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Cision Canada
15-07-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Euroclear to deliver post-trade infrastructure connecting all 27 EU markets in all financial asset classes
BRUSSELS, July 15, 2025 /CNW/ -- Euroclear today unveils a comprehensive plan to establish a true single market for post-trade services across asset classes. This initiative, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of European market infrastructure, will support the Savings and Investments Union's (SIU) ambitions and ensure Europe remains the 'go-to place' for investors and issuers globally. Euroclear's ambitious project will bring a number of significant benefits, including providing seamless connectivity across the single market, encouraging healthy market competition, promoting financial stability, and fostering innovation and accelerated technology adoption. To do so, Euroclear builds on the know-how, scale and global connectivity of its unique model: combining the leading international Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Bank) with its six local CSDs in Europe. This open-model positions Euroclear as Europe's gateway to the world - enabling it to connect global markets, drive innovation and unlock further efficiency. Euroclear commits to provide a single point of access to all 27 Member States across all financial asset classes – equities, fixed income and all types of funds, by: Offering both central bank money and commercial bank money access to all EU CSDs by accelerating the full connection of Euroclear Bank to the European Central Bank's Target2-Securities (T2S) platform. Delivering more efficient and integrated services through enhanced synergies between Euroclear's local CSDs as well as with Euroclear Bank. This action plan will see Euroclear continue to invest in infrastructure and services that contribute to a more efficient single market: Providing a pan-European infrastructure for issuers seeking access to a broad investor ecosystem, deep liquidity and cost-effective issuer services. Enhancing post-trade infrastructure to channel retail and institutional investment towards equities, mutual and alternative fund products. Building on our leading collateral management solutions to enhance liquidity and stability in global financial markets. Working with central banks and market participants on the development of next-generation digital infrastructure. To implement this action plan, Euroclear's focus will be to complete Euroclear Bank's commercial bank money access to all 27 EU Member States by 2026. In parallel, we will accelerate Euroclear Bank's connection to T2S to offer Central Bank Money access thereafter. Valérie Urbain, Euroclear's CEO, commented: " The key to more liquid and effective capital markets in Europe is through driving market openness, interconnectivity and maximising choice for users. Only under these conditions can European markets truly thrive and remain competitive at a global level. Today, we are committed to making Euroclear the single-entry point for all asset classes including funds, fixed income and equities across the 27 Member States." Euroclear has been actively contributing to the financing of the European economy and integration of European markets over decades. Today, as the largest CSD group in Europe, Euroclear holds over 50% of all securities issued in the EU and represents over 60% of EU settlement turnover. To support these efforts, Euroclear has outlined several policy priorities and recommendations [] for European policymakers and market participants. These include enabling FMI group integration and regulatory simplification, strengthening open access and competition, fostering legal and regulatory convergence, optimizing settlement and asset servicing, scaling digital assets and DLT infrastructures, and enhancing supervisory consistency.
Bloomberg
04-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Euroclear CEO on Trump Tariffs Impact, Volatility, Frozen Russian Assets
International settlement house Euroclear says the impact of President Trump's tariffs have been limited so far. Settlement activity increased in the first quarter because of market volatility driven by geopolitical uncertainty. The organization settles and clears a wide range of securities transactions and has €40.7 trillion of assets under custody. They also hold most of Russia's frozen state assets. Euroclear CEO Valérie Urbain joined Francine Lacqua on The Pulse. (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Euroclear enters into 7-year strategic partnership with Microsoft harnessing cloud, data and AI
Strategic partnership to accelerate Euroclear's vision to create an open digital and data platform driving greater efficiency for all capital markets participants Cooperation to transform Euroclear's technology infrastructure with Microsoft's cloud solutions Co-development of industry-leading, innovative solutions unlocking the wealth of data of Euroclear's ecosystem BRUSSELS, Jan. 30, 2025 /CNW/ -- Euroclear has announced today a 7-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to transform Euroclear clients' experience and drive new opportunities for growth. The partnership further strengthens Euroclear's business ecosystem and technology infrastructure by leveraging Microsoft's leading technology, expertise and cloud services. This will enhance Euroclear's ability to create value for all market participants and unlock new opportunities at the core of the capital markets ecosystem. Microsoft will support Euroclear's strategic ambition in key growth areas like funds and client experience as well as its long-term vision to evolve into a Digital and Data-Enabled Financial Market Infrastructure. By joining forces with Microsoft, Euroclear will be pioneering innovative digital and data-centric initiatives, which will foster collaboration with other industry participants to create shared solutions based on standardised and compatible technologies that bring the best value to industry service providers but also to issuers and investors alike. Valérie Urbain, CEO of Euroclear, said: "Technology is rapidly transforming financial market infrastructures. Harnessing the latest developments in cloud, AI and analytics is a critical enabler of Euroclear's strategy and a driver of innovation, new business and resilience. Microsoft's technology leadership and understanding of financial markets make it an ideal strategic partner for the next stage in our journey. This mutually beneficial relationship greatly accelerates our ambitions and should bring us much closer to clients." "Our partnership with Euroclear combines their extensive financial ecosystem—connecting more than 2,000 financial institutions—with the trust and scalability of the Microsoft Cloud including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Teams," said Ralph Haupter, President, EMEA at Microsoft. "Together, we are enabling a shift from traditional sequential workflows to an ecosystem-centric capital markets model. This transformation will empower financial institutions to reimagine how they interact, analyse data, and deliver insights to end users, driving efficiency and innovation across the industry." The adoption of Microsoft's cutting-edge technologies like cloud (which in turn is a platform for scalable transformation) and generative AI will streamline platform development and operations. The use of Microsoft's flexible cloud capacity and automated solutions for rapid disaster recovery and business continuity will further improve Euroclear's resilience and security. The partnership's initial focus has been established and will gradually evolve to co-develop additional digital and data initiatives and scale modernisation efforts. The initial scope for 2025 will focus on: Developing a financial data sharing ecosystem: Designing a secure platform to enable collaboration and data sharing, leveraging Microsoft's secure identity, confidential data sharing and cross-collaboration capabilities. Transforming Euroclear's global offering, Euroclear FundsPlace: Enhancing the customer experience with AI-driven insights, streamlined operations, and increased efficiencies for market participants. Modernising customer engagement: Establishing a unified platform to enhance Euroclear's customer interactions and streamline operations across all customer-facing business lines. Strengthening market infrastructure: Building next-generation, secure financial infrastructure with built-in compliance, security, and reliability to support mission-critical workloads. The partnership is sponsored by senior executives from both sides, representing both IT and business perspectives, to ensure the successful development of the partnership and the delivery of value for our clients and ecosystem partners. About EuroclearEuroclear group is the financial industry's trusted provider of post trade services. Guided by its purpose, Euroclear innovates to bring safety, efficiency and connections to financial markets for sustainable economic growth. Euroclear provides settlement and custody of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities and derivatives and investment funds. As a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure, Euroclear is committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise. The Euroclear group comprises Euroclear Bank, the International CSD, as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & International. About MicrosoftMicrosoft (Nasdaq: "MSFT" | @microsoft) creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In Belgium and Luxembourg, Microsoft employs over 500 people and has a powerful network of more than 6,000 partners. With them, Microsoft Belux helps build solutions for corporations of all sizes, government institutions, and NGOs. Microsoft Belux aims to accompany its customers on the journey towards a digital society, overcoming the challenges it brings and seizing the opportunities it offers. 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