(This article was updated on June 18, 2020)
The global impact of the coronavirus has created tremendous challenges for companies across sectors, including financial services. Like all our colleagues in business, our priority is to protect the safety and well-being of our employees and their families as well as members of the broader DTCC community. As a critical market infrastructure, however, we also have a responsibility to seamlessly execute for the industry and provide stability for the financial system – a role that is magnified during times of crisis when markets are extremely volatile, and our clients and others are looking to us to safeguard the system.
As we’ve seen over the past several months, despite the unpredictability of the markets, our firm is steadfast, and we have robust business continuity standards and controls in place and resilience embedded into our systems and operations to manage during a wide variety of crisis scenarios. Like our colleagues across the industry, we have implemented a series of policies, including remote working, to prevent the spread of the virus within our offices. We continue to are closely monitor the situation and have the agility and flexibility to quickly adjust our approach as needed as things evolves.
We are living through a very difficult time, and as the past few months demonstrate, events are moving faster than we’ve ever seen before. Please know that while this pandemic will challenge our firm and our industry, it will not change the way we perform for our clients. To all our stakeholders, please be safe.
If you have any questions, please call your relationship manager or send an email to [email protected].
UPDATES
June 15, 2020: DTC’s Physical Securities Processing resumed limited services on Monday, May 18, 2020 for previously submitted transactions and certificates. DTC resumed limited services for new physical securities transactions on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. DTC resumed services on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 for All Non-FAST securities issuances that were previously closed with a Letter of Securities Possession (LOP). Please read Important Notice B#13402-20: Partial Resumption of DTC Physical Securities Processing, posted May 14, 2020, and Important Notice B#13516-20: New Issuances: Resumption of Non-FAST Physical Processing, posted on June 10, 2020.
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