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Euroclear is a Belgium-based financial services company that specialises in the clearing and settlement of securities transactions, as well as the safekeeping and asset servicing of these securities. It was founded in 1968 as part of J.P. Morgan & Co. to settle trades on the then developing eurobond market.
LCH, being a clearing house, sits in the middle of a trade – assuming the counterparty risk involved when two parties trade and guaranteeing the settlement of the trade. To mitigate the risks involved it imposes certain minimum requirements on its members and collects initial and variation margin (or collateral) from them for trades that have ...
European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) is the official trade association for the Central Securities Depository industry in Europe. The association provides a forum for Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) to exchange views and take forward projects of mutual interest.
A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial market infrastructure organization holding securities like shares, either in certificated or uncertificated (dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather than by a transfer of physical certificates.
CREST is a UK-based central securities depository that holds UK equities and UK gilts, as well as Irish equities and other international securities.. It was named after its securities settlement system, CREST, and has been owned and operated by Euroclear since 2002. [1]
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Clearstream was founded as "Cedel" (Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilières) in September 1970 by 66 of the world's major financial institutions as a clearing organisation whose objective was to minimise risk in the settlement of cross-border securities trading, particularly in the growing Eurobond market. [8]
Mongolian Securities Clearing House and Central Depository: Morocco: MAROCLEAR S.A. Netherlands: Euroclear Netherlands NIEC: Nepal CDS and Clearing Ltd., Kathmandu, Nepal New Zealand: No single numbering agency; two are active New Zealand Stock Exchange and Reserve Bank of New Zealand: Nicaragua: Central Nicaragüense de Valores, Cenival: Nigeria