Shanghai Clearing House

The Shanghai Clearing House (SHCH, Chinese: 上海清算所), formally the Inter-bank Market Clearing House Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 銀行間市場清算所股份有限公司簡稱上海清算所), is a significant central counterparty and central securities depository in China, established in 2009 in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Clearing House was established on 28 November 2009 and was recognized as a Qualified Central Counterparty by the People's Bank of China.

[1] It provides services in central counterparty clearing, registration and custody, risk management and valuation, statistical information, and financial knowledge dissemination.

[3] In the United States, it is authorized to clear swaps for the proprietary accounts of its clearing members that are U.S. persons or affiliates of U.S. persons, by exemption granted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

[4] The Shanghai Clearing House is a member of the CCP Global, the global association of clearing houses, which was itself registered in Shanghai in 2015 and opened an office there in 2017.