The Impact of Information Technology on European Post-Trading

The European post-trading landscape is recently changing fundamentally due to regulatory actions, the financial crisis, and the strong linkage of the global financial markets. The systemic importance of post-trading infrastructures underlines the industry’s significant dependence on safe and efficient processes and thus the importance of reliable IT-systems. Using the Delphi methodology in a study among a multitude of experts from different areas of post-trading, we developed a joint and coherent view of the most important issues relating to IT the post-trading system has to cope with