Hints and tips:
...This week has brought a flurry of announcements about blockchain projects ahead of next week’s Sibos financial conference in Geneva....
...As soon as the [European] Commission has a chance to look at it, it can form the basis of an equivalency decision,” said Mark Wetjen, head of global public policy at the DTCC, on the sidelines of the Sibos...
...And when he delivered a keynote speech this week at Sibos, the vast annual banking conference held this year in Boston, the symbolism was rich....
...Worries about rising compliance costs were a key theme of the recent Sibos financial services conference in Dubai, with attendees concerned about the increased cost of compliance but to little competitive...
...As delegates from the world’s payments, custodial, asset servicing and post-trade industries attend this year’s Sibos conference in Toronto, the memory of the turmoil of 2008 is fading....
...By contrast, settlement in the US is handled in one place, at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp....
...This theme cropped up at last week’s Sibos conference in Amsterdam. Expect it to do the same in Chicago this week....
...Last year’s Sibos conference in Sydney attracted 5,300 attendees, including delegates and exhibitors....
...The news, which reached Australia well into the evening, quickly became the main topic of conversation at the cocktail parties organised to coincide with Sibos, the payments industry’s main conference....
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