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CLS appoints four members to Board of Directors

The four new directors are Sir John Gieve, Kenneth Harvey, Christine Mead and...

CLS monthly data – December 2011

In December, CLS settled an average daily value of US$4.56 trillion...

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History of CLS 

September 2002

Live with 39 Members and seven currencies
(Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, UK Pound, and US Dollar) .

September 2003

Four more currencies added
(Danish Krone, Norwegian Krone, Singapore Dollar and Swedish Krona).

February 2004

First Fund FX transaction settled- allowing the growing investment fund community to proactively manage FX settlement risk.

December 2004

Four more currencies added
(Hong Kong Dollar, Korean Won, New Zealand Dollar and South African Rand).

September 2005

Product portfolio enhanced to extend settlement for non-deliverable forwards and FX option premiums extending the efficiency and cost benefits associated with CLS to a wider cross-section of the market.

November 2007

Record volume – over 1 million instructions settled in one day.

December 2007

Credit derivatives settlement goes live with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation – helping participants meet regulatory requirements and to improve post trade processing.

December 2007

Full "out of region" resilience achieved – synchronous data centres in operation.

March 2008

Record value settled of US$10.3 trillion.

May 2008

Live with Israeli Shekel and Mexican Peso – 17 currencies live in CLS.

September 2008

Lehman's week - CLS passes the sternest of tests and works exactly as designed. A new peak volume of 1.5 million instructions settled.

December 2009

Third party and fund participation continues to accelerate (over 7,000).

January 2010

CLS Aggregation goes live to address the capacity challenges faced by banks resulting form the tremendous growth in FX market participation from hedge funds, algorithmic traders, retail and institutional clients.

May 2010

CLS settles an average of over one million instructions per day with an average daily value of US$4.2 trillion during this period of market volatility.

July 2010

Number of third party participants exceeds 9,000

July 2010

Nomura becomes CLS Shareholder and  Settlement Member

November 2010

Record daily settlement volume of 1,936,790 sides

November 2010

Lloyds Banking Group and Swedbank become CLS Shareholders

November 2010

Santander becomes CLS Settlement Member

 
 
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