Upping the pace of consolidation
Bankers in more glamorous businesses may not think much about custody, but they should. The business sits underneath most of what they do, and the custody chiefs at their banks are at the forefront of the most radical re-engineering of global capital markets yet seen.
The driving force behind this change will be the move to settling securities transactions on the day following the trade, or T+1. It is an abbreviation that is likely to become as familiar to capital markets participants as those already notorious triplets Emu and Y2K.
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