Proactive Post-Trade: Data, Digital Channels, and Verifiable Identity on the Road to T+1

Europe's move to T+1 settlement by October 2027 is putting pressure on every link in the post-trade chain. Matching, confirmation, settlement, collateral management, liquidity — all of it needs to move faster, and with far fewer errors.  In this episode, GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech sits down with Maria Keller, Head of Data, Channels and Digital Operations at Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, to explore what that shift demands from post-trade data infrastructure — and how Clearstream is responding.  They discuss: - Why instruction quality is the real bottleneck on the path to straight-through processing - How AI is enabling clients to interrogate their own post-trade data in natural language - The role of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in reducing friction in cross-border settlement - Clearstream's runner-up recognition at the GLEIF Hackathon for using the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) as a secure login standard - What "proactive" post-trade operations actually look like in practice  "High-quality data creates trust. And trust is really important if we want to move to the next level of financial markets." — Eva-Maria Keller