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This creates a level of risk, so a payment system needs to use an intermediary, known as a settlement agent, for the final settlement of funds between providers. Banks and other institutions can hold accounts with us, which are used to settle money moved between them.

SDRs are a reserve asset, not foreign aid. Most importantly, an SDR allocation does not add to any country's public debt burden.

For those traders who want to take their contract to expiration, there are two ways an FX contract can be settled: cash settlement or physical delivery of the currency. For many FX futures, the last trading day is generally the second business day prior to the third Wednesday of the contract month.

Once a buyer purchases goods or services, his or her issuing bank sends funds to the seller's payment processor, which disperses said funds to the merchant. The term 'settlement' is also used to refer to the specific amount of funds transferred by an acquirer to a merchant for the acceptance of a card transaction.

As between the two financial institutions and their respective customers, they will typically settle by debiting and crediting their respective customers' accounts they maintain.

Foreign exchange (FX) settlement risk is the risk of loss when a bank in a foreign exchange transaction pays the currency it sold but does not receive the currency it bought. FX settlement failures can arise from counterparty default, operational problems, market liquidity constraints and other factors.

For most stock trades, settlement occurs two business days after the day the order executes, or T+2 (trade date plus two days). For example, if you were to execute an order on Monday, it would typically settle on Wednesday. For some products, such as mutual funds, settlement occurs on a different timeline.

The Special Drawing Right (SDR) allocation is not a loan from the IMF. When the IMF allocates SDRs, participants in the SDR Department receive unconditional liquidity represented by an interest-bearing reserve asset (SDR holding) and a corresponding long-term liability to the SDR Department (SDR allocation).

Foreign exchange (FX) settlement risk is the risk of loss when a bank in a foreign exchange transaction pays the currency it sold but does not receive the currency it bought.

Settlement currency is the currency a vendor selects to be paid out in and the currency in which funds are sent to the vendor's bank account. You can have one settlement currency or multiple, depending on the functionality of your payment processor and the availability of accounts.