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Digital assets

Tradeweb completes real-time transaction of tokenised US Treasuries

01 July 2026 US
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Executed on Tradeweb, the trade paired an onchain US Treasury with tokenised cash, while leveraging the Canton Network's synchronised settlement capabilities

People moves

Gresham appoints Giannaros as CEO

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Spiros Giannaros brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling enterprise software platforms for the global capital markets industry

Technology

Duco launches Agentic maturity model

01 July 2026 US, UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The framework maps five stages of maturity from manual spreadsheet reconciliation, AI experimentation, automation at scale, hybrid workforce, and agentic operations

People moves

Waystone appoints Larnder as Chief Financial Officer

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Fund Services

Euroclear and Franklin Templeton extend collaboration

01 July 2026 Belgium
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Digital assets

Standard Chartered and LMAX Group join forces

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Standard Chartered has executed digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, demonstrating a digital asset intermediation model for spot Bitcoin and Ether with T+1 settlement

Technology

AutoRek ARIA introduces new capabilities

01 July 2026 UK, US
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The latest release of AutoRek ARIA advances the platform with automated rule generation for complex matching scenarios and sub-30 minute configuration for routine reconciliations

Payments

RTGS.global partners with Bamboo

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The partnership combines RTGS.global's next-generation cross-border payment infrastructure with Bamboo's local payment network across Latin America

Custody

Digital Prime Technologies integrates with BitGo Bank & Trust

01 July 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Clients will be able to execute institutional-grade bilateral digital asset lending workflows, with BitGo providing regulated custody and offchain, real-time settlement through the Go Network, its institutional settlement infrastructure

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Features

The tokenised money market fund moment has arrived

Agnes Mazurek, global head of product, Digital Assets at Apex Group, looks at the growing market for tokenised funds, and the rapid pace of expansion the market is seeing

Structural disparity in global market infrastructure exposed by T+1

The US equities shift to T+1 settlement has highlighted a growing timing discrepancy between international institutional investors, leading to a systematic funding divide that has moved operational, liquidity, and settlement risk into new areas of the market

Iranian shadow banking faces growing crackdown under new sanctions

US regulators are widening their focus to dismantle opaque structures used to bypass global financial oversight

Balancing act between domestic infrastructure and offshore capital

South Africa has spent more than a decade modernising its post-trade infrastructure through settlement reform, automation and tighter risk controls — but as offshore investing demand grows and investors continue to hedge against rand volatility — the country’s asset servicing market faces a new challenge

Could agentic AI reshape post-trade operations?

Robin Hasson, head of reconciliation solutions at Smartstream, speaks to Zarah Choudhary about the role of ‘always on’ AI agents, the importance of human oversight, and why governance must remain central as automation evolves

Europe and US’s growing divergence on proxy voting reform

Tahlia Kraefft explores how a widening gap in proxy voting reform between the two regions is creating fragmentation and forcing multinational firms to manage highly disparate systems

Reshaping servicing models

Zarah Choudhary speaks with Eamonn O’Callaghan, Ireland-based global head of ETF Product at CACEIS, about the forces driving the expansion of ETFs and how digital assets and tokenisation could influence the future of the ETF ecosystem

The custody battle for digital assets

As institutional demand for digital assets accelerates, Zarah Choudhary examines how traditional custodians and crypto-native firms are competing — and converging — to define the future of digital asset custody

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Interviews

FundGuard

Lior Yogev

Lior Yogev, CEO and co-founder at FundGuard, explains why investment accounting infrastructure is becoming the foundation for AI adoption across investment management and asset servicing

Standard Chartered

Charlotte Kinsella

Charlotte Kinsella, associate director in banker broker dealer sales for financing and securities services at Standard Chartered, reflects on entering asset services from a non-linear path, the growing role of digital assets, and why asking questions remains one of the industry’s most valuable skills

Xceptor

Lester Buxton

Lester Buxton, a project manager at Xceptor, discusses his unconventional path into fintech and how his doctorate in theoretical quantum physics helped him along the path in unexpected ways

TMX CDS

Surabhi Sudhakara

Surabhi Sudhakara, strategic business development manager at TMX CDS, speaks to Carmella Haswell about her journey into securities finance, why the sector brings excitement, and saying ‘yes’ to the challenge

SimCorp

Ruxandra Popovici

Ruxandra Popovici, senior principal product manager at SimCorp, explains how a career change after a Master of Science in Business and Development led her to developing an interest in technology’s role in disrupting workflows

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Brooke Conroy

Brooke Conroy, director of Account Management, Broadridge Financial Solutions, discusses her journey into asset servicing, her passion for its role at the heart of the investment process, the sector’s continual change, and championing client satisfaction

n-Tier

Peter Gargone

Carmella Haswell sits down with Peter Gargone, founder and CEO of n-Tier, to discuss what may be in store for the year ahead

Linnovate

Henry Lin

Henry Lin, founder and CEO of Linnovate, discusses how AI is being embedded across operational workflows and what the next phase of AI-enabled operating models looks like for the industry

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Magazine

News and people moves roundup

Crypto Wrappers

Eamonn O’Callaghan of CACEIS examines the growth of digital ETFs and ETNs.

Investment Regimes

Tahlia Kraefft explores how custodians have evolved into regulatory intermediaries.

Emerging Talent

Jack Niven of AutoRek on why continuous learning remains essential.

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