Compliance Corner: Clear Street, Netherlands

Editorial Staff

21 April 2026

Clear Street
, a US-based financial infrastructure technology firm, has received authorisation from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to operate as an investment firm, giving it a presence in 27 European Union member states, along with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

The licensing complements the company's existing operations in the UK, Clear Street said in a statement.

Now that it is authorised, Clear Street can engage and onboard a broad range of European client segments, including proprietary trading firms, asset managers, pension funds and family offices.

"With this licensed entity in the Netherlands, and alongside our UK presence, Clear Street’s European clients now get our full platform: execution, prime brokerage, real-time risk management and more, on the same cloud-native technology that powers our operations across the US, Canada and the UK,” Ed Tilly, CEO of Clear Street, said.

Clear Street operates a single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform.