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" With SLIB and our new platform, we have observed a spectacular increase in our volume of activity. In less than 3 years, we have tripled the number of our clients and now process almost one million orders per year. SLIB's technology and teams have helped us to develop our activities from only French shares to now include mutual funds in a fully automated chain. In 2006, we launched our derivatives activity."
Catherine Nini, CEO of Bourse Direct
Should your institution be trading on its own account or trading on behalf of institutional or private customers, SLIB has a wide range of modular solutions to meet your requirements and effectively support your activities. Starting with .../...
With its clearing offer, SLIB aims to provide establishments managing a Cash and/or Derivatives Clearing activity in interaction with LCH.Clearnet SA Cash & Derivatives Clearing Systems with efficient, function-rich solutions. This offer .../...
Custody and position/ account keeping have been at the core of SLIB's offer for almost 25 years. SLIB thus offers a comprehensive set of solutions to manage flows and stocks held at depositaries. It is built around the following .../...
Should your institution be trading as intermediary on behalf of your customers, SLIB has a wide range of modular solutions to meet your requirements and effectively support your activities. SLIB offers state-of-the-art software solutions .../...
Should your institution be involved in the General Meetings vote processing - either as Custodian or as Issuer agent- SLIB proposes the VOTACCESS platform to automatically collect the correspondence voting instructions sent by shareholders .../...

While worldwide financial institutions are working to comply with FATCA, the topic comes suddenly under the spotlights again. The reason for this renewed interest is due to the fact that five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom) specifically raised the idea of a European version of this American initiative in a letter sent to the European Tax Commissioner. On the same principle as FATCA, the aim would be to implement a banking data automatic exchange between member states. Since then, four other countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland and Romania) joined this initiative. While waiting to see whether this initiative is confirmed, what it will look like and its impacts on financial institutions, the FATCA project is moving forward. .../...
[download pdf file](Clearing Risk Management System)
Risk control is a crucial element of clearing activity. A clearer, whether general (GCM) or individual (ICM), is faced with the risk of default of any of its clients.
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There seems to be a consensus that a “kill button” function that would allow stopping a runaway client from further trading would greatly help in controlling trading risk. However most discussions have ignored the risk of the clearer, ultimately responsible...
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