Time is Running Out: Nordic Financial Institutions Must Accelerate T+1 Settlement Preparations
Regulatory status checked: 10 August 2026. Regulation (EU) 2025/2075 requires in-scope transactions in transferable securities executed on EU trading venues to move from a maximum T+2 settlement cycle to T+1 from 11 October 2027. Nordic financial institutions participating in EU securities markets should now assess their readiness across the full trading and settlement chain. A […]
CMP Expands Partner Group and Opens Jutland Office to Fuel Growth
The financial-services advisory firm CMP is appointing Lene Hjortshøj as a new partner and opening an office in Aarhus to strengthen its capital-markets and energy-trading capabilities across the Nordic region. Copenhagen / Aarhus CMP is expanding its partner group and physical presence. The company has appointed Lene Hjortshøj as a partner. She brings more than […]
Capital Market Partners establishes presence in Norway
Capital Market Partners establishes presence in Norway Capital Market Partners (CMP), a financial-services advisory firm, is expanding its Nordic presence with an office in Oslo. The firm will advise clients in the Norwegian financial sector across strategy, regulation, processes and technology. The Copenhagen-based consultancy opened its Oslo office on 1 May. The office supports CMP’s […]
The 200-Hour Barrier: Breaking the Deadlock of Legacy Migration with AI
From Months to Hours: How I Revived Legacy Code with an AI Co-Pilot A legacy C++ application comprising 150 source files and 76,000 lines of code had remained dormant since 2006, deemed too costly to migrate. In this article, I share how my experiment with AI assistance slashed the estimated migration time by 96%, proving […]
EU Tightens the Grip
Regulatory status checked: 10 August 2026. The Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the Retail Investment Strategy on 18 December 2025. The package was still awaiting formal adoption and publication at the date of this review. Its provisions should therefore be described as agreed legislative changes rather […]
Harmonisation of the EU post-trade markets: New insights to maximize investments.
The first was sponsored by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges and prepared by Oliver Wyman under the title “The liquidity matrix. Addressing the fragmentation in European equity markets”. The second is a publication by the European Central Bank titled “Remaining barriers to integration in securities post-trade services – issues and recommendations”. “The liquidity matrix” […]
The Post Trade Open-Heart Surgery No One Can Avoid
The post-trade environment is entering a phase that can best be compared to open-heart surgery. Most of the time, the system beats quietly in the background, keeping markets functioning without anyone noticing. But when something changes – or fails – the entire circulatory system of financial markets is at stake. And right now, significant changes […]
ESG investments – now what?
ESG Investments or sustainable investments have long been attractive for those investors, who wanted to support the transition to a sustainable and “green” economy through their investments. ESG investments have been supported (to some degree) by regulation, first and foremost in the EU, but also to a lesser degree in the US. Suppliers of financial […]
Capital Market Partners’ M&A Services
M&A activity is stirring in the Danish financial sector. Not least, Nykredit’s bid for Spar Nord has sparked further interest in consolidation discussions among banks. We also see this trend in the pension and insurance sectors. For many years, a recurring theme has been that 65-70% of acquisitions and integrations fail to achieve the objectives […]
Drill, baby, drill
Just as all of us, who are engaged in facilitating the transition to a sustainable economy on market terms, are looking forward to having the data needed to create insights and advice customers, the whole trajectory got thrown into uncertainty. Finance professionals have accepted to be the horses before the carriage in the last couple […]