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This session will look back at how the post trade world has changed and evolved over the decades.

Taking many of the themes developed during day one, this first panel discussion of day two will look at the key challenges and opportunities facing our industry, but viewed through the lens of our fellow industry associations. Set against a backdrop of different regulatory, product and business priorities, this session will reconcile regional and product divergence with the need for greater standardisation and the implications for post trade efficiencies across our regions.

Introduction of a joint ESG white paper produced by ISLA and Allen & Overy

ESG is likely to be the single biggest ‘agent for change’ in the way we think about how securities lending programmes work. In a post COVID-19 world, it is already clear that investors are demanding different things from their investment portfolios with a greater emphasis being placed on the wider green agenda. Our markets have to both recognise this change and respond to these changes. This session will debate the key issues that will allow an investor to fully comply with their ESG objectives whilst maintaining an effective lending programme. In particular, the operational questions that need to be addressed around areas such as voting, corporate actions and the management of collateral.

A session outlining the work of the ISLA Legal Steering Group as well Opinions and Documentation sub groups, including ongoing and upcoming priorities for 2021 and implications on legal in terms of the regulatory landscape.

Through the development of the Common Domain Model in 2020, together with the more recent initiative to create a Legal Clause Library, ISLA is developing a series of digital building blocks that will drive future efficiencies across the post trade arena. The session will also explore how these building blocks will lead to the wider use of DLT, smart contracts and tokenisation, technologies that have the potential to transform the market, particularly in the realms of connectivity and collateral optimisation.

Drawing upon the overall conference, this final session will pull the themes and threads of the two days together.