Clearing

LCH partners with market participants globally to offer clearing services for a diverse range of asset classes, helping members and clients increase capital and operational efficiencies.

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LCH –?The Markets’ Partner

LCH is a leading clearing house, with a global presence, operating across multiple jurisdictions, asset classes and currencies.

We have strong relationships and an enduring partnership with customers in credit, commodities, equity, fixed income, FX and rates markets globally.

This allows us to innovate and deliver post-trade clearing solutions that set the standard in rigorous risk management – reducing counterparty risk, improving transparency and increasing financial market stability – and unlock opportunities to increase capital and operational efficiencies.

What we offer

LCH Clearing Services

LCH is a leading clearing house with a global presence – operating across multiple jurisdictions, asset classes and currencies, and setting the standard in rigorous risk management.

LCH CDSClear

Access the broadest range of credit derivatives eligible for clearing globally to generate significant margin and trading efficiencies.

LCH CommodityClear

Reduce credit risk, increase capital efficiencies and strengthen operational resilience across a wide range of agricultural and soft commodity futures and options.

LCH EquityClear (LCH Ltd Service)

Clear cash equity instruments (and equivalents) transacted on exchanges and trading venues across Europe at our UK CCP, with connectivity to multiple central securities depositories (CSDs).

LCH EquityClear (LCH SA Service)

Clear cash and equivalents, and derivative equity instruments transacted on the main trading venues and MTFs in Europe (including Cboe, Aquis, Turquoise and Euronext) with the deepest liquidity pool of Euronext-eligible securities and direct (and indirect) connections to central securities depositories (CSDs) at our equities clearing service in France.

LCH ForexClear

Achieve potentially significant margin, capital and operational efficiencies, and enhanced risk management, across your deliverable and non-deliverable OTC FX.

LCH RepoClear

Clear with RepoClear to enable access to a deep pool of UK and European cleared repo liquidity and for opportunities to benefit from balance sheet netting, create capacity and increase settlement efficiency – enhancing your risk and liquidity management.

LCH SwapClear

Clear with SwapClear to enable access to a deep liquidity pool in the OTC interest rate swap market and proactively manage your transition to risk-free reference rates (RFRs).