Becoming a Clearstream Client
Learn about eligibility requirements, necessary documentation and the application process for Clearstream Banking S.A. and Clearstream Europe AG.
About Clearstream
Where Innovation Meets Trust
Clearstream offers the innovative and trusted post-trade infrastructure for global markets. We run the leading securities and funds servicing ecosystems of tomorrow.
Who We Are
Who We Serve
Since its founding over 50 years ago, Clearstream has been a trusted global player across the post-trade value chain. Serving complex institutions with complex needs requires a strong understanding and optimal execution. Our vision is to create the leading securities and funds servicing ecosystems of tomorrow jointly with our clients and partners.
Global custodians
Enhance your asset servicing and market access
Key requirements
- Reliable access to international financial markets: As a global custodian, you depend on efficient and secure connectivity to a wide range of markets and issuers to support your clients’ cross-border investment activities.
- Robust safekeeping and settlement services: Managing large volumes of securities or funds across jurisdictions demands streamlined solutions for timely and accurate settlement.
- Efficient asset servicing: Your operational efficiency and client trust hinge on accurate handling of entitlements, tax reclaims, income events, and corporate actions.
- Integrated liquidity and financing solutions: Optimized cash management with global funding and financing services such as triparty repo and securities lending is key for an efficient exposure management.
Our solutions
With Clearstream’s comprehensive post-trade services, you gain streamlined access to safekeeping, settlement, and corporate actions processing across a global network. Rely on highest safety standards and full regulatory compliance for managing the entire securities and funds life cycles.
Your benefits
- Seamless access to a large number of funds and securities in markets worldwide, including all T2S markets, via a single gateway
- Reduced complexity and operational risk through advanced settlement and custody platforms and standardized processes
- Full control and informed decision-making thanks to transparent reporting, advanced analytics, and comprehensive data services
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Banks and broker-dealers
Streamline your post-trade operations
Key requirements
- Efficient alignment between trading and settlement layers to reduce risk and capital usage
- Reliable access to custody, settlement, and issuance services across global markets
- Optimized liquidity and collateral management through tailored financing solutions
- Transparent fund distribution platforms with digital and data-driven services to manage operational costs and regulatory pressure
Our solutions
Clearstream provides banks and broker-dealers with a single, integrated gateway to post-trade services across over 60 markets. We support issuance, custody, settlement, and corporate actions through our ICSD and CSD platforms, ensuring both commercial and central bank money access. Our triparty repo and securities lending solutions deliver efficient liquidity and collateral optimization, complemented by fails management services to minimize settlement risk.
Through Vestima, Clearstream offers seamless access to all fund types and markets, while our advanced analytics, digital custody, and predictive data services help institutions respond to evolving regulatory and financial challenges. By bridging the gap between issuance, trading, and settlement, Clearstream delivers end-to-end operational efficiency and capital optimization.
Your benefits
- Capital efficiency through netting, optimized collateral, and liquidity solutions.
- Seamless access to custody, settlement, and financing services via a single gateway.
- Proximity to global markets with secure and cost-efficient connectivity.
- Regulatory alignment with Agency Lender Disclosure (ALD) to support exposure monitoring and capital calculations.
- Scalable solutions adaptable to both global institutions and niche players.
Wealth managers and private banks
Empower wealth. Simplify access.
Key requirements
- Seamless access to a broad range of funds, including UCITS, ETFs, and alternative assets combined with trusted custody and asset servicing to ensure security and transparency across multiple markets
- Streamlined operations that reduce complexity in order routing, settlement, and lifecycle management
- Regulatory compliance frameworks that minimize onboarding friction while meeting KYC/KYD obligations
- Value-added services that enhance client offerings, such as proxy voting, tax support, and liquidity optimization
Our solutions
Clearstream enables wealth managers and private banks to deliver a unified investment experience across funds and securities markets. Through Vestima, clients benefit from a secure entry point to all major fund types worldwide, supported by automated order routing, Delivery versus Payment (DvP) settlement, and simplified contracting. Built-in KYC/KYD frameworks ensure smooth onboarding and full compliance with regulatory requirements.
