5 Reasons Why Interoperability is Key to Post-Trade Success
By Angie Walker, Global Head of Business Development, Capital Markets, R3
The pandemic has illustrated that digital transformation of entire industries, almost overnight, is possible. But the world of post-trade services appears to be lagging behind other parts of capital markets infrastructure when it comes to digitisation and the representation of the lifecycle through a single common infrastructure. Market participants no longer need to compromise through disparate, siloed systems at significant cost to their franchise in terms of resources, efficiency and avoidable failure. The technology already exists in production today to allow a wide variety of market participants and associated service providers/vendors to interoperate through the use of these common infrastructures and shared services.