24.06.2015 - Currency Markets Check Plumbing on Potential Greek Spasm
The operator of a key piece of the foreign-exchange market’s financial plumbing says it’s readying its systems for potential spasms in trading if Greece leaves the euro. “It makes sense to prepare your systems for all eventualities,” said Dino Kos, the head of global regulatory affairs at CLS Group Holdings AG. “We are certainly doing so at CLS.” CLS settles more than $5 trillion of currency transactions every day. It was established in 2002 to eliminate the risk that a party to a currency trade would fail to deliver an asset after the transaction had been executed. U.S. regulators have designated it a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility whose failure could threaten market stability...............................................Full Article: Source
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