]

Roundtable Report: Real-time Compliance for Real-time Processing

Post Roundtable Report: Real-time Compliance for Real-time Processing ISITC Europe CIC produced a roundtable entitled ‘Real-time Compliance for Real-time Processing’, for invited compliance officers and relevant supporting operational functions, which was hosted by Tori Global. The resulting roundtable report written by Tori Global Senior Consultant, Ian Perham has been created from notes taken during the […]

Accelerated Settlement – Global Trend, Local Challenges

T+1 in North America arrives on the 27th May in Canada then the 28th May in the USA. For international capital markets and investors world-wide the impacts are extensive and go far beyond simply working faster, or adapting existing practices. Earlier this year ISITC Europe published its industry preparedness for accelerated settlement academic report commissioned […]

The Ten Pillars Of Digitalization

The T+1 debate at SIBOS in Toronto this year will examine the challenges of shortening the settlement cycle and gage preparedness of the global Capital Markets and Investors for the North American move to T+1 in May 2024. One of the key benefits of T+1, will be to compel players in the market, to introduce […]

Industry Preparedness for Accelerated Settlement Report

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 […]

Solving the post-trade transparency challenge

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 […]

Post-trade Alpha Discussion Paper

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 […]

Post Trade Forum June 2021 Discussion Outcome

The inaugural meeting of the ISITC Europe post trade forum (PTF) was held on the 16th of June 2021, with the newly appointed co-chairs initiating a discussion with members/representatives of the advisory board and invited guest attendees. This represented a good cross-section of the capital markets industry, with attendees from wealth managers, custodians, investment banks […]

Death by Cyber Attack

The ability of cyber threats to compromise information systems is an ongoing danger to all organisations, an emerging threat presents a new challenge, cyber-attacks that may cause harm to systems with the potential to kill the business. Financial services are amongst the most attractive targets for cyber attackers as industry reports rank FS as the […]

The Future of Work: Reimagining business as usual

Even before the COVID-19 crisis hit, major shifts were under way in how businesses and their employees work. This report on ‘the Future of Work’ from Verizon investigates to what degree companies have been preparing themselves for the future, and how their efforts have been affected by the crisis. More than 1,700 senior executives in […]