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Encyclopedia > Clearing bank

In banking and finance, clearing denotes all activities from the time a transaction is made until it is finally settled (see settlement). Some of the activities in clearing are reporting/monitoring, risk margining, netting of trades to single positions, tax handling, and failure handling. Clearing only involves electronic transactions. For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... A financial transaction involves a change in the status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals. ... Settlement (of securities) is the process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against payment, to fulfill contractual obligations, such as those arising under securities trades. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... To monitor or monitoring may mean: to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time, using a monitor or measuring device of some sort: Baby monitor, medical monitor, Heart rate monitor Biomonitoring Condition monitoring Network monitoring Election monitoring to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or... In general, netting means to allow a positive and a negative to cancel each other out. ... A tax (also known as a duty) is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...


In its wider sense clearing involves the management of post-trading, pre-settlement credit exposures, to ensure that trades are settled in accordance with market rules, even if a buyer or seller becomes insolvent prior to settlement.

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Central counterparty

Clearing generally involves the use of a well capitalised financial institution known as a central counterparty (CCP). The CCP becomes a party to every trade, acting as buyer to market participant sellers, and seller to market participant buyers. In respect of unsettled trades, market participants therefore bear the standardised credit risk of the CCP, and not that of each other in a decentralised market. In Financial economics, a financial institution acts as an agent that provides financial services for its clients. ... Credit risk is the risk of loss due to a counterparty defaulting on a contract, or more generally the risk of loss due to some credit event. Traditionally this applied to bonds where debt holders were concerned that the counterparty to whom theyve made a loan might default on...


In the United States, interbank clearing is done through the Automated Clearing House (ACH). Its rules and regulations are set by the National Automated Clearing House Association and the Federal Reserve. The ACH network acts as central clearing facility for all Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) transactions. The Automated Clearing House (ACH) is an electronic banking network operating in the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. ...


Netting

The CCP can net its daily purchases and sales in like securities since each market participant has only one counterparty to its trades. Such netting is widely identified as the key benefit offered by the use of a CCP.


See also

A clearing house (or clearinghouse) is an organization affiliated with a securities or derivatives exchange that completes the transactions on that exchange by seeing to validation, delivery, and settlement. ... Clearstream Banking S.A. (CB) is the clearing division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg. ... Genera Many; see text. ...

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