Domestic CSDs Working Group
Purpose
The Working Group’s purpose is to research the key challenges and issues that impact the Domestic CSDs i.e. those who mainly serve their local market and international flows into that market. The aim will be to provide ideas and best practice guidance which may be applicable to the local market.
Scope
Current in scope topics for 2025 include:
- Remote Network Due Diligence
 - Managing Change from a CSD Perspective
 - Mutualised Market Technology Solutions
 
Key Deliverables
Remote Network Due Diligence
- Industry Recommendations published (see here)
 - Engage with AFME, WFC and ACG on collaboration to simplify the processes in line with the recommendations. Carried forward to 2025
 
Managing Change from a CSD Perspective
- Publish a paper recommending a framework to effect change with minimal operational disruption and avoding unintended consequence – best practice for rules, system and process
 
Mutualised Market Solutions
- Publish a paper analysing the feasibility of leveraging mutualised technologies and proposing potential models for consideration
 
Key Outcomes
- Assist the Securities Services industry in improving client outcomes, reducing risk and increasing efficiency of the local markets
 
Publications
- Look at what ISSA’s Domestic CSD Working Group has been busy working on -> Managing Change Paper
 - Watch James Fok, CMU OmniClear – and Executive Sponsor of ISSA’s Domestic CSD Working Group – outline the efforts of this group to research the key challenges and issues that impact Domestic CSDs -> link
 - Article ” Domestic – CSD- Due Diligence”, August 2023 > PDF
 - Article on “The Domestic CSD and Resilience”, March 2022 > PDF
 - Article on “The Domestic CSD and Remote Working”, March 2022 > PDF
 
Working Group Chair
- Femi Onifade, Central Securities Clearing System PLC
 - Catherine Tinavapi, Standard Chartered Bank
 
Executive Sponsor
- James Fok, CMU OmniClear
 
Institutions represented by Experts in the Working Group
- Americas’ Central Securities Depositories Association (ACSDA)
 - B3 – Brazilian Exchange and OTC
 - Central Securities Clearing System, Nigeria
 - Central Securities Depository, Ghana Limited
 - Central Securities Depository Joint-Stock Company, Kazakhstan
 - CMA Small Systems AB
 - CMU OmniClear
 - Datos Insights
 - Depósito Central de Valores (DCV)
 - Depozitarul Central S.A.
 - Deutsche Bank AG
 - Deutsche Börse Group
 - Egyptian Central Securities Depositary
 - Euroclear
 - Euronext N.V.
 - FMDQ Group PLC
 - Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
 - Macao Central Securities Depository and Clearing Limited
 - Montran
 - Myriad Group Technologies Ltd
 - Nasdaq, Inc.
 - NSDL Group
 - Standard Chartered Bank
 - The Stock Exchange of Thailand
 - Thomas Murray
 - UBS Group AG