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Financial Market Infrastructure
Financial market infrastructure refers to systems and entities involved in Clearing (finance), clearing, Settlement (finance), settlement, and the recording of payments, Security (finance), securities, Derivative (finance), derivatives, and other financial transactions. Depending on context, financial market infrastructure may refer to the category in general, or to individual companies or entities (thus also used in plural: financial market infrastructures). Examples Examples of financial market infrastructure firms include payment systems, Settlement (finance), securities settlement systems, Central counterparty clearing, central counterparties, Central securities depository, central securities depositories, and Trade Repository, trade repositories. Some financial infrastructures have a global reach, such as financial messaging service SWIFT, foreign-exchange settlement service provider CLS Group, and international central securities depositories Euroclear Bank and Clearstream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels - Euroclear HQ
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is an American financial market infrastructure company that provides clearing, settlement and trade reporting services to financial market participants. It performs the exchange of securities on behalf of buyers and sellers and functions as a central securities depository by providing central custody of securities. DTCC was established in 1999 as a holding company to combine the Depository Trust Company (DTC) and National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). User-owned and directed, it automates, centralizes, standardizes, and streamlines processes in the capital markets. Through its subsidiaries, DTCC provides clearance, settlement, and information services for equities, corporate and municipal bonds, unit investment trusts, government and mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, and over-the-counter derivatives. It also manages transactions between mutual funds and insurance carriers and their respective i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-Border Interbank Payment System
The Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) is a Chinese payment system that offers clearing and settlement services for its participants in cross-border renminbi (RMB) payments and trade. CIPS is backed by the People's Bank of China and was launched in 2015 as part of a policy effort to internationalize the use of China’s currency. In 2022, CIPS processed around 96.7 trillion yuan ($14.03 trillion), with about 1427 financial institutions in 109 countries and regions having connected to the system. In 2023, the CIPS processed 6.6133 million transactions, totaling RMB123.06 trillion($17.09 trillion), increasing by 50.29 percent and 27.27 percent y-o-y, respectively. On a daily basis, the system processed 25,900 transactions, totaling RMB482.602 billion($67.028 billion). As of March 2025, CIPS has 170 Direct Participants and 1497 Indirect Participants. Among Indirect Participants, 1091 participants are from Asia (including 560 from Chinese Mainland), 260 from Europe, 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai Clearing House
The Shanghai Clearing House (SHCH, zh, link=no, 上海清算所), formally the Inter-bank Market Clearing House Co., Ltd. ( zh, link=no, 銀行間市場清算所股份有限公司簡稱上海清算所), is a significant central counterparty and central securities depository in China, established in 2009 in Shanghai. Overview The Shanghai Clearing House was established on and was recognized as a Qualified Central Counterparty by the People's Bank of China. Its founding shareholders were China Foreign Exchange Trade System (46.7 percent), China Central Depository & Clearing (33.3 percent), China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (10 percent), and China Gold Coin Inc. (10 percent). It provides services in central counterparty clearing, registration and custody, risk management and valuation, statistical information, and financial knowledge dissemination. In 2018, the total clearing volume on the Shanghai Clearing House reached 4.6 million, 31 percent up on the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Securities Depository And Clearing Corporation
China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited ( zh, 中国证券登记结算有限责任公司), in short CSDC, SD&C, or ChinaClear ( zh, 中国结算 or 中证登, ''Zhongzhengdeng''), is a central counterparty and central securities depository of China, based in Beijing. It is responsible for all securities depository and clearing services for the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, thus playing a similar role as that of DTCC for the US stock markets. Overview CSDC was set up on March 30, 2001. In September 2001, Shanghai Securities Central Depository and Clearing Corporation and Shenzhen Securities Depository Corporation, two corporations which were in responsible for depository and clearing services of Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, were merged into the CSDC. It is a non-profit entity established with the approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. See also * China Central Depository & Clearing (ChinaBond) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Central Depository & Clearing
The China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd. ( zh, 中央国债登记结算有限责任公司), in short CCDC, CDC, or ChinaBond ( zh, 中央结算公司, 中债公司 or 中债登 ''Zhongzhaideng''), formerly also translated as China Government Securities Depository Trust & Clearing Co., is a central securities depository (CSD) for Chinese bonds and other fixed-income securities, based in Beijing with a secondary headquarters in Shanghai. It was originally set up by the People's Bank of China as China Securities Trading System Co., Ltd. ( zh, 中国证券交易系统有限公司) in 1993, and reorganized into CCDC in 1996. CCDC is one of China's three dominant CSDs, together with China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation (CSDC) and the Shanghai Clearing House (SHCH). Overview CCDC is a wholly state-owned central institution. It started as a centralized depository for government bonds, and has expanded into providing registration, custody and settlement services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Clearing House
