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July 7, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced that its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary “processed through its Government Securities Division (GSD) a new peak volume of USD$11.8 Trillion in cleared transactions on June… Read More

June 20, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced that its central securities depository subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), has surpassed “$100 trillion in assets under custody as overall U.S. market capitalization continues to rise.”… Read More

June 15, 2025 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is exploring the issuance of a stablecoin to enhance the efficiency of digital asset transactions, according to insights from industry sources reported by The Information. This move could significantly reshape how trades are settled across global markets, leveraging… Read More

April 26, 2025 @ 3:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced significant achievements in handling “unprecedented” market volatility, showcasing the firm’s robust technology infrastructure, resiliency, and risk management capabilities. During the recent market volatility, DTCC reached “new peak… Read More

April 14, 2025 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) says that its subsidiary, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), cleared a record $11 trillion in US Treasuries on April 9, an all-time high. Laura Klimpel, Managing Director, Head of DTCC’s Fixed Income and Financing Solutions, notes that the heightened… Read More

April 3, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced a digital collateral management platform. Collateral is an essential risk mitigation tool “that helps support overall financial stability.” DTCC also noted that as the markets grow… Read More

March 21, 2025 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has joined the ERC3643 Association – the advocate group for the ERC3643 token standard. ERC3643 was created by Tokeny, a leading digital security enabler based in Luxembourg. Luc Falempin, CEO of Tokeny, said that having “DTCC join the… Read More

December 5, 2024 @ 9:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the financial services industry, issued its Systemic Risk Barometer Survey results, identifying Geopolitical Risks, Cyber Risk, U.S. Political Uncertainty and U.S. Presidential Election Outcome, Inflation and U.S. Economic Slowdown as the “top five… Read More

November 14, 2024 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC’s FICC reportedly enhances VaR calculator capabilities, as firms Prepare for the U.S. Treasury Clearing Requirements. New Cross Margining and Repo calculator functionalities will enhance Users’ understanding of risk management and margin requirements. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for… Read More

October 16, 2024 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has joined the growing number of regulatory/innovation entities by launching a Fintech Sandbox to support the development of digital assets. Just about everyone acknowledges that at some point, all securities will be digital—potentially enhanced with codable or “smart”… Read More

October 3, 2024 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

It was just last month that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) reported a record breaking day in regard to government securities clearing when the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC’s) Government Securities Division (GSD), cleared $9.2 trillion in daily activity on September 3rd. On… Read More

September 24, 2024 @ 3:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Digital Asset report that their digital security pilot has succeeded. The two entities partnered on the US Treasury (UST) Collateral Network Pilot. This project sought to utilize distributed ledger technology (DLT) applications to support market connectivity across… Read More

September 23, 2024 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) says it has topped 2500 clients that are leveraging their Alternative Investment Product (AIP) . The AIP service is a centralized trading and reporting platform that connects the alt investments industry to exchange data. The service includes money settlement… Read More

September 9, 2024 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) says it has experienced a record breaking day in regard to government securities clearing. According to DTCC, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC’s) Government Securities Division (GSD), cleared $9.2 trillion in daily activity on September 3rd. This follows… Read More

August 8, 2024 @ 12:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced the launch of DTCC’s Insurance & Retirement Services’ (I&RS) Producer Authorization (PAR) service, “a standardized method for insurance vendors and distributors to communicate with carriers to verify… Read More

June 25, 2024 @ 1:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

REGnosys, the collaboration platform for regulatory reporting, has contributed the language underpinning its digital regulatory reporting solution to the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services umbrella of the Linux Foundation. The language – formerly known as the Rosetta DSL (Domain-Specific Language) and renamed… Read More

June 24, 2024 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry,  announced that four new Board Members have joined its Board of Directors. The Board plays a critical role in setting “the strategic direction of DTCC, working closely with the firm’s leadership and advising on… Read More

June 13, 2024 @ 1:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced the launch of FICC’s interactive, public-facing Capped Contingency Liquidity Facility (CCLF) Calculator. With the expansion of central clearing in U.S. Treasuries “on the horizon and given the size of transactions in the U.S…. Read More

June 13, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DTCC, a provider of post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced this week that, according to new industry feedback, daily Treasury volumes through its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) are expected to rise by more than $4 trillion once the SEC’s expanded U.S. Treasury clearing… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 9:23 am By JD Alois  |  

While everyone knows that digital securities are the future, the path to shift from the analog past to the digital asset future has been a circuitous path. Today, DTCC, Euroclear, and Clearstreem have announced they are working with the Boston Consulting Group to produce a… Read More