Cancellation
Card issuer
Card payment
Cash advance
CB merchant
Central Directorate for Information Systems Security, French Security of Information Systems Directorate (DCSSI)
Centrale des Règlements Interbancaires (C.R.I.)
Certificate
Certificate Policy (CP)
Certification
Certification Authority (CA)
Certification Practice Statement (CPS)
CFONB
Standing Committee on Bank Organization
Cheque
Chip card
Use for IC card
Chip embedder
CIRCE
Interbanking chart of governing exchange conditions
Circulating cheque
Clearing
Clearing house
Clearing member
Clearing system
Common Criteria (for Information Technology Security Evaluation), CC
Confidentiality
Contingency plan
Conventional transaction
Correspondent banking
Counterparty
Credit card
Credit transfer
Credit transfer from outside France (VOE)
Credit Transfer system
Criticality
Cross-border payment
Cross-certification
Cryptanalysis
Cryptography
Cryptology
Currency
Currency transaction report
Or Cash transaction report
Cut-off time
Cyphertext

Clearing system

A set of procedures whereby financial institutions present and exchange data and/or documents relating to funds or securities transfers to other financial institutions at a single location (clearing house). The procedures often also include a mechanism for the calculation of participants’ bilateral and/or multilateral net positions with a view to facilitating the settlement of their obligations on a net or net net basis.