LCH (originally London Clearing House) is a financial market infrastructure company headquartered in London that provides clearing services to major international exchanges and to a range of OTC markets. The LCH Group includes two main entities: LCH Limited based in London and LCH SA based in Paris (formally ''Banque Centrale de Compensation SA'', also known from 1999 to 2003 as Clearnet then until 2016 as LCH.Clearnet). LCH cleared approximately 50% of the global interest rate swap market, and was the second largest clearer of bonds and repos in the world, providing services across 13 government debt markets. In addition, LCH clears a broad range of asset classes including: commodities, securities, exchange traded derivatives, credit default swaps, energy contracts, freight derivatives, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange and Euro and Sterling denominated bonds and repos. LCH's members comprise many of the major global financial institutions including almost all of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SIX SIS
SIX Swiss Exchange (formerly SWX Swiss Exchange), based in Zürich, is Switzerland's principal stock exchange (the other being BX Swiss). SIX Swiss Exchange also trades other securities such as Swiss government bonds and derivatives such as stock options. SIX Swiss Exchange is completely owned by SIX Group, an unlisted public limited company itself owned by around 120 national and foreign financial institutions. The exchange in its current state was founded in 1993 by merging the Geneva Stock Exchange, the Basel Stock Exchange and the Zürich stock exchange into the (German for "Swiss Securities Exchanges Association"), publicly known in English as ''Swiss Exchange''.SIX Swiss Exchange . Interactive brokers. Retrieved 15 April 2020. The newly created association took over trading in 1995. It was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurex Clearing
Eurex Exchange is a German derivatives exchange which primarily offers trading in European based derivatives. The products traded on this exchange vary from German and Swiss debt instruments to European stocks and various stock indexes. All transactions executed on Eurex Exchange are cleared through Eurex Clearing, which functions as a central counterparty (CCP) for multi-asset class clearing of the above-mentioned exchange-traded product range as well as over-the-counter traded products. , in the Futures Industry Association’s annual survey, Eurex Exchange was ranked as the world's third-largest derivatives exchange by contract volume. The Exchange is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main, and it is operated by Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Zürich AG, which are public companies wholly owned by the German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG. History In the 1990s, Europe went through a power shift in its financial sector. London (LIFFE, London Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Options Clearing Corporation
Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is a United States clearing house based in Chicago. It specializes in equity derivatives clearing, providing central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 16 exchanges. It was started by Wayne Luthringshausen and carried on by Michael Cahill. Its instruments include options, financial and commodity futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions. Like all clearing houses, the OCC acts as a guarantor between clearing parties, ensuring that the obligations of the contracts it clears are fulfilled. It currently holds approximately $100 billion of collateral deposited by clearing members and moves billions of dollars a day. In 2011, OCC became the largest equity derivatives clearing organization in the United States. Furthermore, in 2016, it cleared contract volume totaled 4.17 billion, making it the fifth highest annual total in OCC's history. OCC currently operates under the jurisdiction of both the Securiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICE Clear Credit
ICE Clear Credit LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is a Derivatives Clearing Organisation (DCO) previously known as ICE Trust US LLC which was launched in March 2009. ICE offers trade execution and processing for the credit derivatives markets through Creditex and clearing through ICE Trust™. ICE Clear Credit LLC operates as a central counterparty (CCP) and clearinghouse for credit default swap (CDS) transactions conducted by its participants. ICE Clear Credit LLC is a subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (ICE). ICE Clear Credit LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICE US Holding Company LP (ICE LP) which is "organized under the law of the Cayman Islands but has consented to the jurisdiction of United States courts and government agencies with respect to matters arising out of federal banking laws." Regulatory Oversight ICE Trust "is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board and members may include banks or other institutions that fulfill the membership requirements, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CME Clearing
CME Group Inc. is an American financial services company based in Chicago that operates financial derivatives exchanges including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and the Commodity Exchange. The company also owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices. It is the world's largest operator of financial derivatives exchanges. Its exchanges are platforms for trading in agricultural products, currencies, energy, interest rates, metals, futures contracts, options, stock indexes, and cryptocurrencies futures. In addition to its headquarters in Chicago, the company also has offices in New York, Houston, and Washington D.C., in the U.S., as well as abroad in Bangalore, Beijing, Belfast, Calgary, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo. History The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), was founded in 1898 as a nonprofit corporation. In 1919, it established its clearing house. In 2000, CME demutualized (became a joint stock company). In 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