Complementing fund services, our ICSD and CSD platforms provide secure custody and settlement in over 60 markets, covering the full asset lifecycle—from settlement and income collection to corporate actions and redemptions. We further support wealth managers with data-driven insights through tools such as Compass and Market Insights, while offering liquidity optimization, FX services, and an advanced digital fund infrastructure.
Your benefits
- Comprehensive fund access from a single platform, across all asset classes and markets
- Operational efficiency through automation, lifecycle support, and compliance by design
- Trusted, secure infrastructure backed by Deutsche Börse Group’s financial strength (AA rating)
- Innovative value-added services including repo, securities lending, and digital fund solutions
- Scalable service model, adaptable to both boutique firms and global private banks
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Fund providers
Expand your fund distribution reach
Key requirements
- Broad, cost-efficient access to new and existing distribution channels worldwide with operational models that remain compliant with evolving regulation while reducing complexity
- Streamlined, automated order processing that supports global standards
- Transparent reporting on distributor activity, holdings, and market trends
- Efficient management of trailer fees and distributor contracts
Our solutions
Clearstream empowers fund providers, asset managers, and management companies to scale distribution without added complexity. Through our single, automated entry point, clients can route orders across UCITS, ETFs, and alternative funds globally, with straight-through processing supported by ISO 15022 and 20022 standards. Orders are enriched, acknowledged, confirmed, and seamlessly settled with minimal manual intervention.
Our solutions extend beyond order processing. Automated trailer fee management ensures accurate calculation, payment, and reconciliation, while centralized contract management streamlines distributor relationships under a single agreement. With tools such as Provider Explorer and Fund Compass, fund providers gain real-time insights into holdings, transaction flows, and distribution trends—enabling smarter sales, marketing, and strategic decisions.
Your benefits
- Expanded market reach across retail banks, private banks, wealth managers, and insurers
- Operational efficiency through automated, standard-compliant order routing and settlement
- Full transparency on distribution activity with advanced data and analytics tools
- Simplified contract and trailer fee management with built-in compliance
- Scalable, trusted platform for growth across both traditional and alternative asset classes
Transfer agents
Simplify fund processing and distribution oversight
Key requirements
- Efficient, automated order management across multiple fund types and jurisdictions via a scalable infrastructure that can handle growing order volumes and distribution networks
- Transparent reporting and data access to monitor investor activity and distribution flows
- Strong compliance support for know-your-customer (KYC)/know-your-data (KYD) obligations and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements
- Reliable revenue management through accurate calculation and distribution of trailer fees
Our solutions
Clearstream partners with transfer agents to deliver efficient, secure, and scalable fund order processing. Through our Vestima platform, transfer agents gain automated, standardized order routing for UCITS, ETFs, and alternative funds across global markets. Delivery versus Payment (DvP) settlement ensures timely and risk-mitigated processing, while real-time reporting and confirmations provide full transparency.
We support transfer agents with integrated compliance tools for KYC/KYD and AML processes, centralized data management with automated reconciliation, and comprehensive dashboards for monitoring flows and investor activity. In addition, automated remuneration fee management streamlines the calculation, collection, and reporting of trailer and distribution fees, enhancing transparency and reducing manual workloads.
Your benefits
- Seamless integration with existing systems through standardized messaging (ISO 20022/15022)
- Scalable solutions to support expanding volumes and distribution reach through trusted infrastructure backed by Deutsche Börse Group’s AA-rated financial strength
- Reduced operational risk through robust controls, reconciliation, and asset segregation
- Real-time transparency via customizable reports and analytics dashboards
Central banks
Optimize your foreign exchange reserves management
Key requirements
- Ensuring adequate liquidity for foreign-exchange (FX) operations: As a central bank, you must maintain enough FX reserves to support interventions and stabilize markets during volatility or economic stress.
- Managing diverse portfolios across currencies and asset classes: Central bank responsibilities require daily portfolio handling that balances liquidity, security and returns.
- Executing transparent and risk-mitigated FX transactions: Interventions in FX markets can trigger sizable impacts, requiring secure, rule-based execution with full confidentiality and regulatory compliance.
