03 July 2012

Fifteen additional Central Securities Depositories sign the T2S Framework Agreement


30 June 2012 was the deadline for European central securities depositories (CSDs) to indicate whether or not they would sign the T2S Framework Agreement. The Framework Agreement is the contract which governs the legal relationship between the Eurosystem and each CSD participating in T2S, the future IT platform of the Eurosystem for the settlement of securities transactions in central bank money. The signing of the T2S Framework Agreement is a key milestone in the T2S project, which is set to go live in June 2015.

In addition to a first group of nine CSDs which had already signed up for T2S in May 2012, another fifteen CSDs have now announced that they will join T2S, namely:

• AS Eesti Väärtpaberikeskus (Estonia);
• Central Depository AD (Bulgaria);
• Centrálny depozitár cenných papierov SR, a. s. (Slovakia);
• Cyprus Stock Exchange;
• Euroclear Belgium;
• Euroclear Finland Oy;
• Euroclear France;
• Euroclear Nederland;
• Interbolsa – Sociedade Gestora de Sistemas de Liquidação e de Sistemas Centralizados de Valores Mobiliários, S.A. (Portugal);
• KDD - Centralna klirinško depotna družba, d.d. (Slovenia);
• Központi Elszámolóház és Értéktár Zrt. – KELER (Hungary);
• Lietuvos centrinis vertybinių popierių depozitoriumas (Lithuania);
• Malta Stock Exchange;
• Oesterreichische Kontrollbank Aktiengesellschaft (Austria); and
• SIX SIS Ltd. (Switzerland).

They join a group that already includes: Bank of Greece Securities Settlement System (BOGS), Clearstream Banking AG (Germany), Depozitarul Central SA (Romania), Iberclear – BME Group (Spain), LuxCSD SA (Luxembourg), Monte Titoli SpA (Italy), National Bank of Belgium Securities Settlement System (NBB-SSS), VP LUX Sárl (Luxembourg) and VP Securities A/S (Denmark), which had already signed up in May 2012 in Frankfurt.

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