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August
LCH.Clearnet will lower the fees it levies on many market participants in London
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Deutsche has been added to the Singapore exchange’s securities market
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LCH.Clearnet signals further commitment to buy-side offering by naming CEO of SwapClear
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EuroCCP has signed one of the biggest custodians in the world as a general clearing participant
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LCH.Clearnet Group will launch clearing for Spanish government bonds and repos
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July
BNY Mellon Clearing has selected MF Global Holdings to provide clearing services and infrastructure support for its new futures commission merchant offering
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EFG private bank’s unit has automated settlement at central securities depositary Euroclear
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Roger Liddell has announced his intention to retire from his role as chief executive of LCH.Clearnet next year
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Compared to Europe, the clearing and settlement story in Asia is all about growth
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Standard Chartered has been appointed as a settlement bank by Dubai Financial Market
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is planning to set up a European trade reporting repository unit
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June
Broadridge Financial Solutions has sold its brokerage clearing business
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LCH.Clearnet is to start clearing over-the-counter container freight swap agreements
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Penson Worldwide’s UK clearing subsidiary, Penson Financial Services, has been selected by Westhouse Securities
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Nasdaq OMX has launched Swedish interest rate swaps clearing
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Pegasus Fund has appointed Citigroup Global Markets as its prime broker
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New Zealand Clearing and Depository names chairman and new board member
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Oslo Børs has introduced central counterparty clearing with the clearing of shares
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May
JP Morgan Treasury & Securities Services is setting up a derivatives processing hub in Sydney
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Paris-based LCH.Clearnet SA has been granted Recognised Overseas Clearing House status by the UK's Financial Services Authority
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The London Stock Exchange is looking at setting up its own clearing house
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Clearstream has linked up with Luxembourg’s central bank to launch a new central securities depository service
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Poland’s National Depository for Securities (KDPW) has set up a transaction settlement guarantor
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Alpha PB has appointed J.P. Morgan Clearing as custodian and clearing agent, effective June 1
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Standard & Poor’s has put the counterparty credit rating of LCH.Clearnet, on credit watch with negative implications
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NYSE Euronext is planning to roll out cash equities clearing houses in London and Paris and cut ties with LCH.Clearnet
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April
The European Commission will introduce separate legislation for settlement houses in the region,
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Citibank Japan Securities Services has been appointed by Interactive Brokers Securities Japan, to provide Third Party Clearing services in Japan.
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The Singapore Exchange Derivatives Clearing is to expand its central clearing operation to include OTC financial derivatives
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Bahrain Financial Exchange has awarded its clearing and settlement mandate to Standard Chartered Bank
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EuroCCP has started providing central counterparty clearing of trades in US stocks and ETFs to European trading firms
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NYSE Euronext has hired a CEO for its planned joint venture with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
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European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) announced today that it will reimburse clients part of the settlement and settlement management fees charged in 2009.
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March
CME Group is working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on a clearing facility for the $414 trillion global market for interest-rate swaps.
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Korea Investment & Securities has chosen GAIN Capital as a primary clearing partner
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LCH.Clearnet cleared the first credit default swap index contracts on Monday 29 March
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LCH.Clearnet Paris will start clearing credit default swaps in Paris
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The EU is planning regulations requiring securities clearing houses to share data and to cooperate with each other
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Calastone, a cross-border transaction network for mutual funds, has set up a new fund settlement service
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Eurex Clearing has rolled out its real-time risk data distribution service for its trading and clearing members
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The European Commission will seek to curb “naked” selling and speculation in the market for credit default swaps
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LCH.Clearnet has teamed up with Chi-X Europe to unveil a contract-for-difference clearing service
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India Infoline has received approval for securities trading and clearing memberships from the Singapore Exchange
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Newedge USA has joined NASDAQ OMX Group’s majority-owned clearinghouse for interest rate swaps.
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SunGard has rolled out two new Stream Gateways for the Singapore Exchange and the London Stock Exchange
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NYSE Euronext is launching a new clearinghouse in July
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Link Up Markets has included the Egyptian CSD as the tenth member in its project
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February
EFAMA and SWIFT have published a report on the evolution of standardization rates for funds processing in 2009
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European Multilateral Clearing Facility has welcomed the position of UK, Dutch and Swiss regulators in their joint Regulatory Position on Interoperability
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Knight Clearing Services has deployed Fidelity ActionsXchange’s platform for corporate actions
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EuroCCP and Turquoise have expanded their clearing and trading services into Hungary and Czech Republic
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LCH.Clearnet and TriOptima announced that SwapClear members eliminated 31,280 EURO-denominated interest rate swap trades with a notional value of €3 trillion
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Standard Chartered takes custody and clearing services to the Middle East
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Spanish stock exchange, BME, is looking to launch its individual clearing operation
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Korea Securities Depository has agreed to link with Euroclear’s fund processing platform, FundSettle
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A Bulgarian custodian bank has inked a deal with the National Depository for Securities in Poland
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Citi has responded to the new ‘Give Up’ regulation initiated by the Turkish Derivatives Exchange
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European regulators back interoperability
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A new report by the US based consultancy, Greenwich Associates finds that the devil is in the detail for centralized Clearing of OTC Derivatives
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The Singapore Exchange has added a new clearing member
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The CDS market appears to be emerging from the darkness with the help of CDS clearing houses
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January
LCH.Clearnet is seeking to offer swap clearing to Japanese banks
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Atlantic Fund Services, a fund service providers in Central and Eastern Europe, has joined Clearstream and Swift
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The central bank of Brazil is making changes to its clearing rules
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The London Stock Exchange has hired Kevin Milne as a new director of post-trade services
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The chief executive of the International Derivatives Clearing Group, a clearing unit of Nasdaq OMX, has resigned to “pursue other opportunities”.