CSDs

The Future of Finance Meetings for 2021 will bring together a variety of high-profile financial speakers. We will host a series of discussions, articles and interviews across all of our chosen themes: Data, Digital Identity, Securities, Asset Management, Law and Regulation, Payments, Money, Insurance, Pensions, Real Estate, Technology and Funding FinTechs. Follow this page for further updates.

ACSDA Webinar Presentation

Future of Finance Webinar on 25 November 2021 Both ACSDA and the Future of Finance are grateful to Percival Software for making today’s discussion possible. Finally, it destroyed the product itself: the journalism. 25 years ago I was working in an industry that was about to be disrupted by a new technology. The industry was…

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What CSDs can do about the tokenization of securities markets

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…

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How 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 FINANCIAL ASSETS ON BLOCKCHAIN-BASED NETWORKS (8th April 2021)

CSDS THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY THE TOKENISATION OF FINANCIAL 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…

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HOW CSDs CAN FIX THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH THEY SEE IN FRONT OF THEM (4th December 2020)

HOW 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…

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