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Liquidity Management

Liquidity Management is the coordinated process of ensuring that sufficient funds and executable capacity are available in the right asset, location, and…

Liquidity Mismatch

Liquidity Mismatch is a misalignment between the timing, amount, currency, asset, location, or liquidity characteristics of resources and the obligations they are…

Liquidity Monitoring

Liquidity Monitoring is the continuous or periodic observation of balances, flows, obligations, market capacity, access conditions, and risk indicators that affect liquidity.…

Liquidity Planning

Liquidity Planning is the forward-looking process of determining how much liquidity will be needed, where it should be held, and which sources…

Liquidity Policy

Liquidity Policy is a formal set of principles, limits, roles, eligible resources, measurement rules, and escalation requirements governing how an organization manages…

Liquidity Pool

A liquidity pool is a reserve of assets committed to a protocol or venue for trading, lending, settlement, or redemption activity. For…

Liquidity Provider (LP)

A liquidity provider supplies assets or executable quotes that enable others to trade, borrow, redeem, or settle transactions more reliably. For reliable…

Liquidity Rebalancing

Liquidity Rebalancing is the movement or conversion of funds among accounts, venues, currencies, assets, wallets, networks, or liquidity pools to restore target…

Liquidity Reserve

Liquidity Reserve is a designated pool of cash, stablecoins, or other liquid resources maintained to meet expected obligations or provide resilience during…

Liquidity Routing

Liquidity Routing is the selection and sequencing of liquidity sources or venues used to execute a trade, conversion, payment, withdrawal, or funding…

Liquidity Shortfall

Liquidity Shortfall is a situation in which available liquidity is insufficient to meet an obligation, target, buffer, or stressed requirement in the…

Liquidity Source

Liquidity Source is a specific provider, account, venue, asset pool, credit facility, market, or mechanism from which usable liquidity can be obtained.…

Liquidity Sourcing

Liquidity Sourcing is the process of identifying, obtaining, maintaining, and activating liquidity from internal or external sources to support trading, payments, settlement,…

Liquidity Stress Test

Liquidity Stress Test is a forward-looking analysis of whether an organization can meet obligations under severe but plausible liquidity shocks and operational…

Market Liquidity

Market liquidity is the ability to buy or sell an asset promptly, at meaningful size, with limited cost and price disruption. For…

Market Price

Market Price is a price observed or derived from current market activity for an asset, currency, instrument, or service in a specified…

Market Recovery

Market recovery is a sustained improvement in prices, liquidity, confidence, or activity following a significant decline or disruption. For reliable use, teams…

Market Recovery Time

Market Recovery Time is the elapsed time required for a market or trading venue to restore reliable quoting, order handling, liquidity, and…

Merchant Adoption

Merchant adoption is the extent to which businesses actively accept and repeatedly use a payment method, platform, or financial technology. Merchant Adoption…

Net Payment Volume

Net payment volume is processed payment value after subtracting specified reversals, refunds, chargebacks, or other exclusions from gross transaction value. Net Payment…

Off-Chain Liquidity

Off-Chain Liquidity is liquidity that can be used or transferred without recording every state change as a separate transaction on the underlying…

On-Chain Liquidity

On-Chain Liquidity is liquidity directly available through blockchain transactions and smart contracts, such as assets in automated market maker pools, lending protocols,…

Payment Exchange Rate

A payment exchange rate converts the priced amount into the asset or currency the payer must send for a specific transaction. For…

Payment for Order Flow

Payment for Order Flow is compensation a broker receives from a trading venue, market maker, or wholesaler for routing customer orders to…