Link Up Markets

Link Up Markets is a joint venture by seven leading Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) -- Clearstream Banking AG Frankfurt (Germany), Hellenic Exchanges S.A. (Greece), IBERCLEAR (Spain), Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (Austria), SIS SegaInterSettle AG (Switzerland), VP Securities Services (Denmark) and VPS (Norway). The joint ventures goals are to improve efficiency and reduce costs of post-trade processing of cross-border securities transactions in Europe.