Frontclear Academy
A continuous source of interactive knowledge on key topics in money markets for practitioners and regulators alike.
Contributing to economic growth and financial stability through inclusive and liquid money markets.
Tradeclear tutorials are short, case-driven video-based explanations of the knowledge and practices needed to operationalize a repo and/or swap transaction under the Tradeclear Umbrella Guarantee Facility.
This course addresses all these points and gives an overview of the key challenges to bank-centric EMDC money markets. It goes further to share the opportunities and how possibly to logically phase a money market’s development.
This course provides a practical step-by-step guide to understanding and operationalizing a repo transaction.
Training remains a core cornerstone to Frontclear’s impact strategy.
Frontclear is a financial markets development company focused on catalyzing more stable and inclusive money markets in emerging and developing countries.
Frontclear is an Amsterdam based development institution and is part of the Cardano Development Group, which manages (inter alia) The Currency Exchange Fund and Guarantco. Frontclear is funded by a number of European development finance institutions and governments, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO), Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA), Proparco, The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX), the UK’s Department of International Development (DFID) and the German Ministry of Development Cooperation (BMZ). Frontclear’s guarantees are counter-guaranteed by KfW, a AAA-rated German development Bank.
Frontclear facilitates the development of money markets through issuance of Basel III compliant credit guarantees to cover a transacting institution’s (the obligor) counterparty credit risk. Through the Frontclear Technical Assistance Program (FTAP), the company aims to build knowledge and capacity and establish financial infrastructure conducive to interbank markets.
Frontclear covers secured money market instruments including repo’s and cross currency repo’s, derivative instruments including forwards, FX swaps and cross currency swaps (deliverable and non-deliverable), and securities financing transactions. Frontclear supports both OTC and exchange traded markets and issues guarantees bilaterally or to central financial infrastructure providers such as central clearing counterparties and central security depositaries. A key value proposition of Frontclear is to facilitate the use of local securities as collateral in interbank trades.