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 are globally recognised for the confidence we inspire in our financial markets infrastructure.
PURPOSE
Strate's purpose is to provide clearing, settlement and depository services for securities, 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 be profitable;
- To be customer centric;
- To ensure operational excellence and the effective management of enterprise risk while driving innovation and market best practise; and
- To be a learning organisation enabling Corporate and Personal growth
VALUES
- Integrity;
- Reliability;
- Passion;
- Dynamic and innovative;
- Accountability; and
- Teamwork.