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Post-trade

8 November 2026
Dhara Technology
About 6 minutes

Shorter settlement cycles: what changes in your post-trade systems

Europe, the UK and Switzerland move to T+1 on 11 October 2027. When the time between trade and settlement halves, problems that were hidden overnight move into the working day.

T+2T+1

Trade date to settlement. Half the time for every process in between.

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AI in operations

8 November 2026
Dhara Technology
About 6 minutes

AI agents in markets operations: where they help, and where people must approve

Agents are useful in the daily checks that keep platforms healthy. The design question is not what they can do, but what they may do alone.

The agent may

Watch, sort, explain, draft

A person must

Approve, change, release

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Coming next

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Testing a trading-platform upgrade: what to plan before cutoverQuality engineering

Moving a markets platform to the cloud: the questions to ask firstArchitecture

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