Non-bank financial institutions | CLS Group

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CLS helps clients navigate the changing FX marketplace – reducing risk and creating efficiencies. Our extensive network and deep market intelligence enable CLS specialists to lead the development of standardized solutions to real market problems. Our innovative, forward-looking products make the trading process faster, easier, safer and more cost-effective – empowering our clients’ success.
- Settlement
  - CLSSettlement
    Mitigate settlement risk for your FX trades while benefiting from operational efficiencies, in addition to best-in-class netting and liquidity management.
  - CLSNow
    Optimize the use of available liquidity in the same-day market while mitigating settlement risk through CLSNow - a bilateral same-day payment-versus-payment gross settlement.
  - Cross currency swaps
    Mitigate FX settlement risk, improve operational efficiencies and reduce your liquidity and payment demand for cross currency swap trades using our world-leading settlement service.
  - CLSSameday
    Reduce settlement risk for same-day FX trades that are currently traded after CLS’s cut-off times through our additional settlement session.
  - OTC derivatives
    Mitigate the most significant risk in FX – settlement risk – while creating operational efficiencies and best-in-class netting and liquidity management.
  - CLSClearedFX
    Reduce settlement risk for same-day FX trades that are currently traded after CLS’s cut-off times through our additional settlement session.
  CLS is the world leader in FX settlement solutions. Our settlement services empower client success by reducing risk, improving efficiency and increasing liquidity.
  
  CLS is the world leader in FX settlement solutions. Our settlement services empower client success by reducing risk, improving efficiency and increasing liquidity.
- Processing
  - CLSNet
    Our bilateral payment netting solution, built on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, allows you to drive operational process efficiencies, such as optimizing intraday liquidity, enabling real-time awareness of currency and counterparty exposures, and reducing risk.
  - CLSTradeMonitor
    An innovative post-trade monitoring and reporting tool designed for asset managers, funds, banks, non-bank financial institutions and multinational corporations to efficiently manage executed FX trades through timely, consolidated reporting across all your custodian banks.
  - Compression
    Manage your gross notional exposures, optimize your capital usage and mitigate your counterparty credit risk using our award-winning FX compression service.
  Our processing solutions bring innovative standardization to post-trade processes, delivering the efficiencies clients need to compete in the FX market.
  
  Our processing solutions bring innovative standardization to post-trade processes, delivering the efficiencies clients need to compete in the FX market.
- Data
  - CLSMarketData
    CLSMarketData is a comprehensive suite of data products designed to provide quality insight and analytics both in real-time and historical for financial efficiency, visibility and control. All our data is transaction based, platform agnostic, and dynamic. By sharing our knowledge and partnering with clients, we offer bespoke FX analysis and insights for market and in-country research.
  - CLSReporting
    Support your MiFID II and other regulatory transaction reporting obligations
  Turn data challenges into actionable insights. Our data solutions empower clients' growth, enabling improved trading strategies, smarter business decisions and better FX risk management.
  
  Turn data challenges into actionable insights. Our data solutions empower clients' growth, enabling improved trading strategies, smarter business decisions and better FX risk management.
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News & Insights

Non-bank financial institutions have become increasingly active in the FX market as the trend towards diversification of investment towards foreign assets continues. We offer a range of settlement, processing and data solutions to reduce risk and create efficiencies for non-bank financial institutions active in the FX market.

Settlement - reduce risk, improve efficiency and increase liquidity

CLSSettlement: Mitigate settlement risk for your FX trades, while benefiting from operational efficiencies, in addition to best-in-class netting and liquidity management.

Data - Achieve greater insight

CLSMarketData: A a comprehensive suite of FX data products designed to provide quality insight and analytics both in real-time and historical for financial efficiency, visibility and control.

CLSTradeMonitor: An innovative post-trade monitoring and reporting tool designed for asset managers, funds, banks, non-bank financial institutions and multinational corporations to efficiently manage executed FX trades through timely, consolidated reporting across all their CLSSettlement providers.

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Products available

Settlement

CLS is the world leader in FX settlement solutions. Our settlement services empower client success by reducing risk, …

CLSNet

Our bilateral payment netting solution, built on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, allows you to drive …

CLSMarketData

CLSMarketData is a comprehensive suite of data products designed to provide quality insight and analytics both in rea…

CLSTradeMonitor

An innovative post-trade monitoring and reporting tool designed for asset managers, funds, banks, non-bank financial …