Thinking Aloud With Bnp Paribas

In this episode, we want to dive into blockchain technology and explore with you how it could foster change in the world of fund distribution.

Regulators and capital markets industry groups worldwide are pushing to shorten settlement cycles in equity trading.  Alan Cameron, Head of Financial Intermediaries and Corporates Client Line Advisory, Securities Services, BNP Paribas, and Aman Mehta, APAC Sales Director and APAC Digital Assets Lead for Securities Services, BNP Paribas,  spoke with GlobalTrading editor, Terry Flanagan about the long-term trend  of shorten settlement cycle and its implications for market participants.   

In this Thinking Aloud podcast, we explore CSDR and the settlement discipline regime post-implementation.

Natacha Dezert, Blockchain & Digital Assets Program Manager for BNP Paribas Securities Services, and Aman Mehta, APAC Sales Director and APAC Digital Assets Lead for BNP Paribas Securities Services, discuss how digital assets are changing the business of the institutional investors with Markets Media Group Senior Writer Shanny Basar.

Head of Client Engagement for Technology, Stephane Lubenec joins Alan Cameron to discuss the why resiliency is not longer the preserve of BCP teams and how it must reach all corners of an organisation.

Alan Cameron shares his thoughts on how adaptations made as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic could result in permanent efficiency gains for our industry.

UK COO Mark Daisley joins Alan Cameron to discuss how the industry’s thinking around Operational Resilience has been impacted by Covid-19

AFMEs Managing Director of post trade, Stephen Burton, provides his perspective on the Settlement Discipline Regime.

Funds Europe talked to the experts, including our Head of Alternatives in Asia-Pacific, about the Variable Capital Company (VCC), the new corporate structure seeking to position Singapore as the premier investment hub in the Asia Pacific region for traditional & alternative fund managers.

BNP Paribas UK country head, Anne Marie Verstraeten, on Brexit, the UK economy, and building a sustainable future.

The launch of the London-Shanghai Stock Connect marked an important milestone in the opening up of China’s capital markets. Whilst this initiative hit the headlines, there are of course a multitude of other schemes that allow international investors to access China. In this episode Gary O’Brien returns to discuss the options and what he expects to see in the future.

In this episode our focus turns to Asia as Alan Cameron discusses Third Party Clearing with our Head of Custody Product APAC, Gary O’Brien. Listen now to discover why banks and brokers are looking to outsource their clearing activity and what’s next for the region.