Association of Global Custodians
Acronym: AGC
General Information
Identification Code: 813994623570-13
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Entity Form: non-corporate informal association organized in accordance with the applicable law of the US district of Columbia
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 10/13/2016
Last Update: 4/4/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: Established in 1996, the Association of Global Custodians is a group of 12 financial institutions that provide securities safekeeping services and asset-servicing functions to primarily institutional cross-border investors worldwide. As a non-partisan advocacy organization, the Association represents members’ common interests on regulatory and market structure matters through comment letters, white papers and interaction with legislative and regulatory authorities and financial industry organizations. The member banks are competitors, and the Association does not involve itself in member commercial activities or take positions concerning how members should conduct their custody and related businesses. Baker & McKenzie LLP acts as the Association's Secretariat and Counsel.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Banking and financial services
- Taxation
Levels of Interest:
- global
- european
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: The Association of Global Custodians follows potentially any matters arising out of the Financial Services Directorate of the European Commission relating to post-trade and associated tax matters. These include by way of example: ( n)( n)- Capital Markets Union, especially the ongoing work of the European Post-Trade Forum;( n)- AIFMD and UCITS depositary matters;( n)- CSDR, most notably the CSDR Refit; ( n)- Shareholders' Rights Directive II; ( n) DLT Pilot Regime; ( n) the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR), (n) CRD VI.
Communication Activities: Please click on the following link to have access to all the relevant policy implementation, public relations and communication activities : http://www.theagc.com/Europe.htm
Activities related (but not limited) to SFD/FCD, DLT Pilot Regime and MiCAR, CRD VI, as well as depositary-related proposals and legislation (e.g.DLT Pilot Regime and Review of MiFIR Regulatory Technical Standards on Transparency and Reporting ).
Participation in ESMA and European Commission roundtables on CSDR Settlement Discipline and on “Shortening the Settlement Cycle".
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Association of Global Custodians c/o Baker & McKenzie LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Post Code: D.C. 20006-4078
City: Washington
Country: UNITED STATES
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EU Office
Address: Association of Global Custodians c/o Baker & McKenzie LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Post Code: D.C. 20006-4078
City: Washington
Country: UNITED STATES
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 4
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 4
Members F T E: 1
Info Members: All the persons involved work less than 25% in the activities covered by the Register.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Please click on the following link to have access to the list of all the members of the Association of Global Custodians : http://www.theagc.com/members.htm
Organisation Members: N/A