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  "data_version": "seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30",
  "source": "https://finance.foundation",
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  "collection": "clearing",
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      "name": "DTC — The Depository Trust Company",
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      "country": "US",
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        "nasdaq"
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      "role": "Holds US equities and corporate debt in book-entry form; ownership changes by moving a record, not a certificate.",
      "note": null
    },
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      "name": "NSCC — National Securities Clearing Corporation",
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      "lei": "549300RYC9NELN2ICA34",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
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      "country": "US",
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      "website": "https://www.dtcc.com",
      "url_check": "bot-blocked",
      "serves": [
        "nyse",
        "nasdaq"
      ],
      "role": "Novates and nets US equity trades, so the settlement instruction DTC acts on is one net figure per member, not one per trade.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "ficc",
      "name": "FICC — Fixed Income Clearing Corporation",
      "legal_name": "FIXED INCOME CLEARING CORPORATION",
      "lei": "549300H47WTHXPU08X20",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "US",
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      "country_name": "United States",
      "website": "https://www.dtcc.com",
      "url_check": "bot-blocked",
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      "role": "The same role as NSCC for US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, including the repo market.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "cls",
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      "country": "US",
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      "role": "Settles both legs of a foreign-exchange trade at the same instant or neither, removing the gap in which one side has paid and the other has not.",
      "note": null
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      "name": "Euroclear France",
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      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "FR",
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      "country_name": "France",
      "website": "https://www.euroclear.com",
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        "euronext"
      ],
      "role": "The French central securities depository; also the settlement point for instruments admitted on Euronext Paris.",
      "note": "The site is up — confirmed in a real browser; a scripted request is turned away by bot protection."
    },
    {
      "id": "clearstream-lux",
      "name": "Clearstream Banking S.A.",
      "legal_name": "CLEARSTREAM BANKING S.A.",
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      "type": "International CSD",
      "type_code": "ICSD",
      "country": "LU",
      "country_id": null,
      "country_name": "Luxembourg",
      "website": "https://www.clearstream.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [],
      "role": "An international CSD in Luxembourg, holding cross-border bonds and equities for participants in many jurisdictions.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "lch-ltd",
      "name": "LCH Limited",
      "legal_name": "LCH LIMITED",
      "lei": "F226TOH6YD6XJB17KS62",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "GB",
      "country_id": "united-kingdom",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "website": "https://www.lch.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
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      ],
      "role": "London clearing house for interest-rate swaps, repo and listed derivatives; the largest single pool of cleared rates risk.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "lch-sa",
      "name": "LCH SA",
      "legal_name": "BANQUE CENTRALE DE COMPENSATION",
      "lei": "R1IO4YJ0O79SMWVCHB58",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "FR",
      "country_id": "france",
      "country_name": "France",
      "website": "https://www.lch.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "euronext"
      ],
      "role": "The Paris arm of the same group, clearing equities and derivatives traded on Euronext markets and euro-denominated repo.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "ice-clear-europe",
      "name": "ICE Clear Europe",
      "legal_name": "ICE CLEAR EUROPE LIMITED",
      "lei": "5R6J7JCQRIPQR1EEP713",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "GB",
      "country_id": "united-kingdom",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "website": "https://www.ice.com/clear-europe",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "ice-eu"
      ],
      "role": "Clears the energy and interest-rate contracts traded on ICE Futures Europe, including Brent.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "ice-clear-credit",
      "name": "ICE Clear Credit",
      "legal_name": "ICE CLEAR CREDIT LLC",
      "lei": "T33OE4AS4QXXS2TT7X50",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "US",
      "country_id": "united-states",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "website": "https://www.ice.com/clear-credit",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "ice-us"
      ],
