Trade Flow Hub
Today's diverse European trading and clearing landscape results in significant complexity manifesting at the post-trade or settlement layer, leading to multiple challenges that impede capital mobilization and increase operational burdens.
Local market funding
Local market funding means credit and funding availability is not optimized through netting and limited to each market
Lost collateral income
Collateral held statically in local markets and inability to reinvest it, leading to lost income
Costly and slow change management
When projects include multiple markets, change costs and efforts are multiplied
Clearstream's Trade Flow Hub
With Trade Flow Hub, we are continuing to make strides in minimizing operational and capital burdens by consolidating all cleared and bilateral or ‘uncleared’ flows into a single settlement location. This set-up leads to substantial netting benefits and simplified, previously cumbersome cross-border processes.
Cleared and uncleared flow settlement
Dedicated post-trade services for transactions that can be settled as either a centrally cleared or bilateral flow
Global asset coverage
Access to Clearstream Europe’s 19 T2S, 35 T2S-out markets, and Clearstream's 60 global market links
Flexible settlement location
Transactions can settle via Clearstream’s Pan-European CSD in T2S, and through the ICSD platform
Your central location for settlement flow
Discover our unique offering
With connectivity to the main European central counterparties (CCPs) and trading venues across Europe and globally - and more being added - Trade Flow Hub offers market participants the possibility to consolidate all trading and cleared flows across one account. This unlocks settlement layer netting, cost, and additional revenue benefits.
Continuously expanding
Today’s coverage already allows for substantial reduction in complexity and cost to market participants that use Trade Flow Hub. We are however continuously expanding our coverage to unlock even more netting opportunities.
How it works
The Trade Flow Hub – an essential component of our Custody and Investor solutions – streamlines and harmonizes your post‑trade experience by:
- Supporting settlement flows from a diverse network of trading venues, and CCPs, ensuring flexibility and broad market reach
- Leveraging Power of Attorney (PoA) capabilities that allow trading venues or CCPs to transmit instructions directly on your Clearstream accounts (CBL or CEU), reducing operational friction and improving straight‑through processing
- Offering choice and control over settlement location, enabling you to settle either in our Pan‑European CSD via T2S or through our ICSD, depending on the capabilities and preferences of your connected trading venues, CCPs, and Clearstream services
Related Resources
Whitepaper
Transforming Banking Balance Sheets
Operational Information
Trade Flow Hub Links
Explore the breadth of Trade Flow Hub connectivity to CCPs and trading venues.