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A corporate FX transaction involves a bank, on behalf of their corporate client, paying for the currency it sold at an agreed rate to another bank and receiving a different currency in return for the funds being cleared and settled in the local clearings.

Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) is an inter- national payment system which was launched in Sep- tember 2002 for the settlement of foreign exchange transactions. In the conventional settlement of a for- eign exchange transaction the exchange of the two currencies involved in the trade is not normally syn- chronous.

The settlement of Forex transactions by CCIL started from November 8, 2002. This segment accepts the inter-bank Cash, Tom, Spot and Forward USD-INR transactions for settlement through a process of multilateral netting. The multilateral netting system provides a netting benefit of well over 95%.

For those traders who want to take their contract to expiration, there are two ways an FX contract can be settled: cash settlement or physical delivery of the currency. For many FX futures, the last trading day is generally the second business day prior to the third Wednesday of the contract month.

Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) is a global initiative to reduce foreign exchange settlement risk by settling both legs of foreign exchange transactions simultaneously. Transactions are settled across the books of CLS Bank International (CLS Bank), a special purpose bank established to facilitate the CLS process.

An in/out swap is a swap transaction; the first leg settles inside CLS (the in part of the swap) and the second leg settles outside CLS (the out part of the swap). The effect of the swap is to reduce the net short position that settles within CLS and, therefore, the funding required by each participant in the swap.

Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) is an industry initiative to eliminate the settlement risk in foreign exchange transactions. This is achieved by using a 'payment versus payment' method, which provides a simultaneous exchange of currency values through CLS Bank International.