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A clearing house (or clearinghouse) is a financial services company that provides clearing and settlement services for financial transactions, usually on a futures exchange, and often acts as central counterparty. A clearing house may also offer novation, the substitution of a new contract or debt for an old, or other credit enhancement services to its members.

Clearing on Options Exchanges


The Options Clearing Corporation is an example of a clearing house that functions for the purpose of clearing equity options, in order to ensure the proper implementation of these instruments.

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Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation - CDCC is the issuer, clearing house, and hence guarantor of exchange-traded interest rate and equity derivative contracts traded in Canada.
Meta Description: [ Bourse de Montréal. Bourse automatisée offrant des dérivés sur actions, indices et taux d'intérêt - options et contrats à terme sur sous-jacents canadiens et internationaux - marché désigné pour la négociation d'options au Canada : Bourse de Montréal ]

Central Securities Depository - Organization responsible for the clearing and settlement of the Athens Stock Exchange transactions and administration of the Dematerialized Securities System (DSS).

Clearstream - International clearing and settlement organisation, offering comprehensive services for domestic and cross-border equities, bonds and investment funds.

Continuous Linked Settlement - Clearing house that eliminates settlement risk in FX, allowing payment-versus-payment in central-bank funds in USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, DKK, SEK, NOK, SGD, NZD, ZAR, HKD, and KRW.

CREST - Provides real-time settlement for a comprehensive range of UK and international shares, UK government bonds and other corporate securities.
Meta Description: [ CREST is the multi-currency electronic settlement system for UK and Irish securities ]

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation - Provides clearance, settlement and information services for virtually all equity, corporate debt, municipal debt, government securities, mortgage-backed securities, and emerging market sovereign debt trades in the U.S.
Meta Description: [ The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) through its subsidiaries provides clearance, settlement and information services for equities, corporate and municipal bonds, government and mortgage-backed securities and over-the-counter credit derivatives. ]

Euroclear - The world's largest settlement system for securities transactions, covering both bonds and equities.

European Central Securities Depositories Association - Establishing common principles for cross-border activities for efficient and safe securities settlement within the European Union.

Fixed Income Clearing Corporation - FICC was formed by the merger of the Government Securities Clearing Corporation and the MBS Clearing Corporation, and is a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Site has press notices and clearing statistics.
Meta Description: [ Fixed Income Clearing Corporation ]

Icelandic Securities Depository - The ISD is a registry, a depository and a clearing house for the settlement of equities and bonds in dematerialised form.

LCH.Clearnet - Formed by a merger of The London Clearing House Limited and Clearnet, LCH.Clearnet clears swaps, equity settlement, energy, bonds and repo, and futures.

Midclear - Performs clearing and settlement of Lebanese securities.

Monte Titoli - Provides custody, administration, clearing and settlement services for Italian securities.

Norwegian Central Securities Depository - Also provides DvP in NOK in central bank money, and DvP in Euro in commercial bank money.

Norwegian Clearing House - Clearing equities, power, and commodities in Norway.

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank - The OeKB handles the clearing and settlement of stock exchange transactions by virtue of a decree of the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Meta Description: [ OeKB-Exportservice: Die OeKB fungiert als Österreichs Export Credit Agency (ECA). Als Bevollmächtigte der Republik Österreich bietet sie der Wirtschaft maßgeschneiderte Instrumente für das Risikomanagement verschiedenster Formen von Exportgeschäften. Die Garantien zur Absicherung politische... ]

Options Clearing Corporation - OCC is the issuer and registered clearing facility for all U.S. exchange-listed securities options, including those traded on the American Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Pacific Exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and The International Securities Exchange.

SIS SegaInterSettle AG - Provides the settlement and custody of securities from Switzerland and the world. Swiss central securities depository and global custodian.
Meta Description: [ SIS SegaInterSettle AG is a dynamic, internationally active service provider. Our core business is the settlement and custody of Swiss securities and securities from the rest of the world. This includes the efficient execution of all attendant corporate actions. ]

The Clearing Corporation - TCC clears for the Chicago Board of Trade and the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange.

TriOptima - Operator of TriReduce, a multilateral swap tear-up service.

Værdipapircentralen - Clears and settles virtually all securities listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

VPC - Clears and settles all trades in the Swedish cash and equity markets.
Meta Description: [ VPC står under Finansinspektionens tillsyn och har auktorisation som central värdepappersförvarare och clearingorganisation ]

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