Why Every Business Leader Should Read “Who Needs AI Product Safety?” Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword or a futuristic concept, it’s a reality shaping our daily lives, our markets, and our legal systems. But with great power comes great responsibility. The new white paper, “Who Needs AI Product Safety?” by ISITC Europe […]

TalkTime Podcast: AI Regulatory Accreditation GenBounty and ISITC Europe are teaming up to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing financial markets today: how to harness the power of AI—without losing control of it. In this insightful conversation, ISITC Europe Director Gary Wright sits down with Bob Morel of GenBounty to discuss the AI Regulatory Accreditation […]

TalkTime Podcast: How Data and AI are Transforming Finance Part 1 Step into the fast-moving world of financial technology with Dr. Anthony Gandy and Dr. Tatja Karkkainen—a celebrated fintech entrepreneur and academic, recognized on the Women in FinTech Power List. This two part podcast entitled ‘How Data and AI are Transforming Finance’, follows on from […]

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, […]

  Mike Jones, founding partner of Share Witness, will be known to many in the City having spent virtually his whole career and being heavily involved in City life. In this City Chronicles interview Mike discusses with ISITC Europe Director, Gary Wright, his early years in the City, leading up to Big Bang and the […]

TalkTime Podcast: Blockchain and New Capital Market Infrastructure   In this latest ISITC TalkTime podcast ‘Blockchain and New Capital Market Infrastructure’, Gary Wright talks to Pinar Emirdag, a leading figure in blockchain and financial market innovation. Pinar shares her current work: building ventures in asset management and blockchain, specifically with 7Ridge and the Canton Network, […]

  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 […]

TalkTime Podcast: AI, Bots and Brains: The Future of Intelligent Automation and Generative AI   In this latest episode of the ISITC Europe TalkTime series of podcasts entitled AI, Bots and Brains: The Future of Intelligent Automation and Generative AI. Richard Leigh, Director of SIO, and ISITC Europe is joined by Sean McGarvey, Head of […]

TalkTime Podcast: Why it’s important to Utilize DORA In this Podcast ISITC Europe Director of Training Alan Burr discusses with Robin Inchbold, Senior Consultant at Protiviti, the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) They talk about why it’s important to utilize DORA. What DORA is intended to achieve. Who it impacts and why all types of […]

TalkTime Podcast: Building A Compliance Strategy – Key Themes This is the latest of our regular Podcasts with Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs at ISITC Europe and Tori Global, Senior consultant, Ian Perham where they discuss building a Compliance Strategy – Key themes.  These came out of the points raised from the last ISITC […]

Michael Newman Michael Newman has been a good friend of Gary Wright, Director of ISITC Europe, since the early 2000s. When they worked together at the Trace Financial subsidiary, ‘Trace Datawise’. In those days they were selling software to convert financial messages into ISO15022. They didn’t sell much, but boy did they have a good […]

TalkTime Podcast: Strategic Planning for Move to Tokenization   In this ISITC Europe TALKTIME Podcast Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs, discusses with Ian Perham, Senior Consultant at Tori Global, the various changes that are challenging firms in the Capital Markets and looks at strategic planning for the move to tokenization. Their chat ranges from […]

TalkTime Podcast: The Future of Compliance   In this TalkTime Podcast Gary Wright, Director of ISITC Europe discusses with Ian Perham, senior consultant at Tori Global, the future of compliance and the challenges faced by firms’ compliance officers and strategists, as the industry moves to real-time processing. Ian raises a number of important questions that […]

TalkTime Podcast: A Journey from ISO20022 to Digital Assets Andrew Muir is a renowned industry expert on ISO20022 having spent a number of years at Swift working on this standard. Andrew is able to provide a detailed understanding of ISO20022 and use his knowledge and expertise to articulate its considerable value in transforming complicated back-office […]

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 […]

TalkTime Podcast: Standard Settlement Instructions for T+1   In this T+1 Podcast industry post-trade settlement expert Bill Meenaghan, CEO and founder of SSimple, discusses with ISITC Europe, Director, Gary Wright, the need for a wide-scale upgrade across the capital markets of Standard Settlement Instructions (SSI’s) management. The discussion included recommendations given in the recently published […]

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 […]

TalkTime Podcast: Equity Indices In this TalkTime Podcast, ISTIC Europe’s Research Director, Dr. Tony Gandy, converses with Professor Daniel Broby on the subject of Equity Indices. The Equity Index is a complex area for market professionals, and yet it underpins the investment decisions made by enormous numbers of retail investors as they increasingly choose passive […]

TalkTime Podcast: The Impact of Crypto on Economic Recovery (The Convergence of Traditional Markets with Digital Assets) In this TalkTime Podcast Gary Wright, Director of Industry Affairs at ISITC Europe discusses with GMX Founder, Hirander Misra the ongoing development of digital assets and the convergence with traditional financial markets. Although, this was recorded a few […]

TalkTime Podcast: T+1 Implementation – Budget Considerations ISITC Europe in conjunction with the CISI, PIMFA, IA, SIO and ISLA, is creating a series of Podcasts to examine the  Task Force recommendations for T+1 implementation in the UK. The Podcasts focus on T+1 and the related impacts on Financial Services firms both domestically and internationally. In […]

TalkTime Podcast: T+1 Report – Is it fit for purpose? In February 2025, the UK T+1 Task Force published its final report and recommendations for the implementation of T+1 in the UK. This podcast is part of a series discussing all things related to the move to T+1 settlement by the capital markets globally. In […]

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 […]

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 […]

Matt Johnson in conversation with Reece Jackson, ISITC Europe Student Society Interviewer talks about his career in financial services. His current role and a few words of advise for anyone considering a career within the financial markets.     Matthew Johnson Matt Johnson currently works for the DTCC within the European Product Management Team with […]

ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Getting to grips with resilience in the Cloud ISITC Europe talks to Alasdair Hodge, Chief Architect at Cloudsoft about getting to grips resilience in the Cloud. This Podcast is a source of important information, for senior professionals, within Capital Markets firms. Enabling them to understand, some of the benefits and uses of […]

Herbie Skeete has been a leading figure in ‘the City’ since the late seventies.  Embarking on a hugely successful career, spanning the development and introduction of new technologies, which were the forerunner of what we recognise today. Herbie gives his personal recollections and views, through this dynamic period of development and change in the City, […]

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 […]

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 […]

There is no doubt that the creation of Blockchain/DLT and relevant technologies has brought forth many multiple levels of opportunity for future innovations in the financial markets. Based on its consensus-based and trustless nature, we have seen the seen the evolvement of first generation Bitcoin and its underlying payment system via an elegant DLT structure […]

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 […]