More banks join CLSNet
by Ben Poole
CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has announced that Actinver, BNP Paribas, Citibank and J.P. Morgan are live on CLSNet, a standardised, automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies operating on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform.
There are now nine market participants live on CLSNet, including Bank of America, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Goldman Sachs, Intesa Sanpaolo and Morgan Stanley, with several other market participants due to join over the coming year.
CLSNet standardises and increases the levels of payment netting in the FX market, enabling improvements to intraday liquidity, greater operational efficiency and increased risk mitigation for non-CLS-settled currencies, many of which are in emerging markets that are growing faster than those in current CLS jurisdictions.
In addition to existing CLS settlement members, CLSNet can be used directly by non-CLS banks and the buy side, enabling a wider group of market participants to benefit from the reduction in operational costs and risk the service delivers.
“The addition of these latest participants is testament to the value which CLSNet is delivering to the FX market,” said Alan Marquard, chief business development officer of CLS. “The service continues to gain flow and participants and is operating efficiently. We will continue to invest in the growth and resilience of the service and have a roadmap of enhancements that will further expand the value proposition to clients.”
“CLSNet brings high-quality industry standardisation to previously fragmented and inefficient bilateral netting models,” commented Mike Lawrence, global CAO Rates & Currencies at Citibank. “It will enable broader access to settlement netting as a risk mitigant at an industry level, whilst delivering significant operational efficiencies as the network builds.”
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