Securities trading, clearing, central counterparties and settlement in EU 25 – an overview of current arrangements

Practice Area: Competition & Antitrust | Finance
Client: EC DG Competition
Published: June, 2005
Tagged: EC/EEA qualitative analysis

The report provides a description of the securities trading, clearing and settlement infrastructures of the cash equities and bonds markets in the 25 Member States of the EU (as of March 2005) and an assessment of the nature of the vertical agreements between the trading, clearing and settlement infrastructures.