Nearly a year-and-a-half before the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Jamaica transitioned to a shorter settlement cycle for equities, corporate bonds, and municipal securities, India quietly implemented its T+1 settlement cycle intending to enhance liquidity and operational efficiency for India’s growing domestic markets. India also appears to have made a cost-effective transition — which may… Read More >>
EuroCCP Readies Post-Brexit Clearing for Three Venues
With the Brexit deadline less than two weeks away, European clearinghouse EuroCCP reports that it has the “necessary regulatory approvals” to offer post-trade services to the European Union-based entities of Aquis Exchange, Cboe Europe Equities, and Turquoise, a step intended to provide continuity for global trading groups despite the ebbs and flows of the U.K.’s… Read More >>
DTCC’s Test Results Show that DLT Can Scale
The DTCC has gotten an answer to a nagging question about distributed ledger technology (DLT): Can it scale? The answer after nearly five months of investigation is that DLT can support average daily trading volumes of 115 million transactions. But more work will be needed before the post-trade infrastructure and services provider knows whether DLT… Read More >>
