AFME is pleased to be supporting ASIFMA Training Series Season 4: Asia Financial Markets Explained. This Training Series (12 monthly interactive sessions) is aimed towards getting junior and intermediate employees up to speed on key emerging areas in financial markets within Asia (potentially also useful for senior professionals). Members and guests of AFME are entitled to the discounted enrolment fee. Please process the online individual registration via the link below, select ‘Non-members’ tickets and enter Coupon Code ‘TS4AFME’.

ISLA’s Annual Post Trade Conference returns to London on the 6 November 2024. Now in its 14th year, the conference brings together leading figures involved in the daily operation and post trade flows associated with the securities finance business. Taking place at a time when financial markets face numerous challenges triggering a surge of new vendor products, platforms, and solutions. While a more diverse trading, execution, and settlement landscape offers potential benefits like competition, cost efficiency, and choice, it may also increase a splintering of markets. This fragmentation can trap liquidity, hinder efficiency, and ultimately raise costs. As jurisdictions intensify the focus on growth, regulators and policy makers recognise competitiveness and ability to scale, resilience, and efficiency as core pillars to a more integrated capital markets eco-system. That focus alongside the exponential growth in digital solutions makes this the moment to take stock and discover why legacy challenges, like ‘interoperability’, are still not a reality. The one-day conference will explore: Past and present paradigms; How a failure to address fundamental inefficiencies may inhibit the desired future state; The potential convergence of accelerated settlement and digital evolution; Why are we not seeing widespread adoption of market standards.

This year, the ECSDA Conference will take place on Tuesday, 19 November, 09:00 to 18:00 CET at the Auditorium of the Belgian National Bank. The ECSDA Conference will capitalise upon the achievements of the WFC Meeting organised by ECSDA and CSD Prague in May 2023. It will bring together the CSD ecosystem thought leaders and visionaries, participants and most advanced technological suppliers helping the community in building the European and global financial markets. We will concert the views with the leading European policy-makers and regulators and advise them on the post-trade priorities for building a true single European capital market. The topics of settlement efficiency and shortening of the settlement cycle, new CMU priorities, FMI interoperability on settlement of Digital Assets and others will be under the attention of the Conference speakers and participants. ECSDA will also hold a Senior CSD Industry Council the day after the conference.