LCH expands deliverable FX derivatives clearing with FX forwards
Following the launch of ForexClear’s deliverable FX options clearing service last year, LCH is now clearing FX forwards.
Following the launch of ForexClear’s deliverable FX options clearing service last year, LCH is now clearing FX forwards.
Masami Johnstone joins CLS from Euronext and will oversee the settlement specialist’s data and analytics division.
Same-day FX settlement service CLSNow has gone live with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs among the first to use the platform.
FX settlement system names new CEO following departure of David Puth in September 2018.
CLS says that asset managers are more focused on mitigating settlement risk as it sees uptake in clients using its CLSSettlement service.
The introduction of Japanese funds onto the FX settlement service follows a multi-year effort to onboard the Japanese buy-side community to CLSSettlement.
CLSNet operates on a distributed ledger technology platform for automated bilateral payment netting of FX trades.
Chief strategy and development officer at CLS, Alan Marquard, sits down with The TRADE to discuss the buy-side’s increasingly active role in FX settlement, the importance of the FX Global Code of Conduct for the industry, and provide an update on CLS’s recent blockchain projects.
David Puth will step down as CEO at CLS from 30 September, after taking up the role in 2012.
Nine financial institutions will participate in a proof of concept for platform powered using blockchain technology to share and use various services.