Gato Adds Native Support for T+1 Settlement Across Global Markets
Post-trade workflows across the Gato suite now handle accelerated settlement cycles in the US, Canada, Mexico, and select APAC markets out of the box.
Following the ongoing global shift toward accelerated settlement, Gato has rolled out native T+1 support across the entire product suite, including gFlow, gView, gPure, and gPrecision.
The update covers the US, Canadian, and Mexican equity markets that transitioned in 2024, and extends full support to select APAC venues that have since moved to a T+1 cycle. Firms operating across multiple jurisdictions can now run mixed T+1 and T+2 workflows without maintaining parallel infrastructure.
Key enhancements include compressed affirmation and allocation timelines, real-time exception dashboards, automated fail-tracking, and updated corporate actions processing through gPure to reflect shorter record-to-pay windows.
"T+1 isn't just a settlement change; it's an operations change," said Gato's Head of Post-Trade. "Our clients wanted a platform that absorbs that complexity for them, so their teams can focus on exceptions instead of rebuilding workflows."
T+1 support is enabled by default for all new Gato deployments and can be activated for existing clients through the configuration portal. There is no additional charge for the capability.
What accelerated settlement changes operationally
Shortening the settlement cycle does not reduce the amount of post-trade work. It compresses the window in which that work has to be right. Allocations and affirmations that were comfortable on a T+2 timetable now have to clear the same day, which means an exception discovered late in the afternoon is a fail rather than a task for tomorrow morning.
The firms that handled the transition well were the ones that already had exception visibility. If a break surfaces on a dashboard within minutes, a compressed timetable is manageable. If it surfaces in a morning reconciliation report, the timetable removes the room that report depended on.
Corporate actions carry the same pressure. Record-to-pay windows tighten, which shortens the time available to scrub conflicting announcements, compute entitlements, and collect voluntary elections against a client-facing deadline. gPure runs those steps against the firm's own response deadline rather than the market deadline, which is what preserves a margin for late responses.
Firms operating across jurisdictions have the additional problem of mixed cycles. Running parallel infrastructure for T+1 and T+2 markets doubles the operational surface, so the suite handles both from one configuration and applies the correct timetable per market and instrument.
- Compressed affirmation and allocation timelines with same-day exception handling.
- Real-time break and fail dashboards rather than next-morning reports.
- Corporate actions processing adjusted for shorter record-to-pay windows.
- Mixed T+1 and T+2 workflows from a single deployment.
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