ISSA - Intl Securities Services Association

ISSA is pleased to announce that Brian Steele, President, Clearing and Securities Services at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has been appointed to the Board of ISSA, effective July 2024

Today ISSA is finally moving! After five years – and with great memories – we say goodbye to SIX and thank them for hosting us so well. Just to prove that Colin Parry does a little work, here he is carrying the last of our boxes out of the building….

The latest ISSA Newsletter Q2/2024 If you take 5 minutes of your time, you will find out what we are focusing on - past and upcoming events - updates on our working groups and changes of ISSA email addresses.   Please enjoy reading.

We are very excited to be sharing with you the full results of ISSA's 2024 "DLT in the Real World" industry wide survey. This was supported by Accenture, Broadridge, and Ripple, and as last year, managed by The ValueExchange. 

ISSA is delighted to welcome Montran as a new member. As a leading provider of capital markets infrastructure solutions, with more than 40 CSDs around the world, Montran offers comprehensive solutions for CSDs and the capital markets industry, including the Montran CSD Platform, Investor Portal, and Trading System. “We look forward to sharing our insights on how together we can address the needs of the securities services community globally.”

The ISO 20022 Working Group (WG) of ISSA is pleased to publish a short video with the Co-Chair Giles Elliott, from TCS BaNCS introducing our latest paper. Enjoy watching and reading! https://lnkd.in/ezHt2XRh https://lnkd.in/ePqCkifv

Thanks to all the ISSA ISO 20022 working group members that contributed and helped pull this paper together! Colin Parry Jean-Paul Lambotte and Alex Dockx will be discussing the recommendations in a panel at the Standards Forum which Swift is hosting in London next week.

ISSA would recommend this report is read by those contemplating and planning a market adoption of ISO 20022 for all, or any, areas of securities services for the market they operate in.  Enjoy reading.

The Kazakhstan Central Securities Depository (KCSD), established in 1997, serves as a pivotal post-trade market infrastructure within Kazakhstan's securities market. As the sole registry and central depository for securities, KCSD handles the settlement of all on-exchange and over-the-counter transactions. It facilitates foreign investors' access to the domestic securities market and enables local participants to engage with international securities settlement systems. KCSD provides a comprehensive suite of services including depository, registrar, and information services, as well as the maintenance of bank accounts, foreign currency exchange, and paying agent services. Moreover, KCSD is the designated depository for the National Bank of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan, and the local executive governments of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Working Group (WG) of ISSA is pleased to publish a short video with the Co-Chair Kelly Mathieson.  Enjoy watching and reading!