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Shareholder transparency is important for issuers, who need to know the ultimate owners of their shares. Determining an issuer’s domestic investors is usually straightforward but identifying cross-border holdings can entail working down a sizeable chain of intermediaries. Manual processes, differing approaches to communication and uncertainty about the rules governing disclosure make this slow and…

T2S aims to integrate and harmonise Europe’s settlement processes and infrastructure. However, its chances of success will significantly increase if key elements of this harmonisation take place before the first wave of migration. Here we outline five of those harmonisation issues.

1. Moving to T+2 will be challenging

Reducing settlement times is likely…