      "role": "Clears credit default swaps — the instrument whose lack of a clearing house was a central lesson of 2008.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "eurex-clearing",
      "name": "Eurex Clearing AG",
      "legal_name": "EUREX Clearing Aktiengesellschaft",
      "lei": "529900LN3S50JPU47S06",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "DE",
      "country_id": "germany",
      "country_name": "Germany",
      "website": "https://www.eurex.com/ec-en/",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "eurex"
      ],
      "role": "Counterparty to every trade on Eurex and to a large share of European repo.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "six-sis",
      "name": "SIX SIS AG",
      "legal_name": "SIX SIS AG",
      "lei": "549300A3XI3YWROC2J57",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "CH",
      "country_id": "switzerland",
      "country_name": "Switzerland",
      "website": "https://www.six-group.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "six"
      ],
      "role": "The Swiss central securities depository, settling what trades on SIX Swiss Exchange.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "jscc",
      "name": "Japan Securities Clearing Corporation",
      "legal_name": "株式会社日本証券クリアリング機構",
      "lei": "549300JHM7D8P3TS4S86",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "JP",
      "country_id": "japan",
      "country_name": "Japan",
      "website": "https://www.jpx.co.jp/jscc/en/",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "jpx"
      ],
      "role": "Clears cash equities and derivatives across the Japan Exchange Group venues.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "hkscc",
      "name": "Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company",
      "legal_name": "香港中央結算有限公司",
      "lei": "213800NM8ZN1F16ARD34",
      "type": "Depository and central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CSD/CCP",
      "country": "HK",
      "country_id": "hong-kong",
      "country_name": "Hong Kong SAR",
      "website": "https://www.hkex.com.hk",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "hkex"
      ],
      "role": "Both depository and clearing house for Hong Kong equities, and the settlement leg of Stock Connect into mainland China.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "ksd",
      "name": "Korea Securities Depository",
      "legal_name": "한국예탁결제원",
      "lei": "9884008RRMX1X5HV6625",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "KR",
      "country_id": "south-korea",
      "country_name": "South Korea",
      "website": "https://www.ksd.or.kr",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "krx"
      ],
      "role": "Korea's central depository, settling what trades on KRX.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "nsdl",
      "name": "NSDL — National Securities Depository Limited",
      "legal_name": "NATIONAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORY LIMITED",
      "lei": "335800NFZPTMGTPAHE42",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "IN",
      "country_id": "india",
      "country_name": "India",
      "website": "https://nsdl.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "nse-india",
        "bse"
      ],
      "role": "India's first depository, holding securities in dematerialised form for both Indian exchanges.",
      "note": "Moved: the old nsdl.co.in address loops in redirects, even in a real browser."
    },
    {
      "id": "cdsl",
      "name": "CDSL — Central Depository Services (India)",
      "legal_name": "CENTRAL DEPOSITORY SERVICES (INDIA) LIMITED",
      "lei": "335800YRV56TH7RQVH27",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "IN",
      "country_id": "india",
      "country_name": "India",
      "website": "https://www.cdslindia.com",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "nse-india",
        "bse"
      ],
      "role": "India's second depository; the two compete for accounts while settling the same market.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "strate",
      "name": "Strate",
      "legal_name": "Strate (Pty) Ltd",
      "lei": "378900F4A0A690EA6735",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "ZA",
      "country_id": "south-africa",
      "country_name": "South Africa",
      "website": "https://www.strate.co.za",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "johannesburg"
      ],
      "role": "South Africa's central securities depository, settling equities and bonds traded on the JSE.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "depozitarul-central",
      "name": "Depozitarul Central",
      "legal_name": "DEPOZITARUL CENTRAL SA",
      "lei": "254900LXHEVKYGERER05",
      "type": "Central securities depository",
      "type_code": "CSD",
      "country": "RO",
      "country_id": "romania",
      "country_name": "Romania",
      "website": "https://www.roclear.ro",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "bucharest"
      ],
      "role": "Romania's central securities depository. Its LEI is the one the ISO 10383 registry mistakenly carries for the Bucharest exchange.",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "id": "tase-clearing",
      "name": "Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Clearing House",
      "legal_name": "מסלקת הבורסה לניירות ערך בתל – אביב בע\"מ",
      "lei": "213800WG3A9RJ78EGT48",
      "type": "Central counterparty",
      "type_code": "CCP",
      "country": "IL",
      "country_id": "israel",
      "country_name": "Israel",
      "website": "https://www.tase.co.il",
      "url_check": "reachable",
      "serves": [
        "tel-aviv"
      ],
      "role": "Israel's clearing house. Its LEI is the one the ISO 10383 registry mistakenly carries for the exchange itself.",
      "note": null
    }
  ]
}