Securities clearing

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  • Clearing

ABN AMRO Clearing is an active General Clearing Member on the most relevant securities exchanges and platforms around the globe. Our aim is always to connect as close as possible to the market infrastructure. This allows our clients to benefit from a first-hand connection to the street, enabling cut off times for our clients close to market deadlines and presenting them with a most competitive pricing.

Tailored solutions

Our securities clearing offering allows us to offer integrated Securities and Derivatives clearing services to clients. This allows operational efficiencies, economies of scale and risk offset between instruments in arbitrage strategies. We service clients for Equities, Fixed Income, Warrants, ETFs, ADRs. Our leading position in Equity strategies allows clients to benefit from our large inventory of securities to improve settlement efficiency and to cover short positions.

Specialist teams

We have specialist settlement teams to facilitate the handling of creation/redemption instructions for ETFs and conversions for ADR/ordinary shares. ABN AMRO Clearing acts as custodian and settlement agent for its clients. We are fully interfaced with Securities Settlement Systems and CSDs, and manage a large network of sub-custodians. Managing the complete value chain from Execution, Clearing to settlement allows higher efficiency and costs containment. We fully comply with Swift market standards. Combining OTC contracts in a single sheet with listed derivatives and underlying assets will lead to capital efficiencies and collateral optimization in combination with lower risk and credit exposure.

These specific services are open to all professional and ECP clients and are mostly used by principal trading groups and prime brokerage clients.