Arvopaperikeskus
Arvopaperikeskus is Finland’s central securities depository (CSD). It provides safekeeping, settlement and registrar services for Finnish book-entry securities and maintains the domestic book-entry system that records ownership of shares, bonds and other dematerialized instruments.
The CSD manages book-entry accounts for issuers, custodians and investors, and it settles securities transactions between
Arvopaperikeskus operates as a key component of Finland’s financial market infrastructure and collaborates with banks, custodians,
Regulation and oversight are provided under Finnish law and EU post-trade regulation. The CSD is supervised
History and role: Arvopaperikeskus was established to centralize and modernize Finland’s post-trade processes for dematerialized securities.