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Episodes
Xchange Ep 8: 24/7 trading in the US – what does it mean for post-trade?
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2026, leading US exchanges (including Nasdaq, NYSE and 24X) are expected to begin offering live trading for cash equities on a 24x7 basis....
Xchange Ep 7: Africa’s investment landscape – the conversations happening at TNF
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One week on from The Network Forum Africa, which took place in London, we debrief on the major talking points coming out of the event. What are the in...
Xchange Ep 6: Asian post-trade innovation – a different flavour of T+1 and digital transformation
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recording directly from Hong Kong, after a few weeks of meetings and engagements across the region, we debrief on the major talking points coming out ...
Xchange Ep 5: the ECB's big announcement – tokenised securities as eligible collateral – what does it mean?
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The European Central Bank (ECB) announcement on the acceptance of tokenized securities as eligible collateral is big; a late Christmas present! What w...
Xchange Ep 4: Asset Servicing – is this the year for change? What is the short, medium and long-term plan?
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is 2026 the year that the industry improves asset servicing operations? Or, being right in the middle of movie award season, are we still going throug...
Xchange Ep 3: Stablecoins - the institutional view, the innovation exemption, new partnerships, 2026 the year of execution
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Money is a technology that humans invented to help us navigate an increasingly complex world. This episode explores stablecoins as another significant...
Xchange Ep 2: All things Europe - the rallying cry, conversations from ECSDA, digital innovation and T+1
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does the administrative coordination of Pheasants Island offer a glimpse of European progress and cooperation? Maybe not, but in this episode we talk ...
Xchange Ep 1: T+1 and funding - the scary story, America at light speed, tokenised collateral, and reading CSDR technical standards on the beach
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
13.1 billion dollars was the expected total spend for Halloween in 2025 in the US. How does the horror of halloween align with the potential fear of T...
DLT in the Real World 2025 (Series 4) with Accenture: Is 2025 the year DLT finally moves from promise to production?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World to Africa 2025: Africa is no longer a “future” growth story — it’s happening now.
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest World to Africa 2025 podcast unpacks the forces driving record allocations into the continent, featuring Standard Bank, BNY, and The ValueE...
FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 3 - APAC)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their operat...
FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 2 - Europe)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their operat...
FIS - The Path to 2023 (Episode 1 - North America)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Path to 2030 podcast series with @FIS® brings together experts from APAC, North America, and Europe to unpack how firms are preparing their opera...
DLT in the Real World 2025 (Series 4) with Broadridge: DLT is no longer “what if.” It is happening at scale.
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our new podcast with Horacio and Paul from Broadridge, we look at how DLR is transforming repo and collateral: ✅ USD 6 tn in tokenised repo in...
Asset Servicing Automation 2024: survey key findings and expert insights (ISSA)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the case for asset servicing automation in 2024 and where are firms focusing today in reducing cost and risk across corporate actions and prox...
Asset Servicing Automation 2024: survey key findings and expert insights
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the case for asset servicing automation in 2024 and where are firms focusing today in reducing cost and risk across corporate actions and prox...
World to Africa 2024: what does the Africa opportunity look like in 2024?
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why, where and how should global investors be planning their African investment strategies in 2024? In this first episode of our World to Africa serie...
DLT in the Real World (Series 3) with the HKMA: What does it mean to issue over HKD6 billion in digital bonds?
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of our DLT in the Real World Series (run in partnership with ISSA), James Fok explains how the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s...
DLT in the Real World (Series 3): with Clearstream: What does it mean to issue over EUR3 billion in structured products using a DLT registry?
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the most mature DLT-based platforms in the capital markets, Clearstream’s D7 is now reaching a point of critical scale with over 1000 new ...
DLT in The Real World (Series 3) with NSDL: How can DLT bring trust and automation to a heavily decentralised market ecosystem?
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of our DLT in the Real World series, Vishal Gupta from NSDL explains how DLT is transforming the issuance and management of deb...
DLT in The Real World (Series 3): The evolution of the DLT market in Africa viewed by Standard Bank, a key player in the region
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of our latest series of ‘DLT in The Real World’, run in partnership with ISSA, we discuss how DLT creates unique opportuniti...
The ValueExchange / Nasdaq - Scaling the Carbon Markets with Roland Chai
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The voluntary carbon markets face a unique challenge: they have to do in decades what other financial markets have done in 125 years in terms of matur...
DLT in the Real World (Series 3): Broadridge DLR and the transformational benefits of DLR in treasury
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this fascinating episode Horacio Barakat and Paul Chiappetta join Barnaby Nelson to discuss how DLR is already delivering on "phase 2" tr...
Proxy voting and Class actions: Today’s ESG challenge
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How important is shareholder governance? What needs to be done to fix the current issues on shareholder governance?With expert insights from Bill Hoda...
The numbers behind tokenization
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the case behind tokenisation in securities finance? Against a backdrop of highly disparate and manual processes, DLT and tokenisation is emerg...
Asset Owner Transformation 2023: Key findings
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How and where are asset owners driving transformation in their investment operations in 2023? Leveraging insights from our second global "Asset ...
