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DTCC Expands Board with Senior Market Structure, Treasury and Operations Leaders
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of…
B3 Completes Phase Two of CSD System Built on Vermiculus VeriSafe Technology
B3, the Brazilian marketplace operator, has completed the second phase of its new central securities depository (CSD) system, developed using VeriSafe technology from Vermiculus. This represents one of the largest CSD transformation projects globally, with Vermiculus and B3 delivering a major phase into production for the second consecutive year. The elastically scalable platform now supports…
LSEG Launches TradeAgent to Centralise Bilateral OTC Derivatives Post-Trade Processing
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched TradeAgent, a new post-trade processing platform for bilateral OTC derivatives, marking the first major product delivery from its Post Trade Solutions division since securing a £170 million investment from a consortium of 11 global banks in late 2025. TradeAgent targets equity and interest rate swaps, offering a centralised…
DTCC to Launch Next-Generation Equities Data Portals Powered by Snowflake
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced the upcoming launch of new equities data portals designed to streamline access to clearing, settlement, and post-trade processing information. Built on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud platform, these portals will provide a unified interface for data from the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), the Depository Trust Corporation…
Major Global Banks Commit to Strategic Equity Investment in OSTTRA
OSTTRA, the post-trade solutions provider, has secured a strategic equity investment from a consortium of six major financial institutions: Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, HSBC, UBS Investment Bank, and Wells Fargo. While the banks have committed to this joint investment, funds managed by KKR will retain majority ownership of the company. The agreement follows OSTTRA’s…
Celebrating Excellence at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
The pace of change across trading technology shows no sign of slowing. As markets become more complex, data-intensive and performance-driven, firms are rethinking how infrastructure, analytics and execution workflows interconnect across the trading lifecycle. Against this backdrop, the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 brought the industry together to recognise the solution providers delivering measurable impact…
WFE Signals Extended Trading Hours Feasible, but Warns Settlement Systems Must Catch Up
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published new research concluding that extended trading hours, including near round-the-clock markets, are technologically feasible, but their long-term sustainability depends on coordinated reform across clearing, settlement and payment infrastructure. In Extending Exchange Trading Hours, the WFE examines proposals from major U.S. exchanges to expand equity trading toward 22-…