On Monday January 22, the ACSDA Executive Committee held a full day planning meeting in Miami. The Committee has concluded that it is absolutely essential that they periodically meet in person. Speaking on the telephone, which they do regularly, is good for receiving a status however those calls have not always proven effective as a forum for sharing ideas and discussing how to best serve the membership.

This year’s ACSDA Annual General Assembly our 20th will take place in Nassau, Bahamas and will be co-hosted by Bahamas CSD, Barbados CSD, Eastern Caribbean CSD, Jamaica CSD and Trinidad and Tobago CSD. This is the first time the ACSDA General Assembly will take place in the islands of the Caribbean. These member CSDs are collaborating to ensure that we have another tremendous event for our thirty member organizations as well as our partners and guests.

Santiago, January 17th, 2018 - Depósito Central de Valores (DCV) together with other securities depositories and industry providers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in order to work together and demonstrate how DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) could be implemented in post-trade scenarios, what new kinds of products could be built using it, and how existing standards could support it.