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D7 is an invisible bridge between digital assets and traditional securities markets
There is now widespread acceptance that digital assets are going to co-exist alongside traditional assets for a long time. That implies that issuers and investors will need a market infrastructure that renders issuers indifferent as to whether a source of liquidity is digital or traditional and investors indifferent as to whether an exposure is available…
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Is it safe for CSDs to go back to sleep on tokenisation?
A Future of Finance webinar on March 2nd at 2pm UK time with Asian CSDs What is the event about? Future of Finance is hosting an invitation-only event to explore whether central securities depositories (CSDs) in the Asia Pacific region need to invest now or invest later or not invest at all in the tokenisation…
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Do you believe CSDs need to invest in tokenisation capabilities now? (17th October 2022)
What is the event about? Future of Finance is pleased to announce an invitation-only event to debate whether central securities depositories (CSDs) need to invest now or later to take account of the possibility that the securities markets they serve will be tokenised. The Motion to be debated is, “This House believes that CSDs need…
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Is tokenisation of securities markets the nemesis or the apotheosis of the CSD? (16 May 2022)
A Future of Finance Webinar in conjunction with The Africa and Middle East Depositories Association (AMEDA) and sponsors Percival Software, a leading provider of CSD systems, to explore the counter-intuitive idea that security tokens could transform central securities depositories (CSDs) into the principal agents of the transformation of the securities markets. It is easy to…
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Bitt CIO explains why Nigeria introduced a CBDC and how it is working
Bitt CIO explains why Nigeria introduced a CBDC and how it is working Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) can seem like nuclear fusion: a proven technology delayed by engineering problems. It is an analogy that Simon Chantry will enjoy since he began his career as a nuclear engineer before co-founding the blockchain-based digital currency technology…
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The future of post-trade financial market infrastructures is visible now
[FEB 2022] The future of post-trade financial market infrastructures is visible now Post-trade was an early target of the blockchain revolution. Yet progress has proved to be arduous, with legacy technologies, regulatory uncertainty and the protectionism of incumbents making it hard for even successful proofs of concept and pilots to grow into scalable innovations. Signs…
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The difficult art of planning for the future at a CSD
The difficult art of planning for the future at a CSD Central securities depositories (CSDs) have always led an unglamorous existence. They are overshadowed by trading and investment activities, even when the post-trade revenues they generate are more reliable or more profitable or even just larger. The rise of the digital asset has not improved…
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What I learned from managing the first blockchain CSD in Europe
The transformation of the CSD industry edged closer in the summer of 2019 when Orange, an outsider to the securities industry, backed the first new CSD in Europe to go live with blockchain technology. Less than two and half years later, Orange reversed its decision. The closure of ID2S has prompted questions, not only about…
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What CSDs can do about the tokenisation of securities markets (25 November 2021)
Future of Finance Webinar with The Americas’ Central Securities Depositories Association (ACSDA) and Sponsors Percival Software, a leading provider of CSD Systems, to explore the nature of the threats and the opportunities that Tokenisation poses for CSDs. Thursday November 25 2021, 14.30 – 16.00 UK time Central securities depositories (CSDs) are a target of the…
Keep readingHow to ensure that your CSD is relevant even in a tokenised future
How to ensure that your CSD is relevant even in a tokenised future Central securities depositories (CSDs) are of more recent provenance than impatient reformers of the global financial system sometimes assume. Though they did exist before the great paper-driven securities settlement crunch of the late 1980s – notably in the United States, which chose…
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What custodians and CSDs are really doing about blockchain
The custodian banks and central securities depositories (CSDs) that make up the global securities services industry are understandably intrigued by institutional investment in crypto-currencies, disintermediating experiments in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market and the looming possibility of exponential growth in security tokens.
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Tokenisation is asking CSDs if they have the courage to change
Even conservative observers of the financial markets believe security tokens may be about to embark on a period of exponential growth, If they do, tokenisation will threaten the ways in which CSDs currently support the securities markets.
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CSDs Are Closer to Extinction Than They Like to Think Summary
Central securities depositories (CSDs) were imposed by regulators in the 1990s to solve the securities settlement problems of the 1980s. They have succeeded admirably in that task but so far only a handful have sought to move decisively beyond it and embrace the new opportunities created by the tokenisation of financial assets on blockchain-based networks.…
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ID2S plans to transform the European money markets
Paris is not the obvious launch pad for a young and ambitious CSD that wants to help the European Central Bank (ECB) fulfil its vision of a single euro money market capable of competing with the United States.
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CSDs the new opportunities created by the tokenisation of finacial assets on blockchain-based networks (8th April 2021)
A Future of Finance webinar with CSDs, regulators, technologists, blockchain experts, exchanges Thursday April 8 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Central securities depositories (CSDs) were imposed by regulators in the 1990s to solve the securities settlement problems of the 1980s. They have succeeded admirably in that task but so far only a handful have sought…
Keep readingHow CSDs can fix the blue screen of death they see in front of them (4th December 2020)
A Future of Finance webinar on the role CSDs could play in digital asset markets 4th December 2020 at 14.00 UK Time Central securities depositories (CSDs) are in the front-line if, when and as the securities markets are transformed into digital asset markets. In theory, their core functions in issuance, settlement, registration and asset servicing can…
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