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    FT Calypso Clearing

    Nasdaq Calypso Clearing

    Optimize clearing. Strengthen resilience. Scale with confidence.

    Consolidate global clearing operations across exchange- and OTC-traded assets on a single platform designed for efficiency, transparency, and growth.

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    An integrated OTC and ETD clearing solution

    Nasdaq Calypso Clearing helps firms modernize clearing operations to improve client service, increase efficiency, and support global follow-the-sun models. The platform enables  OTC and ETD processing on a single end-to-end solution designed to strengthen resilience and support optimization across the clearing lifecycle. 

    Navigate market volatility, rising volumes, and industry change with a scalable solution built to evolve.

    Reduce complexity and risk supported by global exchange and CCP connectivity, real-time margin and risk insight, position management and data reconciliation.

    Help improve efficiency and reduce costs with automation, cross-asset optimization, and deployment options tailored to your business.

    Benefits

    How Nasdaq Calypso Supports Scalable Clearing Operations

    Multi-asset clearing

    Consolidate processing of diverse clearing programs with a modular, multi-asset solution, designed to unlock cross-asset optimization and operational efficiency. Leverage a scalable, resilient platform that supports sustained volume growth and accommodates numerous end-user accounts to help you confidently grow your business.

    Strong risk governance

    Leverage powerful intraday and real-time risk analytics, margin calculators and exchange position limit monitoring across exchanges and CCPs globally to enhance risk governance and enable optimized use of capital.

    Extensive connectivity

    Benefit from extensive market coverage and support for OTC and ETD margin methodologies used by more than 60 exchanges and CCPs, including SPAN2, PRISMA, IRM2, VaR-based margin, liquidity charges, and margin buffers.  

    Ease of operations and compliance

    Streamline clearing operations with automated workflows and STP from trade capture and position, margin and collateral management, to end of day processing, reporting and settlement. Leverage standardized reporting for client, regulatory, and CCP reporting, including CME, ICE, LCH, EUREX, and HKEX. 

    Pre-set account structures

    Support buy-side client reporting requirements with various account structures such as ISA, OSA, NOSA, GOSA, and multi-branch, provided by Nasdaq Calypso Clearing. 

    Real-time reconciliation

    Experience the ease of real-time reconciliation with a user-friendly dashboard that helps enable timely actions, supports accurate reporting, and streamlined settlement. 

    Key Features

    Helps Optimize Clearing Workflows Across Markets

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    Multi-asset platform integrating front, middle and back office processes, including market, credit and liquidity risk management

    Intraday updates, 24/7 clearing with follow-the-sun approach

    Sophisticated collateral management enabling optimization and competitive client services

    Connected to a unique exchange and CCP community globally

    Holistic coverage of collateral and margin use cases (UMR, OTC & ETD clearing) enabling cross-margining

    Standalone real-time initial margin and position limit monitoring modules facilitate enhanced ETD risk governance with quick onboarding

    Leverages AI for optimized exception management

    Multiple deployment and service options serve various needs, including:

    • Accelerate cloud transformation with Nasdaq’s scalable and resilient, fully managed CapCloud deployment option
    • Potential to optimize your time to market with streamlined onboarding and fully outsourced operations through our trusted BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) parner, Sernova Financial

    Multi-asset platform integrating front, middle and back office processes, including market, credit and liquidity risk management

    Intraday updates, 24/7 clearing with follow-the-sun approach

    Sophisticated collateral management enabling optimization and competitive client services

    Connected to a unique exchange and CCP community globally

    Holistic coverage of collateral and margin use cases (UMR, OTC & ETD clearing) enabling cross-margining

    Standalone real-time initial margin and position limit monitoring modules facilitate enhanced ETD risk governance with quick onboarding

    Leverages AI for optimized exception management

    Multiple deployment and service options serve various needs, including:

    • Accelerate cloud transformation with Nasdaq’s scalable and resilient, fully managed CapCloud deployment option
    • Potential to optimize your time to market with streamlined onboarding and fully outsourced operations through our trusted BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) parner, Sernova Financial

    Adapting to Market Change with Nasdaq Calypso

    Guillaume Barbaud highlights Nasdaq Calypso’s strategic investment in clearing, delivering robust multi‑asset clearing capabilities with real‑time risk management and flexible deployment options through its partnership with Sernova.

    Thought Leadership

    Insights for a Changing Clearing Landscape

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    Nasdaq and Acuiti Report

    Future-Proof Your Clearing Strategy

    In partnership with Acuiti, Nasdaq surveyed 50 global FCMs and buy-side firms to uncover how clearing leaders are navigating rising volatility, legacy constraints and growing client demands.

    This report reveals where firms are investing, the biggest operational pain points in post-trade infrastructure, and why automation, real-time risk and AI adoption are now critical to staying competitive. 

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    Additional Information

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    Nasdaq Calypso Clearing Position Limit Monitoring


    The Nasdaq Calypso Position Limit Monitoring service is a cloud-native SaaS module providing real-time exchange and regulatory position limit monitoring across ETD markets globally, serving FCMs, banks, buy-side firms, and commodity producers.

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    Nasdaq Calypso Clearing Real-time Initial Margin


    Nasdaq Calypso’s Real-Time Initial Margin service is a powerful, SaaS-based margin engine that calculates initial margin across 40+ markets and CCPs, helping firms across the ETD ecosystem adopt real-time margin capabilities to enhance risk management, support trading decisions, and meet client demands.

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    Nasdaq Calypso Clearing


    The Nasdaq Calypso Clearing solution supports the full ETD clearing lifecycle and cleared OTC derivatives on a single modular platform, helping firms consolidate infrastructure, automate processing, and unlock cross-asset optimization opportunities.

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    How Tokenzied Collateral Will Impact Derivatives Markets and Risk Management


    Derivatives markets could be a proving ground for the transition to tokenized collateral. Nasdaq's Dan Upbin explores the impact to operations and how firms should think about technology.

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    How to Navigate Change in an Always On Ecosystem


    Watch the conversation on how clearing firms are planning to invest in their post-trade and clearing technology driven by rising volatility and volumes, intensified client demands, and rapid technology development in AI and blockchain.

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    Who we serve

    Designed for financial institutions navigating ETD and OTC clearing operations:

    •  FCMs and clearing brokers managing clearing of client and house accounts
    • Asset owners, self-clearing firms

    •  FCMs and clearing brokers managing clearing of client and house accounts
    • Asset owners, self-clearing firms

     

     

     

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    cleared derivatives markets connected/supported

     

     

     

    270+
    clients use Calypso

    Explore how the modular Nasdaq Calypso capital markets and treasury platform serves the financial ecosystem.

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