| Euroclear to harmonise practices |
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| Euroclear, the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement services, has released a set of 85 proposals to harmonise market rules and practices within the five European domestic markets that comprise the Euroclear group (Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK). |
These proposals have been formulated as part of Euroclear’s ongoing consultation with the market on infrastructure and industry changes. They build on the work of the Giovannini Group, taking the identification of the barriers to a greater level of detail and proposing, for wider market agreement, the basis from which to move forward with far-reaching market harmonisation initiatives.
The key objectives of the proposals include:
• Harmonise the processing of transactions from all sources, i.e. OTC, stock exchanges, other trading platforms and trade confirmation systems;
• Provide full STP capabilities, including the removal of paper from the process. |
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| Article appeared in the September 2004 issue.
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