Introduction from ISSA

Digital Assets and DLT, have progressively become one of the most important themes for the Securities industry and regulators over the past years. While the initial focus had been on experimentation, overcoming the challenge of the technology and lack of regulation, the focus in 2022 has evolved into driving initiatives into a live environment and pushing regulators to enable market actors to progress with their projects and ensuring the build-up of the ecosystem.

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 ValueExchange, three 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 on our third year running, with an exciting new report bringing 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 everyone who participated in this report and provided their valuable input as well as our 2022 survey sponsors - Accenture, Broadridge and VMWare. We hope this report will not only be insightful to you but also help you benchmark your organization'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.

Glen Fernandes and Urs Sauer

Co-Chairs ISSA DLT Working Group