BNP Paribas to utilise €GCPlus
22 January 2016 Paris

BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services now offers clearing, settlement and custody services for clients trading euro cash liquidity through LCH. Clearnet’s €GCPlus product.
€GCPlus was developed in collaboration with Banque de France and Euroclear and offers a centrally cleared triparty repo secured financing market.
Participants can secure euro cash lending with standardised baskets of collateral, to re-use eligible collateral received either with the Banque de France or with any of the collateral takers.
BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services will acti as sole General Clearing Member (GCM) on €GCPlus service will handle the legal relationship with LCH.Clearnet SA, post required default fund contributions and pre-fund margin call payments on behalf of its clients.
Clients will also benefit from BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services’ clearing and settlement systems and avoid some of the implementation costs linked to new clearing regulations.
Jean-Marc Baudot, head of clearing, custody and settlement products (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal) at BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services, said: “Our clients are looking for ways to manage collateral efficiently, move it quickly and address their funding needs. €GCPlus is one of the products that help them do that.â€
“Consequently, we have devised a range of services designed to handle the various operational processes linked to trading €GCPlus.â€
Michael Carignano, head of fixed income, LCH.Clearnet SA, said: “An increasing number of market participants are looking to gain access to central clearing so they can benefit from greater operational and capital efficiencies.â€
€GCPlus was developed in collaboration with Banque de France and Euroclear and offers a centrally cleared triparty repo secured financing market.
Participants can secure euro cash lending with standardised baskets of collateral, to re-use eligible collateral received either with the Banque de France or with any of the collateral takers.
BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services will acti as sole General Clearing Member (GCM) on €GCPlus service will handle the legal relationship with LCH.Clearnet SA, post required default fund contributions and pre-fund margin call payments on behalf of its clients.
Clients will also benefit from BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services’ clearing and settlement systems and avoid some of the implementation costs linked to new clearing regulations.
Jean-Marc Baudot, head of clearing, custody and settlement products (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal) at BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services, said: “Our clients are looking for ways to manage collateral efficiently, move it quickly and address their funding needs. €GCPlus is one of the products that help them do that.â€
“Consequently, we have devised a range of services designed to handle the various operational processes linked to trading €GCPlus.â€
Michael Carignano, head of fixed income, LCH.Clearnet SA, said: “An increasing number of market participants are looking to gain access to central clearing so they can benefit from greater operational and capital efficiencies.â€
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