Euroclear and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
BRUSSELS, Jan. 30, 2025 – Euroclear, a leading provider of post-trade services, has entered into a 7-year strategic partnership with Microsoft. This collaboration aims to modernize Euroclear’s technology infrastructure, enhance client experiences, and drive new growth opportunities across the capital markets ecosystem. The partnership leverages Microsoft’s cloud solutions and expertise to further solidify Euroclear’s position as a key player in the financial market.
Technology is rapidly transforming financial market infrastructures. Harnessing the latest developments in cloud, AI and analytics is a critical enabler of Euroclear’s strategy and a driver of innovation, new business and resilience.
— Valérie Urbain, CEO of Euroclear
This strategic alliance will see Euroclear utilizing Microsoft’s technology, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Teams, to drive innovation and efficiency. The goal is to create a digital platform that provides greater efficiency for all capital market participants.
Microsoft will support Euroclear’s strategic ambitions in key growth areas, like its funds business and client experience and also aims to advance its long-term vision of evolving into a Digital and Data-Enabled Financial Market Infrastructure. This partnership is intended to foster collaboration with other industry participants to create shared solutions based on standardized and compatible technologies, delivering the best value to service providers, issuers, and investors alike.
Ralph Haupter, President, EMEA at Microsoft, highlighted the significance of the partnership: “Our partnership with Euroclear combines their extensive financial ecosystem—connecting more than 2,000 financial institutions—with the trust and scalability of the Microsoft Cloud… Together, we are enabling a shift from traditional sequential workflows to an ecosystem-centric capital markets model. This transformation will empower financial institutions to reimagine how they interact, analyze data, and deliver insights to end users, driving efficiency and innovation across the industry.”
The adoption of Microsoft’s cloud technology and generative AI is expected to streamline platform development and improve platform operations. The use of Microsoft’s flexible cloud capacity and automated solutions for rapid disaster recovery and business continuity will also improve Euroclear’s resilience and security.
The partnership’s initial focus in 2025 will include:
- Developing a financial data sharing ecosystem: Designing a secure platform to enable collaboration and data sharing.
- Transforming Euroclear’s global offering, Euroclear FundsPlace: Enhancing client experience using AI-driven insights.
- Modernizing customer engagement: A unified platform to streamline operations across all client-facing business lines.
- Strengthening market infrastructure: Building next-generation, secure financial infrastructure.
The partnership is being overseen by senior executives from both Euroclear and Microsoft. The collaboration is intended to secure the successful development of this partnership and to deliver considerable value for clients and ecosystem partners.
About Euroclear
Euroclear Group provides post-trade services to financial institutions. They offer settlement and custody of securities for bonds, equities, derivatives, and investment funds. The Euroclear group comprises Euroclear Bank. For more information, visit [insert Euroclear website here].
About Microsoft
Microsoft creates platforms and technology solutions to meet an evolving market. The company is committed to making AI available broadly and responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. In Belgium and Luxembourg, Microsoft employs over 500 people, working with partners. For more information, visit [insert Microsoft website here].