Proxy Voting in Australia - Our Key Findings review
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are governance and investor changes putting pressures on our proxy voting processes in Australia? And how able are we to react?Following our marke...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): MarketNode and product issuance
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is DLT being used to address key inefficiencies in bond and fund issuance?After years of careful evaluation, MarketNode is beginning to address ke...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): Clearstream D7 and digital issuance
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is Clearstream's D7 platform transforming product issuance today - and moving us closer to "T+1 hour" issuance?In this fascinating ...
DLT in the Real World: Key Findings from our 2022 explained with ISSA
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How, where and why are we using DLT in the capital markets today?As part of our 3rd annual "DLT in the Real World" industry-wide survey, thi...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): Stock Exchange of Thailand and ecosystem change
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is DLT making an impact traditional, regulated stock exchanges and what are we learning about how this technology can change the whole ecosystemIn...
Reimagining Corporate Actions: What is the right operating model for today's world?
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With volumes reaching historical peaks and people challenges at their most acute, how can all profiles of market practitioners drive scale in their as...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): HQLAx and collateral
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is DLT making an impact on how we manage and exchange collateral every day?In this episode of our DLT in the Real World series (run in partnership...
Asset Owner Transformation (episode 4): Realising transformation and making new friends
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are asset owners turning countless internal and external drivers into an operational change agenda today?Accompanying the release of our industry-...
Asset Owner Transformation (episode 3): Shaping the Strategic Agenda and shifting raisons d'etre and
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are asset owners shaping their transformation agendas today - in light of huge external pressures to change?Accompanying the release of our indust...
Asset Owner Transformation (episode 2): Driving change and unintended consequences
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are different external pressures driving change amongst the world's asset owners - and what hidden impacts are different regulatory models ha...
Asset Owner Transformation (episode 1): Beyond Excel
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are asset owners transforming their operating models today and what is driving that change?Accompanying the release of our industry-wide research ...
LegacyTech Transformation - What do you need to know?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LegacyTech stands on the critical path to every major area of transformation in the capital markets. From digital assets to ESG; from T+1 to CSDR, a f...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): SDX and regulated blockchains
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this, second episode of our DLT in the Real World series (run in partnership with ISSA), Mathias Studach explains how the SDX is expanding the boun...
DLT in the Real World (Series 2): DTCC and the Private Markets
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is DLT changing the way that we work today? Welcome to the first episode in our latest series of "DLT in the Real World" - run in partn...
Australian Corporate actions in a global context: where can we be looking to transform?
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australian corporate actions are complicated and, like many markets around the world, in need of more automation. In the context of our ongoing "...
The Grey Costs of FX: Our Key Findings explained
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How our the hidden costs of FX distorting our investment performance today? Do we really know? What can we be doing to improve our visibility of this ...
DLT in the Real World: Key Findings from our 2021 research explained
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A year is a long time in DLT - so what have we learned about deploying DLT in our world in 2021? 12-months on from our initial "DLT in the Real ...
Corporate Actions 2021: Key Findings explained
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With 56% of our costs of a corporate action made up by data sourcing alone, what can be done to reduce the cost and risks that we carry every day.In t...
DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming bond issuance
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2020, HSBC, SGX and Temasek announced that they had completed a pilot digital bond issuance and distribution – replicating an SGD400m...
DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming repos and collateral
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Broadridge launched a new platform to simplify repo trading - leveraging the benefits of blockchain and smart contracts to overall collateral...
DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming Real Estate investments
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If real estate investments were all about paper, Consensys' project to distribute $350 million of tokenised real estate assets for Mata Capital s...
DLT in the Real World (Series 1): Transforming trade processing
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can DLT help to make a 96% reduction in processing times for derivatives clearing - and help to move towards same-day clearing?In this episode, Ni...
Asset Servicing Innovation: The View from Asia-Pacific
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 2020 industry wide survey highlighted the need and desire for change across the entire corporate action lifecycle. But, with the highest levels o...
Asset Servicing Innovation: Key Findings explained with Broadridge and ISSA
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How is the asset servicing industry reacting to the perfect storm of regulation, risk and market pressures in 2020? Following our industry-wide "...
Grey Costs per Trade: Driving industry best practice
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can visibility on your costs per trade drive competitive advantage? In an era of unprecedented cost control, risk management pressures and regula...
Asian Brokerage in Transformation: Key Findings explained
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are Asian brokers dealing with an unprecedented amount of market change today: as their investor clients demand ever more from them, whilst the re...
DLT in the Real World: Key Findings explained
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How is DLT really being used in the securities industry today? Accompanying the launch of the ValueExchange / ISSA "DLT in the Real World" ...
Grey Costs per Trade 2020: Key Findings
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taking in feedback from financial services experts from around the globe, the Grey Costs per Trade campaign aims to deliver new insights on how we are...
2020 in Perspective series: #Regulation
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The finance industry is suffering from regulatory overload in many areas: with over 25% of investment budgets being spent only on regulatory change. ...