About the Journal
Journal of Exchanges, Clearing & Settlement (JECS) is an international, peer-reviewed, online journal focusing on the exchange and post-trade industry, from custody through trading to clearing and settlement.
JECS seeks to provide academics, practitioners, and regulators a space to publish and read high quality, timely research in areas that are relevant to exchanges, clearing houses, and central securities depositories.
The JECS is looking for outstanding primary research articles which engage with the existing literature and are relevant to current events and discourse. JECS has an international viewpoint and prioritizes submissions which are of interest beyond a single jurisdiction. It does not consider opinion pieces or white papers.
JECS is published solely online and offers double-blind peer review.
Focus areas
- Market structure and trading mechanisms
- Central counterparty clearing (CCPs) and collateral management
- Securities settlement systems and operational resilience
- Digital infrastructure: DLT, programmable money, tokenized assets
- Regulation, policy frameworks, and legal foundations of FMIs
- Systemic risk, contagion modelling, and network analysis
Why publish with JECS?
Open Access and electronic-early publication - Articles are freely available and accessible immediately upon publication, without subscription or registration barriers. This ensures wide and timely dissemination of your research.
Peer-reviewed - Rigorous peer-review with an international set of reviewers from industry, regulatory bodies, and academia which ensures relevant feedback to improve the quality and impact of your submission.
Exposure across industry and academia.
Retained copyright - Copyright of any article published in the Journal is retained by the author(s). Authors can use all or part of their article in compilations or other publications of their work, are free to deposit their manuscript in any required archive and post their article to their personal or institutional website. The content of the article cannot be altered when used and Authors(s) must acknowledge and reference the first publication in the JECS.
Article metrics - Metrics are displayed for each article, which makes it simple to check how often your article is being downloaded from the Journal’s website and see the digital impact and reach of your article in real time.
