Euroclear is a Brussels-based financial market infrastructure group specializing in central securities depository services, founded in 1968 by Morgan Guaranty as the Euro-clear System to settle eurobond market transactions and rebranded as Euroclear in 1990. It settles domestic and international securities transactions in bonds, equities, derivatives and investment funds for financial institutions in more than ninety countries, and it operates national securities depositories across seven European countries. Euroclear is one of the world's two leading international central securities depositories, alongside Clearstream in Luxembourg, and managed assets valued at roughly 37.5 trillion euros as of 2024.
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1. Wikipedia: Euroclear
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia article, History section, sentence on 2 December 1968 launch
On 2 December 1968, this was formally marketed as Euro-clear, marking the birth of the first ICSD.
Wikipedia article, Operations section, sentence on Brussels parent entity
Following the 2018 Brexit-related relocation, the Euroclear Group's parent entity is Euroclear Holding SA/NV in Brussels.
In Group: Clearing, Settlement and Depository Institutions, Lead
Euroclear, or the Euroclear Group, is a Belgium-based financial market infrastructure group that specialises in the central securities depository (CSD) segment.
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