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Clearing House Interbank Payments Company

The Clearing House Interbank Payments Company, or CHIPS, is a bank-owned payments system for clearing large value payments. CHIPS is a real-time, final payments system for U.S. dollars and handles more than 95 percent of all dollar payments moving among countries around the world, including foreign trade payments and currency exchanges.



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