Transforming the banking balance sheet: a pan-European CSD solution

European settlement and funding operations are creating a larger efficiency opportunity than many firms currently recognise. The challenge is not only operational friction, but the way fragmented structures continue to affect liquidity usage, buffers, balance sheet flexibility and the cost of capital. 

Where does the real value of post-trade transformation in Europe sit? What changes when firms look beyond settlement cost alone and assess the broader treasury and balance sheet implications?

This session brings together Dirk Loscher and Marcus Austin of Clearstream, Matthew Keys-Lumley of Barclays and Barnaby Nelson of The ValueExchange to examine what a different European model could look like in practice and where the economic case for change becomes most visible.

The session highlights:

• Up to euro (EUR) 37 million of efficiency is available across European settlement and funding operations

• 84% of the upside sits with treasury rather than operations

• Consolidation into a single European model is a stronger lever than incremental process fixes

• Treasury and operations often remain too disconnected to unlock the full opportunity

• T+1 is increasing the pressure to shorten chains and improve predictability in funding and settlement