SRI LANKA: CSE Announces Establishment and Implementation of a CCP

Monday July 28 2025

On 28^th July 2025, the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) published a circular outlining the establishment and implementation of a central counterparty.

With the intention of establishing a Central Counterparty (CCP) for the clearing and settlement of equity transactions carried out on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), the CSE has established an entity under the name of “CSE Clear Private Limited” (CSE Clear). The said CSE Clear would function as a clearing house licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) under the category of a ‘Market Institution’.

In order to facilitate the establishment of CSE Clear, certain rules set out in the following Rulebooks have been amended by the CSE, and the revised Rules have been approved by the SEC:

1. Trading Participant Rules
2. Trading Rules
3. Dispute Resolution Rules

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