Review of Securities Settlement and Collateral Management Operations

Description

The Bank of England is the United Kingdom's central bank and exists to ensure monetary and financial stability. It sets interest rates to achieve the inflation target; has responsibility for UK financial stability; is active in a range of financial markets; and issues bank notes. The Bank is reviewing its financial markets securities settlement, collateral management and asset servicing operations. This includes a review of the Bank's main collateral management and settlement systems and the related operating model considerations. The RFI document can be found at https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login and includes further detail on the Bank's operations and considerations, including the information requested from interested suppliers. The deadline to respond is 17:00 18/12/23. The Bank is reviewing its securities settlement, collateral management and asset servicing operations. This includes a review of the Bank's main collateral management and settlement systems and the related operating model considerations, and how to respond and be ready for ongoing and future post trade innovation and 'digitisation' in particular. As part of the Bank's review, this RFI is designed to further inform the Bank's thinking, both in terms of its future operating model as well as potential system solutions. The Bank would welcome engagement from a range of suppliers, system integrators and service providers. This will allow the Bank to gather and assess responses from the wider market, and to then use these responses to facilitate engagement and to support any future decision making regarding any future processes. The Bank is also looking to form a view on the likely costs, with due regard to value for money considerations, to enable it to set reasonable budgets for the capabilities it may need. It is not the intent of the Bank to compare responses for the purposes of any pre-qualification or short listing. This is a 'Request For Information' only.