LSE Investor Presentation Deck
ForexClear - The FX Opportunity
Economic incentives increasingly driving FX products into scope for central clearing
LCH well positioned to address capital and margin challenges within the vast $6.6tr
daily FX market
Instrument Category
NDFs
Vanilla Options
FX Swaps &
Deliverable Forwards
NDOS
Spot
Currency Swaps
Exotics
Average Daily
Turnover (1)
$258bn
$244bn
$4,200bn
$45bn
$1,987bn
$108bn
$5bn
LCH offering
Live today
Live today
Deliverable Forwards live today
Aim to launch early 2020 (2)
Some clears as FX Option hedges
Shorter-dated Currency Swaps are likely to
clear in time alongside FX swaps
Potential to clear some first generation exotics
is growing as impediments fall away
London
Stock Exchange Group
Note:
(1) Source: BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey Global foreign exchange market turnover in 2019 (Sep 2019) and estimated breakdown of FX Options using SDR traded volumes
(2) New products subject to regulatory approvals
Current
Forex Clear
offering
2020
ForexClear
focus
2021+ likely
ForexClear focus
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