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  "id": 13889946,
  "title": "Beyond T+1: Rewiring Custody for the 24/7 Market",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/beyond-t-1-rewiring-custody-for-the-24-7-market",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-12T06:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Global Finance",
    "slug": "global-finance",
    "url": "https://gfmag.com/transaction-banking/beyond-t1-rewiring-custody-for-24-7-market/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Beyond T+1: Rewiring Custody for the 24/7 Market\n\nThe shift to shorter settlement cycles marks a fundamental change in the financial landscape. Traditional custody and payment systems, designed for standard banking hours, now struggle to keep pace with the 24/7 nature of markets. This gap is driving custodians to rethink their infrastructure and operations.\n\nDBS Bank is at the forefront of this transformation. By integrating blockchain-powered token services with custody and digital exchange services, DBS has created an always-on financial ecosystem. Citigroup's Custody+ platform, powered by SEP technology, takes this a step further by enabling real-time settlement and automated processing of income events, corporate actions and tax processing. This not only improves efficiency but also provides clients with earlier liquidity, turning faster settlement into a strategic advantage.\n\nHowever, the move to 24/7 markets is not just about technology. Building trust and confidence is equally important. Institutional-grade safeguards, including secure key management and transparent recovery processes, are crucial to ensure that the system is resilient and secure. The success of this new custodial paradigm will be measured by its ability to provide reliable, secure, and efficient services around the clock.\n\nMajor players in the industry are actively operationalizing this shift. They are stripping away the obsolescence of batch-driven infrastructure, driven by the need for instantaneous collateral movement and the proliferation of tokenized real-world assets. This shift is being supported by advanced security measures, such as multiparty computation and hardware security modules, ensuring that high-value movements remain secure and verifiable even outside of standard banking hours.\n\nThe buy side is also driving this change. Firms like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Fidelity are using public ledgers and smart contracts to enable continuous yield, peer-to-peer collateral transfers, and round-the-clock fund servicing. These initiatives signal a move towards programmable financial services, where the infrastructure of 24/7 custody is built on three key pillars: tokenized liquidity, automated servicing, and advanced security orchestration.\n\nAs custodians dismantle legacy constraints and focus on always-on capabilities, the race is no longer about who settles fastest, but who builds the most reliable architecture for a global economy that never sleeps. This shift is transforming custody from a post-trade function into a strategic advantage, allowing for continuous operations, continuous yield opportunities, and real-time liquidity management in the always-on market.",
  "summary": "Faster settlement is forcing banks and treasurers to rethink liquidity, payments, and custody. The post Beyond T+1: Rewiring Custody for the 24/7 Market appeared first on Global Finance Magazine .",
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