As always the industry has learnt and moved forward. The ISSA, GDF and Deloitte Digital Asset Custody paper is just one example of the industry working together to spur solutions and reduce the risks in the market. The market is addressing the issues and showing that adoption can generate both substantive cost savings but more interestingly re-invent the revenue opportunities through simplification. Success drives success and the data on ecosystem growth is particularly insightful.

The ISSA DLT Working Group has been at the forefront of this digital asset journey to help the securities industry understand the latest trends, what evolutions to expect in the future, make sense of the practical considerations and challenges, with the aim of shining a forward looking light for the industry through our thought leadership.

With this spirit, we partnered with the ValueExchange, four years ago to create an industry survey to track the real world evolution of DLT and digital assets from the perspective of the market. We are very excited to be publishing, for our fourth year running, what has become the one survey that creates the DLT discussion in the Securities Services industry. This an exciting new report brings even deeper insights than before and participation beyond the traditional banks and infrastructures in our industry.

Together with the ISSA CEO, Colin Parry, we would like to especially thank the huge number of people and firms who participated in this report and provided their valuable input as well as our 2023 survey sponsors - Accenture, Broadridge, Fnality and Metaco. We hope this report will not only be insightful to you but also help you benchmark your organisation's DLT and digital asset journey compared to the industry’s trajectory. As we move forward on the agenda of the working group, we look forward to working with you to use the insights from this report to drive further thought leadership and industry engagement via the ISSA DLT working group.