Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

 

About DTCC

Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC)

For more than 30 years, DTCC's family of companies has helped automate, centralize, standardize and streamline processes that are critical to the safety and soundness of the capital markets.

Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), was created in 2003 to reduce costs and give DTCC customers a common approach to fixed income transaction processing by integrating the Government Securities Clearing Corporation and the Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation.

The Government Securities Division (GSD) of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), a subsidiary of DTCC, provides real-time trade matching, clearing, risk management and netting for trades in US Government debt issues, including repurchase agreements or repos.

Securities transactions processed by FICC's Government Securities Division include Treasury bills, bonds, notes, zero-coupon securities, government agency securities and inflation-indexed securities.

Services available:

  • Auction Takedown
  • Real-Time Trade Matching/RTTM Web
  • Government Securities Net Settlement Services
  • Fail Netting
  • Repurchase (Repo) Agreement Processing
  • General Collateral Finance Repo Services

The Mortgage-Backed Securities Division of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, a subsidiary of DTCC, provides real-time automated and trade matching, trade confirmation, risk management, netting and electronic pool notification to the mortgage-backed securities market.

Key participants in this market are mortgage originators, government-sponsored enterprises, registered broker/dealers, institutional investors, investment managers, mutual funds, commercial banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

Services available:

  • Real-Time Trade Matching
  • Electronic Pool Notification Services
  • Netting Services
  • Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Services

FICC is registered with and regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The U.S. Model for Clearing and Settlement

DTCC ensures the capacity, certainty and reliability required to clear and settle today's enormous trading volumes.

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DTCC's Transaction Statistics

In today's U.S. capital markets, billions of shares of securities change hands every day. Last year, DTCC settled more than $1.5 quadrillion in securities transactions.

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