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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…
A Q&A with DTCC’s Rebecca Ashton on Europe’s T+1 Transition and the US Treasury Clearing Mandate
The countdown for the move to T+1 in Europe, UK and Switzerland is on, and with twelve months to go, firms should be well advanced in preparation for the operational impacts of compressed settlement. In this Q&A with RegTech Insight, Rebecca Ashton, Managing Director and Head of Consulting at DTCC Â examines gaps in preparation, the…
DTCC Research Highlights Post-Trade Automation Gaps Ahead of Europe’s T+1 Transition
New research from DTCC and ValueExchange has highlighted significant gaps in European post-trade automation as the industry prepares to move to T+1 settlement in October 2027. The report finds that settlement volumes across Europe increased by 15% in 2025, while failed trades rose by 21%, adding pressure to already fragmented operational processes. Only 33% of…
Xceptor Expands Japanese Operations with Second Megabank Partnership
Xceptor has expanded its investment in Japan following the selection of its data automation platform by another major Japanese bank, bringing its client relationships to two of the country’s three megabanks. The latest implementation, delivered in partnership with local technology specialist GRCS, will use Xceptor’s sovereign-grade SaaS platform to streamline fragmented post-trade workflows and reduce…
tZERO Secures CFTC Clearing Approval to Expand into Derivatives Infrastructure
tZERO Group has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to register its subsidiary, tZERO DCO, as a derivatives clearing organisation, extending its regulated market infrastructure beyond securities and tokenised assets. The company expects approval of its separate designated contract market (DCM) registration to follow, enabling it to develop exchange and clearing services…
Recorded Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many of the platforms that still underpin the equities industry were built for a different era –…
FIX Trading Community Publishes Standardised Margin Reporting Framework
The FIX Trading Community has published new guidance establishing a standardised messaging framework for margin requirement reporting between asset managers and clearing brokers or swap providers. Developed by FIX’s Post-Trade Committee, the specification aims to simplify how buy-side firms request and receive margin information from counterparties, reducing reliance on manual processes and bespoke reporting arrangements….
Nasdaq Backs One Trading’s Push to Rethink Derivatives Market Infrastructure
Nasdaq Ventures’ strategic investment in One Trading, announced last week, could open the door to a different approach to derivatives market infrastructure, bringing technologies developed for digital asset trading into more traditional financial markets. The European regulated derivatives venue has built a platform that integrates execution, risk management and settlement, with an architecture designed to…
The Always-On Exchange: Rebuilding Market Infrastructure for 24/5 and Beyond
US equity markets are moving towards a much longer trading day. Major exchanges are preparing for 23-hour trading, five days a week, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently devoted a roundtable to the operational, resilience, clearing and market-structure implications. Overnight trading remains relatively small – accounting for less than 1% of NMS stock…
Rothera Automates High-Volume Derivatives Reconciliations with Smartstream
Rothera has deployed Smartstream’s Air platform to automate high-volume reconciliations across its CFTC-regulated event contract exchange and clearinghouse operations. The implementation uses Air’s Cash and Data modules to replace manual processes and support reconciliation of around 1.7 million transactions each day within an automated, fully audited environment. The initial deployment covers two reconciliation processes, Exchange-to-Clearing…