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Why, where and how should global investors be planning their African investment strategies in 2024? In this first episode of our World to Africa series (in partnership with Standard Bank), Stephen Barnes and Hari Chaitanya walk through the major areas of opportunity in Africa today and look at what market structure changes foreign investors need to be tracking.

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 CMU has delivered efficiencies of over 1,000 hours per bond issuance, through its Evergreen and Genesys initiatives.  

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 issuances every month. In this latest episode of the DLT in the Real World podcast series (run with ISSA), Jens Hachmeister and Thilo Derenbach walk through the latest outlook on the D7 journey – and explain why “Just because something works on a small boat doesn’t mean it will work on a container ship".

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 debentures in India - with adoption rates of over 70%.

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 opportunities to the African market.

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 maturity.
And we can’t afford to fail.
In this deep dive discussion, Roland Chai at Nasdaq explains the key challenges and opportunities for the world’s carbon markets – underlining a clear path to scalable market growth.

In this fascinating episode Horacio Barakat and Paul Chiappetta join Barnaby Nelson to discuss how DLR is already delivering on "phase 2" treasury benefits - well beyond the operational savings that were first envisaged. As one of the most mature uses of DLT in our markets, this is great evidence of the continuing and evolving benefits of the technology.

How important is shareholder governance? What needs to be done to fix the current issues on shareholder governance?

With expert insights from Bill Hodash (ISSA), George Harris (FIS), Michael Kemper (Proximity) and Vicky Dean (Goal), we explore the current challenges in shareholder governance impacting today’s ESG and the solutions for a brighter future.

What is the case behind tokenisation in securities finance? Against a backdrop of highly disparate and manual processes, DLT and tokenisation is emerging as a leading solution to the issues of reconciliations, delivery issues and balance sheet challenges. In this #vxInsight episode, Kelly Mathieson (of Digital Asset) an Ken DeGiglio (Equilend) discuss the opportunities and deployment journey of DLT in repos and securities lending

How and where are asset owners driving transformation in their investment operations in 2023?
 
Leveraging insights from our second global "Asset Owner Transformation" survey, Marian Azer (Milestone Group), Niki Zaphiratos (RBC) and Dhanya Dhiraj (Citisoft) discuss the key findings and themes from our research with Barnaby Nelson (The ValueExchange).