- Ben van der Velpen, Managing Director at the Dutch Advisory Committee Securities Industry, underlined that automation is no longer optional. “We need at least automation of post-trade processes because of the shortening of the settlement cycle, system upgrades, but also workload redesign,” he said. The Committee has identified around 64 issues connected to T+1, none of which are purely domestic, showing that the challenge is European in scope. Harmonisation, he suggested, is the missing link.
Modernising asset servicing – speed is nothing without harmonisation | PostTrade 360°
