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Accelerated Settlement Needs More Than Speed. It Needs a Common Language.

By Richard Baker, Founder and CEO, Tokenovate. The October 2027 transition date is approaching quickly, and firms across the market are reviewing operational processes, technology infrastructure and post-trade workflows. Significant progress has been made since the transition was announced, reflecting a broad recognition that shorter settlement cycles can reduce counterparty exposure and improve market efficiency....

DTCC Declares That Tokenisation Has Become a Reality as it Conducts First Production Demos of its ComposerX Platform

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today – 15th July, 2026 – declared that tokenisation has “become a reality” as it joined with partners to conduct a set of production demonstrations of its DTC Tokenization Service, which it plans to officially launch this October. A number of production tokenisation events were showcased, including: Conversion...

Broadridge Broadens DLR Collateral Mobility Processing Beyond Repos

Building on the continued success of its tokenisation initiatives in the repo space, Broadridge Financial Solutions is beginning to leverage its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform to support other liquid assets and to meet general marketplace demand for collateral mobility. This past June, DLR processed an average of $357 billion in daily repo transactions, with...

Duco Agentic Maturity for Reconciliation Benchmark Offers AI Adoption Map

Financial services companies and institutions are moving in large numbers along the road to agentic artificial intelligence maturity of their reconciliation processes. But many are caught in the no-man’s land between pilot and production as they grapple with the realities of operationalising models and agents. An inability to adequately assess AI before implementation, difficulties in...

In Strategically Important Collaboration, Swift and 17 Banks to Pilot Tokenised Deposit Transactions

Swift has announced that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for early adopter financial institutions to support 24/7 cross-border payments via interoperable tokenised deposits. The pilot represents the first step in what might unfold as the payment network’s response to the emerging threat posed by stablecoins. In all, 17 banks from six continents are preparing to...

Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability: Webinar Key Takeaways

Data observability tools help remediation processes keep quality in check and pipelines healthy as data flows at increasing volumes to end users. A-Team Group’s most recent webinar, The ROI of Data Trust: Quantifying the Business Value of Data Observability, examined the best practices, pain points and solutions for ensuring organisations derive the greatest value from...

Asian KYB Requires Live Registry Data, Not Another Database: AsiaVerify CEO

Asian know-your-business (KYB) controls have an uncomfortable blind spot: firms can spend heavily on onboarding, sanctions screening and case management while still making decisions from corporate records that may be weeks or months out of date – and sometimes more. AsiaVerify CEO Leas Bachatene spoke with RegTech Insight about the KYB challenges for firms with...

Selling the Proof, Not the Data

For most of the past decade, a vendor specialising in natural-language processing (NLP) could sell a hedge fund something it could not easily make for itself. Sentiment scored from news, filings and earnings calls, provided as a clean feed, mapped to individual stocks and timestamped for point-in-time use. The work of pulling that signal out...

Why Private Markets Need Numbers They Can Defend

By Gareth Hewitt, Founder, LemonEdge. Private markets run on confidence. Performance still matters but investor trust increasingly depends on whether a general partner (GP) can defend the numbers behind it and whether a limited partner (LP) has enough transparency to test and reconcile those numbers for itself. A capital account balance, valuation movement, fee calculation...

When Silence is the Best Measure of Success: ROI of Data Trust Webinar Review

When data observability and remediation tools work, the only measure of success is silence – nothing happens, no data breaks, no anomalies, no dramas. It might seem hard to demonstrate the success of something when there is nothing to show, especially when the business is required to prove the value of the process to secure...