Market Infrastructure
Market infrastructure includes a variety of entities that provides services for participants in financial markets. These entities include:
- clearing agencies that clear or settle trades of securities or derivatives,
- trade repositories that collect information relating to derivatives, and
- information processors that receive and distribute information relating to trades in securities.
- Clearing Agencies
- Trade Repositories
- Benchmark Administrators
- Information Processors
Clearing Agencies
A clearing agency:
- acts as an intermediary in paying funds, in delivering securities, or in doing both,
- provides centralized facilities for clearing or settling trades of securities or derivatives, or
- provides centralized facilities as a depository of securities.
The BC Securities Commission has issued the following documents related to clearing agencies:
| Document | Published |
|---|---|
Trade Repositories
A trade repository collects and maintains records relating to derivatives and trades in derivatives. These reports are typically made by market participants because they are required to make the reports under Multilateral Instrument 96-101 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting.
The BCSC has published the following documents about trade repositories that it has recognized:
| Document | Published |
|---|---|
| KOR Reporting, Inc. Recognition Order |
2024-02-09 |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc Variation Order | 2019-06-12 |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc Recognition Order (Amended) |
2019-06-12 |
| DTCC Data Repository (U.S.) LLC Recognition Order |
2016-07-18 |
| ICE Trade Vault, LLC Recognition Order |
2016-07-18 |
| Document | Published |
|---|---|
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc Recognition Order | 2016-07-18 |
Benchmark Administrators
A benchmark is a price, rate, index, value or measurement that:
- is determined by reference of an underlying interest such as an interest rate, commodity prices, a foreign exchange rate or an index of securities,
- is made available to the public, and
- is used to determine the price, value or amount payable under a security or derivative or to measure the performance of a security or derivative.
A benchmark administrator calculates the benchmark, makes it available to the public and otherwise administers it.
Information Processors
An information processor collects from multiple sources – typically marketplaces or market participants – information relating to trades in or orders for securities. After integrating the information, the information processor makes it available to the public.
The BCSC has published the following documents about information processors that it has designated:
| Document | Published |
|---|---|
| TSX Inc. Designation Order |
2022-06-23 |
| IIROC Designation Order | 2020-08-27 |
| Document | Published |
|---|---|
| TSX Inc. Designation Order |
2020-08-27 |