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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).

How are governance and investor changes putting pressures on our proxy voting processes in Australia? And how able are we to react?

Following our market-wide survey led by Proxymity, Computershare, AIRA and ACSA, this episode digs into the details of exactly how issuers, custodians and investors are making the case for major transformation in their proxy voting. 

With expert insights from Dean Little (Proxymity), Scott Hudson (Computershare) and Ian Matheson (AIRA), we explore the common challenges, the motivations for change and the areas that most need our attention as we look to grow our engagement and voting volumes in the near future.

How is DLT being used to address key inefficiencies in bond and fund issuance?

After years of careful evaluation, MarketNode is beginning to address key inefficiencies in the way that we issue, trade and hold bonds - with funds to come.

In this fascinating episode of our "DLT in the Real World" podcast (run in cooperation with ISSA), Rehan Ahmed explains the step-by-step process that MarketNode has taken in bringing efficiencies to a USD750billion bond market in Asia-Pacific.

How is Clearstream's D7 platform transforming product issuance today - and moving us closer to "T+1 hour" issuance?

In this fascinating discussion with Jens Hachmeister, we walk through the practicalities of designing, building and launching D7 - from the first thoughts through to live issuances today.  We look at what impact digitisation can have on the end to end product lifecycle in real terms - and we also dig into the role (and limits) of DLT in the final platform.