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Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is an annualized percentage rate used to express the cost of borrowing or the stated return rate of…

Annual Percentage Yield (APY)

Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is an annualized percentage measure of return that incorporates the effect of compounding over the stated period. It…

Arbitrage

Arbitrage is a trading strategy that seeks to profit from a price difference for the same or economically equivalent asset across markets,…

Asset Conversion

Asset Conversion is the exchange of one asset for another, such as converting cryptocurrency into a stablecoin, fiat currency, or a different…

Asset Exposure

Asset Exposure is the degree to which a portfolio, treasury, business, or financial position is affected by changes in the value, liquidity,…

Asset Liquidity

Asset Liquidity is the ease with which an asset can be converted into another asset or cash in the required size and…

Asset Valuation

Asset Valuation is the process of determining a monetary value for an asset at a specified measurement time and for a defined…

Asset Yield

Asset Yield is the income or return generated by holding, lending, staking, providing liquidity with, or otherwise deploying an asset over a…

Asset-Based Settlement

Asset-based settlement completes an obligation by delivering a specified asset rather than merely recording a payment instruction. The settlement asset can be…

Auto-Conversion

Auto-Conversion is an automated process that converts an incoming or held asset into another asset when predefined conditions are met. It differs…

Automated Market Maker (AMM)

An Automated Market Maker, or AMM, is a smart-contract system that prices and exchanges tokens through liquidity pools and mathematical rules instead…

Automatic Settlement Conversion

Automatic Settlement Conversion is the rule-based conversion of received funds or digital assets into a designated settlement currency or asset before or…

Available Liquidity

Available Liquidity is the amount of funds or executable market capacity that can be used immediately under the applicable operational, legal, settlement,…

Average Execution Price

Average Execution Price is the quantity-weighted average price at which the executions belonging to an order, strategy, or defined trade set were…

Average Fill Price

Average Fill Price is the quantity-weighted average price of the portions of an order that have been filled, either so far or…

Average Price

Average Price is a summary price calculated from multiple observations, transactions, time periods, or quantities using a stated averaging method. The term…

Cash Management

Cash Management is the planning, control, concentration, movement, and investment of an organization’s cash and near-cash resources. It covers liquidity availability and…

Cash Settlement

Cash Settlement is the discharge of an obligation through payment of money rather than delivery of the underlying asset, commodity, or instrument.…

Central Limit Order Book

Central Limit Order Book is a centralized electronic book that ranks and matches buy and sell limit orders under defined price, time,…

Centralized Exchange (CEX)

A centralized exchange is an operator-managed platform that matches or intermediates digital-asset trades and commonly controls customer accounts and custody. For reliable…

Cross-Currency Settlement

Cross-currency settlement completes an obligation when the payment, funding, and settlement currencies are not all the same. One or more conversions occur…

Crypto Exchange Rate

A crypto exchange rate states how much of one asset or currency is required to obtain a unit of another. For reliable…

Crypto Liquidity

Crypto Liquidity is the capacity of cryptocurrency markets and infrastructure to support buying, selling, transferring, settling, or converting digital assets in the…

Crypto Settlement Asset

A crypto settlement asset is the cryptocurrency or token delivered to discharge a payment or financial obligation. It can be a native…