In some financial markets there are Clearing Houses. These act as central counterparties, and thus reduce or eliminate settlement risk, and often allow netting of transactions.
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- Euroclear The world's largest settlement system for securities transactions, covering both bonds and equities.
- Clearstream International settlement and custody organization, offering services for domestic and cross-border equities, bonds and investment funds.
- 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.
- TriOptima Operator of TriReduce, a multilateral swap tear-up service.
- 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.
- 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.
- Monte Titoli Provides custody, administration, clearing and settlement services for Italian securities.
- VPC Clears and settles all trades in the Swedish cash and equity markets.
- Værdipapircentralen Clears and settles virtually all securities listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
- Norwegian Central Securities Depository Also provides DvP in NOK in central bank money, and DvP in Euro in commercial bank money.
- Icelandic Securities Depository The ISD is a registry, a depository and a clearing house for the settlement of equities and bonds in dematerialised form.
- 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.
- 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.