We have re-designed the issuance, cancellation, and servicing of American Depositary Receipts to unlock market growth and simplify processing for securities services with new market infrastructure. Digital ADRs are just the start.
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Connect your legacy securities services to a new institutional-grade market infrastructure that operates across borders, fully compliant with US and foreign regulatory obligations.
Any registered broker/dealer can request establishment of new securities and issuances and cancellation of units.
Any qualified TA can manage securities reference, securities event notifications, and register data for all members.
Any qualified provider can join to offer competitive FX conversion and cross-border payments from issuers to investors.
Any qualified custodian can connect their existing safekeeping capabilities to enable the creation of DRs in international markets.
Existing market players come together to operate, integrate, and control an international infrastructure for more efficient cross-borders processing of securities and in digital format.
Initially we bring UK public equity (listed in FTSE 350) more efficiently into the US. The next set of markets have already been identified.
A single membership provides the basis to compliantly offer securities services or request service from a network of connected fintechs and regulated providers.
Re-use time tested standards and connect your legacy systems to our new infrastructure. Get started rapidly by using a graphical user interface and achieve full automation via API integration.
The infrastructure allocates service requests to you or identifies a competitive provider from the network for your needs. End-end workflows and shared services further drive operational efficiencies.
Financial institutions that join the DSDC as members get a seat in the governance body. The governance body makes all strategic decisions on how the technology, operational, legal, and risk framework must evolve for the network to remain highly competitive.
DSDC represents a distributed market infrastructure of insitutional-grade with well designed operating model, legal framework, technology stack, governance and risk management.
About UsFor may years we have been trying to get into the ADR space. DSDC is lowering entry barriers by unbundling the post-trade
The approach to start with a laser focus on one asset class and then grow from there, is the only one that works. Well done.
We've explored public networks; finally this allows us to participate in the digital space.
Investors will love it.
