Computerized Linking of Capital Markets - A Viable Approach

Interlinking capital markets has always been an interesting issue since it not only provides more investment opportunities but also results in reduction of the risk of market volatility due to increase in the size of market. However, global and local barriers like different currencies, legal issues, settlement risks and costs prevent such interlinkage to take place efficiently. In this paper, we propose a model for interlinking capital markets of different countries taking advantage of automatic guideline information provided from the settlement hub to the trading engines. The context data is used in order to take into account and accommodate the above differences and address challenges efficiently. We show that SAMIP (Settlement-Aware Market Interlinking Protocol) can be easily developed, deployed and integrated with current CSD (Central Securities Depository) and trading engines with minimal effort and can drastically reduce the cost and risk of international settlement which consequently can increase the practical volume of international investment. Computer-aided simulations show that SAMIP is viable, practical and does not require costs as much as international CSDs.