DTCC  has won Market Infrastructure of the Year at the ninth annual Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence

HONG KONG, 5 November 2026 – The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has won the Market Infrastructure of the Year award at the ninth annual Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence, presented at The St. Regis hotel in Hong Kong. 

DTCC's Global Trade Repository service (GTR) is the repository of record for three Asia-Pacific regulators - MAS, JFSA, and ASIC – and manages around 80% of global reportable derivatives. During 2026, DTCC’s GTR delivered Hong Kong's reporting rewrite and completed its Asia-Pacific cloud migration. In Hong Kong, DTCC acts as an agent for financial institutions reporting to the HKMA. 

This year's recognition highlights DTCC's successful support of the Hong Kong Trade Repository (HKTR) derivatives reporting rewrite, where DTCC introduced a testing simulator and real-time validation responses to help firms detect errors early and accelerate remediation. In addition, DTCC completed the migration of all its APAC Trade Repository services to cloud processing platforms for greater flexibility and scalability while launching two new MiFID Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs), the EU MiFID ARM and the UK MiFID ARM, to support APAC firms with European and UK reporting obligations. 

The award recognises the CSD, CCP, trade repository or payment system that made the greatest systemic contribution through efficiency, transparency, resilience and modernisation. Judges assessed market infrastructures on systemic contribution, modernisation and innovation, resilience, and transparency and risk mitigation. 

“The only genuine cross-APAC trade repository, with regulatory-authorised status in three APAC markets. In Hong Kong, the rewrite was delivered during the year and the cloud migration completed,” said a member of the independent judging panel. 

“Supervisors rely on trade repositories to see risk building. DTCC's repository serves several of the region's supervisors, and kept modernising during the year,” said Nick Wakefield, Co-founder, Regulation Asia. 

DTCC previously won the award in 2023 and returns to it this year. As with every returning winner, the panel judged this year's entry on its own merits rather than on past results. DTCC was also recognised this year as the award recipient in Best Trade Reporting Solution category. 

About DTCC 

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 19 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers.  

Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2025, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at USD 4.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at USD 114 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually.  

To learn more, please visit www.dtcc.com or connect on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. 

About the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 

Now in their ninth year, the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence recognise achievements advancing regulatory practice across Asia-Pacific. 

The judging process involves an independent panel of senior industry practitioners and the Awards Committee. Entries are assessed against published, award-specific criteria covering Asia-Pacific relevance and material developments in the twelve months to 30 June 2026. Awards are granted against a defined standard rather than relative to other entries. 

Judging decisions are independent of editorial and commercial operations. There is no entry, shortlisting or winner fee, and commercial relationships do not influence results. 

About Regulation Asia 

Regulation Asia is a regulatory intelligence platform covering banking and financial markets across Asia-Pacific. Its news, insights and analysis serve more than 30,000 financial services professionals at over 1,000 financial institutions in more than 60 countries, as well as regulators, exchanges, technology firms and service providers. 

Media contact: 

Nick Wakefield, Co-founder, Regulation Asia 
nick@regulationasia.com