Asset Servicing in a Digital World

Post-Trade Processing, Corporate Actions, Blockchain, AI and Digital Assets in Capital Markets

What you’ll learn
Understand how asset servicing and corporate actions operate within modern capital markets infrastructure
Explain how blockchain technology, digital assets, and tokenization interact with financial market systems
Compare traditional exchanges and financial infrastructure with emerging decentralized financial technologies
Understand the roles of stablecoins, CBDCs, and digital settlement systems in future financial markets
Evaluate how technologies such as tokenization, stablecoins, and CBDCs may influence future capital markets

Requirements
Basic familiarity with financial markets or capital markets is helpful but not required. The course explains core concepts step-by-step and introduces the necessary terminology as we go along.
No programming experience required.

Description
Asset Servicing in a Digital World

Financial markets are undergoing one of the most significant technological transformations in decades. Technologies such as blockchain, digital assets, artificial intelligence, and tokenization are beginning to reshape the infrastructure that powers global capital markets.

This course explores how these emerging technologies intersect with the world of asset servicing and post-trade processing, with a particular focus on corporate actions, financial market infrastructure, and digital financial systems.

You will learn how blockchain networks function, how digital assets and tokenization are evolving, and how decentralized applications interact with financial infrastructure. We also explore the role of governance, regulation, and exchanges within emerging digital markets.

A key focus of the course is understanding how new digital systems connect to existing capital markets infrastructure. Topics such as stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized securities, decentralized exchanges, and blockchain governance are explored through the lens of real financial market operations.

This course is designed for professionals in Capital Markets — particularly those working in post-trade and operations roles, including asset servicing professionals, Business and Systems analysts, Product Owners, and Project Managers.

By the end of the course, you will have a clear conceptual understanding of how traditional financial systems and digital technologies intersect — and how these changes may influence the future of global capital markets.

Who this course is for
Professionals working in capital markets, securities processing, or asset servicing
Corporate actions and post-trade specialists who want to understand emerging digital technologies
Financial technology professionals interested in blockchain and digital assets
Students and analysts seeking a structured introduction to digital financial infrastructure
Anyone interested in how blockchain and tokenization may reshape capital markets