WHO AND WHAT IS STRATE
Since its inception over ten years ago, Strate Ltd is proud to be the licensed Central Securities Depository (CSD) for the electronic settlement of financial instruments in South Africa.
Strate's core purpose is to mitigate risk, bring efficiencies to the South African financial markets and improve its profile as an investment destination. Strate is aligned to international best practices and continually strives to ensure operational excellence and provide enhancements for the good of the Southern African financial markets.
Strate handles the settlement of a number of securities including equities and bonds for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as well as a range of derivative products such as warrants, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), retail notes and tracker funds. It has now added the settlement of money market securities to its portfolio of services. It provides services to Issuers for their investors in terms of the Companies Act and Securities Services Act (SSA), 2004.
MISSION,VISION & OBJECTIVES
VISION
We are the leading independent South African provider of innovative post-trade products and services. We facilitate risk management, enabling transparency and efficiencies for the financial markets.
PURPOSE
Strate’s purpose is to provide post-trade services for the securities market, enabling end-to-end pragmatic, reliable, innovative solutions that facilitate the management of risk and the realisation of value for all stakeholders.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- To ensure operational excellence, transparency and the effective management of risk while driving innovation and market best practice
- To be stakeholder centric;
- To be profitable; and
- To be a learning organisation enabling corporate and personal growth.
VALUES
- Integrity
- Reliability
- Passion
- Dynamic innovation
- Accountability
- Teamwork