The EU’s introduction of T2S is designed to enable easy movement across jurisdictions and bring down costs.

While most market participants are suffering from the global turmoil, RBC-Dexia Investment Services is enjoying the benefits of a risk-averse strategy. Writer Nick Kochan.

The Single Euro Payments Area, MiFID, the Target 2 Securities initiative and the Thomson-Reuters megamerger are among the hot topics at this year’s SIBOS.

Ignace Combes, deputy CEO of Euroclear, is tasked with steering the group through its mission to cut the costs of settling cross-border securities transactions in Europe. He talks to Michelle Price.

The implementation of MiFID has served to reduce transparency across the European market, causing confusion and uncertainty, writes Michelle Price.

Alternative investments are providing both business opportunities and challenges to custodians, whose response will determine their profile in an increasingly competitive arena, Silvia Pavoni reports.

Michael Mueller, head of wholesale solutions for Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking business, spoke to Charlie Corbett about the implications of this year’s roll out of a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) for the European banking industry.

The UK faster payments initiative is expected to revolutionise the way consumers and companies do business, and yet it was launched in May with little fanfare. Charlie Corbett explores the impact of the new system and why the trumpets were muted.

More than a year after the Giovannini Group’s original deadline for removal of all 15 barriers to the creation of an integrated clearing and settlement system for European securities trades, only one barrier has been fully removed. 

Clive Triance, head of securities and fund services and direct custody and clearing, Europe, Middle East and Africa, at Citi, tells Heather McKenzie how the EU clearing and settlement landscape is moving towards better processing, increased efficiency and general market transparency.