ISSA Symposium 2025 – Programme
6 – 8 May 2025 – UBS Conference Centre Wolfsberg, Switzerland
Programme: Securities Services – Clients, Technology and Risk
| Tuesday, 6 May 2025 | |
| Morning | Arrival of Participants |
| 12:00 – 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 13:35 | Opening Symposium / Welcome Remarks |
| 13:35 – 14:45 | Securities Services – Clients, Technology and Risk |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Collateral – changing needs and availability |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Panel – Client and Issuer View on Securities Services |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | Current Working Group Activities |
| 17:15 – 18:15 | Market Place: Presentation of Working Group Activities |
| Accelerated Settlement | |
| Asset Servicing | |
| Digital Identity and Onboarding | |
| Domestic CSDs | |
| Evolving Technologies | |
| 19:00 – 22:30 | Cocktails and Dinner |
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 | |
| 07:00 – 08:15 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Reflection on the First Day |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Future of Securities Services |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Demographic timebomb in Securities Services – The Right People, the Right Environment, the Right Skills |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 -11:45 | Fireside chat: The changing face of Cyber Risk |
| 11:45 – 15:30 | Introduction to the Breakout Sessions |
| Breakout Sessions – Group Discussions | |
| Theme 1: Moving to Digital and AI | |
| Theme 2: Networked Securities Services | |
| Theme 3: Accelerated Settlement | |
| Theme 4: Realizing Evolving Technologies | |
| Theme 5: Optimizing the Securities Services demographic | |
| Theme 6: Emerging Risks in a Changing World | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch between the Group Discussions |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Breakout Sessions – Consolidation |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Market Place: Presentation of Working Group Activities |
| Financial Crime Compliance | |
| Investor Solutions | |
| Out of Network Assets Sustainability and Securities Services | |
| ISSA – Securities Services Risks | |
| 19:00 – 22:30 | Cocktails and Dinner |
Thursday, 8 May 2025 | |
| 07:00 – 08:15 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Reflection on the Second Day |
| 08:45 – 10:30 | Breakout Sessions – Feedback Key Recommendation for Next Steps of Activities |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | ISSA’s Next Priorities: Discussion on Shaping the Future of Securities Services Review with the audience / collective feedback |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | Handover from Vicky Kyproglou to Margaret Harwood-Jones / Introduction of the new Vice Chair |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Closing Remarks of the ISSA Chair |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch and Departures |