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5.3 Financial market infrastructures
Financial intermediaries and market participants can also be constrained in their
use of nancial market infrastructures (FMIs), with the purpose of reducing sys-
temic risk and increasing transparency.
A FMI can be dened as “a multilateral system among participating institu-
tions, including the operator of the system, used for the purposes of clearing,
settling, or recording payments, securities, derivatives, or other nancial trans-
actions” (BIS- IOSCO, 2012). According to BIS- IOSCO (2012), this denition
covers key types of entities:
− A payments system transfers funds between or among participants;
− A central securities depository provides securities accounts, central safekeep-