Euroclear-Microsoft to Enhance Financial Market Infrastructure
BRUSSELS, 30th January 2025 – Euroclear has entered into a 7-year strategic partnership with Microsoft seeking to improve customer experience and development of new growth opportunities.
This collaboration is focused on integrating Microsoft’s cloud and AI systems into capital markets to increase productivity and innovation.
This partnership will add focus to Euroclear business ecosystem and technology infrastructure by integrating Microsoft’s cloud computing technologies.
The goal of this initiative is to create value for other industry players and open new avenues within the capital markets ecosystem.
Microsoft will back these strategic objectives of Euroclear, which are focused on investment and client experience, as well as on building a Digital and Data-Enabled Financial Market Infrastructure in the long run.
As a result of this alliance, Euroclear will be able to establish groud-breaking digital and data centric initiatives.
This will promote the collaboration of other industry players for joint solution creation based on homogeneous or interoperable technologies which will ease the work of ecosystem service providers, issuers, and investors.
The quote from Valérie Urbain, the Euroclear CEO, is telling us that,
“The latest advancements in the cloud, AI, and analytics nowadays are crucial for the innovative strategy as well as for building new business channels.”
From today to tomorrow, Microsoft’s technology leadership, as well as their understanding of financial markets, make it is an ideal strategic partner for the next stage in our journey.
This type of mutually beneficial business relations will greatly accelerate our ambitions and moves us much closer to clients.
However, Ralph Haupter, EMEA at Microsoft has a different opinion. According to him,
“Their vast financial network, which connects over 2000 financial organizations, in combination with Microsoft cloud such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Teams, and trust will boost our collaboration with Euroclear.”
From their side, we are now using Microsoft’s tools to shift from traditional exclusive sequential work to an ecoystem capital markets model.
This will allow the financial institutions to innovate the way they communicate, analyze data, and empower users while driving efficiency across the industry.
With the integration of generative AI and cloud resources, Microsoft will help to facilitate platform development and operations.
Through these flexible cloud resources and automated rapid disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, we are increasing Euroclear’s resilience and security as well as enhancing it further by utilizing Microsoft’s solutions.
Developing an ecosystem for financial data sharing: Building a secured platform for collaboration and sharing of data by using Microsoft’s trusted identity and confidential data sharing and collaboration features.
The Partnership focuses on the following pillars for the year 2025:
Transforming the global offering of Euroclear’s FundPlace: Euroclear FundsPlace: Using AI insights for improved customer experience by streamlining business operations and increasing market participant efficiency.
Modernizing customer engagement: Enabling evolving unified client-facing operations to enhance Euroclear’s customer interactions across all business lines.
Strengthening the market infrastructure: Developing next-generation compliant, secure, and reliable financial infrastructure, to support mission-critical workloads.
To enable all partners and value for the clients as well as ecosystem partners to be sure that the purpose of designing the partnership is achieved, the members of IT and Business sides of both organizations will jointly develop and supervise the partnership from the side of Senior Executives.
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