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 […]

  Post Roundtable Report: Creating a Superior Compliance Operation The latest ISITC Europe roundtable entitled ‘Creating a Superior Compliance Operation’ hosted by Tori Global continued the discussions from the previous ones in our Compliance Forum series. We invited a cross section of firms and practitioners across the various compliance disciplines within financial services firms. This […]

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 […]

 Creating A Superior Compliance Operation An ISITC Europe Roundtable Discussion  Kindly hosted by  Wednesday 17th September 2025 Venue: Room 8.01, One Canada Square, London, E14 5AA Time: 16:00  (Registration from  – 15:30) Welcome/Opening Address  followed by roundtable discussion 18:00 Close Followed by Networking drinks until 19:00 (Registration Form Below) ISITC Europe is delighted to announce […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Moving from T+1 to T+0 to Tokenized Assets Thursday 19th June 2025 An ISITC Europe Roundtable Discussion in Association with the CISI and PIMFA Kindly hosted by Venue: Room 8.02, One Canada Square, London, E14 5AA Time: 16:00  (Registration from  – 15:30) Welcome/Opening Address  followed by roundtable discussion 18:00 Close Followed by Networking drinks until […]

Real-time Compliance for Real-time Processing A Compliance Strategy for the Future Thursday 12th June 2025 An ISITC Europe Roundtable Discussion in Association with the CISI and PIMFA Kindly hosted by Venue: Room 8.01, One Canada Square, London, E14 5AA Time: 16:00  (Registration from  – 15:30) Welcome/Opening Address  followed by roundtable discussion 18:00 Close Followed by […]

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: 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 […]

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 […]

T+1 Taskforce Consultation Live webchat Date: 11th October 2024 Time: 12:00 BST Medium: Zoom The Accelerated Settlement Technical Taskforce has just published it’s interim report of industry recommendations to enable the UK to move to T+1. A huge task, conducted in exemplary fashion – so a big shout out to Andrew Douglas and colleagues. We have been […]

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 […]

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 […]

A T+1 Forum Event – The Impact on Retail Investors of T+1 Wednesday 31st January 2024 In Association with the CISI, THE INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION and PIMFA T+1 is being introduced on the 27th May in Canada and 28th May 2024 in the USA, with the UK due to follow at a date soon to be announced, […]

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 […]

Closing the gap between Issuers and Investors demands greater interaction Capital markets are continuing their journey to real-time operations. The barriers brought by legacy systems and time zone differences are crumbling and will soon be knocked down entirely. Part of the motivation to operate in real-time is the certainty of trade date plus one day […]

T+1: What I’d like to hear at SIBOS – part 2 Written by Tony Freemen   Let’s talk about FX – and its T+2 settlement cycle. The initial discussions about the benefits of a move to T+1 in the US focused, almost exclusively, on the risk and cost benefits to the clearing process. The discussion […]

T+1: What I’d like to hear at SIBOS – part 1 Written by Tony Freemen Sadly, I can’t make it to SIBOS this year. I was really looking forward to speaking at the SWIFT Academy session on T+1 settlement but medical issues mean that I’m grounded. I know that my colleagues Tony Gandy and Gary […]

A T+1 Forum Event – Treasury/FX/Prefunding Challenges Wednesday 1st November 2023 In Association with the CISI, THE INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION and PIMFA Background Information The move to T+1 settlement in North America during 2024 and the intention indicated by the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce to follow suit in the UK create many business, technology and process challenges, […]

A T+1 Forum Event – Stock Borrowing/Lending & Collateral/Liquidity Management Tuesday 14th November 2023 In Association with the CISI, THE INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION and PIMFA Background Information The move to T+1 settlement in North America during 2024 and the intention indicated by the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce to follow suit in the UK create many business, technology and process challenges, […]

A T+1 Forum Event Background Information The move to T+1 settlement in North America during 2024 and the intention indicated by the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce to follow suit in the UK create many business, technology and process challenges, which need to be fully explored. The ISITC Europe T+1 Forum series of roundtable discussions are […]

A T+1 Forum Event – Data Challenges Wednesday 29th November 2023 In Association with the CISI, THE INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION and PIMFA Background Information The move to T+1 settlement in North America during 2024 and the intention indicated by the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce to follow suit in the UK create many business, technology and process including data challenges, which […]

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 […]

  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 […]