The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has deepened its cloud strategy through new work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an expanded partnership with Microsoft, aiming to boost the speed, scale and resilience of both its core market‑infrastructure systems and its digital‑assets platforms.
The firm will modernise key clearance, settlement and risk applications with AWS, re‑architecting them into more modular, cloud‑enabled services designed to strengthen the stability of its systemically important functions while improving agility, recovery times and cyber‑defence. The move follows SEC approval in 2025 for DTCC’s clearing agency subsidiaries to migrate specified core applications—for National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and the Depository Trust Company (DTC)—into a public‑cloud environment for the first time.
At the same time, DTCC is broadening its collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the build‑out of its digital‑assets business on Azure, including plans to migrate Digital Launchpad by the end of 2026. Microsoft will support DTCC in developing scalable, secure and globally distributed digital‑market infrastructure, drawing on Azure’s enterprise‑grade security, identity and compliance capabilities as well as Microsoft’s AI and engineering expertise.
Together, the initiatives aim to reinforce operational resilience, add redundancy and fault isolation, and provide the cloud‑enabled foundations needed to bridge traditional and decentralised finance for institutional markets.
