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Real-time Securities Settlement: Challenges and Further Considerations

Atomic settlement would create a fundamentally different trading environment. It would disrupt established broker and buyside business models, eliminate certain trading strategies, require significant infrastructure investment, place additional administrative burdens…

Helen Dawit20 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: Fundamentals of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Networks

The technology that underpins real-time settlement will most likely be Blockchain. This technology is well suited as a ledger function similar to that of a conventional paper-based or electronic-based ledger…

Helen Dawit11 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: End-of-day Versus Atomic Settlement

The two models of same-day (T0) settlement, end-of-day settlement and real-time (or atomic) settlement, present the industry with a choice of direction that could be a true fork-in-the road turning…

Helen Dawit10 Mar, 2026

Back Office Distributed Ledger Technology Insights Regtech

Real-time Securities Settlement: Global Progress and the Two Paths to T0

With the US’s largely successful move to T+1 in May 2024 and the UK/EU’s planned move to T+1 in 2027, the capital markets are looking beyond T+1 to the horizon,…

Helen Dawit6 Mar, 2026

Back Office EU / UK Regulatory Updates Insights Regtech

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (January 2026)

The EU and the UK regulators were both busy late in 2025 setting out updates to regulatory regimes and specifying the work programmes for the coming year. This article provides…

Helen Dawit29 Jan, 2026

Back Office Insights Regtech

MiFID II & MiFIR REVIEW: Return of the Regulator

The MiFID II and MiFIR Review package, developed by the European Commission (EC) and the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) reflects the EU’s intent to modernise financial regulation and address…

Helen Dawit10 Nov, 2025

Back Office EU / UK Regulatory Updates Insights Regtech

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (November 2025)

In the UK and the EU, regulators have been active in proposing new regulations and updating the market on their policy programmes for next year. By GreySpark's Declan Sharp, Consultant…

Helen Dawit6 Nov, 2025

Back Office Insights

International Implications of the North American T+1 Settlement Rules

The move to T+1 trade settlement in North America had been a long time coming. Its implementation was spurred by two watershed moments – the increased market volatility at the…

Dariush Hessami1 Jul, 2025

Back Office Insights

Implications of T+1 Settlement on North American Markets

Over the past three decades, the capital markets underwent a progressive shortening of the securities settlement cycle. From settlement five days after the trade date (T+5) before 1993, to T+3…

Dariush Hessami21 May, 2025

Back Office Digital Assets Distributed Ledger Technology Insights

The Clearing & Settlement of Cryptoassets Trading

Cryptocurrencies experienced significant depreciation in 2021, with the total market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies dropping from a peak of around USD 2.5tn in May to around USD 1.3tn by the…

Helen Dawit6 Apr, 2023

Real-time Securities Settlement: Challenges and Further Considerations

Real-time Securities Settlement: End-of-day Versus Atomic Settlement

Real-time Securities Settlement: Global Progress and the Two Paths to T0

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (January 2026)

MiFID II & MiFIR REVIEW: Return of the Regulator

Capital Markets Regulatory Update (November 2025)

International Implications of the North American T+1 Settlement Rules

Implications of T+1 Settlement on North American Markets

The Clearing & Settlement of Cryptoassets Trading

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