Global Liquidity Hub with T2S
Clearstream offers harmonised collateral management and securities lending services for customers of the ICSD and the German CSD since Clearstream joined T2S in 2017. Customers are able to pool their assets, including equity, at the CSD in Germany as their gateway to T2S for use in the ICSD’s securities lending and collateral management services. For example, it is possible to conduct triparty repos with commercial and central bank money with CSD assets.
Full triparty interoperability
There is full triparty interoperability between Clearstream’s CSD and ICSD customers which results in improved liquidity management while optimising collateral use across their entire European asset pool.
Until recently, it was not possible to use CSD assets to collateralise triparty repos, the assets had to be transferred to the CSD manually and it was only possible to perform triparty repos in commercial bank money. However, with T2S, it is also be possible to conduct triparty repos in central bank money using assets under custody at Clearstream’s CSD in Germany.
It is also be possible to use the assets pooled at the CSD for triparty CCP margining, CCP-cleared repos and the collateralisation of OTC derivatives amongst other things. The result is full triparty interoperability across the Clearstream CSD and ICSD which will be performed by a common collateral management system.
Harmonised securities lending services
Whereas Clearstream’s securities lending products are currently based on separate CSD and ICSD applications, the services are being harmonised with T2S. This means that all fails lending and strategic securities lending services are offered to both CSD and ICSD customers.
The above-mentioned pooling of CSD and ICSD assets creates a large liquidity pool of lendable securities which is available for borrowing by both CSD and ICSD customers.
Clearstream offers both fails lending and strategic securities lending services for T2S. This gives borrowers the same high level of service on T2S that is currently offered by Clearstream’s ICSD and gives lenders similar opportunities regardless of their settlement and custody location.
T2S is opening up new opportunities for pooling CSD and ICSD liquidity across asset classes under the Global Liquidity Hub, thereby overcoming collateral fragmentation and maximising the use of customer’s assets by automatically allocating them for collateral management and securities lending purposes.
Further information
Clearstream – your gateway to T2S