CLS Bank (CLSSettlement / CLSNet)
CLS Bank facilitates multicurrency settlement and netting for global transactions.
CLS Bank International (Edge Act corporation; parent CLS Group Holdings AG incorporated in Switzerland) · New York, United States · última revisión 2026-09 · puntuación de evidencia 84/100
Licencia, leída en el registro
| Regulador | Número de licencia | Jurisdicción | Nivel | Fuente |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Federal Reserve (Edge Act corporation; designated financial market utility under Dodd-Frank Title VIII) | not verified | US | tier-1 | abrir fuente ↗ |
Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-2 means real supervision and client-money segregation, without an investor compensation scheme. Rows without a tier are recorded without classification rather than guessed.
A qué casos encaja el modelo publicado
- FX settlement for banks
- OTC credit derivatives settlement
- Trade notification and netting
Qué vigilar
- Verification of self-measured USD 8.0 trillion claim
- Limits of tier 1 license scope
Founded in 2002, CLS Bank International is a US Federal Reserve-regulated Edge Act corporation. It operates CLSSettlement and CLSNet, settling over USD 8.0 trillion daily in 18 currencies. The institution serves over 60 settlement members and maintains a tier 1 license, though its self-measured claims are not independently audited.
Testable claims
- CLS's own CLSSettlement page states 'Each day we settle over USD8.0 trillion of payments in 18 of the most actively traded currencies globally' (cls-group.com/products/settlement/clssettlement)
- Own corporate-governance page: 'CLS Bank International (CLS Bank) is an Edge Act corporation, which is a limited purpose institution regulated by the US Federal Reserve', located in New York, maintaining a central bank account for each of the 18 eligible currencies (cls-group.com/about/corporate-governance)
- The US Federal Reserve's own page: 'CLS is chartered by the Board as an Edge corporation under Section 25A of the Federal Reserve Act... The Board is the Supervisory Agency for CLS under Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act... as an Edge corporation, CLS Bank is supervised and regulated as a bank by the Federal Reserve' (federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/designated_fmu_about.htm)
- Bundesbank oversight page: CLS began operations on 9 September 2002 with 39 settlement members in 7 currencies; today settles for 70 institutions (settlement members) and over 35,000 third parties in 18 currencies (bundesbank.de/en/tasks/payment-systems/oversight/continuous-linked-settlement-626502)
Afirmaciones que siguen siendo medición del propio venue
- USD8.0 trillion daily settled payments is CLS's own published figure, not independently audited
