Upcoming Webinar: Post-Trade Transformation: Automating Clearing & Settlement

Date: 1 December 2026
Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes

The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade date from 7 December 2026, with the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce recommending an equivalent 23:59 deadline weeks later. The FCA has said firms should already be changing and testing systems, and that it may act where preparation falls short. For anyone who scoped this as a 2027 programme, the work has arrived early.

The European transition is harder than the North American one because of the shape of the chain behind it. The US had a single affirmation choke point and clear responsibility sitting with the broker-dealer; the UK has no affirmation construct, and pre-settlement responsibility is dispersed across custodians, brokers, agents and asset managers, spanning multiple CCPs, CSDs, currencies and legal frameworks. Beneath that sits the manual residue T+2 has always absorbed – confirmations, amendments and settlement instructions arriving as email attachments, PDFs and spreadsheets, rekeyed against a day of slack that will no longer exist. Compression pushes those breaks upstream, into securities lending recalls, FX funding against CLS cut-offs, ETF create and redeem cycles, and the allocation behaviour of the desk itself.

This A-Team Group webinar will bring together practitioners and technology specialists to examine where trade-date compression actually breaks the post-trade chain, what the May 2024 North American transition does and does not teach European firms, and how far automation – including governed, auditable AI in exception handling – can close the remaining gap before October 2027.

Register for this webinar to understand:

• What the December 2026 interim deadlines require in operational terms, how firms are evidencing readiness, and what a credible testing plan looks like ahead of the 2027 industry testing window
• Why Europe is not a replay of May 2024: fragmented CSD and CCP infrastructure, multi-currency funding, dispersed pre-settlement responsibility, and the absence of a UK affirmation process
• Where unstructured inputs still sit in the confirmation, allocation and settlement instruction chain, and what it takes to move from end-of-day batch to intraday reconciliation and exception routing
• How trade-date compression reaches back into the front office, from securities lending recalls and FX funding to ETF creation and redemption, and how desk behaviour becomes a settlement-risk variable
• Where automation ends and supervised autonomy begins: the emerging case for AI agents in settlement fail prevention and document extraction, and the governance, auditability and explainability requirements that come with them

This session is designed for heads of post-trade operations, COOs and operations technology leaders on both the buy side and the sell side, alongside heads of settlement, middle-office and trade support managers, custody and securities services technology leads, and trading technology leaders responsible for front-to-back workflow and settlement readiness.

Speakers:

Gil Cross Head of Product, Post-Trade

Xceptor

Moderator: Mike O’Hara Editor, TradingTech Insight

A-Team Group

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