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Financial market infrastructure

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Brussels head office of Euroclear, a major international financial market infrastructure

Financial market infrastructure refers to systems and entities involved in clearing, settlement, and the recording of payments, securities, derivatives, and other financial transactions.[1] Depending on context, financial market infrastructure may refer to the category in general, or to individual companies or entities (thus also used in plural: financial market infrastructures).

Examples

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Examples of financial market infrastructure firms include payment systems, securities settlement systems, central securities depositories, central counterparties, and trade repositories.[1]

Some financial infrastructures have a global reach, such as financial messaging service SWIFT, foreign-exchange settlement service provider CLS Group, and international central securities depositories Euroclear and Clearstream.[2]

Other major commercial financial infrastructure firms include:

Financial trading venues such as stock exchanges, futures exchanges, commodities exchanges and electronic trading platforms, are not always considered financial market infrastructures where they are subject to competition, but are included in the definition of financial market infrastructures in certain jurisdictions such as Switzerland.[6] Many exchanges are subsidiaries of financial infrastructure groups such as CME Group, Deutsche Börse, Euronext, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Intercontinental Exchange, Japan Exchange Group, London Stock Exchange Group, Nasdaq, Inc., Singapore Exchange, and SIX Swiss Exchange.

Some financial infrastructures are directly operated by central banks, including a number of Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems such as T2 in the euro area, CHAPS in the United Kingdom, and Fedwire in the U.S. Other central bank-operated infrastructures include the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) in China.[7]

Regulation

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Financial market infrastructures, many of which are natural monopolies, are typically of critical systemic importance and thus heavily regulated and supervised. At the global level, the applicable standards are the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) jointly issued by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).[8]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Supervision & Oversight of Financial Market Infrastructures". Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  2. ^ "What is a CSD?". European Central Securities Depositories Association ECSDA.
  3. ^ "Brief Introduction of CCDC and Its Shanghai Branch". Shanghai Municipal People's Government. 18 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Brief Introduction of Shanghai Clearing House". Shanghai Municipal People's Government. 18 July 2023.
  5. ^ "What is China's Swift equivalent and what are its origins?". South China Morning Post. 2022-02-28. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  6. ^ "Financial market infrastructures and foreign market participants". FINMA.
  7. ^ "Brief Introduction of China Foreign Exchange Trade System". Shanghai Municipal People's Government. 18 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI)". Bank for International Settlements. September 2014.