How to better prepare for impacts of political/ country turbulences on our custodian network. Should there be a better industry wide alignment and communication between Network Management teams in such crisis situations? What BCP arrangements are acceptable for Network Managers, especially in anticipation of possible country wide outages as the result of a war or a black out?  Monitoring impact to the due diligence and market/country/sub-custodian review process

How to conduct DDs on new digital asset classes, venues and 3^rd Party vendors – DORA update. How regulation has increased the burden – and what needs to be done/is in place to lessen the load? The growing importance of non-financial data such as ESG criteria. How are firms managing the due diligence process now -is it all remote? If onsite, do NWM go to all the offshored / nearshored locations?

How should it be positioned? What are the core tasks to assign to Network Management to render best benefits to the bank? Risk specialist, regulatory expert, product champion – what is the next skill set Network Managers should have?

This afternoon "open" session is for TNF Annual attendees to plan their own 1-1 meetings. You will be able to connect via the app the week before and arrange informal meetings in the afternoon before the opening reception at 18.00 

Which will be the most important ancillary services in the post trade scene ? How is DLT being used successfully and not so successfully? Fintech partnerships: which platforms really matter?

How green are we really? Is the industry truly making a difference or is this all for show?  ESG trends impacting asset servicing.  Challenges & enablers to sustainable economic growth. Data – the big challenge. How ESG will affect Network Management

• Africa - hosted by Standard Bank 
• GeoPolitics - hosted by John Hulsman
• Third Party Oversight - hosted by S&P

Transition from the asset-centric model to the more data-centric model in the industry. Challenges in sourcing reliable & relevant data from fragmented data pools

Interoperability. Sustainability. New products and asset classes. Competitive landscape

Two x 20 mins presentations:

A. WFC Feedback and Global CSD Issues

B. Greek FMI & Market Latest Initiatives 

In this presentation Thomas Murray experts will guide you through what can happen when attackers target a bank, and why they might not always be successful. They will provide insights from two real-world incidents that impacted payment systems, anti-money laundering controls and internal systems, including a new and novel attack at the time.

Then will follow a discussion on the regulatory, financial, and cyber security challenges you might face in this sort of incident and poll you, the audience, to find out how you would respond under these pressures and what keeps you up at night when thinking about this kind of risk. And finally an explanation of how you can take steps to mitigate the impact of this type of incident and how embedding trusted advisory and experts in your response planning can reduce the impact and help stop the bad guys.

Leda Glyptis will be joining us for an exclusive book signing of her new publication "Bankers Like Us". Come and get your copy!

Shortening settlement cycles and real impact to our settlement ecosystems. Shall Europe follow the T+1 or instant settlement initiative? What are the pros and cons? Lessons learnt from T+1 and CSDR implementation…and other markets (USA, Canada, India). Technological challenges. Tackling friction in the securities industry

* T+1 - hosted by Goldman Sachs

* Digitisation - hosted by Leda Glyptis 

How to tackle succession risk and make our industry more attractive for young talents. How has hybrid normalised in the past 12 months? How is Diversity & Inclusion being embedded across the industry?  Do we see global norms or regional variations?

The game creates a unique opportunity for the audience to understand, discuss and analyse existential issues impacting on their operating environment – be they geopolitical or commercial. The format is based on the scenario simulations used by the CIA and the Pentagon to develop US policy

(please note numbers are strictly limited to 50 attendees for this session: 5 x teams of 10)

A Networking Cocktail Reception on the Atlantis Veranda for all female attendees of TNF Annual Meeting.