Proactive Post-Trade: Data, Digital Channels, and Verifiable Identity on the Road to T+1

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Europe's move to T+1 settlement by October 2027 is putting pressure on every link in the post-trade chain. Matching, confirmation, settlement, collateral management, liquidity — all of it needs to move faster, and with far fewer errors.

In this episode, GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech sits down with Eva-Maria Keller, Executive Director and Head of Data, Channels and Digital Operations at Clearstream (Deutsche Börse Group), to explore what that shift demands from post-trade data infrastructure — and how Clearstream is responding.

They discuss:

• Why instruction quality is the real bottleneck on the path to straight-through processing
• How AI is enabling clients to interrogate their own post-trade data in natural language
• The role of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in reducing friction in cross-border settlement
• Clearstream's runner-up recognition at the GLEIF Hackathon for using the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) as a secure login standard
• What "proactive" post-trade operations actually look like in practice

"High-quality data creates trust. And trust is really important if we want to move to the next level of financial markets." — Eva-Maria Keller

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