The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private

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for large-value transactions. By 2015, it was settling well over US$1.5 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments in cross border and domestic transactions. Together with the

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Funds Service (which is operated by the

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), CHIPS forms the primary U.S. network for large-value domestic and international USD payments where it has a market share of around 96%. CHIPS transfers are governed by Article 4A of

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. Unlike the Fedwire system which is part of a regulatory body, CHIPS is owned by the

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s that use it. For payments that are less time-sensitive in nature, banks typically prefer to use CHIPS instead of Fedwire, as CHIPS is less expensive (both by charges and by funds required). One of the reasons is that Fedwire is a

real-time gross settlement Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems are specialist funds transfer systems where the transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to any other bank on a "real-time" and on a " gross" basis. Settlement in "real time" means a payme ...

system, while CHIPS allows payments to be netted.

Differences from Fedwire

CHIPS differs from the Fedwire payment system in three key ways. First, it is privately owned (by The Clearing House Payments Company LLC), whereas the Fed is part of a regulatory body. Second, it has 47 member participants (with some merged banks constituting separate participants), compared with 9,289 banking institutions (as of March 19, 2009) eligible to make and receive funds via Fedwire. Third, it is a netting engine (and hence, not real-time). A netting engine consolidates all of the pending payments into fewer single transactions. For example, if

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is to pay

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$1.2 million, and American Express is to pay Bank of America $800,000, the CHIPS system aggregates this to a single payment of $400,000 from Bank of America to American Express. The Fedwire system would require two separate payments for the full amounts ($1.2 million to American Express and $800,000 to Bank of America).

Members

CHIPS is owned by the

s. According to the

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(FFIEC), an interagency office of the

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, "any banking organization with a regulated U.S. presence may become an owner and participate in the network." CHIPS participants may be commercial banks,

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corporations or investment companies. Until 1998, to be a CHIPS participant, a financial institution was required to maintain a branch or an agency in New York City. A non-participant wishing to make international payments using CHIPS was required to employ one of the CHIPS participants to act as its correspondent or agent.

List of members

, the member participants (with country of ownership) are:{{Cite web , url=http://www.chips.org/about/pages/033742.php , title=CHIPS Customers , access-date=2009-03-21 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327123037/http://www.chips.org/about/pages/033742.php , archive-date=2009-03-27 , url-status=dead * Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, S.A. (Spain) * Banco do Brasil S.A. (Brazil) * Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited (Thailand) *

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(Japan) *

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(France) *

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; United States) * Habib American Bank (United States) *

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(Italy) * Israel Discount Bank of New York (United States) * JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (United States) * KBC Bank N.V. (Belgium) * Mashreq Bank (United Arab Emirates) *

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(NY Branch; Japan) *

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- NY (Japan) *

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(United States) * The Northern Trust Company (United States) *

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Bank, NY INTL (United States)

References

External links

Fedwire and Clearing House Interbank Payments System
Retrieved Nov. 28, 2005.
The Clearing House Interbank Payment System
Real-time gross settlement Financial services companies based in New York City Interbank networks

Differences from Fedwire

Members

List of members

See also

References

External links