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The origins of clearing houses date back to bank cheque clearing in the 18th century. The London Clearing-House was established between 1750 and 1770 as a place where the clerks of the bankers of the city of London could assemble daily to exchange with one another the cheques drawn upon and bills payable at their respective houses.
The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by the largest commercial banks in the United States. The Clearing House is the parent organization of The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., which owns and operates core payments system infrastructure in the United States, including ACH, wire payments, check image clearing, and real-time payments [1] through the RTP ...
In trading, clearing is necessary because the speed of trades is much faster than the cycle time for completing the underlying transaction. It involves the management of post-trading, pre-settlement credit exposures to ensure that trades are settled in accordance with market rules, even if a buyer or seller should become insolvent prior to settlement.
The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a bank owned automated funds-transfer system for domestic and international high value payment transactions in U.S. dollars. It is a real-time final settlement payment system that continuously matches, off-sets and settles payments among international and domestic banks.
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
The Clearing House told CNN on Saturday the issue “impacted less than 1% of the daily ACH volume in the United States” and it was “working with the financial institutions who have customers ...
A major clearing house is working on a prototype to explore how a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be settled if adopted.
Regulated as a Recognised Clearing House by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Payment systems are overseen by the Bank of England. Regulated as a Credit Institution and Clearing House by a regulatory college consisting of the market regulators and central banks from the jurisdictions of: France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.