Journal of Securities Operations & Custody

About the Journal

Journal of Securities Operations & Custody is the definitive new peer-reviewed professional journal analysing best practice, new thinking and emerging issues in securities processing and custody.

Published quarterly and guided by an expert Editorial Board, each 100-page issue contains practical, intellectually rigorous articles and case studies analysing the latest thinking and best practice in strategic planning for operations and custody for collective investment funds, equities, fixed income, derivatives and other securities.

It provides practical ‘how-to’ guidance for securities processors and custodians with actionable advice and ‘lessons learned’ from fellow practitioners, demonstrating how investment managers, broker-dealers, fund administrators, custodians, depositories and exchanges have successfully leveraged their operation and custody processes to improve efficiency, competitive advantage, client service, risk management and cost control on topics including: 

• improving operational efficiency and the processing cycle
• measuring and reducing processing costs throughout the securities
  life cycle
• establishing and integrating STP capabilities
• managing corporate actions processing and risk
• improving clearing and settlement processes
• measuring the value of standardisation initiatives
• implications of legal and regulatory updates for operations and custody systems and processes
• minimising trade failures and errors
• managing operational, financial and legal risk
• securities lending, collateral management and the repo market
• order and trade management
• matching, comparison and confirmation
• control, record-keeping and reporting
• data management  

Each issue of Journal of Securities Operations & Custody publishes:

Detailed, practical guidance - authoritative articles analysing best practice, new thinking and emerging issues, written by leading operations managers, custodians and regulators.

Practitioner-focused case studies - authors based at investment managers, broker-dealers, custodian banks, fund administrators, exchanges and depositories show how they have specified, designed, implemented, audited and updated operations and custody solutions in practice. 

Case studies scheduled for Volume 1 to benchmark your organisation against include: Bank of Ireland; Braddock Financial; Brown Brothers Harriman; Citigroup; Clearstream; Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation; Deutsche Börse; Freddie Mac; Goldman Sachs; Jefferies and Company; Lloyds TSB Registrars; Merrill Lynch; Morgan Stanley; National Depository for Securities, Poland; Prudential; RBC Dexia Investor Services; RMF Investment Management; SwapsWire; SWIFT and Tremont Capital Management.
     
Briefings on operations and custody issues for key instruments and jurisdictions – including collective investment funds, equities, fixed-income, derivatives and other securities in key markets worldwide.

Regulator updates on the practical implications of regulation for operations and custodian services.

Briefings on best practice for key instruments and jurisdictions

Essential source material for Departmental Heads, Managing Directors, Directors, VPs, SVPs, EVPs and Presidents of:

• Operations
• Custody
• Brokerage
• Trading
• Dealing
• Portfolio management
• Securities lending and repo
• Clearing & settlement
• Corporate actions
• Data management
• Product management
• Securities services
• Network management; as well as
• CEOs, CTOs, CFOs, COOs and CROs
• Regulators
• Lawyers
• Educators

Based at:

• Investment managers
• Broker-dealers
• Custodian banks
• Fund administrators
• Regulators
• Exchanges
• Depositories
• Securities commissions
• Central banks
• Law firms
• Service providers and vendors