T2S: Creating a New Post-trade Landscape

Abstract

Today, although being highly efficient in national markets, the European settlement infrastructure provides a complex, highly fragmented picture, which is characterised by national specificities and barriers. This prevents competition and efficient cross-border settlement at reasonable costs and also comes with operational risks. Target2-Securities (T2S) sets out to provide an infrastructure which will remove those handicaps. But once the infrastructure is in production starting in 2015, T2S is supposed to act as a game changer which will initiate a sustainable transformation of the whole post-trade securities servicing industry.