Depositary Bank Agent - Role, Responsibilities and Key Functions in Practice

After completing this course, participants will be able to understand:

• The roles and responsibilities of depositaries
• How the depositary interacts with other stakeholders
• How the depositary performs its oversight over counterparts
• How the depositary performs its oversight over funds (portfolio transactions, investor transactions, collateral management, NAV calculation)

• Refresher of the key aspects of the depositary’s legal framework, types of instruments and functions performed
• The interactions of the depositary with other stakeholders
• The supervision of counterparts
• Collateral management
• The supervision of transactions in instruments
• The supervision of investor transactions
• The supervision the NAV calculation
• Key elements regarding crisis management
• Specific issues pertaining to master-feeder structures