Advocating a safe, efficient and harmonized post-trade environment in global capital markets
The Association of Global Custodians (the "AGC") is committed to supporting the evolution of the post-trade landscape and works to achieve our vision, for the benefit of our clients and the industry, by:
Providing post-trade expertise and thought leadership to encourage best practices and standardization across global market participants
Collaborating with industry bodies, intermediaries and infrastructure to assess impact of market and regulatory developments
Responding to regulatory changes through consultation processes
Engaging with regulators and policy makers by providing them with market expertise, legal and technical knowledge
Co-ordinating annual information gathering on Central Securities Depositories capabilities aligned with respective regulatory frameworks
√ review is published to AGC participants to support adherence of members to regulatory requirements of risk analysis of (I)CSDs
√ Co-ordination and incorporation with the World Forum of CSDs information database
Addressing domestic market changes and rapidly developing socio-economic situations which have global impact for our clients
Contributing to industry examination and appropriate methodologies for themes that are gaining ground in the post-trade space, including settlement acceleration, digital assets, and ESG
About us
Established in 1996, the AGC is a group of 12 financial institutions that provide securities safekeeping services and asset-servicing functions to primarily institutional cross-border investors worldwide. As a non-partisan advocacy organization, the AGC represents members’ common interests on regulatory and market structure matters through comment letters, white papers and interaction with legislative and regulatory authorities and financial industry organizations. The member banks are competitors, and the AGC does not involve itself in member commercial activities or take positions concerning how members should conduct their custody and related businesses. Baker McKenzie acts as the AGC's Secretariat and Counsel.
Members
The Association of Global Custodians is a diversified, global organization focused on creating and supporting industry collaboration across the global custody industry. Comprising the following 12 member banks, the Association engages collaboratively with legislative and regulatory authorities and financial industry organizations in the best interests of the global custody industry, representing investors as well as members on regulatory and related market structure.