In this City Chronicles interview Alan Burr, a well-known figure in the City today, discusses his career and industry milestones, with Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs, ISITC Europe. Alan arrived in the City in the sixties. Just as the use of computers started to expand in businesses. The discussion includes what the early […]

All about George A Littlejohn story for everyone today! The City of London is made up of many different people drawn from across the UK and the World they come from all backgrounds and all with a unique personal history. When they begin their careers, they are like you, me, the many! As they develop […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the video below Trip Chong, Director of Global Class Actions at Broadridge talks to Gary Wright, Director, ISITC Europe about the imminent threat of ESG Class Actions. He asks her to elaborate on why board members should be concerned with greenwashing and why is this becoming an issue? To explore this and other ESG […]

An ESG Forum Event Roundtable Discussion: The imminent threat of ESG class actions roundtable discussion Date: Wednesday 10th May 2023 Time: 12:45 – 13:15 Lunch  – 13.15: Welcome/Opening Address – 13:20: Presentation by Trip Chong followed by roundtable discussion – 14:45 – 15:00 Close Location: The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, 20 Fenchurch street, London, […]

An ISITC EUROPE/CISI joint Live Webcast – Is Green Finance really Clean Finance or are there still brown undertones? Tuesday 1st December- 11.30pm -12:30 (GMT) Green Finance is rapidly becoming a mainstream component of investment activity at every level, with Green Bonds and loans forming a significant presence in Investors’ portfolios. But is Green Finance really Clean Finance […]

An ISITC EUROPE/CISI joint Live Webcast – Getting Ready for the upcoming ESG regulations – managing the data challenges Tuesday 22nd September – 12.30pm -13:30 (UK BST) Financial market participants will need to understand and be getting ready for the upcoming ESG regulations to be able to comply with an increasing range and depth regulation […]

An ISITC EUROPE/CISI joint Live Webcast – Solving the Problem of Reference Data Wednesday 11th November – 14.00pm -15:00 (GMT) The problem of reference data, in terms of  “dirty data”, has been estimated to cost the industry between 15% -25% of  its revenue, but improving the quality has posed significant challenges for the industry for […]

Live Webcast – Cybersecurity: Is your home the new office? Wednesday 9th September  – 14:00 -15:00 (UK BST) Cybersecurity: Is your home the new office? “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 […]

Tuesday 14th July, 3.00pm – 4.00pm  An ISITC EUROPE / CISI professional learning and discussion webinar About The ability of cyber threats to compromise information systems is an ongoing danger to all organisations, however  an emerging threat presents a new challenge, cyber-attacks that may cause physical harm to systems with the potential to kill the […]