About Euroclear
Euroclear Sweden provides long-term, secure and cost-effective services to issuers, intermediaries and investors, as regards the issuance and administration of financial instruments, as well as the clearing and settlement of trades.The main services of Euroclear Sweden are issuer services and clearing and settlement services. These services are supported by well-developed and efficient account operation services, founded on a firm legal basis, typical of all the Nordic countries.
Issuer services
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Issuance of a wide range of financial instruments
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Setting up and maintaining the legal register of shareholders
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Payments related to financial instruments (dividends, interest, redemption)
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New issues and other corporate actions regarding financial instruments
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Information from the issuer to the registered owners
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Deduction, withholding payment and reporting of tax with regard to national tax authorities
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General meetings services
Most services are designed to support primarily Nordic issuers but a growing number of issuers from other countries now benefit from Euroclear Sweden's issuer services.
Clearing and settlement services
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DvP settlement which meets the highest international market standards
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Optional real-time settlement
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Modern matching functions
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Settlement of cross-border transactions
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Payment in central bank money with central bank liquidity provisions
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Optional payments in commercial bank money
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Efficient collateral management and self collateralisation services
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Optimisation features in order to minimise liquidity needs
The clearing and settlement services support the main Nordic financial markets with the focus on providing low-risk and cost-effective settlement on a long-term basis.
Account operation services
Through Euroclear Sweden, account operation and administration is efficiently customised according to the needs of each customer.
The holding system is a combination of owner accounts, where investors hold their securities accounts directly with the CSD, and nominee accounts, where securities intermediaries hold securities accounts with the CSD on behalf of their customers.
Euroclear Sweden also provides service accounts which are a cost-effective development of the owner account structure. Economies of scale and shared development costs are the prime motivators for intermediaries to use the service account facilities as a complement or alternative to a proprietary custody account system.
The account operation services meet the needs of individual investors and professional market participants as well as national and international securities intermediaries.
