Perhaps, I am naive when I pose the following question: “Why focus on T+1 instead of putting all the effort into what it will take to get to T+0, and more importantly, are ALL industry stakeholders aligned on the objective.” I have the benefit of experience on my side, and as I read through the reignited hype around the T+? A topic I ca...
13 October 2021
The digitalisation of capital markets is happening. The push to digitalisation is a result both of client pressure and internal demand. Digitalisation is not an end itself, but rather a means to a more efficient flow of actionable data. Impediments to achieving the shift to the desired digitalisation state are highlighted by existing operational si...
29 April 2021 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
In January 2021, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) issued a draft declaration intended to give partial effect to some of the recommendations contained in the 2020 Position Paper by declaring crypto-assets a financial product under the FAIS Act. The declaration would affect that any person furnishing advice or rendering intermediary se...
08 April 2021 Cryptocurrency Insights
Marcus, what an insightful post and delighted that it is part of a series We both come from an era where a big part of our respective roles was spent taking manual processes and automating them in pursuit of achieving the 'holy grail' of STP. I cannot fault you on any of your points and concur that to move forward; there is a need to break the shackles of the past to allow the next generation of financial services technology to thrive. I hope that in your future instalments, you will focus on what history has taught us and how learning from past mistakes can ensure future success. I am alluding to the conundrum of interoperability and foresee that your idea of bank infrastructure 'widgets' will play a critical role in addressing the interoperability challenge preventing DeFi solutions from full scale and demonstrating full potential.
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