In this Issue

• Gala Dinner Event – Limited Tickets Left
• ACSA Celebrates 30 Years
• Industry Leaders
• Thank you to sponsors

Celebrating our success

Limited Tickets Available

We’re celebrating 30 years of service, innovation, and leadership within Australia's custody and investment services industry.

Since its founding in 1996, the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) has been the trusted voice of the custody sector - championing excellence, driving collaboration, and supporting the evolution of financial markets.

This milestone Gala Dinner will bring together industry leaders, members, and key stakeholders from across the financial services landscape to reflect on ACSA's achievements, acknowledge contributions, and look ahead to the future of custody in Australia.

Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Venue: Doltone House Hyde Park, 3/181 Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW 2000
Dress Code: Black Tie / Formal

Don’t miss out, limit tickets are left. Get your ticket here.

30 Years supporting the custody and investment services industry

This year marks a significant milestone - 30 years since the founding of the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA).

Since 1995, ACSA’s mission has been clear: to advance the custodial services sector in Australia. Three decades on, that remains as vital as ever, guiding our efforts to set operational standards, nurture professional growth, and advocate for the evolving needs of custody and investment services providers. The world of custody has expanded dramatically.

Today, custodians in Australia oversee more than $5 trillion in assets, process millions of trades annually and operate across 100+ markets. Their reach now spans public and private markets, digital assets, and a diverse array of investment product structures.

With this growth comes an explosion of data, insight, and responsibility. Custodians are no longer just the backbone of financial operations, they are strategic partners, trusted advisors, and innovators at the heart of the investment ecosystem. Custodians have moved beyond the back office, supporting clients in digital transformation, data strategy and regulatory compliance, including ESG and sustainability. The rise of generative AI and DL T is reshaping how custodians deliver value, offering new ways to streamline operations, enhance transparency, whilst collecting, maintaining, and protecting vast sets of data.

There has never been a more exciting - and demanding – time to be in custody and investment servicing. Clients expect more than operational excellence; they look to their custodians for leadership, agility, and insights into a world defined by rapid technological change and market complexity. To meet these expectations, custodians must master not only the traditional elements of custody but also data and risk analytics, AI, and process automation, and new market opportunities.

We invite our members, their clients, industry supporters and sponsors to celebrate ACSA’s 30th anniversary as ACSA reaffirms its commitment to leading the industry into a future defined by excellence, innovation, and enduring partnership. 

Hear from Industry Leaders and ACSA

We look forward to celebrating with the industry.

The dinner will include brief formalities from ACSA, ACSA’s annual awards and a panel discussion to celebrate the achievements of ACSA, the current industry dynamics and what the future looks like. The evening will be facilitated by our Master of Ceremonies, Effie Zahos (Chanel 9 finance reporter).
Our panel discussion will include representatives from ACSA and our Platinum Event Sponsors:

• Nadia Schiavon, Managing Director, Head of Securities Services, Australia & NZ, J.P. Morgan
• Leon Stavrou, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Country Executive Australia and New Zealand, Northern Trust Corporation
• Sally Surgeon, ACSA Chair

The formalities of the evening will be followed up by a night of networking and dancing.
Grab your ticket before the event is sold out. 

Event Sponsors

ACSA thanks our generous sponsors for their invaluable support in making our 30 Year Celebration Gala Dinner a success. The sponsorship contributions not only helped create a memorable celebration at Doltone House Hyde Park but also reinforced the strong partnerships that continue across our vital industry. We are truly grateful for this partnership and look forward to the Gala Dinner success.

Platinum Sponsors

Northern Trust has a long-established presence in Australia, servicing clients in the Australian and New Zealand markets since 1993 and operating from Melbourne as a key regional hub. Through its Australian operations, Northern Trust provides institutional investors, asset owners, fund managers and family offices with asset servicing, asset management and capital markets solutions, combining global capabilities with deep local market expertise. The bank's Melbourne and Sydney offices support clients across custody, fund services, investment operations and data-driven solutions tailored to the needs of sophisticated institutional investors in the region.

Gold Sponsors

HSBC is one of the world’s largest financial organisations, serving around 41 million customers across 57 markets. HSBC is one of Australia’s leading international banks offering services across retail, private banking, asset management, and corporate and institutional banking (CIB). Our CIB business partners with corporate, government and institutional clients to deliver trade finance, treasury and financial markets, global payments solutions, research and analysis, and securities services and custody.

State Street Corporation is a premier global financial services provider and one of the world's leading custodians and asset managers, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Through its core divisions—including Investment Servicing (encompassing custody, fund administration, accounting, and global markets capabilities) and Investment Management via State Street Investment Management (formerly State Street Global Advisors). The company delivers mission-critical solutions to institutional investors such as asset managers, asset owners, insurers, official institutions, and central banks. Operating in over 100 markets with approximately 52,000 employees worldwide, excelling servicing areas such as ETFs, risk analytics, and innovative platforms that drive operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and better investment outcomes. As a trusted partner in an evolving financial landscape, State Street empowers clients to navigate complexity, mitigate risks, and capitalise on opportunities across traditional and alternative assets, private markets, and digital innovations—leveraging its scale, technology, and expertise to help create better outcomes for investors and the people they serve.

Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations. Our mission is to help the funds industry transform by creating innovative new ways to automate and digitalise the global investment funds marketplace, reducing frictional costs and lowering operational risk to the benefit of all. Through this, we make investing more accessible, generating the opportunity for the industry to deliver greater value for the investor. Over 4,500 clients in 58 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing £250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Sydney, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York, and Milan.

Silver Sponsor

FRS has over 26 years of experience delivering high-scale investment administration solutions to asset managers, life and pension companies, superannuation funds and wealth managers across the UK/Europe, Australia and North America. Our clients include MetLife, State Street, Zurich and Prudential UK. FRS is wholly owned by Constellation Software Inc. and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Boston, London and Melbourne.