Euroclear is reducing the costs and operational risks for fund distributors and their intermediaries when executing orders and settling trades in units of one of the world's largest providers of exchange-traded funds.

Poland's newly established clearinghouse KDPW_CCP says it will be using technology from Nasdaq OMX to clear futures and derivatives trades.

The U.S.' Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is piloting a new service which provides members of the National Securities Clearing Corp. with the ability to monitor the intraday net value and share exposure for equity transactions of their own and their correspondent clearing firms.

Central clearing of many swap trades -- required under the U.S. Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform Act -- has raised a critical question, which led to some lively debate at a recent fixed-income conference hosted by research firm Tabb Group in New York.

Strong results from international securities depository Euroclear Bank offset some declines at sister depositories to help Euroclear SA post a 10 percent increase in the total value of transactions settled and a nine percent increase in the number of netted transactions settled in 2011.

Wall Street firms failing to settle trades in agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities on time will no longer get a free ride.

A trade group of some of Europe's largest clearinghouses has come out with guidelines for stress testing to ensure they can withstand large scale shocks to the financial system -- and their members.

Since when have European securities depositories become broker-dealers and fund managers?

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that the Mortgage-Backed Securities Division (MBSD) of its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide central counterparty (CCP) and pool netting services for trades in U.S. mortgage-backed securities. This initiative is designed to reduce the risks and costs associated with trading in the $100 trillion-a-year market.

European Multilateral Clearing Facility NV (EMCF) has cleared its one billionth equity transaction since January 2011, a new record among European Equity CCPs. The gross value of these executions is in excess of €5.4 trillion.