Our solutions
With our Automatic FX service, you can automate your transactions related to the purchase or sale of securities, funds units, custody proceeds, interest charges or standard monthly fees.
Our FX for Securities Settlement Instructions and FX on Request solutions enable you to initiate your own FX transactions with Clearstream acting as agent, executing orders on your behalf, or as principal.
Your benefits
- Liquidity access and infrastructure stability
- Customizable FX services for automation and flexibility
- State-of-the-art collateral management including triparty repo, linking to Deutsche Börse Group’s CCP Eurex Clearing
- Fair, transparent execution with risk mitigation
Innovation through Partnerships
Clearstream actively shapes the future of the post-trade ecosystem through open dialogue and strategic collaboration.
What Is Driving Us
Sustainable Finance
Sustainability has become a key priority for our societies. Sustainable finance and functioning capital markets make a major contribution to mastering the transformation towards a more sustainable world.
As a stable, neutral and strictly regulated post-trading infrastructure, Clearstream puts security and asset safety first and brings together investors and issuers to optimise investment flows. We believe that fair, reliable and stable market infrastructures as well as transparent reporting and the availability of high-quality information are at the core of sustainable economies.
Therefore, we are not only providing products and services related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects, but we are also establishing the necessary underlying post-trading infrastructure: one further step towards creating the leading securities and fund servicing ecosystems of tomorrow.
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Corporate Responsibility
Organizing capital markets characterized by transparency, safety and integrity is not only the public service mission and core business of Clearstream as part of Deutsche Börse Group, but it is also our most important value contribution to society. We assume responsibility for the markets we organize, for our employees, the environment and society.
At Deutsche Börse Group ...
- We adapted our climate targets in 2023 in line with current market standards to follow a long-term climate strategy, which comprises Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)-aligned near-term targets by 2030 and a net-zero target by 2045.
- We provide our stakeholders with transparent and detailed information about our environmental performance in our annual GRI index.
- We adopted a self-imposed, strict code of business conduct to promote transparency, integrity and accountability. We also introduced a Code of Conduct for Suppliers that includes environmental, social and sustainability criteria.
- We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and making Clearstream an even more diverse and inclusive workplace.
In addition, Clearstream focuses on making an impact with its corporate responsibility activities at our locations worldwide:
- We are a member of Inspiring More Sustainability (IMS), a Luxembourg network committed to promoting corporate responsibility.
- We are committed to gender equality as certified by the Positive Actions programme of the Ministry for Gender Equality and Diversity in Luxembourg.
- We are involved in local environmental initiatives which promote a greener workplace; our involvement is driven by employee-led groups.
- We support local charitable organisations via regular “Social Days” and the Clearstream Charity Committee, which enables our employees to raise funds to benefit local and international efforts dedicated to enriching and improving the lives of children around the world.
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Culture
The promotion of art and culture lies at the heart of our role as a corporate citizen. We are sponsoring a number of cultural projects with a focus on Luxembourg, the location of our headquarters.
We are proud sponsors of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Academy, whose mission is to nurture the next generation of exceptional musical talent from around the world through intensive training at the Luxembourg Philharmonie.
We are also a partner to Mudam, the contemporary art museum of Luxembourg, an inspirational exhibitor and player in the Luxembourg artworld and beyond. Mudam is a site of wonder and encounter, providing spaces for experimentation and aiming to shape the future in all its diverse forms.
As part of Deutsche Börse Group, we are also proud to be associated with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and promoting contemporary photography. The Foundation is responsible for the development and presentation of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, an internationally renowned collection of contemporary photography. The Foundation shows several public exhibitions in its exhibition space in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. It supports young artists through awards, scholarships and the Talent programme of the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam. Together with the Photographers’ Gallery in London, it awards the renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize every year. The Foundation also works on exhibitions with international museums and institutions and creates platforms for academic dialogue and research on photography.
In our global Clearstream offices, parts of the Art Collection are on permanent display as an integral part of our corporate culture. In addition, every two years, as part of the “Private Art Kirchberg” project, initiated by Clearstream in 2006, our art collection is exhibited and open to the public alongside collections from other Luxembourg-Kirchberg based institutions and organizations.