Tagged: dtcc

November 29, 2023 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

DTCC is reporting that its Alternative Investment Product Services (AIP) has now topped 10,000 unique funds. This is an increase of around 20% when compared to last year. Simultaneously, users of the product have increased by 28% to 2200 clients. DTCC provides post-trade market infrastructure… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that DTCC ALERT, the industry’s “largest” online global database for the maintenance and communication of account and standing settlement instructions (SSIs), has reached a key milestone “with over 15 million SSIs, including… Read More

November 11, 2023 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced the launch of DTCC’s OTC Direct Connect, a service providing seamless access to OTC derivatives transactions data that are reportable in the U.S. and Canada. With OTC Direct Connect, investment professionals, data vendors, and… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the launch of Trade Reporting Analytics and UTI Exchange as part of its DTCC Report Hub service. Report Hub is a cloud-based pre and post reporting platform that “helps firms manage the… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securrency Inc., a developer of institutional-grade, digital asset infrastructure. The acquisition, which is expected “to close within the next several weeks, will position DTCC to provide… Read More

October 3, 2023 @ 6:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Brian Steele as Managing Director, President, Clearing & Securities Services, “effective October 2, 2023.” Steele will join the DTCC Management Committee, Management Risk Committee and the Investment Management Committee…. Read More

September 19, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three of the world’s largest financial market infrastructures (FMIs) – DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear – released a paper on the state of the industry’s digital asset evolution. The paper calls for increased collaboration “to progress an ecosystem that currently includes fragmented standards, varying regulatory treatment,… Read More

September 17, 2023 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced their enhanced cross-margining arrangement has received Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approvals. The arrangement will… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

DTCC is currently testing T +1 – the new standard for settling trades.  Currently, trades are settled T+2. The last change was in 2017 when traders had three days to settle their securities transactions. CI received a comment from DTCC Managing Director and General Manager,… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

On March 22, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shortened the settlement cycle for trades via broker-dealers from T +3 to T +2. This change meant that when you bought or sold shares, the trades would need to be settled in 2 days instead… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services, announced that it has launched its new LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution “to support the industry’s transition from LIBOR benchmark rates to Secured Overnight Financing Rate Data (SOFR) as… Read More

February 3, 2023 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Climate change is expected to have a “dramatic impact” on our environment over the next few decades – and quite possibly beyond, according to an update from DTCC. Since the 1980s, each decade has “been warmer than the previous one and this trend is expected… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has published its annual Systemic Risk Barometer Survey. The results should come as no surprise. According to DTCC: 68% of survey respondents cited Geopolitical Risks & Trade Tensions as a top threat, up from 49% last year 61%… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), in partnership with The Digital Dollar Project (DDP) and Accenture, has published a white paper titled “Exploring Post-Trade Security Settlement with a US Central Bank Digital Currency.” The paper outlines the findings of a pilot project exploring how… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced the selection of Nashira Spencer as its new Chief Security Officer (CSO), effective today. Spencer will report to Tim Cuddihy, DTCC’s Group Chief Risk Officer. According to DTCC, Spencer brings 20 years of expertise in security management,… Read More

September 22, 2022 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As quantum computing creates vast new possibilities to analyze and solve complex problems that are unsolvable by today’s computers, it also has the potential “to disrupt entire industries and create significant new risks for financial firms by making even the most highly protected computer systems… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

DTCC Ion Platform Processing 100,000+ Transactions per Day The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a vital post-trade custody and asset servicing firm, says its blockchain-based platform Ion is live and in production, operating in parallel with its legacy system. DTCC shares that it has… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) have published a “playbook” on T+1 settlement. The T+1 Securities Settlement Industry Implementation Playbook outlines the approach to identifying the implementation activities, timelines, dependencies, and… Read More

July 28, 2022 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced its subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), has “connected its automated ClaimConnect solution to the claims processing platform offered by financial software provider Kingfield Corporation.” The partnership… Read More