Association of Global Custodians

Acronym: AGC

General Information

Identification Code: 813994623570-13

Website: http://www.theagc.com/

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

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

Phone:

Indic Phone: 1

Phone Number: 2024527000

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

Phone:

Indic Phone: 1

Phone Number: 2024527000

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Membership Information

Members25 Percent: 4

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