Digital Assets are making headlines every day – from Crypto and CBDC to NFTs and more. But what does it mean for post trade processing? Do we even need post-trade processing for these assets? Ascendant Strategy can help you to understand what the future might hold, how to manage the present, and how to shape your transformation

Most organisations are approaching a “digitised” world where most post trade tasks are automated, and exceptions are resolved using shared data sets. As the underlying assets start to become digital assets, the processing model changes materially (see here for more on this transition). The degree of change required is driven by the business model adopted to offer these assets to your clients. Key aspects that drive this are:

1. The new model can deliver significant efficiencies – but to achieve this there are major process changes required. Some processes disappear whilst others will need to move to pre-trade – click here for more
2. Regulatory aspects – we can expect this to be rapidly converging on what we see for traditional assets (see here for more on this)
3. In-house versus partnering – leveraging other organisations to provide parts of the process as opposed to owning the entire infrastructure (more here)

Contact Ascendant Strategy for a different transformation experience, one which is tailored to your challenges to deliver the right outcome.